Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) (C) signs the One Big Beautiful Bill Act during an enrollment ceremony with fellow Republicans in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol on July 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images It’s been about two weeks since President Donald Trump‘s…
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday that he and House Republicans want “maximum transparency” on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and called for more information to be made public. “Everybody wants the Epstein files, which is the real documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and anybody associated with that. We want the American people…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell and U.S. President Donald Trump. Annabelle Gordon | Kevin Lamarque | Reuters If President Donald Trump tries to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, it would almost certainly set off a courtroom battle that legal and policy experts say is bound to get messy, with uncertain impacts on the…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing the “Genius Act”, which will develop regulatory framework for stablecoin cryptocurrencies and expand oversight of the industry, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 18, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump said Saturday that even if the courts release the grand jury transcripts in the…
Natalia Lebedinskaia | Moment | Getty Images As a Biden-era relief measure for federal student loan borrowers comes to an end, some people could see their bills more than double. Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced that the so-called SAVE interest-free payment pause will expire on Aug. 1, and that enrollees’ education debts will…
Ahead of the next Federal Reserve meeting later this month, tensions between the White House and the central bank have reached a fever pitch. On Wednesday, a senior White House official told CNBC and other news outlets that President Donald Trump was likely to soon fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Trump later denied those reports, although he said he…
A video still from the NBC archive showing Donald Trump talking with Jeffrey Epstein at a party in Mar-A-Lago from 1992. NBC Ranking member Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., arrives for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Dirksen building on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Durbin’s letters, addressed…
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing…
U.S. President Donald Trump leaves after signing the “GENIUS Act” into law during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House July 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his threat to sue media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his Wall Street Journal…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding a minimum of 15%-20% tariffs on imports from the European Union,…
