The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will leave its benchmark rate unchanged, hitting the brakes on lowering borrowing costs for individuals and businesses after a flurry of rate cuts starting last fall. Read More.
President Donald Trump smacked Colombia with an emergency 25 percent tariff and other sanctions after the nation refused two repatriation flights. Colombia reversed its pledge to accept deportation flights from the United States. Read More.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, which obtained a copy of the State Department order signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. embassies will be required to enforce a “one flag” policy worldwide. Read More.
All federal employees in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offices will need to be placed on paid administrative leave "effective immediately," according to a memo from the Trump Administration on Tuesday. Read More.
President Trump announced Monday that he would be pulling the United States from the Paris Climate Accord shortly after being sworn into office. Read More.
President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly declare a national energy emergency to boost American energy production and lower energy prices.
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Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Sunday as he gears up to assume his responsibilities and office, welcoming the foreign official to the United States. Read More.
President-elect Donald Trump arrived in Washington Saturday to kick off days of pageantry heralding his second inauguration as president, four years after he departed the city under the shadow of an attack by his supporters on the Capitol.
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President Joe Biden claimed credit for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, but President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, reportedly headed up key negotiations last week.
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A man with a machete was arrested after trying to enter the U.S. Capitol just before Donald Trump's scheduled visit. Trump plans to pay his respects to former President Jimmy Carter as his body is lying in the rotunda of the complex ahead of his state funeral on Thursday. Read More.
President-elect Donald Trump is still set to be sentenced in his hush money case this week — at least for now — after a New York appeals court judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected his second attempt to get it called off. Read More.