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Economists are concerned that Trump's attacks on the Federal Reserve's independence from politics would destabilize markets.

Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.

There is much speculation about Germany withdrawing its gold holdings from the United States. We have seen this occur in recent history. In the 1960s, French

President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy is taking shape. Its essence is geographical, and the tools to facilitate it are economic, diplomatic, and military power. It...

A president who bullies Congress kowtows to the bond market.

Trump's tariff plan looks like a deliberate attempt to destroy the current global economic system and replace it with something better—and no one can predict what that would look like.

When you're a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet, style points matter most, along with the quality of obsequiousness. Don't worry about laying it on too

Bond yields are up. The dollar is falling. Recession fears and inflation risks are rising. Other than that, it's going great.

The president signed memorandums targeting two former officials from his first administration.

A Christian nationalist pastor made a startling claim about scanners used at airports to detect weapons and other potential threats.Andrew Isker, who co-hosts with C. Jay Engel what he calls "the number one Christian nationalist podcast in the world," shared his unconventional and homophobic views o...

The federal government is clawing back hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to go to public health departments and organizations across the state over the next year.

Letters: Readers respond to the US president's intimidatory behaviour and his imposition of tariffs on imported goods

The American media loves the "gotcha game" where a reporter embarrasses a public official with a line of questioning. That pursuit has been in play since CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather tortured President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s. Throughout my career, I have asked very tough questions to the powerful in both parties, but gotcha wasn't my goal.  Simply put, I wanted to see how much the interview…

The 22nd Amendment bans a person from being elected U.S. president more than twice. But some legal experts point to plausible strategies that President Trump could try to serve a third term.

Nikhil Krishnan reviews "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion," by Rebecca Lemov.

Mass layoffs are expected to begin at HHS, hitting workers at agencies including the CDC, FDA and NIH. The firings come under health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

McCarthyism and firsthand recollections of Soviet surveillance practices.

Vital questions about perhaps the worst alleged presidential scandal in US history remain unanswered.