Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Malaysia between July 8 and 12 for meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), marking his first official trip to Asia. Rubio will seek to highlight U.S. commitment to the region, as relations have been strained by President Trump’s reciprocal tariff threats. The administration has...
While local, state and federal assets are in place across central Texas in the aftermath of Friday's deadly floods, volunteers are also helping out through efforts coordinated through first responders.
The Trump administration announced Monday it is revoking the terrorist designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group responsible for the overthrow of Syria’s longtime dictator Bashar Assad but which grew out of an al Qaeda branch in the country. The removal of the terrorist designation comes about a week after President Trump directed the...
The White House on Sunday dismissed “doom-mongering” from former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and other critics of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after the president signed it last week. “I think that there's been a lot of — a lot of doom-mongering, a lot of scare-mongering, and this isn't the first time, by the way....
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is demanding that the Commerce Department’s inspector general investigate vacancies at National Weather Service offices and whether they increased the death toll in recent flash flooding in Texas. Schumer wrote in a Monday letter to Roderick Anderson, the Commerce Department’s acting inspector general, urging him to immediately “open an...
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is considering a 2028 presidential run because he is concerned about the future of the country, while criticizing the recently passed "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" for its devastating impact on rural health care and adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.
The BRICS bloc of developing nations adopted a declaration on Sunday condemning increased unilateral tariffs — but avoided mentioning the United States or President Trump by name. The group’s statement, issued at a two-day summit in Brazil, raised “serious concerns” with the tariffs, saying they are “inconsistent” with the rules of the WTO and threaten...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk trolled President Trump early Monday with a post knocking the administration for making no arrests related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Musk, Trump’s former ally-turned-foe, posted an image to the social platform X of “The Official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter,” set to "0000." “What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock...
In today’s issue: The Texas death toll from torrential weekend rain and flooding climbed to at least 82 people as rescuers desperately searched for others still missing, including 10 girls and a counselor from a summer camp. About 850 people have been rescued, according to officials. President Trump on Sunday said he would “probably” visit the region on Friday. Department of...
