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The bottom line: Passage of the rescissions package is another win for Trump as he nears the six-month mark of his second term. Fiscal hawks in the GOP may celebrate the spending cuts codifying DOGE’s ...

The Senate on Wednesday kicked off a marathon round of votes on a White House request to claw back billions in funding for foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports ...

In a worrying sign that higher tariffs may be starting to ripple through the economy, consumer prices rose at a faster pace in June than a month earlier, the Department of Labor announced Tuesday ...

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Nearly two years ago an extreme offshoot of al-Qaeda proclaimed itself a caliphate in the Middle East.

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

It’s been about 20 years since the U.S. suddenly fell in love with the adorable 5-inch Beanie Baby dolls created by Ty Warner. In a new book called The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

As the toll of the six attacks in Paris on Friday rises to at least 129 dead and 350 wounded, including 99 in criti ...