President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday ordering the departments of Treasury and Commerce to create a sovereign wealth fund, which is a federally owned investment entity that takes stakes in various financial assets “We’re going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. “We’re going to […]
New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t spare any feelings in the briefing room on Friday. When answering a question about the White House’s response to the CIA’s announcement that it believes, with low confidence, that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, Leavitt made representatives of the legacy media squirm in their […]
Thousands of demonstrators reportedly took to the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday to protest against the illegal immigration enforcement actions implemented by the Trump administration. These agitators vandalized walls, blocked traffic on highways, and disobeyed law enforcement officials who were protecting their First Amendment rights to free speech. They broke laws to express their […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Monday to protect the identities of healthcare providers prescribing abortion medication days. The move comes days after a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a patient living in Louisiana. Under the new law, providers prescribing abortion medication can request...
President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have moved to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which spend some $30 billion last year on humanitarian, development and security aid to more than 100 countries. Musk said Trump agreed with him that USAID should be shut down after the president said his...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified Congress on Monday that there is a potential reorganization of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as the separate agency appears to have already been subsumed by the State Department. President Trump appointed Rubio as the acting administrator for USAID on Monday, and the secretary said in a...
Click for the latest from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’ More than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were notified last week that they may be subject to immediate firing, according to an email obtained by...
President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to a pause in implementing tariffs for at least a month, just hours after Trump agreed to delay tariffs on Mexico. The announced delay on the 25 percent tariffs — set to start Tuesday — came after Trump and Trudeau’s second conversation on Monday. Trump said...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Monday that she will support Tulsi Gabbard to become director of national intelligence (DNI), giving her a key boost in her confirmation push. Collins was considered a crucial swing vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is set to meet Tuesday afternoon to potentially advance Gabbard toward a floor vote....