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The Trump administration is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as a result of its deferred resignation program, part of a large ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation edged higher in June, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday.

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Aiming to rewire the global trading system to more explicitly benefit the United States, President Trump gave countries around the world until August 1 to negotiate new trade agreements with the ...

The bottom line: Passage of the rescissions package is another win for Trump as he nears the six-month mark of his second term. Fiscal hawks in the GOP may celebrate the spending cuts codifying DOGE’s ...

Western North Dakota is the center of a major oil boom and has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Here are the highest-paying jobs in the area.

Happy Wednesday! A new quarterly GDP report out today suggests that the U.S. economy is holding up well under the uncertainty created by President Trump's trade policies, but the details indicate ...

Despite intense pressure from President Trump to cut interest rates, Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to keep rates unchanged when they conclude a two-day meeting tomorrow. But Fed ...

With the U.S. and the European Union agreeing to a trade framework that includes a 15% tariff on goods imported from the EU, American consumers now face an overall effective tariff rate of 18.2% ...

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican ...

Fiscal News Roundup US, China Agree to Continue Talks on a Tariff Truce Extension — Bloomberg Lutnick Says More 'Horse Trading' Ahead With EU on Pact Details — Bloomberg Trump's Trade Deals ...