The Trump administration and congressional Democrats have found something they agree on — and it could mean higher taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. Last week, President Donald Trump's energy secretary, Elaine Chao, told senators that a gas tax hike was on the table when asked whether the White House would support such a move. And this week, Democrats are indicating that they too are ready to consider a tax increase.

News industry leaders are fighting back against the charge by President Donald Trump and his supporters that the administration's summation of special counsel Robert Mueller's report proved that journalists were "so wrong for so long" in their coverage of the Russia investigation.

With tax filing season fast approaching, the Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid.

A welcome truce in the escalating U.S.-China trade dispute put investors in a buying mood Monday, sending U.S. stocks solidly higher and extending the market's gains from last week.

The Trump administration is celebrating the 90-day truce it reached in its trade war with China as a significant breakthrough despite scant details, a hazy timetable and widespread skepticism that Beijing will yield to U.S. demands anytime soon. nvestors appeared to sour on the deal Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting 565 points, or 2.1 percent, in mid-day trading. Concerns over future economic growth also helped drive the decline.

Michelle Obama says she felt alone after a miscarriage 20 years ago and she and Barack Obama underwent fertility treatments to conceive their two daughters, according to her upcoming memoir, "Becoming." The memoir is one of the most anticipated political books in memory, ranking at the top of Amazon's best-sellers on Friday, and Obama will launch her promotional tour Tuesday at Chicago's United Center, where tens of thousands of people have purchased tickets — from just under $30 to thousands of dollars — to attend the event moderated by Oprah Winfrey.

The Federal Reserve's pause in interest rate hikes formally began Wednesday as it expressed new concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy. The question now is how long the pause will last amid a dearth of economic data from the partial government shutdown, slowing U.S. and global growth, and public pressure from President Trump to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy.

Most voters in New York think it was bad for the state when Amazon dropped plans to put a second headquarters in Queens and many think U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bears blame for the deal falling through, according to a new Siena poll released Monday.

As the president railed during the partial government shutdown against immigrants coming into the country illegally, a manager at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County called a dozen immigrant workers into a room one by one Jan. 18 and fired them, said lawyer Anibal Romero. Many of them had worked at the club for a dozen or more years, he said, and managers knew they had submitted phony documents but looked the other way.

The United States has charged a government-controlled company in China with stealing trade secrets from an American semiconductor company Micron Technology Inc., the Justice Department said Thursday as it outlined an initiative focused on what officials said was the growing threat of Chinese economic espionage.