A March Federal Reserve working paper found that U.S. rental housing prices as a whole increased by 22.6% from 2021 to 2024. The paper attributed 4.3 percentage points of that increase to illegal ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump gave a July Fourth speech about "freedom's triumph over tyranny, liberty’s conquest over ...

As a state senator in 2025, Republican Jay Collins sponsored a bill that sought to indefinitely extend a June 2027 deadline for eligible data centers to apply for temporary tax exemptions. The bill ...

There’s no foolproof way to avoid exposure. The causes of the current cyclosporiasis outbreaks are unknown and avoiding all fresh produce consumption is impractical. (There’s currently no evidence ...

Seth Moulton told voters it’s time to retire U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who has held elected office longer than Moulton has been alive, while the incumbent argued he will continue to fight for Massachusetts ...

Opponents of birthright citizenship say it leads to “birth tourism.” Researchers estimated that 5,000 to 26,000 foreign pregnant women travel to the U.S. annually to give birth, a tiny slice of annual ...

In the first debate since Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary became a two-person race, Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens repeatedly turned policy disagreements into a fight over ...

As cities across the United States put their own spin on the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations, New York City and Mayor Zohran Mamdani also honored the Big Apple’s place in American history.

President Donald Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure form reported $1.4 billion in gains from cryptocurrencies, and another $400 million from non-stock sources such as real estate, legal settlements, ...

Social media users are sharing many videos of buildings collapsing and people trapped under rubble, saying it shows the destruction of two massive earthquakes in Venezuela. Althou ...

Impress your friends at this year’s Fourth of July party with these five surprisingly true stories from American history.

In 1763, Great Britain gained control of Florida from Spain and split it into two separate territories — East Florida and West Florida.  Florida, and other British territories outside the 13 colonies ...