Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets on the Republicans' budget bill.

President Trump’s ‘big beautiful spending’ bill is giving investors pause as bond yields move higher over debt and deficit concerns. The 10-year Treasury yield topped 4.5% creating headwinds for U.S.

In the hyper-ensitive see-saw that is Speaker Mike Johnson’s GOP conference, pleasing one vital faction often means antagonizing another.

Under the bill, employees would be eligible for an annual income tax deduction of $25,000 for some types of cash tips.

The money would be invested on children’s behalf in the financial markets for them to use once they had grown up.

A key committee worked through the night on the legislation as Republican leaders sought agreement from various party factions.

The bill won bipartisan support despite efforts from multiple Democrats that would have also required students to learn about fascism and Nazism.

Texas lawmakers have advanced a bill to clarify medical exceptions under one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. The approval in the Texas House on Wednesday puts the GOP-backed proposal on the brink of reaching Republican Gov.