Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the Trump administration has a wide array of backup plans to impose tariffs on foreign trading partners if the Supreme Court strikes down the rates set under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). "I'm confident the Supreme Court will ... uphold the president's authority to use IEEPA,"...
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has endorsed Zohran Mamdani to lead the country’s largest city with the mayoral race just over two months away. The former mayor, who served two terms leading the city from 2014 to 2021, said in an op-ed in the New York Daily News published Tuesday that...
Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Monday called Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “major ideologue” amid turmoil at the CDC. “And now with the loss of leadership and secretary of Health who came in not just with policy differences, but he‘s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Moscow has never been against Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) but reiterated that the country’s potential ascension into NATO is “unacceptable.” "As for Ukraine's membership of the EU, we have never objected to this," Putin said while in China, according to Reuters. "As for NATO, this is...
President Trump will reportedly announce Tuesday that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden's decision to keep the command in Colorado. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The announcement is scheduled for 2...
MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough suggested that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) work with President Trump to fight crime in Chicago. “I actually think that JB Pritzker should do something radical,” Scarborough said on his morning talk show on MSNBC on Tuesday. “I think he should pick up the phone, call the president and say, you know and, 'I...
President Trump's newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the economy sours.
House GOP leaders on Tuesday morning added to this week’s House schedule a vote on a resolution directing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to continue its investigation into matters surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The addition comes as leaders contend with an alternative push to force a vote on a...
President Donald Trump is slated to make an announcement related to the Department of Defense Tuesday, with all eyes on an update of the location of Space Command’s headquarters.