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A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Harvard professor Jason Furman, a once top economic advisor to former president Barack Obama, about inflation and the U.S. economy.

TikTok employee Patrick Ryan has launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration to protect TikTok workers. The White House has given the popular app an ultimatum: Sell or be banned.

The U.S. share of international shipping has been shrinking ever since World War II. The latest threat comes from a proposed change that would allow the U.S. to buy a large percentage of its food aid in local markets, instead of from the U.S. That would mean less shipping from the U.S., and possibly fewer jobs.

The Fed also announced plans to accelerate the process of cutting down on its bond-buying program amidst concerns over inflation.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced it is buying the rest of the Mexican brewer Modelo, which is known for Corona. It had already owned a non-controlling portion and is paying more than $20 billion for full control. Analysts say the buy will help InBev move into new markets.

The government announced Tuesday that it plans to buy huge amounts of short-term debts from companies. The Fed will buy "commercial paper," a short-term financing mechanism that many companies use to finance their day-to-day operations, like meeting payroll or purchasing supplies.

Chinese parents don't trust Chinese baby formula, so they pay a premium to have it shipped in from around the world.

Host Rachel Martin speaks with Yale professor Robert Shiller about the challenges facing would-be, first-time home buyers, including stringent mortgage loan standards and record levels of student loan debt. Shiller's home price indices, developed originally with Karl Case, are now published as the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller Home Price Index.

Consumer giant Kimberly-Clark has agreed to buy Kenvue, the parent company of embattled brand Tylenol, for nearly $49 billion. But what does this mean for consumers and shareholders?