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Facebook Tweet Email Link Back in March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at the Smithsonian Institution that began as follows: “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” Despite the high-minded rhetoric, many worried the …

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 14, 2024 shows US President-elect Donald Trump on November 13, 2024, and Special Counsel Jack Smith on June 9, 2023.  Saul Loebmandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith for alleged political violations of the Hatch …

It was a footnote to the reporting regarding a deal being done. It could, in time, become a headline. The agreement between the NFL and ESPN that gives ESPN control of multiple NFL Media assets and the NFL up to 10 percent of ESPN will require regulatory approval. Federal regulatory approval. Which means that President Trump could have something to …

WASHINGTON — Products imported to the U.S. from Brazil — including almost a third of the supply relied on every day by America’s coffee drinkers — are subject to a 50% tariff beginning Friday, not because of Brazil’s trade policies, but because of President Donald Trump’s relationship with the country’s former strongman president Jair Bolsonaro, and because of the actions …

Senate aims to land deal on Trump nominees  Politico Senate delays August recess for now as Trump presses for more confirmations  AP News Confirmation Slowdown Forces a Senate Showdown  The New York Times Senate deal on nominees elusive amid Democratic anger at Trump  The Hill ‘DO YOUR JOB’: Trump urges senators to skip summer break  USA Today Source link

Wall St selloff sparked by Trump tariffs, Amazon results, weak payrolls  Reuters Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink after weak jobs report, Trump’s tariff redux  Yahoo Finance ‘Bad News Is Bad News’: Jobs Data Shatters Wall Street’s Calm  Bloomberg Stocks close lower after Trump’s new tariffs, weak jobs report  ABC News US stock market and global trade partners react to Trump’s new …

Fed Governor Adriana Kugler announced Friday she is stepping down from her position earlier than expected, giving President Donald Trump the chance to expand his influence over the central bank as he calls for a revolt against Chairman Jerome Powell. In a post on Truth Social before Kugler’s announcement, President Trump took a jab at Powell, saying he must “substantially” …

President Donald Trump announced on Friday the dismissal of the US Commissioner of Labor Statistics, just hours after the entity had published its latest report on job growth and the economy. Commissioner Erika McEntarfer has been leading the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) since January 2024. The post, a four-year term, is the only one in the agency that is …

Facebook Tweet Email Link US President Donald Trump said Friday he was ordering two US Navy nuclear submarines to “appropriate regions,” in response to remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of its Security Council. In what he called an effort to be “prepared,” Trump said in a Truth Social post that he had “ordered two …

Donald Trump says he considers Sean ‘“Diddy” Combs “sort of half-innocent” despite his criminal conviction in federal court in July – but the president called pardoning the music mogul “more difficult” because of past criticism. Trump spoke about Combs during an interview on Friday night on the friendly environs of Newsmax. Combs was found guilty on 2 July of two …