The Federal Reserve has yielded to President Donald Trump’s pressure by lowering US interest rates for the first time since he returned to office in January. Eleven of the Fed board’s 12 voting members backed the quarter-point cut on Wednesday night,...

A new poll shed light on whether voters would blame Democrats or Republicans for a government shutdown.

Authorities are investigating the recent death of an inmate at the California State Prison in Sacramento, as a homicide. On the evening of July 18, prison staff found 23-year-old Anthony Francis Jr. unconscious on the floor of his cell. His cellmate,...

China has stepped up patrols near the outlying county of Kinmen in what Taiwan says is a campaign to change the status quo.

The National Weather Service has issued air quality alerts in Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.