Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel will acquire U.S. Steel Corp. in a $14.9 billion deal, taking advantage of government incentives designed to reshape the U.S. industrial base and boost domestic manufacturing. Nippon Steel will pay $55 per share in a cash transaction to purchase U.S. Steel and will assume all the company’s debt. The offer price...

Did Putin reveal anything to arouse our interest during his four-hour press conference last Thursday?

Pope Francis on Monday formally authorized priests to bless same-sex unions, marking a significant change from the Vatican's longstanding position on alternate blessings for gay couples. The Vatican's announcement follows a letter released in October from Francis to two conservative cardinals, in which the church leader suggested such blessings could be studied as long they...

Hundreds of thousands of New England residents were left without power Monday morning as a powerful storm ripped through the region, bringing heavy rain and some flash flooding. Just after 10:30 a.m. EST Monday, there were 121,118 Massachusetts customers out of power. Elsewhere in the region, there were 82,000 customers without power in Connecticut; 101,852...

Congress should step in to demand FDA do more to explain its actions to avoid and mitigate shortages, and to increase supplies.  

Lawmakers are expected to meet with White House officials again on Monday to continue negotiations on stronger border provisions in the national supplemental package.

Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar is calling for stricter border security measures even as fellow members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are calling for Biden to show restraint.

A 46-year-old driver was charged with DUI after crashing into a parked vehicle in President Biden's motorcade in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday evening.