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Job openings and hiring increased slightly in April ahead of the Friday employment report from the Labor Department, which will be a major data point for the Federal Reserve as it determines the path for interest rates that undergird economic activity. Like other economic factors, including capital expenditures and consumer spending levels, employment conditions are...

Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) chair Paul Atkins is set to testify before the Senate Appropriation Committee Tuesday afternoon on the agency's budget and oversight. The hearing comes months after Atkins faced tense questioning from lawmakers over his prior work at the agency in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis and his plans for...

The White House sent a letter to trading partners to push for offers by the next day while the "reciprocal" tariffs are paused, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. Leavitt, confirming reporting from Reuters, said the letter was sent from the United States trade representative “just to give them a friendly reminder that the...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is calling on the Senate to eliminate a provision that would ban state regulation of artificial intelligence from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," arguing it violates states' rights. "Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to...

The Senate Judiciary subcommittees on the Constitution and the Federal Courts are holding a joint hearing Tuesday afternoon related to checks and balances from judicial branch on executive power. The hearing comes as tension between President Trump and the federal courts have heated up amid challenges to his executive actions from the overhaul of the...

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary committed to reviewing the abortion drug mifepristone in a letter sent to Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).   “As with all drugs, FDA continues to closely monitor the postmarketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of early pregnancy,” Makary wrote to Hawley.   “As the Commissioner of...

First-time drivers of any age must pass a basic test, but self-driving vehicles do not. Does that make sense?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday warned President Trump not to sign a watered down nuclear deal with Iran. Officials within the Trump administration previously suggested that Iran would not be allowed to enrich uranium under a proposed agreement, but new reports say the nuclear deal would allow the country to enrich a...

Officials at the United States Embassy and its consulates in Mexico have confirmed several reports of Americans being kidnapped by individuals they met on a dating app, federal officials announced.  

Officials in North Macedonia said Monday it would abolish all tariffs on imported U.S. goods in an effort to have President Trump adopt the same trade measure. “By unilaterally reducing customs rates, we are sending a message to accelerate the process of reciprocity in a mutual trade exchange,” Finance Minister Gordana Dimitrieska Kochoska told reporters,...

Out of 145 rice samples nationwide, 100% of them tested contained arsenic.

The BEAD program has a strong fiber bias, which is costly and inefficient, and states should consider using more cost-effective technologies to extend deployment and use the savings to help low-income households get online.

Sen. Joni Ernst faced backlash for her sarcastic apology video after making insensitive remarks about Medicaid cuts and death at a town hall, with political analysts David Axelrod and Scott Jennings agreeing that her video was not wise.

The former chief Pentagon correspondent for conservative outlet One America News Network (OANN) said she was fired from her position after criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a Substack post on Memorial Day. A self-described “MAGA girl,” Gabrielle Cuccia began her post last week by stressing that “I was (and still am) unapologetically defiant in...