WASHINGTON, June 7, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Wednesday’s May CPI report is not just an economic data release. It is the piece of information that tells the Federal Reserve what it actually has to work with at its June 16-17…
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 7, 2026 — At least 12 people were shot Saturday evening near the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio — an annual two-day community celebration of live music, home tours, and neighborhood history — when gunfire…
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2026 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood at the podium in the Brady Briefing Room on May 28 and held up a mock-up of a $250 bill bearing the face of President Donald Trump. The image spread…
LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2026 — Contract negotiations between the union representing food, beverage, and hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium and the hospitality management company contracted by FIFA broke down Saturday, with union representatives saying they walked away from the…
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2026 — The Social Security Administration pays retirement benefits to more than 68 million Americans. A significant portion of those Americans — spouses, divorced spouses, widows, and widowers — are receiving benefits not on their own earnings…
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2026 — Two events of consequence arrived almost simultaneously on Thursday evening: the United States Senate passed a $170 billion immigration and Homeland Security enforcement package on a party-line vote, and the Pentagon announced that American forces…
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2026 — More than 200 million Americans have a FICO score. Most of them know their score is important. Almost none of them know the specific weights assigned to the five factors that determine it, the precise…
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The fund that split the Republican Senate caucus, delayed a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, sparked a bipartisan revolt, and produced a federal lawsuit from two Capitol police officers who said it would…
KUWAIT CITY, June 4, 2026 — Iranian drones and missiles struck the passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, killing one person, wounding 63 others including travelers and airport workers, and setting sections of the terminal ablaze — the…
DES MOINES, June 4, 2026 — Six states held primary elections Tuesday, and the race that emerged from Iowa is the one that could define Senate control in November. Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson defeated former state Senator Jim Carlin for…
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2026 — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday evening reclassifying approximately 8,000 of the most senior career civil servants in the federal government into a new employment category called Schedule Policy/Career — making them fireable…
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 — Iran suspended all communications with the United States through mediators on Monday, halting the ceasefire negotiations that had been the only path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending a war now in its…