President Trump and top White House officials are ramping up pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates after two surprisingly strong economic reports. Data released by the Labor Department on Friday showed inflation falling below economist expectations in January, two days after the January jobs report showed a surprising surge in hiring last...
The cancellation of the official House delegation to the annual Munich Security Conference has drawn pushback from Democrats who still plan to attend, even as it’s upended a decades-long tradition of robust bipartisan participation in the high-profile global policy forum. A House leadership aide told The Hill that cancelling congressional delegations (CODEL) is standard operating...
House GOP campaign chair scoffs at Democrats' move to expand their midterm battleground map to 44 House districts in this year's battle for the House majority
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ran out at midnight, marking the third — but smallest — government shutdown of President Trump's second term as Democrats demand reforms to immigration enforcement practices. The shutdown is likely to last longer than the four-day partial shutdown that ended last week, as the White House, Republicans...
If the Trump administration succeeds at scuttling Obama-era climate decrees, it won’t just repeal a regulatory finding. It will roll back costs for working...
If Mayor Zohran Mamdani taps an "abolitionist" to run the Administration for Children’s Services, he's courting a higher death toll than the 19 lost...
If it wasn't already, the Jesse Van Rootselaar horror story makes it tragically obvious that the "best practices" our health-care establishment adopted for cases of...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburghers expected to have to dodge ice-covered sidewalks and piles of snow along Commonwealth Place. Two weeks after a winter storm dropped several inches in the region, the city was still struggling to clean up its remnants. But it was the poop, piles and piles of it, littering the sidewalks in front of […]
Addressing the Munich Security Conference on Friday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggested that “a deep divide has opened between Europe and the United States.” While Merz called for both American and European actions to “repair” the trans-Atlantic alliance, his speech was notably critical of the Trump administration. The blame for the current malaise in trans-Atlantic […]
Despite the constant and steep vicissitudes throughout his first year back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump has ended it with a Goldilocks economy. After four years of former President Joe Biden’s unprecedented fiscal expansion stoked the worst inflationary crisis in 40 years, annual consumer price index inflation fell from 3% to 2.4% in […]
