The Consumer Price Index rose 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier, faster than a month earlier, as gas prices surged 34 percent.

Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won...

Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms

A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Department of Government Efficiency, asserting that it should be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act discovery requests.

The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.

It’s not *just* the corruption that bothers them. It’s the actual content, too.

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.

Federal officials said that they were attempting to detain an undocumented Dominican immigrant. Their statement did not indicate what might have prompted the shooting.

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.

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President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told hundreds of junior military officers and enlisted leaders on Wednesday that the Trump administration has achieved a cultural shift in the military.

The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.