Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., speaks to reporters as he arrives for the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Tuesday reportedly shared and then hastily deleted a fake, apparently AI-generated letter purporting to show Jerome…
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon, takes the stage during The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images President Donald Trump met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at the White House last week, CNBC has…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has “concluded” a trade deal with the Philippines that includes a 19% tariff on goods imported from the southeast Asian country. Manila will not impose tariffs on U.S. goods as part of the deal, according to Trump, who praised the country for what he described as “going…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his barrage of criticism against the Federal Reserve but seemed to take a step back from any lingering plans to fire Chair Jerome Powell. “I think he’s done a bad job, but he’s going to be out pretty soon anyway,” Trump told reporters during a White House exchange. “Eight…
Ghislaine Maxwell on September 20, 2013 in New York City. Laura Cavanaugh | Getty Images A top Department of Justice official said Tuesday that he intends to meet soon with Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite serving a 20-year prison term for her role in Jeffrey Epstein‘s sex trafficking enterprise, to ask her “what do you…
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, left, speaks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, during a bilateral meeting between the United States and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Keystone/eda/martial Trezzini | Via Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said that he is likely to hash out an extension…
A man walks past shelves of Coca-Cola bottles and cans at a shopping mall in Lagos, Nigeria November 5, 2019. Temilade Adelaja | Reuters Coca-Cola plans to introduce a version of its namesake cola made with cane sugar in the U.S. this fall, the company announced on Tuesday. Coke has used high-fructose corn syrup to…
Mary Barra speaks onstage during WSJ’s Future of Everything 2025 at The Glasshouse on May 28, 2025 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images General Motors reported second-quarter earnings Tuesday that beat Wall Street’s estimates and affirmed its full-year guidance, despite ongoing uncertainty from President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs. Shares of the company…
President Joe Biden stands with his son Hunter Biden after the president arrived at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, June 11, 2024. Anna Rose Layden | Reuters Hunter Biden said in a new interview that his father, former President Joe Biden, had been taking Ambien in the period before his…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch. Evelyn Hockstein | Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Donald Trump‘s new $10 billion libel lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be handled by the same Florida federal judge who presided over a prior breach-of-contract suit Trump…
