The Congressional Budget Office estimated deployments in 2025 to the cities of Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, and Chicago cost nearly half a billion dollars.

Fears have been swirling for years that the era of U.S. dollar reserve currency status could be coming to an end, with the turmoil triggered by U.S. president Donald Trump’s global trade tariffs and the rise of China as a economic challenger to the U.S. stoking those fears.

Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 24 fell by 1,000 to 209,000 from the previous week’s number which was revised upward by 10,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Nicolas Maduro and his wife are expected to face federal charges related to drug trafficking and working with gangs designated as terrorist organizations.

The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.1% from 6.09% last week.

The share of wealth owned by the 1% of richest people in the United States has reached a new record of 31.7% in Q3 of 2025—the highest since records began in 1989.

The Trump administration will expand the “Mexico City rule,” which bars recipients of United States foreign aid from promoting abortion, to include a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion policies or “radical gender ideologies,” Vice President JD Vance announced on Friday.

BYD, the largest and fastest growing Chinese automaker, has emerged as an existential threat to American, European and Japanese car companies.

From compute and talent to energy and revenue, six charts show where the U.S. leads China in AI—and why that lead could prove fragile.