U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the federal rule requiring face coverings on airplanes, trains, and buses exceeded the authority of U.S. health officials. The rule […]
An ongoing price surge saw wholesale inflation rise to 10 percent in February from a year ago. The Labor Department said its producer price index, which […]
Propelled by surging costs for gas, food, and housing, the consumer price index jumped 7.9 percent over the past year. The report from the Labor Department […]
Large wildfires have raged in the Florida Panhandle in the past few days, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 1,100 houses and a veterans’ nursing home. […]
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said he supports a traditional quarter-point interest rate increase rather than the larger one that some policymakers have proposed. Most other Fed […]
The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits again fell slightly to 223,000 last week, continuing a downward trend. Last week, the department also […]
The Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking released a 70-page report this week calling for Cabinet-level government leadership to counter the opioid and overdose epidemic. The bipartisan panel, […]
Companies in the United States had fewer workers on their payrolls last month for the first time since December 2020. The Automatic Data Processing (ADP) National […]
The danger to the West from the Chinese government is “more brazen” than ever before, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Speaking at the Ronald Reagan […]
Chairman Jerome Powell announced Wednesday that the central bank will start raising benchmark interest rates to help fight rising inflation. While the statement did not lay […]