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The White House has removed the Wall Street Journal from its rotating press pool for President Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, a decision that follows the Journal’s report on a 2003 message Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the decision to POLITICO …

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote in his ruling that Congress “has sweeping authority” to require the …

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday the Biden administration is holding firm to its Aug. 1 deadline for new tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners, expressing optimism that President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade strategy will yield major new agreements in the coming days. “The next two weeks are going …

Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump signed what he dubbed a “big, beautiful bill,” tax professionals and financial planners are still working to understand how the sweeping new tax law will affect millions of Americans starting next year. The legislation—passed by Congress with narrow Republican majorities—extends and enhances provisions …

President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to cancel the chamber’s traditional August recess and continue working through the summer to confirm his growing list of judicial and executive nominees. “Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over the past two …

President Donald Trump on Friday signed the GENIUS Act, the first major federal legislation regulating cryptocurrency, marking a pivotal moment for the fast-growing industry and setting the U.S. on a path to become, in Trump’s words, “the crypto capital of the world.” The bill, which focuses on the regulation of …

In a dramatic and politically sensitive move, the U.S. secured the release of 10 American citizens from Venezuela on Friday through a three-way prisoner swap that also involved El Salvador. Among those freed was former Navy SEAL Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, who had been detained in Venezuela last year during what …

President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit Friday against The Wall Street Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones, claiming the paper knowingly published “false and malicious” information about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit marks a sharp escalation in a week dominated by renewed scrutiny of …

The Trump administration moved Friday to unseal grand jury testimony in the long-running Jeffrey Epstein case, a surprise legal maneuver that highlights the White House’s struggle to control growing backlash over its handling of documents tied to the disgraced financier. In a court filing, the Department of Justice asked a …

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials will gain access to the personal data of over 79 million Medicaid enrollees under a new agreement signed Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. …

President Donald Trump on Thursday vehemently denied writing a letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly included a nude sketch and bore Trump’s signature—calling the report “fake” and threatening legal action against the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story. The Journal reported that Trump was one of …

The U.S. House cleared legislation just after midnight Friday that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending for public broadcasting and foreign aid, marking only the second time in more than three decades Congress has approved a presidential rescissions request. The 216-213 mostly party-line vote sends the bill to President Donald Trump …

The U.S. Senate agreed to legislation early Thursday that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved funding for public broadcasting and various foreign aid accounts, another victory for the Trump administration. The 51-48 mostly party-line vote at about 2:30 a.m. sends the bill back to the House, where GOP lawmakers in that chamber …

A group of 10 Republican senators is publicly urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to freeze more than $6 billion in federal education funding already appropriated by Congress—marking a rare intra-party rebuke of the president’s education agenda. Led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the senators sent a …

The Trump administration deported five men convicted of violent crimes to the southern African nation of Eswatini this week, continuing its controversial practice of removing immigrants to third countries that are not their nations of origin. According to Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, the deported individuals came from …