Last week, a show of force by the Philippine Navy in conjunction with the United States Navy successfully forced an aggressive Chinese Communist Party Coast Guard vessel to back down, after it failed to enforce illegal Chinese claims to the Second Thomas Shoal (known in the Philippines as the Ayungin Shoal), a geological formation within the Philippine's...

The average American employee hasn’t received a raise in three years, a new survey says, a grim finding for Labor Day weekend. Labor Day, inaugurated in the late 1800s, is meant to celebrate the contributions of American workers. It is, in a sense, a holiday created to give us a holiday. But a newly released...

Lawmakers are asking the State Department about a backlog of passport applications and requesting that the department focus on combating the "bad actors" who are scamming Americans desperate for passports.