Government And Institutions

Do we need more government to fix things, or are we in a fix because government has tried its hand at too many things?

New revelations about expansive data-collection efforts have renewed an historic debate over how far the government should go in spying on its own people. 

The president nominated two U.S. Senate aides to serve as members of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Businesses are bracing for a new rule backed by the White House that would force them to report to the federal government their worker pay broken down by gender and race in order to close pay gaps in the workplace.

Shares of gun makers are hitting lifetime highs ahead of President Obama’s plan to tighten up gun laws.

With the New Hampshire primary just over a month away, Bill Clinton officially hit the campaign trail Monday for his wife and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

It comes as no surprise the No. 1 topic on social media was the 2016 presidential election. Seventy-six million people posted, commented, liked or shared content related to the election on Facebook more than 1.5 billion times.

The top nine candidates faced-off on the main stage Tuesday night for the final Republican presidential debate of 2015. 

The political ‘bromance’ between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz could be coming to an end. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump sent two threats via Twitter to Senator Cruz on Friday.

GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz could be the dark horse candidate emerging from behind to win the Iowa Republican presidential caucus.

The FBI and law enforcement officials are at odds with technology companies over encryption policies in the fight against terrorism.    

Donald Trump is not backing down from his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. In fact, he is pushing the plan even harder.

Donald Trump ranks first place nationally with 27% support from Republican voters in new Quinnipiac University poll.

A new McClatchy-Marist poll shows that more than half of registered voters in America would vote for a candidate over the age of 65.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is holding on to his top spot in New Hampshire, according to a new WBUR poll. Trump has 23% overall support, with Ben Carson and Marco Rubio sharing 13%, Ted Cruz 8% and Jeb Bush 7%.

None of the leading candidates in the race for the White House has ever served in the military yet that person will be tasked with finding the right Defense Secretary to keep the U.S. safe while also running the nation’s $610 billion defense budget.  

GOP hopeful Jeb Bush turns to a powerful Wall Street ally as he faces persistently low numbers in the national polls. 

FBN Exclusive: Emails Hillary Clinton sent from her personal devices while overseas on business as U.S. Secretary of State may have been breached by foreign telecoms. 

Donald Trump's frequent trash talk against rivals may be too costly to fight.   

The leading GOP candidates detail how they would deal with one of the world's most notorious and feared world leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin.