President Trump on Thursday visited the Federal Reserve headquarters alongside Chair Jerome Powell to tour a major renovation taking place there, a project he and his administration have criticized as being over budget. Powell has drawn Trump’s ire over the central bank’s decision to keep interest rates where they are, citing economic uncertainty. Trump’s visit...
An attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell said she had a “very productive” meeting on Thursday with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who flew to Tallahassee, Fla., to meet with her amid pressure to release more information from the Epstein files. Blanche took the unusual step of questioning Maxwell, a close associate of deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein....
The U.S. and Mexico on Thursday took collaborative steps toward curbing a long-standing, cross-border environmental crisis: the unfettered sewage flow from Tijuana into Southern California. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin and his Mexican counterpart Alicia Bárcena Ibarra signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that addressed the “environmental, public health and national security consequences”...
A "whites-only" group called Return to the Land (RTTL), derided by critics as racist and antisemitic, is looking to expand its reach from its base in northern Arkansas to an area near Springfield, Mo., a co-founder of the group said recently. The prospect of a growing “whites-only” community — where members are evaluated based on...
A handful of Senate Republicans on Thursday offered support for a move by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) to get a special counsel appointed to investigate former President Obama and the 2016 election. The Graham-Cornyn call for a special counsel comes as Republicans and the Trump administration have been upended by the...
A heckler interrupted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ tribute to Hulk Hogan, shouting profanities before being removed by security at a press event Thursday in Bradenton.
Dem Gov. Tim Walz, a one-time vice presidential candidate, is leading an anti-Trump mutiny at one of America's largest bipartisan organizations, the National Governors Association.
An illegal alien from Senegal, Bass Ndiaye, was charged with assaulting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other detainees with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
Former Biden chief Ron Klain told House investigators that Hillary Clinton expressed concerns about Biden's political viability months before he dropped his 2024 re-election bid, a source said.