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A week after telling Americans their kids may get fewer dolls and pencils because of tariffs, Trump vows ‘THE BEST IS YET TO COME’

A report released on Tuesday showed a jobs market that looks increasingly fragile, even if the overall economy still appears to be stable.

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

December 17, 2025

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., prepares to speak to reporters following a strategy session with House Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

With just days to go before ACA subsidies expire, Congress is about to wrap up its work with no consensus solution in sight

By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, and others

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith announces the results of a vote to redistrict the state’s congressional map, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Indiana Republicans defy Trump, refuse to go along with his gerrymandering agenda

By Thomas Beaumont, Isabella Volmert, and others

A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Even in Silicon Valley, skepticism looms over robots, while ‘China has certainly a lot more momentum on humanoids’

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press

FILE – Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

A Wisconsin couple was paying $2 a month for an ACA health plan. But as subsidies expire, it’s soaring to $1,600, forcing them to downgrade

By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press

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Economy adds 119,000 jobs in September but revisions show first year with multiple negative months since 2020

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

November 20, 2025

Elon Musk, wearing a suit, looks to the side and frowns.

Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics

By Sasha Rogelberg

November 20, 2025

The Johor-Singapore SEZ will be more than an ‘industrial park with a nicer brochure,’ says the chair of the state’s investment committee

The Johor-Singapore SEZ will be more than an ‘industrial park with a nicer brochure,’ says the chair of the state’s investment committee

By Jonathan Gan

November 20, 2025

Trump addresses the press corps while motioning to Scott Bessent

Trump tells Scott Bessent to fix the Fed’s high interest rates or ‘I’m going to fire your ass’

November 20, 2025

A man walks outside of a Home Depot

Home Depot blames its recent sales slump on a major funk in the housing market: ‘Our customers are homeowners’

November 20, 2025

Tammy Duckworth

Trump held Americans’ Thanksgiving travel hostage to force through health care cuts, Democratic senator suggests

By Josh Funk and The Associated Press

November 20, 2025

Scott Bessent

Trump urges Scott Bessent to take Fed chair role, ‘but he wants no part of it, he likes being secretary of the Treasury’

By Christopher Rugaber, Josh Boak and The Associated Press

November 20, 2025

Only ‘catastrophic missteps’ could unseat the U.S. dollar, says author Paul Blustein: ‘It is entrenched—like it or not’

Only ‘catastrophic missteps’ could unseat the U.S. dollar, says author Paul Blustein: ‘It is entrenched—like it or not’

By David Austin

November 20, 2025

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell takes questions from reporters during a news conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve on October 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.

The latest Fed minutes read like another nail in the coffin for a December interest rate cut

By Eleanor Pringle

November 20, 2025

David McWilliams

One of the world’s most popular economists on why AI is ‘undoubtedly going to crash’: It’s built off ‘digital lettuce’—and the U.S. will be just fine anyway

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 20, 2025

Panera’s CEO unveiled a comeback plan—and it includes better ingredients like lettuce: ‘No one likes iceberg’

Panera’s CEO unveiled a comeback plan—and it includes better ingredients like lettuce: ‘No one likes iceberg’

By Dave Lozo and Morning Brew

November 19, 2025

trade

Commerce Department reveals nearly 24% plunge in trade deficit after reported delayed over 7 weeks by government shutdown

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

November 19, 2025

Jerome Powell

Government cancels October jobs report because it can’t calculate unemployment, other key numbers

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

November 19, 2025

NYSE broker

‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach says there’s no doubt ‘we’re in a mania,’ but gold is a ‘real asset class’

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 19, 2025

Ammonoosuc

‘Is this kind of the first domino to fall?’ Trump’s Medicaid cuts shut down the only hospital for miles around in an elderly New England mountain town

By Michael Casey, Amanda Swinhart, Devi Shastri and The Associated Press

November 19, 2025

Keith Lee

Gen Z creators are turbocharging Main Street—and Amex is betting big

By Jessica Coacci

November 19, 2025

Target

Target profits slide 19%, forecasts sales slumping through holiday shopping season

By Anne D'Innocenzio and The Associated Press

November 19, 2025

Photo: Representative Jake Ellzey, a Republican from Texas, James Danly, US deputy secretary of energy, Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., and Amanda Peterson Corio, global head of data center energy at Google, left to right, during a media event at the Google Midlothian Data Center in Midlothian, Texas, US, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, ramping up its footprint as competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic PBC map out their own multibillion-dollar bets in the state. Photographer: Jonathan Johnson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Big 5 AI ‘hyperscalers’ have quadrupled their use of debt to fund operations, Bank of America says

November 19, 2025

A television station broadcasts Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaking after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.

‘A deadly confluence of wrong-way news’ is what’s causing the global market selloff, says top economist, and don’t expect it to get better anytime soon

By Eleanor Pringle

November 19, 2025

Navy Secretary warns workers can make more at Amazon instead of building America’s warships: ‘It’s hard to get that person to want to do that job’

Navy Secretary warns workers can make more at Amazon instead of building America’s warships: ‘It’s hard to get that person to want to do that job’

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

November 19, 2025

Jerome Powell

Fed speeches reveal split that puts rate cut in jeopardy: persistent inflation vs ‘low-hire, low-fire’ labor market

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

November 18, 2025

Jeffrey Gundlach

‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach warns of the next financial crisis: ‘It has the same trappings as subprime mortgage repackaging in 2006’

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 18, 2025

Close up shot of young Gen-Z female with colorful hair at a cafe

‘The kids aren’t alright,’ warns top economist, as unemployed, pessimistic Gen Z living with parents blow a $12 billion hole in consumption

By Eleanor Pringle

November 18, 2025

Trump tells Americans the economy is better than ever at McDonald’s summit: ‘This is also the golden age’

By Sasha Rogelberg

November 18, 2025

President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gesture as they meet delegations at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025.

Trump expected to treat Saudi crown prince as a full ally, with multibillion-dollar deals on F-35s and AI infrastructure

By Aamer Madhani and The Associated Press

November 18, 2025

Joe DioGuardi

The $38 trillion national debt ‘milestone’ and the accounting mirage

By Joe DioGuardi

November 18, 2025

Richard Edelman

Trust is the missing ingredient in the AI boom

By Richard Edelman

November 18, 2025

Donald Trump

Odds of President Trump paying out $2,000 tariff rebate checks now sit at just 2%

By Eleanor Pringle

November 18, 2025

Trump ‘dominates the political scene’ like no other recent U.S. president, says famed diplomat Kishore Mahbubani

Trump ‘dominates the political scene’ like no other recent U.S. president, says famed diplomat Kishore Mahbubani

By Angelica Ang

November 18, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One on November 16, 2025 at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Personal Finance

Trump promises to send $2,000 tariff dividend checks ‘probably the middle of next year, a little bit later than that’

By Eva Roytburg

November 17, 2025

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