A divided Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to keep its benchmark rates unchanged, despite a dissent from two of its top officials and a torrent of criticism from President Trump.
President Trump on Wednesday signed into law a measure aimed at keeping veterans from losing their homes by authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to take actions to prevent foreclosures.
Here’s a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president’s party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats. There are two structural reasons for this. One is that parties in power tend to do things or […]
Samuel L. Jackson is defending wind farms in a video released a day after the Trump administration said it was considering additional hurdles for wind energy development. "Motherf---ing wind farms: Loud, ugly, harmful to nature. Who says that?" Jackson said as he shook his head in a video released Wednesday by the European energy company Vattenfall. "These...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) challenged Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld to a bench press contest on Wednesday after Gutfeld mocked him on his show the prior night. “Here’s a deal for @Gutfeldfox. (Never heard of him til he spent 8 mins criticizing what I bench press),” Swalwell said in a post on the social platform X,...
President Trump on Wednesday went off on one his closest allies in Congress, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) over voting in committee on a bill that would ban stock trading by lawmakers, presidents and vice presidents, arguing that Hawley teamed up with Democrats to advance the measure. The bill would ban congressional lawmakers and their spouses...
Brown University on Wednesday announced a deal with the Trump administration that ends three investigations into the institution and restores research funding that was withheld from it. The administration halted more than $500 million to Brown back in April and had opened probes assessing the university’s compliance with antidiscrimination laws. The deal restores that money,...
The White House on Wednesday laid out its policy priorities for regulating digital assets, offering detailed guidance to Congress and federal regulators on how it hopes to fulfill President Trump’s campaign promise to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.” The 166-page report from Trump’s digital assets working group provides recommendations for lawmakers...
Democrats on Wednesday ramped up pressure on Republicans over the Jeffrey Epstein files, turning to an arcane rule to attempt to force the release of the documents that have become a significant pain point for the Trump administration and Republicans. Led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), they are seeking the documents via the...