The war with Iran has cost an estimated $25 billion since it began two months ago, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers today at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee — a session that also ...

Federal prosecutors are ending their controversial criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell related to construction cost overruns at the central bank’s headquarters. The move ...

The price of gasoline has surged again amid the ongoing war with Iran, hitting an average of $4.18 a gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA. Analysts are blaming an impasse in peace talks between Iran ...

The Supreme Court today delivered another in a series of blows to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In a 6-3 decision, the court's conservatives ruled that a redrawn Louisiana congressional map that added a ...

The Trump administration has redirected $1.25 billion from the State Department to President Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a report in Semafor Thursday. The money was intended to fund disaster ...

On Wednesday, President Obama endorsed the idea of “promise zones,” a variation of the old Republican idea of enterprise zones. These new zones—located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, ...

A new analysis of the Republican megabill currently under consideration in the Senate finds that it could be much less costly than previously estimated — as long as you’re willing to ignore the cost ...

Good evening! Republicans are sparring ahead of a planned vote on a healthcare package tomorrow, and we got the first government update on the labor market in quite a while. Here are your Tuesday ...

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 ...

The Pentagon hasn’t said how much the war with Iran is costing, but a new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank, estimates that the first 100 hours ...

The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly robust annualized pace of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, the Commerce Department announced Tuesday in a report that had been delayed by the government ...