What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out. read more
Expensive food, with prices increasing by the most in more than three years, and rents underscored the affordability crisis facing President Donald Trump, partly blamed by economists on the White House's policies, including sweeping import tariffs. read more
Scott Adams, creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died ... read more
Duncan Hosie: Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. read more
The auto worker who called Donald Trump a "pedophile protector" says he does not regret the action that has seen him suspended from his job. read more
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado will meet President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House has confirmed. read more
The fundraiser collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good ... read more
The Trump administration is taking a $150 million equity stake to build the US's only big producer of gallium, a critical mineral used in satellite systems and military radar. read more
Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers, the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Charlottesville VA winery at a pay rate nearly two dollars an hour below what it previously offered ... read more
Even accepting the Trump administration's claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar "perfidy." read more
More independents lean Democratic than Republican, giving Democrats edge in party affiliation for first time since 2021. read more
President Donald Trump issued a stark warning on Monday, saying the U.S. would be "screwed" if the Supreme Court overturns his authority to impose tariffs. read more
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned on Monday that the Department of Justice's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell better be "real" and "serious" to avoid undermining the independence of the central bank and rattling the world's financial markets. read more
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups. read more
