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Consumers looking to buy chocolate and other sweets for Easter will still be dealing with high prices, despite a fall in the cost of cocoa.

When it comes to gas prices and partisanship in Washington, what a difference a few years make.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn't plan to seek congressional authorization for the war in Iran, saying the move was "unnecessary" because the conflict has been ongoing for nearly a month ...

The United States is preparing to resume underground nuclear tests in response to significant covert Chinese and Russian nuclear testing, a senior State Department disclosed this week.

Social Security has long been known as the third rail of politics, given that every attempt to fix the program over the past 30 years has proven politically toxic -- but a valiant group of senators is plowing ahead anyway ...

On the fringes of the U.S.-Iran war, a lone British destroyer arrived off the coast of Cyprus this week to help defend the drone-struck, strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Travel disruptions deepened as senators raced to salvage a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department.

The FBI's Nashville Division is warning musicians, industry workers and fans that cybercriminals have made the music business a growing target for fraud, extortion and intellectual property theft, the bureau said Tuesday.

President Trump on Wednesday called on Congress to pass an 18-month extension of a federal surveillance law without changes, saying the military needs it more than ever due to the war with Iran.

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that the Trump administration is likely on solid legal ground with its new interpretation allowing mandatory detention of illegal immigrants as they await their deportation hearings.