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Iran says no decision yet on resumption of US nuclear talks
Iran and the U.S. haven’t agreed on a time, date or place to resume stalled negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Iran won’t return to talks “unless we’re certain the negotiations will be effective,” Esmaeil Baghaei said in a televised press conference.
His remarks follow a ...Read more

House debates Pentagon spending, crypto as rescissions head to Senate
WASHINGTON – House members return to town this week to consider the fiscal 2026 Pentagon spending bill and crypto measures, while senators are staring at yet another vote-a-rama — this time on rescissions.
While defense appropriations headlines the House’s week, the floor agenda is full even beyond that, with several significant financial...Read more

Commentary: What Congress needs to know about DEI (but doesn't want to hear)
The House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services held a hearing recently about diversity, equity and inclusion. Fewer than five of the 90 minutes were spent talking about health care or anything related to money. Instead, conservative lawmakers wasted time and taxpayers’ dollars advancing an anti-DEI agenda with which ...Read more

Trump to head to UK for his second state visit in September
King Charles III will host U.S. President Donald Trump for a state visit in September, the second time Trump will have received the highest honor offered to a visiting dignitary by the U.K.
The King will host Trump and first lady Melania Trump at Windsor Castle from Sept. 17-19, Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Monday. It follows Trump�...Read more

Market resilience challenged by Trump's weekend tariff salvo
Financial markets, which have shown increasing insensitivity to tariff threats from the U.S., will face a test at the Monday open after President Donald Trump declared a 30% rate for the European Union and Mexico effective Aug. 1.
Trump has ratcheted up trade measures, promising that more tariffs are coming to everyone from Canada to Brazil to ...Read more

Senate panel cites Secret Service lapses in Trump rally shooting
A “cascade of preventable failures” within the U.S. Secret Service nearly cost President Donald Trump his life during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, according to a Senate committee report released Sunday.
The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Secret Service, found ...Read more

Pa. Rep. Mike Kelly 'still has questions' year after Trump assassination attempt in Butler
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly says lawmakers and federal agencies still don't have a complete picture of what allowed a gunman to nearly assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in the congressman's hometown of Butler last year.
"Like many in the Butler community, I still have questions about everything that led up to, and unfolded on, July 13...Read more

Market resilience challenged by Trump's weekend tariff salvo
Financial markets, which have shown increasing insensitivity to tariff threats from the U.S., will face a test at the Monday open after President Donald Trump declared a 30% rate for the European Union and Mexico effective Aug. 1.
Trump has ratcheted up trade measures, promising that more tariffs are coming to everyone from Canada to Brazil to ...Read more

Commentary: Trump's foreign-aid cuts are ending lives -- and US influence
The White House has hailed H.R. 1, aka the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as a “once-in-a-generation piece of legislation” that puts “America First.” Most of the public debate focused on its extension of lower taxes for the rich, the ballooning federal debt, and massive cuts in Medicaid spending. Yet equally important is what the act will ...Read more

Mexico sure it will strike deal with US to skirt tariffs
Mexico is projecting confidence that it will fend off a new set of 30% tariffs that President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to impose next month, with talks already underway to avert the worst.
After Trump went public with his plan by posting on social media, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum noted in speeches near the northern border ...Read more

Columbia may be nearing a truce with Trump in funding fight
Columbia University may be nearing a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate federal funding to the university over civil rights issues, according to reports by multiple news outlets.
The deal would require Columbia to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to those affected by the alleged violations, increase transparency in its hiring ...Read more

Trump Organization expands Balkan connection with Romania deal
The Trump Organization plans to expand to Romania, as President Donald Trump’s family deepens its ties in the Balkans and pursues a lineup of new foreign deals.
The company will partner with local real estate developer SDC Imobiliare on Trump Tower Bucharest, according to a statement dated Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The ...Read more

Trump allies open new front against Powell over building rehab
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have seized upon a new way to criticize the head of the U.S. central bank: his handling of an expensive renovation of the Fed’s headquarters.
The construction project offers the clearest example yet of how Trump and those in his orbit are looking for every opportunity to scrutinize Jerome ...Read more

Chell, Daughtry golf outing with Trump sparks inquiry over use of NYPD security detail
NEW YORK — NYPD Chief of Department John Chell and Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry brought their police security details along last month when they visited President Donald Trump on their personal time at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club — and the deployment is now attracting scrutiny from a city government watchdog, the Daily News has ...Read more
Trump threatens 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico as talks continue
President Donald Trump unleashed his latest tariff ultimatums, declaring a 30% rate for Mexico and the European Union, as his trade agenda continues to keep allies off balance and inject uncertainty into global financial markets.
Trump made the announcement in two letters posted to social media Saturday as he informed key trading partners of ...Read more

Trump patience on tariffs runs thin as nations jostle for deals
U.S. trading partners trying to navigate the final weeks of negotiations before President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs hit are facing a leader who has made clear he’s lost patience with talks.
Even as negotiators from Brussels to New Delhi are racing to find a way out of the punishing levies he’s floated, Trump continued to...Read more

Iran says it's considering US offer to restart nuclear talks
Iran’s foreign minister said the U.S. is trying to revive nuclear talks with Tehran while stressing that his country is in no hurry to resume negotiations.
“The Americans insist on returning to the negotiating table,” Abbas Araghchi said in televised remarks Saturday, adding that Iran has received “multiple messages.” Tehran is ...Read more
Trump threatens 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico as talks continue
President Donald Trump unleashed his latest tariff ultimatums, declaring a 30% rate for Mexico and the European Union, as his trade agenda continues to keep allies off balance and inject uncertainty into global financial markets.
Trump made the announcement in two letters posted to social media Saturday as he informed key trading partners of ...Read more

2 Trump-tied lawyers step into Michigan election cases
HILLSDALE, Mich. — Two attorneys with ties to President Donald Trump are getting involved as defense lawyers with two separate criminal cases against Oakland County lawyer Stefanie Lambert that charge her with mishandling voter data and election machines.
Kurt Olsen, a Washington, D.C., lawyer with a history of challenging election results, ...Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims 'rapist' Trump has complicated release of Epstein files
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Friday that having a “rapist” president in office has muddied the Justice Department’s handling of matters involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?” the New York ...Read more
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