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President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs on dozens of countries took effect on Thursday, fulfilling a long-promised ...

Mortgage rates fell to their lowest levels since March because job growth has been surprisingly weak this summer.

President Trump presents unverified economic data after firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief following a weak jobs ...

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher got guest Stephen A. Smith to crack up with a vivid sexual gag about President Donald Trump and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Federal Reserve's vice chair of supervision, Michelle Bowman, on Saturday said recent weak job data underscores her ...

Americans are growing increasingly distrustful of the establishments around them — only 28% of U.S. adults have high confidence in major institutions like government, banks, courts and schools.

Trump’s outburst over a bad jobs report is the second-term equivalent of his furious insistence in 2017 that more than a ...

As approval ratings hit record lows and independent voters flee, even loyal Republicans privately acknowledge Trump's ...

That lesson has taken a new significance recently, when President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor ...

Mr. Trump is systematically removing all independent sources of those facts.