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The Air Force contract for a new training jet could be delayed if Congress does not pass a budget bill to replace the continuing resolution that expires in December.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has cut China's sovereign debt rating by one notch to A+. The lowered rating has also spread to include several of the country's top banks.
The Commerce Department is expected to rule in favor of Boeing next week in a case involving an "absurdly" low price for 75 planes Canada's Bombardier sold to Delta Air Lines. Here's what could...
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that six of 27 national monuments under review by the Trump administration be reduced in size and proposes changes to several others.
Rolling Stone magazine will be sold, the Senate wants more information about how Russian interests used Facebook during the presidential election, and more important headlines.
North Korea is not backing down. Flouting international condemnation, the isolated rogue nation fired a ballistic missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Friday.
North Korea launched a second missile over Japan on Thursday evening, a clearly defiant signal of its intention to ignore the latest round of UN sanctions and continue with its nuclear testing...
Can North Korea actually destroy Tokyo, with a population of almost 13 million people, in a nuclear holocaust?
In order to make the next required payment on the national debt, Congress needs to lift the debt ceiling above its current level of $19.81 trillion by the end of this month.
The World Trade Organization has reversed a ruling against Boeing in a trade case brought by the European Union that incentives valued at $8.7 billion to the U.S. plane maker violated international...
North Korea has conducted its first nuclear test in a year and claims that the underground blast was a hydrogen bomb. If true, that would mark a big step forward in the country's development of...
Gasoline prices have started to rise due to the effects of Hurricane Harvey, the Trump administration will slash the advertising budget to get people to sign up for Obamacare, and more important...
The American economy seems impossible to derail. However, two factors, completely unrelated, could ruin current progress.
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Fitch Ratings has warned that the U.S. AAA debt rating is in jeopardy if the debt ceiling is not raised before it reaches its upper limit, now expected sometime in early October.