According to a statement from Jason Furman, “Real GDP growth in the second quarter was revised up for a second time, as consumers spent more and businesses invested more than previously estimated.”
Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress on Thursday began advancing bills to prevent the right-wing sector of their Party from shutting down the government next week in effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio took a few sharp shots at GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling the billionaire businessman a "touchy and insincere guy" who is not well-informed about key issues in the race.
VW names new CEO Volkswagen equipped almost 3 million cars in Germany with the software that allowed it to cheat on emissions tests, the country's transport minister said on Friday.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, representative for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, announced his resignation from the Congress, and calls for immigration reform have further increased.
The 266th pope of the Holy See became the fifth pontiff to visit the United Nations on Friday morning and called for reforms. Pope Francis' speech comes as the U.N. celebrates its 70th anniversary, and he recognized the organization's advances in developing international law, humanitarian law, conflict resolutions and peacekeeping operations.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner announced on Friday that he will resign from Congress and give up his speakership position at the end of October.
Just one day after Pope Francis delivered a formal address at the White House, Donald Trump said the pontiff was wrong about how the U.S. should handle immigration and global warming.
PETA filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against a wildlife photographer for profiting from a selfie picture that the animal rights group claims belongs to an endangered monkey.
A five-year-old girl breached security for the opportunity to personally deliver Pope Francis and important message about immigration, and she succeeded.
An immigration advocacy group in Oklahoma City is planning to boycott the upcoming state fair visit of leading 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is threatening the conservative group Club for Growth with a "multi-million dollar lawsuit" for running a campaign ad that Trump's lawyer says is "the very definition of libel."
The number of fingerprint records of federal employees that have fallen into the hands of hackers is far higher than originally thought, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Defense said.
