Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm. By Liza Gr...

All personnel were safe and in stable condition, after a Navy helicopter and a fighter jet both went down in the South China Sea, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1 as the government shutdown drags on.

Two views of how the president’s senseless economic and moral acts put the country at risk.

The tariff spree during the first 100 days of the current US administration created bewildering economic policy chaos. The first 100 days also marked the largest tax increase in more than a generation. This column, taken from a CEPR book on the economic consequences of the second Trump administration, discusses the consequences of the tariffs for the US economy and the larger world community.

The surprisingly messy politics of the push to counter GOP gerrymandering.

President Donald Trump’s new trade war with Canada over an advertisement paid for by Ontario featuring former President Ronald Reagan has backfired in what conservative commentator Charlie Sykes calle...

Plus: How he has come up short on prescription drug prices.