In April, China restricted exports of crucial rare earth elements and magnets, which are used in everything from fighter jets and submarines to missile systems and drones. President Donald Trump rightly drew a sharp line on China’s aggressive moves, issuing an executive order designed to boost production of critical minerals here in the United States. […]

Before the sexual-assault claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh totally fell apart, one of the knocks on him, wielded almost as evidence of his guilt, was that he went to an all-boys school. When NPR set out last decade to define a “bro” (“a specific kind of fratty masculinity”), one of the criteria was a tendency […]

It took six months into President Trump’s second term to get here, but something shifted in Trump World this month.

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is set to report to prison on Friday, officially capping off the New York Republican’s dramatic rise-and-fall in politics that saw him ascend as a GOP trailblazer before plunging to disgrace in the party. Santos, 37, has not announced the prison at which he will surrender to begin an 87-month...

President Trump is departing Washington on Friday for a weekend trip to Scotland as furor over the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to grip the political world. The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday is set to interview longtime Epstein associate and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell...

President Trump late Thursday took another job at Democrats over the furor around his administration's handling of the files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, calling the controversy a "con job." "The Radical Left Democrats are doing everything in their power to distract and obfuscate from our GREAT six months of service to America, results...

The Fed chairman is likely to hold rates steady again at next week’s meeting, and that is almost certainly a mistake. But if unemployment begins to creep higher and the economy softens, Trump can blame Powell, and his own appointed Fed leader could become a useful fall guy. 

Six months into his second term, Trump and Republicans are in better shape than eight years ago. 

After Epstein, this will be the second time that Trump administration officials allege a massive conspiracy but aren’t able to produce evidence to support their claims. 

The EEOC won’t tell the American public what it is up to.