Some Republicans in Congress are expressing doubts about President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 checks to most Americans from the revenues generated by his new tariffs on trading partners ...

Happy Monday! House lawmakers are back for their first full workweek in the Capitol since mid-September. Members are expected to vote tomorrow on a bill requiring the release of more files related to ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that Congress would have to authorize the $2,000 checks President Trump proposes to send to most Americans. With the White House focusing on questions of ...

Good evening. With the government shutdown over, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded back into the headlines. Following the release of new emails that shed more light on the relationship between ...

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is almost over. The House, back for its first votes since September 19, just passed the Senate’s bipartisan deal to reopen the government. The 222-209 ...

Happy Tuesday! After a monthslong fight, the House and Senate passed a bill requiring the Justice Department to release files in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A 427-1 vote in the ...

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that reduces his tariffs on a variety of grocery items amid growing concerns at the White House that voter unhappiness over high and rising prices ...

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 ...

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 is ...

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 ...

I have no idea whether or not Mitt Romney will run for president, and if he does, if he will get the nomination. But many of the issues he ran on when he was a candidate in the last election are ...

Health insurance premiums will likely skyrocket next year, despite the Obama administration’s consistent assurance that consumers will not experience sticker shock under the president’s health care ...