The president and his allies have berated local officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder for those officials to manage the capital.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will seek more permanent federal control of the Washington, D.C., police force as he continues his efforts to ramp-up crime enforcement in the nation's capital.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning made his latest call for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates following July’s inflation report. But the president didn’t say by how much. Markets got a clue into the administration’s thinking by the end of the day,

A weak jobs report earlier this month revealed a sharp slowdown of the labor market, which could prompt the Fed to reduce borrowing costs as a means of warding off an economic slo

The dollar slipped for a second straight session on Wednesday, a day after a U.S. inflation reading increased expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut next month and renewed pressure from President Donald Trump for lower rates added to the sell-off.