A key trait President Donald Trump values in members of his team let him down with departing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: the ability to perform well on camera. Paradoxically, a $200 million ad campaign and televised hearings on Capitol Hill played a significant role in Noem’s ouster. The telegenic 54-year-old was initially tapped […]

The war in the courts over tariff refunds took a key step forward this week as President Donald Trump’s newly implemented tariffs are facing a new legal challenge, less than a month after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs. Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was foreclosed by […]

Americans are owed $39.2 billion by the federal government, according to a Treasury Department tabulation. These funds are in the form of mature, unredeemed savings bonds that individuals bought but have not claimed. Most of these bonds date to the 1980s, when investors eagerly snatched up bonds carrying annual interest rates topping out at 9%. […]

Within hours of Israeli and American attacks on the government and military infrastructure of Iran, President Donald Trump made it clear the United States’ goal was not to enforce its view of Iran’s future. Instead, Trump insisted the joint military operation offered the people of Iran seeking a secular government an opportunity to establish their […]