The Securities and Exchange Commission is scaling back its cryptocurrency enforcement unit. Why does this matter? Because crime pervades the crypto industry.

Just last month, a hacker stole about $1.5 billion from the crypto exchange Bybit in the biggest theft the industry has ever experienced. As this incident suggests, crypto crime seems to ...Read more

Federal workers in Philadelphia faced layoffs last month, and now as a government shutdown looms, some face the reality of having to work through it.

If the shutdown comes to fruition, it would represent "fear, anxiety and insult to injury" for some Philadelphia Internal Revenue Service workers, deemed "essential" federal employees, who would ...Read more

Many observers suggest that the United States is coming apart as a nation. They parse us into red states and blue states, urban areas versus rural. Some believe that our social and political divides are too wide to overcome.

I don’t accept that.

As someone who grew up in Peoria, Illinois, lived and worked in Chicago, and is raising a family ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A legislative proposal to cut in half a Pentagon-funded medical research account, subtracting hundreds of millions of dollars in this fiscal year alone, would jeopardize the fight against deadly diseases, experts said this week.

The six-month continuing resolution for fiscal 2025, which the House has passed and the Senate is ...Read more

MIAMI — Damir Ortiz, a 10-year-old with leukemia and a rare genetic disease that has caused a tumor in his left eye, was medevaced Wednesday from Cuba to the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, after overcoming bureaucratic obstacles and the reluctance of the Cuban government.

Last month, 79-year-old Martha Beatriz Roque, a prominent ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday that he’ll vote to advance a House-passed stopgap funding measure needed by Friday night to avert a partial government shutdown, likely providing cover for other Democrats still on the fence.

The comments from Schumer represent an about-face one day after he declared ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to slap 200% tariffs on wine and other alcoholic beverages imported from European Union countries as he escalates his trade war aimed at geopolitical friends and foes alike.

Trump said he would up the ante after the E.U. imposed its own 50% tax on American whiskey, a move that itself was a response to the ...Read more

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Republican lawmakers advanced two bills Wednesday adding limited medical exceptions to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban after three years of refusing calls from doctors to do just that.

A House committee approved House Bill 414 on a 12-4 vote — the first time the GOP supermajority has allowed such a bill to be heard ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders plan to roll out their recommended cuts to military spending alongside their budget request for fiscal 2026, the Defense Department indicated in a newly released letter to Congress.

The letter, addressed to House Armed Services Chair Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., and dated March 5, states that Congress will be informed...Read more

Refugees haven’t been welcome in the United States since the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, when he signed an executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 90 days. Despite a February 2025 federal court order to resume refugee resettlement, the administration has said that won’t be happening any ...Read more

As if President Donald Trump isn’t busy enough taking a woodchipper to the federal bureaucracy, threatening to wage economic war in North America, putting the screws on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to pressure him into peace talks with Russia and giving impromptu interviews in the Oval Office every other day, he has added another ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, public health experts say that, despite some gains, the United States is not fully prepared for another public health disaster.

At least two people have died in a measles outbreak that has infected at least 222 people in 12 states.

Avian influenza has ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the government will deport lawful permanent residents who support Hamas and came to the U.S. as students with an intent “to rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, antisemitic activities,” referencing the Palestinian rights protests at universities in 2024.

“And if you end up having...Read more

LEESBURG, Va. – House Democrats gathered Wednesday roughly an hour outside of Washington for a three-day policy conference as they plot out their next two years in the minority.

The retreat here at the Lansdowne Resort comes a day after House Democrats were nearly unanimous in their opposition to Republicans’ stopgap spending bill, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — ​Senate Democrats are digging in for a fight on a House-passed stopgap funding measure that is needed by Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown.

After a closed-door caucus lunch, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that Democrats would fight for a one-month continuing resolution that would allow ...Read more