From the moment the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in the summer of 2011, powerful critics have wanted to rein it in — and the regulator was one of the very first targets of ...

In the weeks since President Donald Trump has assumed office, more than 200,000 federal workers at more than a dozen agencies ...

U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C. last week declined to enter a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring Elon Musk and his DOGE associates from accessing data systems at the Departm ...

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and ...

Advocates fear consumers could be left to fend for themselves in a complicated financial marketplace if the CFPB is ...

A U.S. watchdog group and other critics are responding with alarm to reporting that federal employees reviewing applications related to a brain implant developed by Elon Musk's company Neuralink are ...

On his first day back in office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship. Under the order, the ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has joined forces with 22 other attorneys general to oppose efforts by the Trump ...

We discuss the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term in office — and the response from the Democratic Party — ...

Elon Musk's DOGE team has slashed hundreds of jobs paid for by fees from banks and other forms of funding rather than ...

There is no shortage of warnings that the long bull market for U.S. stocks is at a late stage because the S&P 500 is now priced at a high level to corporate profits, compared with long-term averages.

Office of Community Planning and Development: The Trump administration is aiming to cut the office, an arm of the department ...