Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the White House on Thursday he was gifting the U.S. with two giant pandas and invitations for 100,000 U.S. students to study in China. “The giant panda has been an envoy of friendship between the Chinese and the Americans,” Xi said, speaking alongside President Trump and other officials from...

Republicans and Democrats argued Thursday that Congress still has work to do to support American families, pointing to expanded paid family leave access, tax credits for newborn children and other policies aimed at easing financial pressures on parents. The discussion, labeled the “Future of Supporting American Families,” was sponsored by the American Policy Ventures Foundation...

The 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield hit a two-decade high on Thursday, before falling later in the morning. The yield on the 30-year bond was 5.49 percent during late afternoon trading, the highest intraday mark since 2004.  The 30-year bond yield has risen throughout the Iran war, after closing at 4.63 percent the day before...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about an agent at the company breaching the commonwealth's health department website in June. Albanese told reporters in New York City, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that the agent gained access to the Medicare Statistics Reporting...

Eli King admits it has been a “whirlwind” since his last-minute decision to join Gillingham, but he already feels at home.

Conor McManus has recovered from injury in time to represent his country and will miss Gillingham’s weekend trip to York City.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to extend their trade truce by two months, after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the U.S. for a summit with President Trump. “We have agreed today that we will extend … the détente, economic détente between the two countries that was scheduled...

President Trump heads into his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week on the heels of waging a bruising trade war with Canada that has badly damaged relations with that country. It's a stark contrast from how he’s handled trade talks with China, a rival nation that many in Congress see as an enemy...

Many working families struggle to balance work and caregiving responsibilities, but a bipartisan majority on Capitol Hill are unveiling legislation seeking to make life easier for American families when it comes to paid leave, family tax credits and federal child savings accounts. Roughly one-quarter of American workers have access to employer-provided paid family leave benefits,...