U.S. President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on July 14, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Buyers of Russian oil—including China, India, and Brazil—could be hit by secondary sanctions “in a massive way,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday, urging
An employee arranges bottles of Coca-Cola at a store in Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 16, 2012. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The Coca-Cola company has agreed to use cane sugar in its iconic Coke drink in the United States, President Donald Trump said on July 16. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he had
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on July 14, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package, advanced by Senate Republicans in a narrow vote on July 15, seeks to claw back funding that Congress had already approved for foreign aid, humanitarian programs, and public broadcasting. Officially titled the Rescissions Act
President Donald Trump displays a signed bill during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act on Wednesday during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. “This is
Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” at Don’s Machine Shop in West Pittston, Pa., on July 16, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Vice President JD Vance visited Northeast Pennsylvania on July 16 to make the Trump administration’s first big pitch to voters on President Donald Trump’s tax
Then-EU Commissioner designate Maros Sefcovic attends his confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on Nov. 4, 2024. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images The European Union’s trade leader is headed to Washington for face-to-face negotiations with the Trump administration, a spokesman for the economic bloc said. On July 16, EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic
Members of the National Guard and a FEMA search and rescue team in a file photo. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A group of 20 states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a decision to shut down a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in