Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered rough outlines of an agreement that include China easing rare earth export restrictions and buying “significant” amounts of U.S. soybeans in exchange for President Donald Trump removing his threat of adding 100% tariffs on China.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said service members will miss paychecks by Nov. 15 if the government shutdown stretches on.

However, the lack of data, such as the jobs report, because of the U.S. government shutdown, means we don't know what the overall economic picture looks like.

A U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that official findings about the 2022 killing of a Palestinian American reporter were soft-pedaled to appease Israel.

The national debt is rising faster than ever and threatens to undermine confidence in the economy, experts warn.

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs.

The move coincides with a Trump push to pressure Moscow into talks on ending the war and to withhold U.S. Tomahawk missiles from Kyiv.

The incident could fuel tensions over the possible deployment of federal agents to San Francisco, which has been put on hold.

The president suggested that his administration is preparing to expand its counternarcotics efforts further to also encompass targets on land.

A botched spying case prompted accusations that the British government was soft on China, highlighting tensions between economic and national security interests.