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Consumers are the engine of U.S. economic growth, so any sharp pullback in their spending would hurt. Could the result be a weaker economy and lost jobs?

Last month's bogus ballistic missile warning in Hawaii and, now, this week's tsunami snafu have highlighted trouble spots and prompted calls for change.

A two-year deal provides what Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says is needed to pull the military out of a slump in combat readiness.

Trump's rejection of the Democratic memo is in contrast to his enthusiastic embrace of releasing the Republican document, which he pledged to make public before he read it.

This year's team is the most diverse of any U.S. winter squad, in terms of both race and gender: The 108 women on this team are the most of any U.S. team at a Winter Games.

Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan budget agreement to increase military and domestic spending levels for two-years.

Partisan dividing lines were sharp, the survey found, and clearly run throughout the immigration debate.

The data play a critical role in drawing legislative districts, enforcing civil rights laws and analyzing health statistics.

After days of buildup amid a political firestorm, House Republicans released a controversial memo on Friday.

Read the memo below.

The deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker ignited the strike that drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis where he was assassinated in April 1968.

The latest political sandstorm in the Russia saga is over four pages of paper that have never seen the light of day.

Officials gave varying figures on the number hurt. But Amtrak said two crew members and three passengers were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned Wednesday following reports that she bought shares in a tobacco company.