That’s because historically, U.S. Treasury bonds have been considered the marketplace’s safest investments. For decades, the U.S. government has been big, stable and reliable. In a worst-case scenario ...

The Trump administration has said in court filings that it mistakenly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who had a protection preventing him from being deported to El Salvador.

In April 2020, a Facebook post from an account that belongs to a "Cody Balmer" shared a photo of a bearded man wearing a face mask with a cigarette stuck in it. The photo didn’t ...

PolitiFact examined social media posts claiming that April 5 protesters in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere were paid, but none of the claims held up to scrutiny. Videos misleading ...

In fact, fentanyl overdoses are commonly caused by ingesting the drug illicitly as a pill or powder. And most accidental exposures occur when people who use drugs, even those who do not use opioids, ...

Trump announced a 90-day pause in country-by-country tariffs he had unveiled a week earlier. While Trump did not lift the nearly universal 10% tariffs or count ...

During a typical recession, consumer demand drops, meaning that companies selling products and services lower their prices (or at least not raise them) in order to entice reluctant customers to spend.

Biden won the election. The states and Congress certified and accepted the results. Trump and his allies lost more than 60 election lawsuits. And many election security officials — including ...

President Donald Trump provided no evidence that the U.S. was taking in almost $2 billion a day from his tariffs. The Treasury Department shows a much lower figure. The tariff col ...

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, four men were enrolled in postsecondary institutions for every six women in 2023, a historic low. Arizona Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego said ...

Tariffs are a tax on imported goods that businesses pay. Their cost is often passed down to consumers through higher prices. Economists say it’s fair to call tariffs a tax. Econ ...

After Trump invoked the rarely used 1798 Alien Enemies Act to round up and deport Venezuelans and other immigrants to El Salvador on several flights, Boasberg temporarily ordered the administration to ...