President-elect Trump tapped Penny Schwinn, a former Tennessee education commissioner, for deputy secretary of the U.S.

Revenue returns remain on track halfway through Illinois' budget year, though it's next year that is causing concern in the Capitol. The Governor's Office of Management and Budget projects a $3.2 ...

A New York Times reporter stepped into controversy this week when critics say he fundamentally misunderstood a constitutional ...

President-elect Donald Trump is set to reshape the federal government by dismantling what he terms the deep state. Sources ...

The jobless rate soared to 14.8% at the height of the pandemic, but, by the time Biden took office, it had dropped to 6.4%. It then fell steadily to 3.4% by 2023 as the U.S. recovered fully from the ...

Former Trump EPA officials and ex-staffers to Lee Zeldin are now listed in the agency’s staff directory as political ...

Eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Trump's second term appears unlikely. But observers expect the agency ...

The median net worth of U.S. homeowners was about $406,000 in 2022, according to Census Bureau data - yet when excluding home equity, homeowners' median net worth fell to $156,700. In other words, the ...

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Eggs are nearly 40% more expensive now than they were a year ago, the Labor Department said this week. It’s about to get even ...

In the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s win last November, a national abortion-assistance hotline was being ...