Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will host Thursday’s White House press briefing, becoming the third Cabinet official to step behind the podium while press secretary Karoline Leavitt remains on maternity leave following the birth of her second child earlier this month.  Bessent is expected to take questions from reporters in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room […]

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) appeared to swap politics for deep-sea fishing this week, posting a video of himself reeling in a sailfish alongside former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after losing Kentucky‘s Republican primary to a candidate backed by President Donald Trump. Massie posted the video on X Wednesday with the caption “America First Pacific Summit […]

The Treasury Department on Wednesday reimposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestinian territories, just one week after removing her from a federal sanctions list. The Office of Foreign Asset Control added Albanese to its specially designated nationals list under sanctions tied to the International Criminal Court, according to a Treasury notice […]

The United States military on Wednesday conducted new strikes on an Iranian military site that officials said posed a threat to American forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports. The reports of new strikes come as the U.S. and Iran inch forward with a peace deal that seeks to end […]