Chelsea Gray made two buzzer-beating 3-pointers after Caitlin Clark's uncharacteristic mistakes, the first to force overtime ...

The Padres gave up a top pitching prospect for the playoff push, while the Tigers' teardown is hammered home post-Tarik ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.37 trillion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to the latest monthly budget review from the Congressional Budget Office. The deficit ...

The U.S. trade deficit expanded over 40% in May to $77.59B, its widest gap since March 2025. The latest reading missed the forecast of -$78.30B. Compared to a year ago, the trade deficit is 16.2% ...

The US merchandise-trade deficit widened in May to the biggest in more than a year as exports pulled back from record levels and imports continued a steady march higher. The shortfall in goods trade ...

One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...

WASHINGTON -- The federal government had a $292.6 billion monthly deficit in May, bringing the total deficit for the first eight months of fiscal 2026 to more than $1.2 trillion. The Treasury ...

In the Loop and In the Loop listeners talk to Mayor Johnson about everything from city assistance for small grocery stores to a Chicago Bears stadium to wages for restaurant workers to the city’s ...

The federal government is projected to run a budget deficit of at least $2 trillion this fiscal year, according to an estimate by the Treasury Department and bond market participants. Earlier this ...

Life is a struggle between the urgent and the important. With the accelerating inanity of our daily lives — through algorithm addiction and the flatulent con man occupying the White House — the ...

The value of stuff the U.S. imported (like passenger vehicles) rose, but so did the value of stuff it exported (like oil and agricultural products). In the midst of a tumultuous world economy — ...