Legislation to give small businesses relief from credit-card swipe fees has sparked fears it will also let big retailers such as Walmart, Target and Amazon muscle into the banking industry.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Friday to criticize state approval of new standards for Black history that say slaves in some instances benefited from skills they learned in captivity.

NEW YORK CITY, A SANCTUARY NO MORE. This week, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has printed thousands of flyers it plans to distribute at the U.S.-Mexico border. The flyer has a simple message to illegal border crossers: Don't come to New York.

Europe was forced to reset its foreign policy, and it has yielded too much.

Kate Bedingfield, a former top White House communications official, joined CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Friday. Bedingfield will be an on-air commentator and follows other former White House media officials who have taken television jobs, including former press secretary Jen Psaki and former spokesperson to Vice President Harris, Symone Sanders, who are...

Bureaucrats will remain risk averse, even if they are encouraged to take risks, as long as they fear for their promotion and career prospects.

China’s ambassador to the U.S. suggested on Thursday that those in Washington who support closer ties with Beijing are “hiding in the darkness,” as American “political correctness” makes them reluctant to come forward. Xie Feng, who took up his post as ambassador in late May amid heightened tensions between the two superpowers, said at the...

Hundreds attended a heated California school board meeting as a controversial policy requiring parental notification of transgender children passed with a 4-1 vote.

A Nebraska woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail Wednesday for burning and burying her aborted fetus. Celeste Burgess, 18, pled guilty to charges of concealing or abandoning a body earlier this year. Her mother, Jessica Burgess, 42, already pled guilty to providing her daughter with pills for an illegal abortion and the burning...

The grandson of former President John F. Kennedy is ripping Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 White House bid and throwing his support behind President Biden. “President John F. Kennedy is my grandfather. And his legacy is important,” Jack Schlossberg, the 30-year-old son of U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, said in a video posted Friday on...