Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday he plans to interview nearly a dozen "very strong" candidates to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger's lead over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has narrowed as the two gubernatorial candidates prepare for the post-Labor Day sprint to the November election.
A Texas Democrat opted to stay in the state House chamber overnight and into Tuesday rather than allow a law enforcement officer to shadow her while Republicans try to prevent further delays to redrawing congressional maps that President Donald Trump wants.
California Democrats started a partisan push to draw new congressional districts and reshape the state's U.S. House representation in their favor, but to pull it off, lawmakers who returned to the Capitol on Monday face a tight deadline and must still win voters' approval.
Tourism in Las Vegas is slumping this summer, with resorts and convention centers reporting fewer visitors compared to last year, especially from abroad, and some officials are blaming the Trump administration's tariffs and immigration policies for the decline.
President Trump said he won't send American troops to help stop the fighting in Ukraine after not ruling out the idea while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders in the Oval Office Monday.
The Department of Homeland Security is applying President Trump's America First policy to immigration benefits, announcing new rules Tuesday to instruct officers to look for "anti-American" behavior in migrants' backgrounds before allowing them to upgrade their legal status.
On Aug. 10, 2022, American citizen Mahmood Habibi was arrested by the Taliban with 30 of his fellow Asia Consultancy Group employees. Despite both the Biden and Trump administrations obtaining the release of numerous Americans held by the Taliban over the past year, Habibi remains in Taliban custody, as do additional U.S. citizens, according to the State […]