Retail sales were expected to increase 1.2% in March, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said that he is worried about a breakdown of the global monetary order.

Smartphones and computers will be exempted from President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The guidance comes after Trump earlier t...

President Donald Trump’s administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced F...

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Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego announced Tuesday he will block the confirmation of top leaders at the Department of Veterans Affairs, raising the stakes in Democrats’ bid to get the Trump administration to back off plans to cut jobs from the sprawling agency that serves millions of military veterans.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs on Sunday if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday projected significant increases in federal budget deficits and debt over the next 30 years, in part due to rapidly rising interest costs, as it sketched out sluggish economic growth and a shrinking workforce.

A portrait of President Trump that has been hanging in the Colorado Capitol for years is coming down after the president trashed the painting as “truly the worst” and suggested it was intentionally di...

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A defiant Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that he won’t step aside as the chamber’s top Democrat, rejecting calls from some House colleagues and liberal advocates critical of his move to he...

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Recent studies suggest that people across different age groups are experiencing a decline in cognitive skills, including concentration, reasoning, and problem-solving. Benchmarking tests, such as the ...

Donald Trump's administration accused a federal judge on Wednesday of overstepping his judicial authority in demanding more details about deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants in a filing made a ...

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A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

There are "no guarantees" there will not be a recession in the United States, although there could be an adjustment, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview that aired on Sunday. But Bes...

U.S. President Donald Trump launched strikes against Yemen's Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against ships in the Red Sea, warning if Houthi attacks did not stop "hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever seen before."

U.S. consumer sentiment plunged in March and inflation expectations soared amid worries that President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, which have ignited a trade war, would boost prices and undercut the economy.

Some 57% of Americans think President Donald Trump is being too erratic in his moves to shake up the U.S. economy, including his aggressive strategy to tax imports that has spooked the stock market, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Wednesday found.

The Government Accountability Office said the service is responding only to immediate needs and does not have the funding or capacity to address worsening conditions.

“I hate to predict things like that,” Trump said when asked if there would be a recession this year.

The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources...