Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said the Trump administration has an “opportunity for a big deal” on trade between the U.S. and China, providing a hint that a brutal tariff war between the two nations could ease up. Bessent, who delivered the keynote address at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, D.C., today,
A 19-year-old U.S. citizen arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents earlier this month in Arizona and briefly prosecuted for illegal entry into the U.S. has intellectual disabilities, his family told CBS News. Jose Hermosillo was arrested on April 8 by CBP in Tucson and detained for 10 days. His family provided documentation proving his
Washington — Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday traveled to Louisiana to meet with Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, who remain in custody at Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers as they face deportation. Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, and Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, were separately taken into custody in
A town hall hosted by Rep. Byron Donalds turned chaotic Tuesday, with audience members repeatedly interrupting the Florida Republican, leading authorities to remove two people — the latest raucous town hall dominated by protests against President Trump’s administration. Donalds, a three-term congressman running in next year’s Florida gubernatorial race, was asked a litany of often-testy
President Trump said Tuesday he has “no intention of firing” Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, one day after the president called Powell a “major loser” and publicly lobbied the central bank chief to lower interest rates at a faster clip. When asked by reporters in the Oval Office if he has any plans to fire Powell,
Elon Musk told Tesla investors he’s scaling back his work at the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, saying the amount of time he spends on the task force will “drop significantly” starting in May. As the Trump administration’s cost-cutting initiative, DOGE has slashed tens of thousands of federal jobs in the name
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador, say the government has failed to provide appropriate responses to a judge’s order for expedited discovery and to her questions about facilitating his return to the U.S. In a letter addressed to U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis, Abrego