President Donald Trump flew to Israel and Egypt on Sunday to oversee the exchange of hostages as Phase One of the peace deal with Hamas nears completion. read more
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was raising tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. to 100% and imposing export controls on "any and all critical software" in a reprisal to recently announced export limits by China on rare earth minerals critical to tech and other manufacturing. read more
The U.S. Treasury finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina and bought pesos in the open market on Thursday, making good on President Donald Trump's pledge to prop up the wobbling country and sending the peso and Argentine dollar bonds sharply higher. read more
The White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance confirmed on Sunday. read more
In an after-midnight post on Truth Social, Donald J. Trump appears to have forgotten who was president on Jan. 6th, 2021. Trump claimed that "the Biden FBI" placed agents in the crowd on Jan. 6, even though Trump was the president at that time. read more
A video editor and producer for Chicago's WGN television station was arrested by masked federal agents on Friday morning, and later released, during an Ice raid on the city's North Side, as shown in videos shared widely on social media. read more
Vice President JD Vance criticized Affordable Care Act tax credits on Sunday, labeling them vehicles for fraud read more
Once the heart of President Donald Trump's political base, the Midwest -- the region he promised to revive with factory jobs and "America First" trade policies -- is showing signs of disillusionment. read more
The move came amid criticism on social media over pictures that showed some of the Guard members appearing to be overweight, and as an appeals court temporarily blocked the deployment of the Texan troops into Illinois. read more
Art Spander began covering sports for the Santa Monica Evening Outlook in the early '60s. He's still on the beat today, most recently at this year's golf U.S. Open, in columns for his own website. The Athletic catches up with the 86-year-old throwback to another era. "No one has ever been as romantic about sports as Art," said Al Michaels, a friend of 52 years. "He works. He works hard. He cares. He cares hard. I don't know how, but no matter what, he's never lost that sense of wonder." read more
The Trump administration rushed to undo mass layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday after it was revealed that many workers were fired in error. read more
Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies. read more
The explosion could be heard from at least 21 miles away. read more
Military families are hitting up food pantries as they brace for missed paychecks after President Donald Trump floated the possibility that some federal workers might not get paid during the government shutdown. read more
