On Tuesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about tariffs but pivoted to a looming government shutdown on Capitol Hill.

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led government funding bill that already passed the House but failed to slap any limits on President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to gut federal operations.

An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump arrived Thursday in Moscow for talks on an American-proposed 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine has accepted, but a senior Russian official said the truce would only help Kyiv by giving its weary and shorthanded military a break.

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration's sweeping layoffs across the Education Department, saying it amounts to an illegal dismantling of an agency created by Congress.

Several governors have moved to hire federal workers fired by the Trump administration for open state jobs, tapping a growing labor pool of unemployed bureaucrats.

The White House is withdrawing Dave Weldon's nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to announce that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him to seek a much bigger role as his party's next presidential nominee.

A REMINDER THAT KAMALA HARRIS WAS A TERRIBLE CANDIDATE. Recently, a video circulated of former Vice President Kamala Harris engaging in her trademark word salad during an appearance at an AI conference in Las Vegas. Harris was saying something about nacho cheese Doritos, but beyond that, the point was not clear. The most striking effect of […]