The U.S. economy added 128,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.6%, according to new data released Friday, overcoming the drag from a monthlong General Motors strike that ended last week.
The federal government’s outstanding public debt has surpassed $23 trillion for the first time in history, according to data from the Treasury Department released on Friday.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted on Thursday to continue its impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
The Kentucky Supreme Court handed a victory Thursday to Lexington promotional print shop owner Blaine Adamson.
The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.9% for the third quarter of 2019 as businesses slowed their investments and consumer spending declined amid a slowdown in global growth and the trade war with China.
The Federal Reserve cut rates by a quarter-point Wednesday in a widely expected move aimed at staving off a slowing economy and fears of a recession.
House Democrats have released the text of the impeachment resolution they plan to vote on, but when that vote will take place is still unclear.
A federal judge has blocked an Alabama abortion law that would have almost completely outlawed abortion.
The amount of money the federal government collected in individual income taxes and the total amount of money the federal government spent both set records in fiscal 2019, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Friday afternoon.
A North Carolina court on Monday temporarily blocked the state from using its congressional map in next year’s elections and strongly suggested it would eventually rule the districts were illegally gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
President Trump’s successful operation to take out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sent Democrats scrambling on Sunday, as several top party leaders had complained publicly in recent days that the White House had no ‘real plan’ to combat the terror group following the U.S. pullout in Syria.
A U.S. Justice Department review of the origins of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
House Republicans on Wednesday stormed the secure room where lawmakers have been conducting the impeachment probe against President Trump, upending a scheduled deposition as they demanded fairness from the Democrats running the show.
The fierce feud over Democratic efforts to impeach President Donald Trump is heating up to new levels this week as Republicans label the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry ‘illegitimate’. And President Trump is describing the impeachment probe as a ‘lynching’, sparking a whole new debate.
President Trump lifted a hold on security assistance for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to announce investigations into the 2016 presidential election and former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a U.S. diplomat.
The Manhattan district attorney and attorneys for President Donald Trump have come to an agreement to pause the enforcement of a grand jury subpoena for Trump’s tax returns until after an appeals court issues their opinion and perhaps until after the Supreme Court is asked to hear the case.
Even as its awaits a court ruling on its request to depose Hillary Clinton about her email and Benghazi scandals, government-watchdog Judicial Watch says evidence has been uncovered warranting the reopening of investigations of Barack Obama’s first secretary of state.
Washington is drowning in red ink again, yet the mounting fiscal problem is prompting collective yawns from the Trump Administration and Democrats alike.
Voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire are accustomed to taking the lead on important political decisions. With a critical 2020 presidential election looming, these voters are increasingly occupied with the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. And their opinions are as divided as those in the rest of the nation.
Attorney General William P. Barr offered a withering evisceration of anti-religious sentiment last week, defending the central role of Judeo-Christian moral standards in American democracy, accusing ‘militant secularists’ of an assault on religion that’s become as intolerant as religions they criticize.