The executive order is particularly challenging for the central bank because its insulation from short-term politics helps give it credibility in financial markets.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is the latest federal banking agency to let go of probationary employees.

The U.S. holds a lot of gold. But revaluing it at current prices wouldn’t do much to improve the fiscal challenges in ...

The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that ...

A new congressional task force focused on the Federal Reserve, set up by the head of a powerful committee who is critical of the U.S. central bank's approach to setting monetary policy, has penciled ...

On his first day back in office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship. Under the order, the ...

Since President Trump's executive order claiming new power over historically independent federal agencies this week, Fed ...

The president’s power grab over federal agencies is the latest example of his use of the controversial legal theory.

The United States on Friday proposed a draft United Nations resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of ...

Billionaire Elon Musk once again suggested that the Federal Reserve should undergo closer scrutiny, saying Thursday at a ...

President Donald Trump placed federal payments on the front line of his early policy battles. The immediate effects have been ...

Musk speaks about his federal cost-cutting initiative, as Argentina's president hands him a "chainsaw of bureaucracy".