Now that Congress has passed President Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill," their focus shifts to cutting already ...

The Governor of New Mexico has signed an emergency declaration asking help from the federal government for help as Ruidoso ...

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Trump on April 2 proposed a 20% tariff for EU goods and then threatened to raise that to 50% after negotiations did not move ...

But while Americans largely believed the federal government should play a major role in preparing for and responding to ...

U.S. consumers spent $7.9 billion at online stores on Tuesday, a 9.9% increase from the comparable day last year.

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" amounts to the largest cut to Medicaid and rollback in health care coverage in ...

Omar, Tlaib and Mamdani have faced scrutiny for supporting Palestine’s efforts to be recognized as a sovereign state while criticizing President Trump’s close-knit relationship with Netanyahu. GOP ...

Trump has now extended the deadline for negotiations to Aug. 1 and tinkered with his threatened tariffs, leaving the global trading system pretty much where it stood three months ago — in a state of ...

There’s a lot to unpack in the multi-trillion-dollar, 887-page package, from tax breaks and social safety net cuts to billions more for defense, the border wall and deportations. The Press Democrat ...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday took a swing at President Trump’s advisers, calling them amateurs in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I don’t have a problem [with] ...