Major U.S. trading partners hurried over the weekend to secure trade deals or lobby for extra time, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that some countries lacking an agreement by the deadline Wednesday will have the option of a three-week extension to negotiate.

“We’re going to be very busy over the next 72 hours,” Bessent ...Read more

Thailand is making a last-ditch effort to avert a punitive 36% export levy threatened by the Trump administration with offers of greater market access for U.S. farm and industrial goods, along with increased purchases of energy and Boeing jets.

Bangkok’s latest proposal aims to boost bilateral trade volume and reduce Thailand’s $46 billion...Read more

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who started in politics as a young legislative aide and is now the senior Democrat in Florida’s congressional delegation, has for years calibrated her statements, carefully choosing her words to communicate exactly the message she intends.

Recently, speaking at the Broward Democratic Party’s annual ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — With four months until Election Day in Virginia, the campaigns for statewide office are heating up. Both parties are projecting a message of unity, but the ways they’ve sought to demonstrate unity among themselves has varied.

Immediately after June’s primaries, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger embarked on...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — When President Donald Trump floated his budget for NASA for 2026, it slashed the science budget by half, proposed the end of the Artemis program’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway lunar station, and cut back support of the International Space Station.

While Congress will ultimately decide which ...Read more

As congressional Republicans passed a bill that will add new red tape to federal safety net programs, a statewide audit has found that Alaska's Department of Health is routinely failing to abide by existing federal laws governing benefits, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The review conducted by the state ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — By early spring, Paramount Global was in crisis. President Donald Trump wouldn't budge from his demand for an eye-popping sum of money and an apology from the company to settle his lawsuit over a CBS News "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris. Journalists at the storied broadcaster were in revolt against the parent company.

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(Bloomberg) — The U.S. ambassador to Canada gave an optimistic assessment of trade talks between the countries, playing up the odds that a fair deal will emerge soon from negotiations between Donald Trump and Mark Carney.

“We’ve got two guys that are negotiating for each of our countries,” Pete Hoekstra told an audience during an ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed his $3.4 trillion budget bill into law Friday, enshrining an extension of tax cuts, temporary new breaks for tipped workers and funding to crack down on illegal immigration.

The package encompasses a suite of priorities Trump campaigned on in 2024 — and its enactment at a White House ceremony represents a major ...Read more

NEW YORK — Around 75 demonstrators gathered across the street from Trump Tower Friday afternoon to stage a die-in protesting the passage of what President Donald Trump calls the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

The protesters call it the “Murder Budget.”

The activists held signs with slogans including “Trump Did This” and “Musk Stole My ...Read more

American and Israeli forces have done the world a favor by setting back Iran’s nuclear program, whether by a little or a lot. But, unless the U.S. now binds the regime to a deal with strict, long-term constraints on its nuclear activities, the risks they’ve taken may well be for naught.

The Beltway debate over whether Iranian nuclear ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — No taxes on tips and overtime will likely come to fruition as a major tax policy heads to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The House of Representatives voted 218-214 to approve Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill known as the “big beautiful bill” on Thursday after months of negotiations and opposition ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that his administration may begin sending out letters to trading partners as soon as Friday setting unilateral tariff rates ahead of a July 9 deadline for negotiations.

“We’re probably going to be sending some letters out, starting probably tomorrow, maybe 10 a day to various countries saying what ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s visit to Iowa on Thursday is ostensibly to kick off a yearlong celebration leading up to America’s 250th anniversary. But his trip also casts a spotlight on the intense dynamics of his nascent second term as well as questions over who will barnstorm the critical state come 2028 as his successor.

Trump’s trip is ...Read more

Already a ripe target for Democrats in the next election, California Central Valley Rep. David Valadao put his political future in deeper peril this week by voting in favor of legislation that slashes the Medicaid coverage essential to roughly two-thirds of his constituents.

The Republican dairy farmer from Hanford said that despite his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was “heavily engaged” in Republicans’ budget reconciliation process at every step and a big player in an endgame “full-court press,” according to sources. But he left it to GOP leaders and his vice president to twist the arm of one key Senate holdout.

As a group of conservative holdouts left the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. immigration enforcement is set for the most dramatic expansion in decades after the Republican-controlled Congress approved a budget bill that will fund President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.

The sweeping legislation, which Trump said he wants to sign by Friday, allocates more than $150 billion for the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Abortion services are poised to resume in Kansas City and across Missouri after a Jackson County judge on Thursday blocked a series of restrictions that temporarily banned access.

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang, in an order issued late Thursday afternoon, halted requirements that abortion providers must ...Read more