| July 11, 2025Updated:July 11, 2025 The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is notable for implementing significant changes to the U.S. tax code, including making 2017’s individual income tax brackets permanent. But there are non-tax-related items in the bill that will impact the lives of everyday Americans, affecting travel, women’s health care, immigration, and welfare
Washington — President Trump expressed the “anguish of our entire nation” Friday after he and first lady Melania Trump met with families of the victims of last week’s deadly flooding in Central Texas. The president and first lady surveyed the devastation in Kerrville, Texas, and met with first responders, local officials and survivors. The death
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Hasan shake hands as they take part in a memorandum of understanding signing during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur on July 10, 2025. Mandel Ngan/POOL/AFP via
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before a House Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs hearing on the budget for the Department of State, on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 21, 2025. Brendan SmialowskiI/AFP via Getty Images The State Department said on July 11 that it will lose nearly 3,000
The U.S. flag flies over a container ship unloading its cargo from Asia, at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2019. Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images New data from the Treasury Department show that surging tariff revenues in June helped the U.S. government post an unexpected budget surplus of $27
Washington — The State Department on Friday began laying off more than 1,300 staffers as it seeks to cut the size of its U.S. workforce by about 15%, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping plan to reorganize the department. The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a
A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks. The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to