New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed executive orders recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and handed one of the pens to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaida operative.
Director of National Intelligence Tusli Gabbard has been working with over 100 people to scan and release government documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The Trump administration is cutting contracts that funded work on the National Climate Assessment — which is published every few years and details how climate change impacts the U.S. — as well as other climate activity. Records show that NASA has canceled several deals with contractor ICF, including those supporting work on the climate assessment...
✈️ Plus: Airplanes bump wings at DCA {beacon} STOCKS FELL THURSDAY as the U.S. and China dug in for a prolonged trade war that could have ramifications up and down the global economy. Only a day earlier, the financial markets skyrocketed on news that President Trump would dramatically scale back his country-specific reciprocal tariffs....
President Trump’s tariff plans have raised jitters about the stability of the bond market as demand quickly dropped before he implemented his 90-day pause on most tariffs. Trump referenced the bond market in his Wednesday remarks explaining his decision to institute the pause, seeming to note the drop in demand for U.S. Treasurys that have...
Economic tensions between the U.S. and China are soaring after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products to 125 percent on Wednesday and China retaliated by raising tariffs on U.S. exports to 84 percent. While Trump on Wednesday paused his “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of other countries, he hit China harder, intensifying an economic battle...
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Thursday likened the U.S. tariff war with China to a “testosterone battle” between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Merkley criticized Trump’s approach to levying tariffs on China as unserious, saying companies are not going to want to build factories in the U.S. if they can’t rely on the...
A federal appeals panel seems inclined to find a middle ground as it weighs whether to pause an order blocking the Trump administration from effectively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as the administration appeals. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit expressed concern over...
President Trump and members of his Cabinet met at the White House Thursday afternoon as Washington and global partners reel under the pressure of a mounting trade war. The gathering of officials came a day after Trump issued a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for nearly all foreign trading partners, opening up the door for...
Vice President JD Vance's March 28 visit to Greenland laid bare the Trump administration's belligerent approach to "getting" Greenland, with Vance asserting that the U.S. needs to seize the territory to protect against Russian and Chinese interests, despite there being no evidence to support this claim.
A transgender military helicopter pilot sued a conservative social media influencer for alleged defamation on Wednesday, two months after she was falsely blamed for a deadly midair collision over the Potomac River in Washington. Jo Ellis, a pilot in the Virginia National Guard, filed the defamation suit against Matt Wallace, a cryptocurrency investor and influencer on the...
President Trump has quietly replaced acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Kash Patel with Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, but the reasons for the administrative shuffle remain unclear.
Multiple lawmakers said Thursday their airplane was bumped by another plane while waiting on the runway at Reagan Washington National Airport. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) posted online that the wing of his airplane was struck by a second plane while they waited on the runway and that "everyone is ok." “Serving in Congress has come...
