Congress has relinquished its constitutional authority to declare war by refusing to pass resolutions requiring congressional ...

Is it oil, drugs, immigrants or politics? President Trump's explanations of his animosity for Venezuela are hard to keep ...

As oil and gas industry traffic continues to speed through Pecos, TxDOT said it is working to find $194 million to build an ...

Looking at annualized returns since the start of the 20th century, there's little evidence to support the notion that one party is better for the stock market than the other.

Dalio has long warned about the sheer size of America’s national debt, now hovering around $37.86 trillion and climbing. He has described the situation as a potential “debt death spiral” — where the ...

Today in History for Dec. 20: In 1699, Russian Czar Peter the Great ordered his people to celebrate the New Year on January 1, instead of Sept. 1. In 1790, the first successful cotton mill in the ...

The public news service Friday, December 19th, 2025. Afternoon update. I'm Edwin J. Viera. The number of apprentices nationally and in Washington state has increased more than 70 percent in the past ...

Gold and silver prices are now at record highs, reflecting rising global uncertainty. The precious metals usually surge ahead ...

Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that ...

For the first half of 2025, the labor market was, in the words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a “low hire, low fire” environment, with minimal job cut announcements preventing sluggish ...

Within months of becoming prime minister, Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993) normalized Japan’s relations with China at lightning ...