President Trump's latest potential addition to the Federal Reserve board of governors is set to face the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, marking the first step of the president's push to remake the central bank in his image. Stephen Miran, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), will appear before the Banking...
Congress returned to Washington this week consumed with the case over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an issue that has divided President Trump's base and stoked backlash against his administration.
Bipartisan lawmakers advocate for transparency in Epstein case as victims prepare to speak publicly for first time, demanding accountability for powerful men involved in abuse.
President Donald Trump does not have the power to fire Federal Reserve governors at will, as he does members of the National Labor Relations Board. But he has fired governor Lisa Cook for cause, which is allowed under statute, alleging she made false statements on a mortgage application in 2021. The evidence that Cook made […]
More than 1,000 current and former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are demanding that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign, following his ousting of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other actions they say are "compromising the health of the nation.” “Should he decline to...