An overview of presidential documents, including executive orders, directives, proclamations, and memoranda, the reasons why presidents issue these documents, the president’s authority to issue them, ...

U.S. job growth likely slowed in July, with the unemployment rate forecast rising back to 4.2%, but that probably would be insufficient to spur the Federal Reserve to resume cutting interest rates ...

The U.S. Constitution gives the power to impose taxes — including tariffs — to Congress. But lawmakers have gradually ...

District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of Rhode Island, who stalled Trump’s initial round of across-the-board spending cuts, ...

A federal court has denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence.

President Donald Trump has long criticized Jerome Powell about interest rates. The Federal Reserve did not drop rates recently. Can Trump fire Powell?

While President Donald Trump fields questions about a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the Supreme Court is also ...

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency appeals brought by President Trump’s administration, rebuffing criticisms from those who ...

Donald Trump’s advisers worry his effort to turn attention away from the Epstein scandal — his threat to jail Obama — will blow up in their faces.

Steps away from the White House, a federal appeals court panel heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging President Donald ...