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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rebuked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday over a weekslong disagreement over the Treasury Department’s decision to execute a joint currency intervention with Japan to support the weakening yen after the currency dropped to a 40-year low at the beginning of August.Warren sent a personal letter... Read more

The former White House teleprompter staffer who was charged with using privileged information to make bets on prediction markets will pay a $172,539.02 fine for his actions.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on Friday that the former Trump administration staffer settled with the agency on paying back the $107,539.02 he... Read more

One day after Trump inked an executive order on Thursday changing the name of the lake under the official U.S. government, Seneca called the move “unacceptable” and an act of “blatant disrespect toward the Seneca people, other Haudenosaunee nations, and all Indigenous people.”“The President cannot assert ownership over our culture... Read more

Vice President JD Vance on Friday urged the Environmental Protection Agency‘s watchdog to investigate the Biden administration’s response to a train derailment in northeastern Ohio that resulted in the spill of toxic chemicals.The train was hauling 20 cars containing hazardous materials, including at least five toxic chemicals, when it derailed... Read more

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday denied a report that he is considering a presidential bid in 2028, as speculation builds around which Republicans will battle to succeed President Donald Trump. “100% false. We told NBC that, but they just lie w/ anonymous ‘sources,’” Hegseth said on social media.Hegseth was... Read more

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he struck a historic oil deal with Venezuela, after wresting power from former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in January.The president said the United States has established “majority” control over more than 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela, “at no cost to the American taxpayer.”... Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday establishing the U.S. Space Academy, an institution he says will be the next U.S. military academy focused on training astronauts, engineers, scientists, and warfighters to lead the country into the future of space exploration and defense.Trump’s executive order creates a White... Read more

The White House made no major public recognition Friday of the six-month anniversary of the Iran war, a conflict President Donald Trump predicted earlier this year would last only a matter of weeks.Neither Trump nor his administration acknowledged the milestone as the war entered its seventh month, even as Democrats... Read more

President Donald Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Friday to the four Artemis II crew members to honor their flight around the moon.Trump will give the awards to astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen at around 11:40 a.m. on Friday morning at... Read more

President Donald Trump announced he was deregulating meat processing for farmers and ranchers after conservative media personality Glenn Beck encouraged him to do so earlier this week during a live interview.“Ranchers and Farmers have always been a number one priority for me,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “They... Read more

The Trump administration is pursuing a deal to give a small sliver of land in Yosemite National Park to a private company for development, according to a report.Four people familiar with the matter told NOTUS that the Trump administration has been trying to arrange a land exchange between the federal... Read more

Trump will speak at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at the War Department headquarters Arlington, Virginia, pivoting from his initial plan to head to Manhattan partially because he wanted to give a speech for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, according to a report from The New York Times.The... Read more