Patrick Gillespie

Argentina wants to negotiate with holdout creditors and avoid a default, said the country’s economic minister, Axel Kicillof, during a speech in Washington Thursday. Whether any talks between the government and a small group of creditors occurred Thursday remains unclear.

On Monday, Argentina missed a crucial $539 million bond payment to U.S. creditors, putting the country in technical default and starting the clock on a 30-day grace period during which the government in Buenos Aires must make multiple debt payments, renegotiate some of its credit or face its second default since 2001.

While the national business outlook remains tepid, the energy sector is driving fast economic growth in some states.

The nation’s top homeland security official on Tuesday defended his department’s handling of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border from Mexico, turning aside Republican demands for a National Guard presence there even as officials predict the surge will continue into next year.

Legislation being introduced in the Senate today would make it much faster to fill out a FAFSA.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday further ramped down its controversial bond-purchasing program and signaled that it will begin raising interest rates next year in a long awaited return to normalcy.

There is no time line for investigations into allegations of abuse by U.S. border authorities against unaccompanied minors because of a lack of specificity in the complaints, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday.

A surge of unaccompanied children crossing the United States border in southwest Texas are not eligible for any amnesty or path to citizenship and are being transferred to the custody of the federal Health and Human Services Department, said U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson at a news conference Thursday.

Normally, a baseball player gets invited to the White House by winning the World Series. New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy did it Monday by missing the first two games of this season.

A new whistleblower protection effort debuted this week, claiming that safeguards to shield employees who expose government activities from retaliation are not strong enough.