China had its biggest trade surplus ever last year at almost $1.2 trillion, according to data released Wednesday, defying tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on the world’s second-largest economy as it sends more exports to other parts of the world.

President Donald Trump declared that “the Trump economic boom has officially begun” just hours after the Labor Department reported that consumer prices continued to tick upward.

Trump is turning toward unlikely allies as he rolls out a new agenda to try to address affordability concerns and position Republicans for the midterms: progressives.

Prices rose 2.7% in December, a sign that inflation continues rising but in line with the pace seen in recent months.

The Justice Department’s decision to investigate the Federal Reserve comes after a long string of threats by President Donald Trump to go after the central bank’s chair, Jerome Powell

A criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve launched by the Department of Justice zeroed in on renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters.

Paramount Skydance has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery after its offer to buy the company was turned down. NBC News’ Chloe Melas has details on the lawsuit, the current media acquisition deal with Netflix and a brewing proxy fight.

The Justice Department probe of the Federal Reserve will reverberate beyond Wall Street to working Americans and consumers.

When investors around the world woke up Monday to news that the U.S.

Nearly 90 people aboard a Holland America cruise liner based in Florida suffered “symptoms of gastrointestinal illness” from a norovirus outbreak, forcing a “comprehensive sanitization of the ship,” officials said Sunday