Social Security beneficiaries will get a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment for 2027, the Social Security Administration said Wednesday. The benefit boost is based on the increase in the consumer price ...

What the analysts are saying: The report suggests that inflation is still very much a problem for the U.S. economy, not least because it means that workers have been losing buying power. Since January ...

Good evening. Here's what we're watching as we recalculate the odds of 41-year-old LeBron James leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a championship this season. With energy prices surging ahead of the ...

The Trump administration has redirected $1.25 billion from the State Department to President Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a report in Semafor Thursday. The money was intended to fund disaster ...

Senate Republicans have released the details of a roughly $72 billion reconciliation package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through the rest of ...

The Department of Government Efficiency came to an official end this past weekend as the Trump administration’s cost-cutting effort reached a self-imposed termination date of July 4, 2026. First ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

The Pentagon hasn’t said how much the war with Iran is costing, but a new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank, estimates that the first 100 hours ...

The predictions from economists about the consequences of Brexit were widely ignored. That shouldn’t be surprising. In recent years the public has lost faith the in the economics profession. One ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.37 trillion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to the latest monthly budget review from the Congressional Budget Office. The deficit ...

As members of Congress debate how to pay for a number of initiatives that are expected to come before them this summer — particularly the pending expiration of the Highway Trust Fund — the idea of ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...