The federal government has added hundreds of billions of dollars to its tab in a matter of weeks, pushing the national debt to levels that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While the latest ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for increasing next year's defense budget to $1.5 trillion, up from his prior proposal of $1 trillion, which a budget watchdog is warning would add trillions ...

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