Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with top officials from Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday as the Trump administration continues to push for U.S. control of the icy ...

Good evening. On this date five years ago, a week after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, President Trump became the only president ever to be impeached twice by the House, this time on a ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he declared.

The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill headed for approval in the House on Friday contains yet another GOP blow to the Affordable Care Act. This one blocks administration efforts to bolster a special ...

The Trump administration has asked for a record $81.1 billion in “black budget” funding for U.S. intelligence programs next year, The Washington Times reports. The request includes $59.9 billion for ...

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 ...

Nearly two years ago an extreme offshoot of al-Qaeda proclaimed itself a caliphate in the Middle East. Today ISIS has been condemned worldwide for its commission of brutal crimes against humanity, ...

Conservatives continue to consume themselves with denunciations of MIT health care economist Jonathan Gruber. The recent unearthing of Gruber’s comments citing “the stupidity of the American voter” as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...