President Donald Trump this week said he had discussed with a group of Republican lawmakers the possibility of firing Federal ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

“It’s by now widely agreed, almost all over the world: If you leave monetary policy in political hands, you’ll get too much inflation,” Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University ...

Low rates can also inflate financial markets. Investors, unable to generate strong returns in safe assets, such as short-term Treasury notes, will move into progressively higher-risk assets, where ...

Low rates can also inflate financial markets. Investors, unable to generate strong returns in safe assets, such as short-term Treasury notes, will move into progressively higher-risk assets, where ...

President Donald Trump denied reports he was planning to fire Jerome Powell. Can he even do that legally? Who nominated the ...

Jerome Powell has responded to sharp criticism from the Trump administration about renovations to the Fed’s offices, ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is under fire from the White House, which accuses him of bungling a renovation of the Fed's HQ and has suggested it could be cause to fire him.

Trump and White House allies have intensified pressure on Powell, urging the Fed to cut its key interest rate through a multi ...

Analysts say the latest dust-up between President Donald Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell may be more than meets the eye and that markets may not be concerned enough about the situation.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant ...

The Justice Department has asked a federal court to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case amid a firestorm ...