Two previous bills to cancel the penny had been proposed in 1990 and 2017, both by Arizona Republicans, one of them ...

The Treasury Department confirmed Thursday that the U.S. Mint will no longer be ordering blank pennies. It will continue to print pennies with the b ...

The U.S. Mint will stop making pennies once its final supply of blanks is gone, following a Trump administration directive ...

By the numbers: The U.S. Mint reported losing $85.3 million in the 2024 fiscal year on the nearly 3.2 billion pennies it produced. Also that fiscal year, which ended in September, the penny was ...