U.S.-based employers cut more than 150,000 jobs in October, marking the biggest reduction for the month in more than 20 years, a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas said on Thursday as industries adopt AI-driven changes and intensify cost cuts.

Doritos and Cheetos are stripping down with a new line-up of "NKD" options, which promise to deliver the classic snacks that fans recognize without artificial colors or flavors. "Rest assured, our iconic Cheetos and Doritos remain unchanged. NKD is an additive option, not a replacement.."

H.R. 3467, should alarm anyone who cares about protecting older Americans’ health and autonomy. Many would find themselves stuck in private insurance plans they never chose, possibly unable to access trusted doctors, specialists or hospitals outside their network.

Former child actresses, as well as teenage girls around the country, have posted photos of themselves at 15 years old after journalist Megyn Kelly seemed to downplay the youth of Jeffrey Epstein's victims on her podcast.

After signaling its intention earlier this year to make significant changes in how it determines eligibility for disability benefits, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has told disability advocates it is not moving forward with an overhaul.

In the past few months, ICE facilities in Texas have been the target of shootings, bomb threats and, now, mail with powder substances. Federal officials are investigating two incidents in north Texas after two ICE field offices received envelopes with white powdery substances this week.

The Social Security trust fund is expected to run out of money by 2033, according to a new report. Unless Congress acts before then, benefits for millions of retirees will be cut by 23%.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia refuted reports that she's planning to run for president on Sunday, days after she announced plans to leave Congress amid a break with President Trump.

The United Farm Workers, along with more than a dozen additional farmworkers, are suing the Trump administration in California over a new Labor Department rule they argue will “undercut and adversely affect” wages paid to U.S. workers.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily permitted Texas to use Republicans' redrawn congressional map that a federal court blocked earlier this week.

Republicans have said for months they had plenty of time to figure out what to do about Obamacare subsidies expiring at year’s end. During a six-week government shutdown, they said they’d talk about it after. Now, with five weeks to go before New Year’s, they’re scrambling and divided.

Daily fines of $998, designed to encourage immigrants in the U.S. illegally to leave the country, have been imposed on more than 21,500 people who the lawyers said were trying to comply with immigration laws.

Service members who follow an illegal order can be held liable and court-martialed or subject to prosecution by international tribunals. Following orders from a superior is no defense.

Charlotte has engaged in a bless-their-hearts approach to the surge. “Bless your heart” sounds nice, often said in complete sincerity, but widely understood by southerners to be a quiet way to tell someone they’re an idiot when offered in the right context.

The Trump administration is no longer considering nursing as a professional degree, as it begins rolling out student loan changes in its One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems and in political battlegrounds.

Utah's holiday shopping season will kick off alongside a boycott of corporate purchases, with some progressive groups making "buy local" the season's greeting of 2025. The boycott focuses on three corporations: Target, Home Depot, and Amazon, all enabled "the Trump administration's abuses of power.

A weekend wellness check on the MAGA coalition: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who on Friday announced her resignation, is spurned by its leader. And incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, held up as a midterm Republican bogeyman, is now welcomed by him.

The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi called Friday for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call that President Trump had with Mohammed bin Salman, joining Dem lawmakers who are raising questions about whether Trump personally benefitted from the Saudi crown prince.

A Texas A&M committee agreed that the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity.

President Donald Trump’s pledge to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota is triggering fear in the state’s deeply-rooted immigrant community, along with doubts about whether the White House has the legal authority to enact the directive as described.

Bloomberg is reporting that the Trump administration is considering allowing Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China -- and if so, it could be worth potentially billions to Nvidia's bottom line.

Tyson Foods will close a major beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, with about 3,200 employees in January after U.S. cattle supplies dropped to their lowest level in nearly 75 years, the meatpacker said on Friday.

President Donald Trump said Friday that when he took to TruthSocial to say Democrats encouraging service members to ignore unjust laws was “seditious behavior” that was “punishable by death,” he didn’t really mean death-death.

Michigan State Police responded to a bomb threat at the home of Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a spokesperson from her office said in a statement on Friday. The threat comes after President Donald Trump accused her and other Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" that was "punishable by death."

The Trump administration believes the moment to pressure Ukraine into a peace agreement is at hand, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy particularly weak at home and plagued by a corruption scandal that poses the most direct threat to his leadership since Russia invaded in 2022.

New releases from Jeffrey Epstein's estate shine additional light on the array of powerful figures who kept ties to the disgraced financier after his criminal charges came to light.

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers Chiles v. Salazar, a case examining Colorado’s 2019 ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, the justices face a dispute that could reshape how states regulate licensed mental health professionals.

A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to FEMA has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, according to three people familiar with the developments.

Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by a federal government helmed by President Trump. The problem is, no one knows what might be coming.

A federal judge on Friday blocked the IRS from giving ICE the home addresses of taxpayers who might be undocumented immigrants — dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.

Within hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents.

After a seven-week recess, Speaker Mike Johnson was optimistic about making progress on urgent priorities like government funding and rising health care costs. Instead, the House used hours of floor time to vote five times this week on measures rebuking other members.

Tribal leaders and education advocates said the Education Department failed to meet a statutory requirement by not consulting with tribes before announcing the transfer of dozens of Native American education programs to other federal agencies.

Donald Trump’s bid to gut the US Department of Education “makes no sense”, according to workers inside the federal agency, who accuse the administration of trying to make their lives “as difficult and traumatic as possible”.

After months of warning that New York City would become a "Complete and Total Economic and Social Disaster" under a Mamdani administration, Trump said today he'd be comfortable living in the city with Mamdani as mayor.

Donald Trump has assembled the least diverse US government of the 21st century, filling the corridors of power with white men at the expense of women and people of color. Nine in 10 individuals confirmed by the Senate in the first 300 days of the second Trump administration were white.

The changes, which come from the federal government and apply to all states and territories, are to the (ABAWD) rule. Under existing law, adults who do not have disabilities or dependents must work, participate in training, or look for work for 80 hours a month to keep their benefits.

A Treasury Department analysis indicates that new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil producers have sent prices there tumbling, choking off a key revenue source that Russia has used to fund its war in Ukraine, the department said.

China imported no soybeans from the U.S. for a second straight month in October even as total imports surged to ​a record high on purchases from South America, with buyers aiming to avert ‌supply disruptions amid trade tensions with Washington.

"The oath of enlistment, sworn by everyone who joins the military, states they "will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice."

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has issued his alternative to enhanced Obamacare subsidies. His “More Affordable Care Act,” released Thursday, enables Obamacare customers to use a “Trump Health Freedom Account” that resembles a health savings account.

Lawmakers are losing hope for a deal to extend the Affordable Care Act's enhanced subsidies, with leaders in both parties admitting the odds of a bipartisan deal are slim to none.

President Donald Trump offered praise for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday after the two men met for the first time at the White House to discuss the growing issue of affordability.

A federal judge on Thursday expressed frustration with the Trump administration over the testimony provided by a top immigration official who was called to address the steps the Trump administration has taken to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the West African country of Liberia.

The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins has said the department will "completely deconstruct" the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in an effort to remove fraud and corruption from the program.

The U.S. deported 50 people to Ukraine this week, a Ukrainian border official said on Tuesday, in what appears to be the single largest such deportation from the U.S. since the country has been at war with Russia.

A federal appeals court gave a chilly reception Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s bid to revive a sprawling racketeering lawsuit accusing his perceived political foes — including Hillary Clinton and James Comey — of conspiring to tar him with false allegations that he collaborated with Russia.

Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Mark Kelly will introduce legislation in the Senate on Tuesday that would strip out a provision in the just-passed government funding bill that allows senators to sue the government if their phone records are investigated without notifying them.