Yuval Rosenberg

The Trump administration is continuing its not-quite-quixotic quest to do away with offshore wind energy. A German wind company called RWE U.S. Offshore

The Senate wrapped up its work for August in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning and departed for a five-week recess after punting on some of Republicans' top priorities. That leaves lawmakers with a lot to do when they return from their summer break — and some political concerns to worry about as they look ahead to November.

President Trump lashed out angrily Monday night at a report published by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank, that said that his National Guard deployments to U.S. cities have largely failed to reduce crime even as it could cost taxpayers more than $1.7 billion.

The Trump administration is set to spend $927 million or more on construction projects on the White House grounds, with taxpayers on the hook for most of the expense, according to a report by The Washington Post. The projected cost is far higher than previously reported.

Over the 12 months ending in July, prescription drug prices saw their biggest annual drop in more than 60 years, according to inflation data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday.

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow construction of President Trump's White House ballroom to continue, arguing that it was too late to stop work on the project and that doing so would raise national security concerns.

The yield on benchmark 30-year Treasury bonds briefly hit a fresh 19-year high on Tuesday before pulling back slightly. The recent surge that lifted the 30-year Treasury yield above 5.3%, the highest since 2007, comes amid a

The bond market has been sending a warning signal this summer. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department responded.

The effects of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's extraordinary intervention in the bond market faded quickly on Thursday.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered a temporary but significant win for President Trump on Friday, allowing construction on the White House ballroom to proceed while the legal challenges to the project play out. As Trump races to replace the demolished East Wing of the White House with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom atop a military and medical complex, Roberts entered an administrative stay that will give the Supreme Court more time to consider whether lower courts were right in ordering a halt to some of the construction.