Politics

The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the process on Thursday for a final vote on the bill, known as the Social Security Fairness Act.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar.” Adams met Thursday with Tom Homan after the mayor has expressed an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue criminals in the city while Trump promises mass deportations of people living in the country illegally. Adams has re...

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick is co-chair of the transition team for Donald Trump. The SEC says his firm caused two SPACs to make false statements.

A former FBI informant accused of falsely claiming that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepted bribes has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court papers filed Thursday.

The pace of food price growth has already slowed dramatically over the past year.

President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month.

The announcement was made exclusively on TODAY on Dec. 12.

“America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” the president said in a statement Thursday.

The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind a long-standing policy that has prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting undocumented people at or near so-called sensitive locations.

The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the bureau workforce Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job.

Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback after his once-promising career was destroyed by sexting scandals and later a criminal conviction for having illicit online contact with a child. Campaign finance records list a campaign committee th...

Trump chose a former Fox News personality and a California billionaire for ambassadorships in his administration. Both positions require Senate confirmation.