Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, has a personal stake in rules put forth by the IRS, which raises new concerns about his influence over the agency, given that he is serving as the agency’s acting commissioner, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.
Judging by the posts you read on the White House’s X account, you would think President Donald Trump is on a “HISTORIC” winning streak, but the political reality is that many of his supporters see a leader who has strayed far from his America-First agenda.
The U.S. carried out more airstrikes across Somalia last week to target al-Shabaab fighters in the southern part of the country, but had not disclosed the full extent of the damage or the number of civilians killed in these attacks.
U.S. President Donald Trump, hot off the shellacking earlier this month at the polls, which saw top contests carried by Democrats, has seen his disapproval rating jump this month, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The U.S. Justice Department came up with a classified brief to approve the administration’s unlawful strikes on alleged drug boats out of Venezuela by claiming that fentanyl could be weaponized and could be seen as a potential chemical weapon, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper, citing the document, noted that the weaponization claim is......
U.S. President Donald Trump is having a hard time getting past the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, and matters were just made even worse for the embattled president after more than 20,000 pages of emails sent from the deceased pedophile had been released last week, which included one that said Trump “spent hours at my house” with an individual identified as a victim of sex trafficking.
Iran’s top diplomat last week called on the UN to hold the U.S. accountable for the destruction and casualties that resulted from its June war with Israel, and Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump came out and said he played a leading role in that effort.
Katie Wilson, the newly elected self-described socialist mayor of Seattle who campaigned on taxing the wealthy in the city, has been compared to New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who also focused his campaign on the economic hardship faced by everyday people in his city.
The financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald is having its best year ever, raising new questions about grift in the Trump administration since Howard Lutnick’s sons are running the company.