Republican megadonor Ken Langone argued that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has the best chance of defeating New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in the general election to lead the country’s largest city. Langone, who also donated to the super PAC backing Cuomo’s candidacy during the Democratic primary, said Tuesday on CNBC that he...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said that the process to pick a new chairman of the Federal Reserve has started, ahead of chair Jerome Powell’s term ending in 2026 and amid growing pressure from the White House for him to step aside early. “There’s a formal process that’s already starting,” Bessent told Bloomberg Television,...

President Trump said he is “disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin after threatening Moscow with sanctions over its war with Ukraine, but added that he is not “done with him.”  "I'm disappointed in him, but I'm not done with him. But I'm disappointed in him,” Trump said in an interview with the BBC that was...

Of the 130 major rules challenged under the Biden administration, a whopping 16 percent were challenged before just two jurists.

Police said both animals had to be put down due to their aggressive behavior toward people at the scene.

The more significant religion story is that young women and men are moving apart religiously.

The Senate banking committee’s top Democrat is calling on the Federal Reserve to throw out a proposed rule for the amount of money that big banks are allowed to borrow relative to their capital. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a letter sent this week to the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman, that...

The Senate is considering the administration's $9.4 billion rescissions request to cancel unneeded appropriations, which would reduce spending by around $100 billion over the next decade.

In a reversal, NASA no longer plans to publish a major climate report whose previous website was scrubbed by the Trump administration. The report in question, known as the National Climate Assessment, was previously housed on globalchange.gov. After the Trump administration eliminated the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) website, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said that “all...

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump could soon retreat from efforts to resolve Russia’s war with Ukraine. The Trump administration has been engaged with both Kyiv and Moscow in search of peace, while GOP lawmakers have pushed for secondary sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He didn’t get what he wanted, which was...