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Voters are worried about the cost of housing. But Trump wants home prices to keep climbing.
President Donald Trump wants to keep home prices high, bypassing calls to ramp up construction so people can afford what has been a ticket to the middle class.

Egg prices could jump another 41% this year, USDA says, as Trump’s bird flu plan unveiled
Farmers have already been working to protect their birds since the 2015 bird flu outbreak.

Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for U.S. consumers
The Trump administration put the tariffs in place to force the three countries to stop the spread and manufacturing of fentanyl, in addition to pressuring Canada and Mexico to limit...

What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years
After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas...

Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the “sin” of a 150-year boarding school policy
“Itap a sin on our soul,” said Biden, his voice full of anger and emotion, during his visit to the Gila River Indian Community’s land on the outskirts of Phoenix’s...

Harris is making a ‘capitalist’ pitch to boost the economy as Trump pushes deeper into populism
Derided by Donald Trump as a “communist,” Kamala Harris is playing up her street cred as a capitalist. Attacked by Harris as a rich kid who got $400 million from...

Joe Biden visiting battleground states and expanding staff as his campaign tries to seize the offensive
Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe Biden and his senior aides will barnstorm the country starting Friday to aggressively sell his vision for a second...

Poll: Cut federal spending — but not big-ticket programs
In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to...

Rail strike averted: Biden signs bill enforcing agreement
President Joe Biden has signed a bill to avert a freight rail strike that he said could have plunged the U.S. into recession. Biden signed the measure Friday after it...

Tentative labor deal averts threat of nationwide rail strike
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation's freight trains and devastated the...