The United States Treasury will no longer make pennies, which are copper-colored coins with Abe Lincoln on them. Pennies are bigger than a dime but only worth a tenth of what a dime is worth. It will ...

It’s been debated for decades - now President Trump has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. A historian says the move won’t diminish the legacy of Illinois’ favorite son, Abraham ...

The U.S. Mint said in fiscal 2024, it took about 3.69 cents to produce and distribute one penny, a 20.2% increase from 2023.

President Donald Trump ordered a halt in penny production to cut "wasteful" government spending, saying the coin costs more to make than it's worth.

With President Donald Trump setting his sights on the U.S. Mint’s production of pennies, the penny debate has been given renewed attention.

President Trump isn't the first politician to call for the end of the penny — but getting rid of it may not be easy. The ...

The Lincoln Wheat Penny has been valued at an astonishing price, with some of the rarest versions of the coin rumored to be ...

President Trump isn't the first politician to call for the end of the penny — but getting rid of it may not be easy. The ...

In the White House’s venerable East Room, it became clear that Trump 2.0 is entering a dangerously expansionist phase, writes ...

The national debt increased by nearly 40 times under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1865—the ... over the three largest increases in terms of dollar amounts. Presidents have a significant impact ...

As far as they see it, U.S. trade deficits can only be a bad thing — the fault of malign trading partners taking advantage of the U.S. They dismiss counterarguments that the deficits are consequences ...

A 1915 silent film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island.