The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who started the Department of Education and the Department of Energy, ...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday issued an executive order directing the closure of U.S. government agencies and executive ...

Temperatures are forecast to plummet below average for much of the nation, with the most severe cold gripping areas east of ...

Fixed date. Established as Armistice Day in 1938 to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed ...

Key Republican Party representatives in the United States are pressuring the incoming Trump administration to extricate South ...

The Treasury Department on Friday said the government is beginning to run out of money to finance its debt obligations.

Japan's Nippon Steel has proposed giving the U.S. government veto power over any potential cuts to U.S. Steel's production ...

Developed by United States Lines and the U.S. government, the ship was part luxurious passenger liner, hosting a slew of celebrities, and part secret weapon, the website says. It still holds the ...

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's government and the country's biggest bank, Sberbank, to build cooperation with ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad ... even if the death penalty posed none of these problems, the government should not purposely take lives outside of war or ...