Policy and Politics

David Chipman, Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, refused to say during a Senate Judiciary

U.S. prices jumped higher as consumers spent more on goods, housing, and imports in the first quarter compared with earlier estimates, data f

Amazon announced Wednesday that the company has reached a deal to buy MGM Holdings for $8.45 billion.

A hypothesis about the origins of COVID-19 has, in the space of a few weeks, gone from a seemingly debunked conspiracy theory to a plausible

Portland police declared a riot on Tuesday night amid a demonstration marking the anniversary of the death of George Floyd.

A recent report from James O’Keefe and investigative journalism group Project Veritas claims that social media giant Facebook is working to a

Far-left Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation that would nearly triple the current budget of the Internal Revenue Service, in order t

Critics are charging that Biden — who canceled the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office — is more concerned about Russian energy j

Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, around the time that coronavirus may have begun spre

Massive government spending has decreased the value of the American dollar and triggered increased consumer prices, which economic experts sa

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday dismissed reports this week of a recent military buildup by China along its border with India as a

The Treasury Department called for requiring all transfers of more than $10,000 worth of cryptocurrency to be reported to the Internal Revenu

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she’ll keep the House floor mask mandate until there is proof all lawmakers are vaccinated, scoffing at “an h

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) said Wednesday that she will grant interviews only to "black or brown" journalists, according to local repo

New York is lifting its mask mandate for vaccinated people in most locations on Wednesday.

As the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic continues into its second year, few aspects of it have become as politically charged as the theories swirling arou

The U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention clarified over the weekend that its new guidance on mask-wearing does not apply to Am

Weeks after President Joe Biden denounced Texas and other states for removing their mask mandates a year into the pandemic, the Lone Star Sta

The Israeli military unleashed another heavy wave of airstrikes late Monday into Tuesday morning across the Gaza Strip.

President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped to 47.5 percent, according to polling conducted by the Trafalgar Group.