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Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, appears to be the frontrunner to serve as the next Fed chair.
Economy

Longtime Trump advisor Kevin Hassett emerges as favorite for Fed chair, Bloomberg reports

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November 26, 2025
High school cafeteria worker Shirley Mease, right, stops to hug her granddaughter Teagan Porter as they shop for supplies to prepare 700 free Thanksgiving meals for community members in Missouri on Tuesday.
Personal Finance

Families struggle to catch up after the shutdown hit SNAP, with some hitting up food banks and skipping Thanksgiving

By Adam Geller and The Associated Press
November 26, 2025
consumer confidence
Economy

Government shutdown sends consumer confidence plunging to April ‘liberation day’ levels

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
November 25, 2025
retail sales
Economy

Retail sales creep up 0.2% in September from August as delayed report shows economy crawling forward

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
November 25, 2025
Travelers line up at the security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 2024, ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
Travel & Leisure

73 million Americans will be driving and nearly 18 million will go through TSA in the busiest Thanksgiving travel season in 15 years

By Rio Yamat and The Associated Press
November 24, 2025
Duffy
Politics

Trump’s FAA punishes most of nation’s air traffic workers by only giving $10,000 bonuses to the 776 with perfect shutdown attendance

By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
November 22, 2025
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday it will give 776 air traffic controllers $10,000 bonuses for "perfect attendance."
Politics

Just 776 FAA employees will get Trump’s $10,000 bonus, but unions say thousands who worked during the shutdown were left out

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November 21, 2025
Tammy Duckworth
Politics

Trump held Americans’ Thanksgiving travel hostage to force through health care cuts, Democratic senator suggests

By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
November 20, 2025
Jerome Powell
Economy

Government cancels October jobs report because it can’t calculate unemployment, other key numbers

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
November 19, 2025
airline
Politics

Congress is already preparing for the next shutdown, writing a bill to pay air traffic controllers when the parties inevitably clash again

By Josh Funk, Rio Yamat and The Associated Press
November 19, 2025
airline
Law

Normal airline service resumes Monday at 6am ET, FAA says, just in time for Thanksgiving travel

By Rio Yamat, Josh Funk and The Associated Press
November 17, 2025
Panel attorneys should begin receiving payment as early as next week, according to the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Law

‘The system’s about to break’ — Thousands of court-appointed lawyers and staffers haven’t been paid since June

By Jaimie Ding and The Associated Press
November 15, 2025
People receive free food boxes at a large-scale food distribution, in response to the federal government shutdown and SNAP/CalFresh food benefits delays, on November 11, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The event was hosted by the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the office of L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell.
Law

Getting $190 apiece to 42 million Americans has state officials in a post-shutdown SNAP scramble

By Geoff Mulvihill, David A. Lieb and The Associated Press
November 14, 2025
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve
Economy

Butchered jobs and inflation data add fuel to the fire of uncertainty already blazing in the markets

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November 14, 2025
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters October jobs and inflation reports will likely never be released on Wednesday.
Economy

White House official says October jobs and inflation data are likely to never be released

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November 13, 2025

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