The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced a modest quarter-point increase in its benchmark interest rate, an inflation-fighting hike that was scaled back as the Fed grapples with sudden turmoil in the banking industry.

The Biden administration's top environmental regulator was in the hot seat Wednesday as Republican senators, in a preview of spending battles to come, questioned his request for more money for the Environmental Protection Agency in the president's budget.

The Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump over hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign will not meet Wednesday despite that being one of the days each week when the panel ordinarily convenes, according to four people familiar with the matter.

As former President Donald Trump braces for a potential indictment related to hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 campaign, Republicans blasting the case as politically motivated are blaming a frequent target: George Soros.

Former President Donald Trump has released a grand plan to “shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people.”

Rather than fight a lawsuit from the governing board of the Virginia house and gardens known as Oatlands, the revamped management team of the National Trust for Historic Preservation should pick up the phone to make amends.

Bay Area housing activist Darrell Owens has a provocative substack post up titled, “Half of Black Students Can Barely Read.”

As he faces a possible indictment this week or next, former President Donald Trump is getting support from an unlikely place — Mexico's leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador:

A former hard-right Illinois gubernatorial candidate took several jabs at Chicago mayoral contender Brandon Johnson on Wednesday ahead of the city’s mayoral runoff next month. Darren Bailey, a former GOP state lawmaker who lost his gubernatorial bid to take on Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) last November, weighed in on the Chicago mayoral race, which is...

The House Intelligence Committee has launched a working group to address renewing one the country’s most controversial spy tools, a heavy lift made more challenging by growing GOP distrust of the intelligence community.  The group, comprised of three members of each party, will weigh Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows...