President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Lackland Air Force Base on July 11, 2025, before heading to Kerrville, Texas where they plan to visit with state and local leaders, first responders and victims of last week’s flash flooding. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump landed in Central Texas on July 11
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are visiting flood-ravaged areas of Texas on Friday as a dozen states send teams to help in the search for victims. Trump has imposed a 35 percent blanket tariff on Canadian imports. He blamed Ottawa for failing to stop deadly fentanyl smuggling and for targeting U.S. dairy
Washington — Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who previously served as President Trump’s criminal defense attorney, declined to rule out the possibility of the president running for a third term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel considering his nomination for
The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the department grapples with a backlog of grants that has swelled to more than a billion dollars in the wake of hurdles set up by DOGE. Multiple HHS officials, who were not authorized to speak
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
White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with the media at the White House in Washington on June 30, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times White House border czar Tom Homan said that the United States is aiming to reach deals with several countries to accept deported illegal immigrants whose countries of origin won’t take them
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 25, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought has criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in a letter dated July 10 and said he is concerned about the renovation cost for the central bank’s headquarters in