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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the massive reconciliation package that would deliver on much of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda, would add at least $3.3 ...

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 ...

Good Tuesday evening. Here's what we're watching as we await tomorrow's economic data and Federal Reserve decision on interest rates. Trump Pushes Tariffs to Highest Since 1930s - and World ...