President Donald Trump kept up the presidential tradition of attending the annual Army-Navy game, touching down in Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday for what is the 126th meeting between the two rivals.Trump landed at historic Fort McHenry shortly before game time, later driving to M&T Bank Stadium in downtown Baltimore to...
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President Donald Trump vowed to enact “serious retaliation” after an ISIS gunman killed two U.S. soldiers and one U.S. civilian interpreter in Syria on Saturday.“We mourn the loss of three Great American Patriots in Syria, two soldiers, and one Civilian Interpreter. Likewise, we pray for the three injured soldiers who,...
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President Donald Trump once again attacked the Indiana Senate Republican leader after the state body voted down a mid-decade redistricting bill.In a Truth Social message posted early Saturday, Trump vowed to primary Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and other Republicans who opposed the GOP-friendly congressional map. “Republicans in...
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President Donald Trump held a Friday night ceremony honoring the 1980 U.S. men’s hockey team and used it as an opportunity to escalate his messaging campaign surrounding the Minnesota Medicare fraud scandal.Over the past two weeks, Trump has leaned into the scandal, in which dozens of members of the state’s...
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Trump also revealed that he is considering either former Fed governor Kevin Warsh or National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett for the role when current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s term is up next year, according to an interview with the Wall Street Journal. NEW TRUMP FED CHAIR WON’T MEAN QUICK...
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President Donald Trump granted Washington state’s request on Friday for an emergency declaration over flooding in the state. “I just received a phone call from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Secretary Noem informed me that the president signed our request for an emergency declaration. We have also received written confirmation...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Friday his department is boosting its financial reporting requirements for money services businesses to further crack down on a fraud scandal implicating Minnesota‘s Somali community.The Treasury Department will be issuing a geographic targeting order to ensure any illicit activity is reported to the Financial...
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President Donald Trump claimed to have brokered peace between Thailand and Cambodia following an outbreak of renewed violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.The president announced on Friday afternoon that he spoke with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet “concerning the very unfortunate...
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The nonprofit organization National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump Friday afternoon, mounting the first legal challenge to his construction of a gargantuan ballroom at the White House. Trump has steadily altered the White House decor throughout his first year back in office, which includes the...
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Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith said the Trump administration will likely pull certain federal support from the state in retaliation for GOP lawmakers bucking the White House on a redistricting vote. A mid-decade redistricting bill that sought to redraw congressional lines in favor of Republicans failed to pass the Indiana Senate in...
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OMB Director Russell Vought, in the memorandum to federal departments and agencies that he issued Thursday, described his directive as “increasing trust” in AI by underscoring the importance of the “Unbiased AI Principles” of “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality” in the government procurement process. Vought’s directive comes after Trump signed an...
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JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump’s administration is working overtime to prevent a full-blown military escalation between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, and to cool rising tensions between the Jewish state and Syria.Bringing regional peace and new economic opportunities to the volatile region is one of the president’s...
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