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Trump predicts Putin won’t attack NATO countries

President Trump on Thursday declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not escalate conflict with America's NATO allies.

Workers in IRS buyout kept hundreds of government computers, smartphones

Some of the IRS employees who took last year's buyout added a little five-finger bonus to their departure, walking away with government laptops and smartphones they should have returned.

Trump administration relied on flawed logic to justify scrapping vehicle emission rules, study says

The Trump administration relied on flawed logic to justify scrapping vehicle emissions standards this year, making errors in how it accounted for fuel savings, the price of technology and mileage, according to a new study by a group of economists.

Controllers warned Marine One pilots about communication issues week before dual takeoff, NTSB says

Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Donald Trump's helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet and the chopper were allowed to take off at the same time, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

Arthurdale’s New Deal experiment, and the debate over socialism

ARTHURDALE, West Virginia — The road into this quiet Preston County community gives little warning that it was once the setting for one of the New Deal’s most ambitious, and most debated, experiments. Ninety-three years ago, Arthurdale became the first experimental community established under the federal subsistence-homesteads program, an effort to help impoverished families move […]

Letter signed by Democratic senators calls on ICE to halt electric shock gloves

A group of mostly Democratic senators pressed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to not use gloves that can electrically shock people in a Thursday letter. In the letter addressed to ICE Acting Director David Venturella, the senators said that they were writing “to express deep concern about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans...

All eyes on Warsh in Wyoming

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story All eyes on Warsh in Wyoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is under the microscope as he heads to Jackson Hole for the Wyoming town’s signature economic symposium Friday, where eagle-eyed investors will be searching for...

How an inside ‘scoop’ revealed Pentagon links to pro-Trump influencer

A Utah software engineer, who runs a massive pro-Trump social media account that has drawn attention from the likes of Elon Musk, made a sinister declaration in a post on Aug. 21. The “Deep State” was setting her up to “commit a crime.” “I have never been more angry in my life,” Jennica Pounds, who...

Judge blocks Trump administration plan to restructure housing grants

A federal judge on Wednesday halted the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul a decades-old grant program targeting housing discrimination, siding with fair housing groups that argued the changes hindered their ability to work. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun, who was appointed by former President Biden, ruled that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...

Federal Reserve chief faces pivotal moment in Jackson Hole

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is under the microscope as he heads to Jackson Hole for the Wyoming town’s signature economic symposium Friday, where eagle-eyed investors will be searching for any clue about the central bank’s plans for grappling with sticky inflation and an increasingly jittery bond market. Warsh, who has opted for a less-is-more...

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