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James Comer claims he has a whistleblower who will make ‘Watergate look like jaywalking’, but is yet to deliver

The United States is barreling towards "catastrophic debt default," but what costs will get cut?

Congress and the White House have yet to strike a deal on the debt ceiling as the Biden Administration will shuffle money around.

Three weeks since launching his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is confronting a sweeping set of problems in his day job that defy easy solutions and are not entirely within his control

There could be serious economic damage in the U.S. and elsewhere if the debt ceiling fight nears the default deadline.

One outcome is clear as Washington reaches for a budget deal to end the debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious COVID era of government spending is giving way to a new focus on stemming deficits

Concerns about the debt ceiling also weighed on stocks Friday.

The most disconcerting element of watching The 47th last autumn at the Old Vic, a satirical comedy on Trumpian politics, is that Bertie Carvel’s brilliant turn as Donald Trump left me disappointed. This was despite Carvel expertly capturing the former US president’s bizarre finger pointing, his other tics and inflections,…

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