U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on July 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Congressional Lawmakers have returned to work on Capitol Hill after the weekend. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images The House of Representatives will begin its August recess early to avoid…
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, left, speaks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, during a bilateral meeting between the United States and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Keystone/eda/martial Trezzini | Via Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the U.S. is likely to hash out an extension…
President Joe Biden stands with his son Hunter Biden after the president arrived at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, June 11, 2024. Anna Rose Layden | Reuters Hunter Biden said in a new interview that his father, former President Joe Biden, had been taking Ambien in the period before his…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch. Evelyn Hockstein | Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Donald Trump’s new $10 billion libel lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be handled by the same Florida federal judge who presided over a prior breach-of-contract suit Trump…
A cutout of US President Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin is displayed on a group of servers during The Bitcoin Conference at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 27, 2025. Ian Maule | Afp | Getty Images Trump Media and Technology Group said Monday it has accumulated roughly $2 billion in…
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Friday, May 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that implementing high tariff rates on countries starting August 1 “will put more pressure on those countries to come with better agreements.” Bessent’s remarks…
Field of wheat in central Kansas is nearly ready for harvest. Ricardo Reitmeyer | Getty Images Bangladesh signed a deal on Sunday to import 700,000 metric tons of wheat annually from the United States over the next five years, in a move aimed at securing tariff relief from the Trump administration amid growing trade tensions,…
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Monday, June 30, 2025. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently urged President Donald Trump not to fire Treasury Secretary Jerome Powell, warning of the potential economic, political, and legal consequences of such a…
The headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 18, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday that it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees. The agency’s Office of Research and Development has long provided…
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday that he and House Republicans want “maximum transparency” on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and called for more information to be made public. “Everybody wants the Epstein files, which is the real documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and anybody associated with that. We want the American people…
