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, ...

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 ...

How RFK Jr. Is Pushing the CDC to the Brink — Jessica Nix and Madison Muller, Bloomberg Not Vaccinating Comes at an Exorbitant Cost — Donald G. McNeil Jr., Washington Post A Health Care Cost Bomb Is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They may not like how he went about it, but most Americans approve of President Obama’s immigration order. That could change. As word leaks out about the potential cost of granting millions of low ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

What would it cost to arm more teachers is America’s schools, as President Trump has proposed? The Washington Post’s Philip Bump did some back-of-the-envelope math to try to find the answer. Bump ...