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The White House is trying to rein in President Trump, using a primetime address to keep him on script and focused on domestic policy amid slumping poll numbers and campaign-style speeches that tend to veer off-course. Trump touted on Wednesday his administration’s work in its first year of his second-term and previewed what voters could...

The highly anticipated November inflation report showed prices appearing to grow at a far slower rate, surprising analysts and markets after a year of stubbornly rising costs. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.7 percent annually as of November, far slower than the 3.1 percent annual inflation rate economists had expected, according to consensus forecasts....

The U.S. military struck two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing five “narco-terrorists” and bringing the total number of people killed in the Pentagon's ongoing campaign to over 100.  Three people were killed on the first boat and two people were killed in the strike on the second vessel, the U.S....

A potential deal to fund large swaths of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, collapsed on Thursday night after Colorado senators demanded that Congress stop President Trump’s efforts to dismantle a key climate agency. A Democratic senator involved in the negotiations over passing a five-bill package of appropriations...