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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For decades, Donald Trump has used a signature phrase to show his contempt for countries he says cheat and take advantage of the U.S.: “They’re ripping us off.” He used [Read More…]

Far-right activist Laura Loomer; Photo credit: Jacob M. Langston for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House has fired a handful of National Security Council staffers following a Wednesday meeting with [Read More…]

Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Thursday was standing firmly behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout despite markets nosediving, businesses recoiling and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. While Trump [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the House of Representatives at a standstill, Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to fold on his strong opposition to allowing new parents in Congress to vote remotely. “I [Read More…]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping new set of tariffs impact friend and foe alike, but also on the list are uninhabited islands while some glaring omissions include Russia and [Read More…]

(adamkaz/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Despite billionaire Elon Musk’s repeated warnings that “Western Civilization” was at stake if the conservative candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race lost, the Tesla CEO and senior adviser to President [Read More…]

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday, which the White House dubbed “Liberation Day.” “This is one of the most important days in my opinion in [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a long-promised, sweeping set of baseline tariffs on all countries and what he described as “kind reciprocal” tariffs on nations he claimed were the [Read More…]

Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats on Wednesday vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s tariffs “tooth and nail” and criticized his policies as having started an “absurd, crazy, chaotic trade war.” Senate Minority [Read More…]

Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images (MIDDLESEX, Mass.) — To step inside the Older Adult Re-Entry unit, or OAR, at the Middlesex County, Massachusetts, jail is unlike entering any jail in the United States. [Read More…]

Pool via ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats outside the Department of Education to give an impromptu statement after they met in a closed-door meeting earlier [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, who on Tuesday held her newborn son during a speech on the House floor in support of a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting for new lawmaker [Read More…]

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Wednesday backed the Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to authorize the sale of kid-friendly flavored e-cigarettes and vapes, including the flavors “Killer Kustard Blueberry,” “Rainbow [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Shares in Donald Trump’s social media company sank in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after the company filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president’s [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will unveil in the White House Rose Garden what are expected to be broad-based “reciprocal tariffs” on imports as part of his “America First” agenda. It’s a [Read More…]

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday dismissed corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, but not in the way the Trump administration wanted. Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case with [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s social media company on Monday filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president’s trust to sell more than $2 billion of shares. Trump Media and [Read More…]

Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn (WASHINGTON) — As Democrats continue to express frustrations over Elon Musk’s outsized role in reshaping the federal bureaucracy, a new effort on Capitol Hill takes aim at the Department of [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is launching a “Save Our Schools” campaign on Wednesday against President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s attempt to dismantle the Department of [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will unveil in the White House Rose Garden what are expected to be broad-based “reciprocal tariffs” on imports as part of his “America First” agenda. [Read More…]