As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen ...

President Donald Trump touted plans Thursday to coat the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool in an "American flag blue" hue, one of his latest construction efforts to refashion government buildings and ...

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President Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments ...

The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the Trump administration describes as wasteful. By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington With the ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists ...

Note: An update to this blog to incorporate an additional year of the budget window as well as higher interest rates can be found here. In a post on Truth Social, President Trump called for increasing ...

Earth will overshoot the critical warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels within the next decade, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Tuesday (Nov. 4). To ...

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United ...