A presidential decree instructing the Justice Department to scrutinize whether a former official broke the law crosses a new line.

President Donald Trump is intensifying his efforts to punish his critics by signing a pair of memoranda directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration and

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Thursday he still expects interest rates to be lower within the next 18 months.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday continued to defend President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade agenda as even higher tariffs went into effect for dozens of countries and trade tensions with China reach a fever pitch.

US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs have gone into full effect. When Mr Trump announced the latest round of tariffs on April 2, he declared that the US would now tax nearly all of America’s trading partners at a minimum of 10% – and impose steeper rates for countries that he says run trade surpluses with the US.