President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday approving U.S. Steel’s merger with Japan’s Nippon Steel, after the companies signed a national security agreement with the U.S. government.

Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment may be 2.5%, a new estimate shows. But COLA could still get a boost if tariffs push up inflation.

The May consumer price index rose 2.4% over the same period last year, less than the 2.5% expected by economists polled by FactSet. The COLA calculation is based on a subset of th

Rallies against President Donald Trump are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to coincide with the military parade in Washington marking the Army’s 250th anniversary, which also falls on Trump’s bir

The cost-of-living adjustment is important for retirees on Social Security to keep up with rising costs of living. Find out if tariffs will impact it for 2026.

While Donald Trump hailed the outcome of trade talks in London, Xi Jinping walked away with an understated strategic gain: a negotiating process that buys China time and helps defuse the threat of more harmful tariffs and technology curbs.

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a nonprofit organization that advocates for seniors, updates a model used to project the next Social Security COLA every month. Its latest forecast is for a 2026 COLA of 2.4%, slightly lower than the 2.5% increase this year. This would be the lowest COLA since 2021.

Social Security anxieties saw the biggest jump in the past year, with more than half of Americans now expressing significant concern about the program's future.

Two days of trade talks resulted in what leaders called a framework agreement meant to solidify terms of a truce that the superpowers reached in Geneva last month.

And Trump’s own comments created confusion about what was happening to his taxes – tariffs — on Chinese imports, generating uncertainty about more than $660 billion in annual trade between the two countries.