White House senior adviser Elon Musk on the South Lawn of the White House on March 9, 2025. Samuel Corum/Getty Images Federal government agencies terminated and reduced 78 “wasteful” contracts over the past nine days with a ceiling value of $1.9 billion, generating $335 million in savings, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in
(Front row, L-R) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of Angola and Chairperson of the African Union Joao Lourenco, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pose for a group photo on the opening day of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa,
Voting booths at Glass Elementary School’s polling station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2022. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Offer Shlomi, the infomercial pitchman popularly known as the “ShamWow Guy,” has officially filed to run for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Texas, state election records showed. The 61-year-old registered to compete
A worker with car batteries at a factory of Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd., which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses, in Nanjing., Jiangsu Province, China, on March 12, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images The United States dominated the rare earth industry in the 1980s with domestic miners leading the world
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Nov. 6, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Donald Trump said on Nov. 23 that he is planning to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, a move he has considered since his first term. “It will be done
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent listens as US President Donald Trump meets with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2025. Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said the government shutdown that ended earlier this month
National Guard members walk at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Broadview facility in Chicago on Oct. 9, 2025. Jeenah Moon/Reuters Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that the Texas National Guard troops deployed to Illinois weeks ago have been told to return to their home state this week. During an event on Saturday, Abbott