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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed alarm over the state of the stock market in a recent interview, saying he was "far more worried than others" amid concerns about the economy and the state of the world. Dimon told the BBC in an interview published Wednesday the market could fall into a correction — a...

The federal government shutdown has entered its second week, and already shortages of air traffic controllers have strained operations and disrupted flights at some U.S. airports.

Unfortunately, in their eagerness to throw together a legal framework, Congress has left the back door wide open to corruption. 

Republican pundit Karl Rove knocked California Democrat and candidate for Governor Katie Porter for an interview during which she was combative with a journalist and refused to answer questions about her candidacy for the state's highest office. “It says something about it that look, she’s an unpleasant person, we’ve known that from the day that...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin on Wednesday defended an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot a pastor with a pepper ball from a rooftop, after a video of the incident went viral this week. Videos of the Sept. 19 incident, which circulated widely Wednesday on social media, showed Pastor...

The Senate on Thursday morning will hold its seventh vote on the GOP- and Democratic-led stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government. Senate Republicans need to flip at least five more Democrats to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to turn the lights back on. Despite three defections thus far, the last six votes on...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

When the government shuts down, the Small Business Administration stops processing new loans and approving routine small-business loans.

Trevor Noah says one of the "first things you lose" in authoritarianism is comedy and that fellow comics are "s‑‑‑ting themselves" under President Trump. "When I was growing up until I was 6 years old, maybe even like closer to 10, free speech wasn't a thing," Noah, who was born in South Africa, said during...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is adding pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call lawmakers back to Washington after he canceled this week's votes amid the government shutdown.  “I think he should really bring the House back in session for many reasons,” Greene told CNN in an interview Wednesday, while criticizing Johnson for stalling...

Synthetic drugs are proliferating all over the world, not because of prohibition, but because it’s cheaper, easier and more profitable to sell synthetic drugs.

President Trump says he expects the remaining hostages to be released from Gaza on Monday as part of the first phrase of Trump's 20-point peace plan. “The big thing is hostages are going to be released. It's probably, our time, would be probably Monday, and you know, it's… a terrible situation there,” the president said...

Israel and Hamas are expected on Thursday to sign a deal brokered by President Trump, who lauded the first phase of peace coming to the Middle East and the team that made it happen. "The world has come together around this deal," Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday night. There and on...

Most Americans support bringing U.S. servicemembers home from Iraq and Syria, saying that the military should generally have less involvement in the Middle East, according to a new survey shared first with The Hill.  The Thursday poll, from Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) and YouGov, found that 62 percent of U.S. adults at least somewhat...