President Trump announced Tuesday that his administration has officially selected an overall design for the "Golden Dome" missile defense system he hopes will be deployed during his time in office.

In the massive reconciliation bill still working its way through the House, Republican lawmakers have included $25 billion in funding for a military project known as the “Golden Dome,” a ...

House Republicans cleared a big hurdle Sunday night as they work to pass their massive 1,116-page package of tax cuts and other GOP priorities. The House Budget Committee, which had failed to ...

Reacting to statements by Walmart executives last week during an earnings call, President Donald Trump castigated the retailing giant on Saturday for warning that his new tariffs would force the ...

Citing large and growing budget deficits and rising interest costs, Moody’s Analytics on Friday reduced its credit rating on U.S. government debt, eliminating the last top-ranked, triple-A ...

Happy Thursday! On this date in 1800, President John Adams ordered the federal government — and its grand total of 125 employees — to move offices from Philadelphia to the new capital ...

Habemus papam! We have a new pope - and for the first time, he is American. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old who grew up in the Chicago area, was elected Thursday and took the name ...

Americans’ views of the economy continued to sour in May, as the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index dropped to a preliminary reading of 50.8, down 3% from the final reading of ...

Lots of big news on this Friday. Fiscal hawks handed President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson an embarrassing setback, and the fiscal analysts at Moody's dealt U.S. debt an ...

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson suffered an embarrassing setback in the House Budget Committee on Friday as conservative holdouts blocked the massive bill containing trillions of ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the debt limit may prevent the federal government from meeting all its obligations starting at some point in August. The current debt limit is $36 ...

The U.S. and China have agreed to sharply reduce their aggressive tariffs for 90 days as they seek ways to defuse the burgeoning trade war sparked by President Donald Trump. Following negotiations ...