The federal budget deficit topped $1 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2026, as the U.S. government is on pace to record another massive deficit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget ...

In the battle of bars vs. liquor stores, the bars appear to be winning. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. New data released this week ...

Holiday travel and spending data for the Lunar New Year in China point to a broad uptick in consumption. The better-than-expected data confirms that Beijing's recent stimulus is effective, CCB ...

Texas set a new record for the most expensive Senate primary in U.S. history, hitting a whopping total of $110 million in campaign ad spending alone. Approximately $88 million has been spent in ...

If you ask an economist about the ideal model for retirement spending, she’d probably tell you that most people prefer to smooth consumption (that is, spending the same amount) across their lifetimes ...

Pennsylvania American Water issued a mandatory water conservation order for more than 40,000 customers on Saturday after an "unexpected incident."Video above: Hour-by-hour snow projections.The utility ...

The Department of Homeland Security committed to spending more than $144 million on guns, ammunition and other weapons during the first year of the Trump administration in a “drastic increase” in ...

In 2023, when he was campaigning to win back the White House, President Donald Trump said he would reduce the federal budget. "Instead of growing the size and scope of the federal government … we will ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans on spending another $1.2 billion next year on migrants arriving in the Big Apple, according to his preliminary budget proposal — and the combined price tag for the crisis is ...

A critical trust fund that helps finance Social Security benefits is on track to reach insolvency in 2032, when automatic benefit cuts would occur without action from Congress, a new report finds. The ...

An array of charts buried in the fine print of the state budget, unknown to all but a few fiscal nerds, details what California has collected in revenues and spent over the last half-century. The ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- USANewsGroup.com News Commentary – Congress passed an $839 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2026, the Pentagon's first full-year appropriation since ...