President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Jamieson Greer, advanced out of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday. The vote was 15-12, with all Republicans on the panel voting for Greer, as well as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. His appointment now moves on to the full Senate for final confirmation. Greer, who previously served as chief of staff to ...
An American is one of three hostages released from Belarus, the White House has announced. The identity of the hostage has not been released as the person wishes to remain private, U.S. Envoy for Hostages Adam Boehler said. ‘He’s made bringing hostages home a top priority and people respect that,’ Boehler said of President Donald Trump while announcing the releases. ...
Current and former state attorneys general are praising the Trump administration’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its ‘common sense’ decision to roll back a Biden-era climate rule requiring companies to disclose their carbon emissions. ‘We’ve led multiple common letters over the years against this radical Biden climate fiasco, and we’ve taken multiple steps to try to ensure that ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has successfully canceled millions of dollars of government contracts that the administration says were a waste of taxpayer dollars. A senior administration official told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that DOGE has worked with various agencies to cancel several contracts in the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor, and several other areas. ...
House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is co-leading the reintroduction of H.R.40, or the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, to Congress with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. Pressley, a progressive member of the Squad, said ...
Marko Elez — who before resigning from the Treasury Department had been a member of Treasury’s Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) team — was ‘mistakenly’ given ‘read/write permissions’ on the Secure Payment System rather than ‘read-only,’ Joseph Gioeli III of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service declared in a court filing. The filing is connected to a case in which ...
The United States is releasing Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik as part of the deal to secure Marc Fogel’s freedom, a Trump administration official told Fox News on Wednesday. Fogel, an American teacher who had been detained in Russia since 2021, was freed on Tuesday. A plane carrying him landed in the U.S. late last night. Vinnik was arrested in 2017 ...
The United States is releasing Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik as part of the deal to secure Marc Fogel’s freedom, a Trump administration official told Fox News on Wednesday. Fogel, an American teacher who had been detained in Russia since 2021, was freed on Tuesday. A plane carrying him landed in the U.S. late last night. Vinnik was arrested in 2017 ...
Tulsi Gabbard confirmation vote kicks off Wednesday morning after snowstorm thwarts midnight session
President Donald Trump is on the cusp of seeing his 14th Cabinet member confirmed in former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard is slated for a final Senate confirmation vote to be Trump’s director of national intelligence (DNI) on Wednesday morning, after the planned midnight vote was scrapped due to a snowstorm in Washington. The 30 hours of post-cloture debate officially ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Europeans this week that ‘realities’ prevent the U.S. from being its security guarantor, and to expect a drawdown of U.S. forces in the region. ‘We are focusing on security of our own borders. We also face a peer competitor in the Communist Chinese with the capability and intent to threaten our homeland and core national ...