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, ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a bipartisan grilling Thursday at a contentious, three-hour-long hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, where outraged Democrats and some skeptical ...

Stephen Miran, President Trump’s pick to fill an open spot on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, told lawmakers at his confirmation hearing Thursday that he plans to return to his current White ...

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 ...

Happy Tuesday! We're back, and so is Congress! After a lengthy summer recess, House and Senate lawmakers return to Washington, D.C., with just four weeks to go before a September 30 government funding ...

The White House said late Wednesday that Dr. Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been removed from her post. A White House spokesperson said Monarez ...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges President Donald Trump’s effort to fire her. Filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., the suit alleges that Trump ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency placed a group of employees on leave on Tuesday after they published a statement criticizing changes made at the agency under the Trump administration. In a ...

A relatively quiet Wednesday as summer winds down, but that was not the case on this date in 1883, when the Krakatoa volcano blew its top, sending a plume of ash 50 miles into the air in the largest ...

Employees at DOGE – the Trump administration effort initially led by billionaire Elon Musk that aimed to slash public employment while bringing high-tech efficiency to the federal government – ...

The IRS said late last week that it has halted plans to slash its workforce to 60,000, down from a headcount of about 100,000 at the beginning of the year. Under President Trump, about 26,000 workers ...