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Shoppers increased their spending in February, particularly on cars and clothing, after pulling back at the start of the year due to severe winter storms.

The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants as it scrutinizes all contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a senior Homeland Security official.

The United Kingdom this week will bring together representatives of 35 countries to devise a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed amid the U.S.-Israeli air campaign, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday.

Iranian officials on Wednesday made it clear that the Strait of Hormuz will not be open to U.S.-linked vessels for the foreseeable future and will be accessible only to countries that adhere to the Islamic republic's new rules for the waterway.

To carry out his mass deportation promises, President Trump will have to kick his administration into a higher gear, shutting down the jobs that illegal immigrants take, closing their bank accounts and unleashing the IRS to find people working under ...

A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools' Day 50 years ago and then - no joke - pulled it off.

The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists' lawsuits threatened to hobble domestic energy supplies as the U.S.

The systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel are convenient but don't improve safety because people are often too reliant on them and end up paying more attention to their cellphones and infotainment screens than to the road, the ...

U.S. carrier JetBlue has raised its checked bag fees by as much as $9 as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies and increases fuel prices.

The exodus of Californians is driven by the cost of living, according to a study released Tuesday by Cal Berkeley's California Policy Lab.