The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is almost over. The House, back for its first votes since September 19, just passed the Senate’s bipartisan deal to reopen the government. The 222-209 ...

TGIF! Officials today announced that they had a suspect in custody in the killing of Charlie Kirk. And President Trump announced the next city in his federal crackdown on crime: Memphis, Tennessee.

The U.S. labor market added 911,000 fewer jobs from April 2024 to March 2025 than previously estimated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Tuesday. The preliminary revision — the largest such ...

Happy Monday! Politico's Brian Faler noted today that tax experts are struggling with an issue that has at times bedeviled us, too: Just how to refer to the recently passed Republican tax cut law. "In ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...

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 ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Trump’s tax and trade policies in the face of intense Democratic questions at a Thursday hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, telling lawmakers ...

Time magazine today published a wide-ranging, news-making and sometimes head-scratching interview it conducted this week with President Donald Trump to mark his first 100 days in office. Trump spent ...

Happy Wednesday! On this date in 1635, the Boston Latin School was established, becoming the first public school in what would become the United States. Here's what's happening today. President Donald ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his signature on what he heralded as “a realistic tax law—which will tax all unreasonable profits, both individual and corporate.” ...

The results of “the cost-sharing revolution” in health care — the decades-long shift of an increasing share of medical expenses onto patients, even for those with insurance — are not encouraging, a ...