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Before the election, Trump told voters he’d deliver economic results on “day one.” Now, the president is saying it'd be "OK" if tariffs led to a recession.

President Trump issued an early endorsement of Republican Rep. Mike Lawler’s re-election next year for a battleground House swing district in the Hudson Valley.

Here’s why she fell short. Much of her loss stemmed from a campaign that struggled to overcome deep-seated economic concerns and connect with blue collar voters. Inside her 4-month sprint to ...

Friedrich Merz’s unprecedented failure to win election as German chancellor in the first round of voting in parliament has raised doubts about his new government’s ability to carry through on plans to push Europe’s largest economy out of stagnation.

Malaysia’s Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli said he is prepared to step down from the cabinet to focus on campaigning for the next general election that’s due in early 2028.

President Donald Trump’s trade war is sending construction costs up, and interest rates are likely staying high this year.

Lebanese have voted in the country’s first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

The leading candidates in Saturday’s national election have starkly different policies on energy and global warming.

Since then, the heir to Trudeau's Liberal party, Mark Carney, has closed the gap in the polls due to his hardline stance against U.S. threats and economic nationalism. Other support that has been typically allocated to the NDP and Bloc Québécois might also be redirected towards the two major parties,