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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President Donald Trump granted a “full pardon” to former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, though it may not be able to save her from prison.Peters was convicted in 2024 on state charges for her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, and her appeal is still working through...
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President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in an effort to push a new congressional map for Indiana after the bill failed.Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had been pressuring Indiana’s state legislature for months to redraw the state’s congressional districts to strip Democrats of two seats. These efforts ultimately...
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting states’ regulation of artificial intelligence after months of wrangling.Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to include a provision in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would prevent states from regulating AI, but the effort failed after last-minute hesitation...
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