Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed on 4 July, introduces a US$250 “Visa Integrity Fee” for every non-immigrant visa ...

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At an event Monday, the governor held forth on the possibility of Elon Musk’s new political party and spoke on the deadly ...

Republicans have a paper-thin House majority — as demonstrated by the 218-214 final vote on Trump’s high priority bill — and ...

Senator Ray Fonseca, chair of the Committee on Health, Hospitals, and Human Services, has voiced his anxieties about ...

Vistra's valuation appears stretched for the short term; however, over the longer term, there are still gains to be made. See ...

And apparently the 15 orders of Catholic sisters who placed full page ads in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 3 lamenting ...

Responding to the DOGE and the Big Beautiful Bill by passing a law giving four Hawaii politicians $50,000,000 to dole out to their friends in the nonprofit world — is a crazy bad idea. Allowing them ...

A small tariff provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” spurred an expensive lobbying battle between special interests in ...

In a state of uncertainty, skeptical of both parties, and settled into a “wait and see” attitude when it comes to Beltway Republicans and Democrats and the Big Beautiful Bill. What we do know is that ...

The agency has historically struggled to fill open positions — and more money won't necessarily solve the problem.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's plan for a new political party prompted an analyst to recommend Tesla's board board create new "ground ...