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States have been far too eager to forgive pandemic unemployment fraud and have recovered just 4% of the money fraudsters stole, according to a government audit Thursday.

President Trump's immigration policy, like most of his foreign policy, is saturated with references to his campaign slogan "America First" -- and a federal judge this week said it shows illegal and racist "animus" toward immigrants.

Hunter Biden is temporarily suspended from practicing law in Connecticut and a group that filed an ethics complaint against him is questioning why he hasn't voluntarily withdrawn his membership as he did earlier this week in Washington.

Amid a big swing-state election loss and sinking poll numbers, President Trump's government efficiency adviser and sidekick Elon Musk was nowhere to be seen at the president's big White House event announcing across-the-board tariffs on most foreign ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there's nothing other countries can do to stop the tariffs placed on them by President Trump, saying the aggressive trade stance was in response to a "national emergency."

With the world assessing the fiscal fallout from President Trump's bold tariff plans, Sen. Chris Murphy is bashing him by saying the levies aren't about economics at all.

The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled ...

Stocks on Wall Street plummeted Thursday as investors weighed President Trump's aggressive tariff plan and the potential risk of a global trade war.

Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire announced Thursday that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat that fellow Democrat Jeanne Shaheen is vacating at the end of her term.

President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday that shuts down a loophole Chinese shippers use to send low-value goods straight to U.S. consumers.