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The United States has announced, subject to reported suspensions with the two countries, 25% duties on most imports from Canada and Mexico, as well ...

Mike Forrester with AP Former East Oregonian editor Mike Forrester, right, is pictured here in his early news career as a reporter for the Associated Press in Los Angeles with world heavyweight boxing ...

Standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s new trade war is a hurdle of the US Supreme Court’s own making.

The Constitution gives Congress what’s called “the power of the purse,” or the ability to spend taxpayer money — not the ...

If a president wants to rescind or defer spending, a formal request must be submitted to Congress, which then has the final ...

Posts saying that a Judge Joseph Barron on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled pardons granted ...

Trump’s attempt to, even temporarily, pause federal grants and loans most likely flies in the face of our constitutionally ...

In football, safeguards exist against subjectively subversive, "palpably unfair" acts. The same can't be said for Washington – much to Trump critics' recent chagrin.

With tariffs and an aid freeze, the president is eroding the United States’ standing in the world.

U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel laid out their case Monday that then-President Joe Biden hamstrung a national security review to ...

"War Room" host Steve Bannon runs down what is happening in the world as the third week of the second Trump presidency begins ...