Happy Wednesday! Here's what we're watching while waiting for tonight's Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots - er, we mean the GOP midterm convention in Dallas.

House Republican leaders announced today that they are canceling the last two weeks of sessions planned for this month, meaning that House lawmakers are now scheduled to be in Washington, D.C., for ...

In a 5-4 ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed construction to continue on President Trump’s new White House ballroom. The court rejected a challenge from the National Trust for Historic ...

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 ...

Over the 12 months ending in July, prescription drug prices saw their biggest annual drop in more than 60 years, according to inflation data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday. While ...

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 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 ...

Republican lawmakers are considering cuts in healthcare spending to help pay for the war against Iran, Axios reported Monday. With the Department of Defense reportedly seeking upwards of $200 billion ...

The main Social Security trust fund will run dry in late 2032, resulting in a 22% reduction in benefits unless Congress acts to shore up the program’s finances, according to the latest projections ...

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 ...

The U.S. military is good at fighting wars, but it sucks at managing money. Partly because of its convoluted bookkeeping systems, $8.5 trillion—yes, trillion—taxpayer dollars doled out by Congress ...

The Trump administration plans to invest $2 billion in nine companies in the field of quantum computing, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday. As with previous U.S. investments under Trump in ...