In today’s issue: President Trump’s efforts to persuade international partners to join the U.S. in isolating China collided Wednesday with a starkly downbeat 2025 economic outlook from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, dashing the hopes of those looking for global certainty anytime soon. Multiple tariff deals Trump hopes to negotiate with Asian nations are becoming...

President Trump has sought to take shortcuts in the otherwise lengthy regulatory process via executive order that could mark a notable expansion in presidential power. In recent weeks, Trump has directed federal agencies to withdraw various rules, sunset vast swaths of environmental protections and give regulatory exemptions to dozens of coal plants. Such moves would mean skipping...

President Trump’s potential tariffs on semiconductors are stoking alarm within the technology sector as companies brace for the ripple effects across the industry and its competitive standing on a global stage.   The Trump administration launched an investigation this week into the effects on national security of importing semiconductor technology, just one day after the president...

Northrop Grumman, one of the largest defense contractors in the world, is facing heat for a missile program that has been consistently over budget and delayed.

House Republicans are pushing a resolution to rebuke the Biden administration's gun-control policies.

A top scientist at the National Institutes for Health is retiring in protest of alleged "censorship" of his research under HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Former Trump national security aide and Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot said he will resign at the end of the week, according to a report.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces "closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), formerly known as the Global Engagement Center"

Maryland's Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he "won't rest" until deported El Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is allegedly an MS-13 gang member, is brought back to the U.S.

Former President Joe Biden admitted over 1.4 million illegal immigrants into the United States through both his CBP One app and Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, or CHNV, parole programs. An estimated 4 million more illegal immigrants were arrested while illegally crossing the southern border and then released on parole into the U.S. None of […]