On this date in 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, which created a $1.6 billion environmental “Superfund” to pay ...

On this date 60 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. accepted his Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony in Oslo, calling it “a ...

We hope your weekend was almost as good as Juan Soto’s. Congress has 11 days to pass a government funding bill to avoid a pre ...

The drama surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Defense Department ...

Economists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model have constructed a package of 13 major tax and spending reforms that they say can grow the U.S. economy while also reducing federal debt and enhancing ...

Saying they want to fulfill a pledge made by President-elect Donald Trump and avoid burdening the economy with higher taxes, Republicans in Congress plan to extend the individual tax cuts passed ...

A massive legislative response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021 included more generous subsidies for those who ...

The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in November, the Department of Labor reported Friday, as the labor market rebounded from severe storms and a major strike the month before. Estimates for job ...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy met with congressional lawmakers on Thursday as they ramp up their agenda for DOGE, the new non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency, tasked with ...