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FILE – Construction equipment is seen near new homes on July 11, 2025, in Happy Valley, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Voters are worried about the cost of housing. But Trump wants home prices to keep climbing.

February 8, 2026 at 12:22 p.m.

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.

FILE – In this July 28, 2012 file photo, chicken eggs are transported by conveyor belt from the production side to the packaging side at a farm in Cortland, Ind. (Aaron Piper/The Tribune via AP, File)

Egg prices could jump another 41% this year, USDA says, as Trump鈥檚 bird flu plan unveiled

March 31, 2025 at 3:45 p.m.

Farmers have already been working to protect their birds since the 2015 bird flu outbreak.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for U.S. consumers

February 1, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.

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...

FILE – President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What Trump鈥檚 decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years

December 22, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.

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...

President Joe Biden greets people as he arrives at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the “sin” of a 150-year boarding school policy

October 25, 2024 at 5:15 p.m.

鈥淚t抖阴ap a sin on our soul,鈥� said Biden, his voice full of anger and emotion, during his visit to the Gila River Indian Community鈥檚 land on the outskirts of Phoenix鈥檚...

A person waits in a line for a prospective employer at a job fair, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Harris is making a 鈥榗apitalist鈥� pitch to boost the economy as Trump pushes deeper into populism

September 25, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

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...

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024, in Washington (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Joe Biden visiting battleground states and expanding staff as his campaign tries to seize the offensive

March 8, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

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...

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. 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 the most popular and expensive programs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Poll: Cut federal spending 鈥� but not big-ticket programs

March 29, 2023 at 2:40 p.m.

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...

President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.J.Res.100, a bill that aims to avert a freight rail strike, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Washington. Themeasure passed Thursday by the Senateand Wednesday by the House binds rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached between the rail companies and union leaders in September. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Rail strike averted: Biden signs bill enforcing agreement

December 2, 2022 at 10:45 a.m.

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...

FILE – Then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at the Amtrak Johnstown Train Station, Sept. 30, 2020, in Johnstown, Pa. President Joe Biden believes that unions built the middle class. He also knows a rail worker strike could damage the economy ahead of midterm elections. That leaves him in the awkward position of espousing the virtues of unionization even as members of his administration work to keep talks going in Washington between the railroads and unionized workers aimed at averting a shutdown. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Tentative labor deal averts threat of nationwide rail strike

September 15, 2022 at 4:59 p.m.

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...

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