U.S. employers created just 22,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.3% in August, ...

President Trump announced late last week that he intends to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid funds, muddying the waters ahead of this month’s negotiations over the 2026 budget while setting up ...

A federal appeals court handed the Trump administration a win on Wednesday, ruling that it can withhold billions of dollars in foreign aid. Judges on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

Happy Monday! President Trump will hold a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, but he kicked off the week with a news conference this morning to announce an ...

Happy Thursday! President Donald Trump said today that he will nominate Stephen Miran, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to temporarily fill a seat on the Federal Reserve's ...

The Senate left Washington until after Labor Day following a rare Saturday session that ended with a dramatic breakdown in bipartisan negotiations over government funding and confirmations for ...

Good evening. The nation was shocked Tuesday by another incident of political violence. We've got some details on that and more on today's D.C. developments. Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot ...

Good evening. We've got updates on some legal challenges to President Trump's power on tariffs and federal funding, plus the latest on this month's shutdown threat and details about today's massive ...

While American health care reform in Washington continues to be held hostage by partisan politics, leaders elsewhere are making real progress on one of the seminal health issues of our time – the ...

The Pentagon is projected to boost spending on so-called big data programs in the coming years, despite the dark cloud of sequestration that’s looming on the horizon. A smooth ramp-up, however, may ...

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 broad ...

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 ...