By not naming or charging six alleged co-conspirators in the indictment this week of former President Donald Trump, federal prosecutors may be signaling their desire to expeditiously put the Republican presidential front-runner on trial for seeking to overturn the 2020 election.

The majority of Republican voters do not want the party's presidential nominee to take on ESG, the hot-button climate-conscious investment strategy that conservatives call "woke capitalism."

A research scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was named Wednesday to succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the nation's top infectious disease expert. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo will become director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the fall. She will oversee the agency's $6.3 billion budget, its research and its response to infectious disease outbreaks.

Fitch Ratings' decision to downgrade the federal government's credit rating is not just an embarrassing black eye for Washington, but economists said it will also hit the government -- and possibly average Americans -- in the wallet.

On Tuesday this week, the rating agency Fitch dropped the credit rating of the U.S. government from AAA to AA+. It said the downgrade “reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next two or three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance.”