After weighing a slightly lower unemployment rate with small increases in inflation in December, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to leave its key overnight lending rate untouched. That ...

The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building.

Some detainees at a family detention center in Texas were “being locked in their room” Wednesday just as US Rep. Joaquin Castro was headed there to meet with a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and his father, ...

US forces will conduct a multi-day air exercise in the Middle East as Washington bolsters its military presence in the region amid tensions with Iran.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall in Minneapolis. Omar said the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities is antithetical to ...

Federal Reserve officials convene this week at a pivotal moment in the US central bank’s 112-year history, with a series of historic events putting a spotlight on their ability to set interest rates ...

Central bankers cut rates three times last year, but are cautious about lowering borrowing costs any further due to a weakening job market. President Donald Trump has said his pick for a new Fed Chair ...

The FBI is serving a warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election.

At least five people were killed in a Russian drone strike on a civilian train in northeastern Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said, describing the attack as an “act of terrorism.” ...

A Republican opponent is challenging US Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to run for governor of Alabama, accusing the football coach-turned-politician of not meeting the legal requirement to have ...

President Donald Trump has frequently responded to tragedy, death and political violence without the requisite level of sympathy and sobriety one would expect from a president.

Claire Danes has said she went into “meltdown” when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child at age 44.