The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell by 1 point to 94.6 in October from an upwardly ...

Johnson, who has refused to call the House into session, said during his daily press conference at the partly closed Capitol ...

The building strain on lawmakers to end the impasse was exemplified by the nation's largest federal employee union calling on ...

Gates wrote a new 17-page memo hoping to have an impact on next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Brazil.

In our news wrap Monday, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are still off the job as the government shutdown enters ...

Rep. Robert Garcia has seized on matters like the Jeffrey Epstein files, immigration enforcement and alleged corruption as issues to grab attention and galvanize Democrats. Garcia hopes that the ...

A cut Wednesday would be the second this year and could benefit consumers by bringing down borrowing costs for mortgages and ...