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Paper checks impose unnecessary costs and are more subject to fraud, the president says. Another order centralizes payments in the Treasure Dept. President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 25 calling for the Treasury Department to use electronic payments instead of paper checks, a step aimed at reducing waste and fraud. White House staff

​​The U.S. trade deficit reached a record high of more than $1.2 trillion in 2024. Automobiles and parts accounted for nearly a quarter of that. In a bid to reverse the trade imbalance, President Donald Trump in February introduced a plan to impose reciprocal tariffs to “level the playing field” on trade and address what his

The vice president will join his wife and national security officials on a trip to Greenland as the territory pushes back on Trump’s plans for U.S. control. Vice President JD Vance will visit Greenland on March 28 alongside his wife and senior national security officials from the Trump administration. Vance announced in a short March

A Republican-led effort seeks to censure Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for referring to Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels.” Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) confirmed the move in a brief statement on X. “I plan to introduce a bill to censure Jasmine Crockett for her disgraceful and vile attacks against our Governor of Texas,” he wrote,

WASHINGTON—Some newly released files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are missing key pieces of information, and others are completely absent from the records, The Epoch Times discovered while reviewing thousands of documents in person at the National Archives. Approximately 80,000 documents were released on March 19 by President Donald Trump pursuant