Moody’s is the last of the three major rating agencies to lower the federal government’s credit. Standard & Poor’s downgraded federal debt in 2011 and Fitch Ratings followed in 2023.

The high court action is the latest in a string of judicial setbacks for the Trump administration’s effort to speed ...

In highly anticipated peace talks, Russian and Ukrainian officials agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners, the war’s largest swap ...

In our news wrap Friday, Israeli Defense Forces struck two Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen and launched dozens of airstrikes across Gaza, a transit strike in New Jersey forced 350,000 people to make ...

President Trump visited three Middle Eastern nations where his family has deep business ties. Over the past month, billions ...

Doctors announced this week that they have treated a newborn baby with a rare genetic disease using the world’s first personalized gene editing therapy. Geoff Bennett discussed the treatment and its ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump's trip to the Middle East and ...

He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, ...

Though it may be a while before similar personalized treatments are available for others, doctors hope the technology can ...

House committees have labored on the legislation, which runs a whopping 1,116 pages and is titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill ...

PBS News asked readers to share their thoughts on having children and incentivizing childbirth — and more than 900 people ...

In comments that cemented the Trump administration's intent to bring about a major shift in the agency's mission, David ...