After recovering from an initial jolt, U.S. stocks, bonds and the value of the U.S. dollar drifted through a quiet ...

Maryland has seen its credit rating drop for the first time in decades. It's the latest in a string of challenges for the ...

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill risks sharply increasing the US public debt, sparking alarm among investors and fuelling questions over how long the world will finance Washington’s ...

Proposals that would require judges to deny bail in certain cases; expand a list of offenses for which defendants could not ...

Ten inmates escaped the Orleans Parish Jail early Friday morning, which is bringing up questions on why cases for violent criminals are not being properly handled.

U.S. stock index futures inched higher on Monday evening, shrugging off a recent credit rating downgrade by Moodys as ...

The downgrade marks the end of an era: Moody’s had maintained a pristine “Aaa” rating on the United States since first ...

"The combination of diminished appetite to buy U.S. assets and the rigidity of a U.S. fiscal process that locks in very high ...

U.S. stocks, bonds and the value of the U.S. dollar are drifting lower following the latest reminder that the U.

With the national debt at $36 trillion, the bill is finally coming due, making President Trump the unlucky inheritor of a ...

The House advanced two measures that would ask voters to amend the state Constitution to tighten the state’s bail laws, ...

Moody's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating made it the third of the three major ratings agencies to downgrade U.S. credit ...