Politics

Texas economy hits $2.9 trillion in 2025, with per-capita output rising to $91,500 per resident even as the state added nearly 419,000 new people.

Two leading House Republicans are meeting with Taiwan's Beijing-friendly opposition leader this week as she travels to Washington at a time when China is scrutinizing the Trump administration's posture toward the self-ruled island it views as its own.

President Donald Trump laced into Graham Platner on Wednesday, calling the Senate candidate from Maine a "thug" and a "pig" and suggesting that the Democratic Party was hypocritical for lining up behind someone with so many questions about his past personal conduct and treatment of women.

U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man accused of killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as wounding a state senator and his wife.

Congressional candidate Brad Lander on Wednesday got the day in court that he demanded after a misdemeanor charge was lodged against him last summer after he was arrested while protesting with other elected officials outside an immigration holding facility in New York City.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, "love" it.

Anthropic on Wednesday joined growing calls for the artificial intelligence industry to find ways to cushion people from the technology's disruptions, announcing an initial $200 million investment to research AI's impact on jobs and the economy.

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a government watchdog's request for a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from forging ahead with a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.

President Trump on Wednesday knocked New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee Adam Hamawy as "terrible" over his past role as a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheik" convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

President Donald Trump has named Brian Johnson as his choice to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, turning to a former official who helped run the CFPB during his first term to now run the bureau for the test of his second term in office.

The Florida Supreme Court has allowed new U.S. House districts drawn by Republicans to be used in the midterm elections, marking another victory for the GOP in a nationwide redistricting effort aimed at helping the party retain its slim House majority.