U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng on Sunday and Monday in Paris for a new round of trade talks, the Treasury Department said Thursday, paving the way for President Donald Trump's state visit to Beijing starting March 31.
Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to painting high oil prices as a positive.
President Trump on Thursday said the U.S. could profit from high oil prices but that stopping the "evil" Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon was far more important to him.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt labeled ABC News' Wednesday report about Iran planning a drone strike against the West Coast "false information to intentionally alarm the American people."
Michael Allen, a GOP attorney general candidate, said he was “shocked" by a Democratic proposal to legalize prostitution, saying it would “open the floodgates" to human trafficking.
Former senator Joe Manchin accused John Cornyn of abandoning his longstanding support for the filibuster for political convenience, calling the reversal "deeply disappointing."
A U.N. human rights commission has issued an "urgent action" alert to the Trump administration warning that it has deported too many people, and citing it for "racial profiling and racist hate speech" against refugees and illegal immigrants.
The Senate on Thursday passed bipartisan legislation designed to boost supply and lower costs of housing, but it appears unlikely to pass the House without changes.
The Trump administration is ramping up pressure against California's electric vehicle policies by filing a lawsuit to stop the state from imposing an electric vehicle mandate through state-specific zero-emission vehicle targets for car manufacturers.
