US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, on Dec. 10, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell related to the $2.5 billion renovation to the … Read more
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a House Homeland Security hearing entitled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. Dec. 11, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday reiterated her claims that Renee Nicole Good, the U.S. citizen shot and killed by an … Read more
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks in the Oval Office of the White House where President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Reuters that additional U.S. sanctions on Venezuela could be lifted as soon … Read more
Federal agents confront demonstrators near the Whipple federal building on January 08, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yesterday, a federal agent allegedly fatally shot a woman in her car during an incident in south Minneapolis. Scott Olson | Getty Images The killing of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is reverberating across … Read more
President Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and threats to other countries, as well as concerns about affordability, exposed fractures within the congressional GOP this week at the start of a challenging midterm election year. Trump avoided defeat when most House Republicans declined to override the first of two vetoes of his presidency, which spiked a … Read more
A shopper pays with a credit card at the farmer’s market in San Francisco on March 27, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was calling for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10% starting on Jan. 20, but he did not provide details … Read more
New video that appears to show Renee Nicole Good in her car right before she was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was posted Friday on social media by the site Alpha News. The 47-second-long video appears to have been taken by a phone held by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent … Read more
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man and a woman in a vehicle on Thursday afternoon in Portland, Oregon, after the driver allegedly tried to run over agents, a senior federal official said. The shooting occurred a day after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good as … Read more
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, Dec. 8, 2025. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images The first vetoes of President Donald Trump’s second term survived separate override votes by the House of Representatives on Thursday. The outcome was a surprise, since both bills that Trump had vetoed were passed in unanimous voice votes by the … Read more
Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two members of the House of Representatives asked a federal judge in New York on Thursday to appoint a so-called special master to ensure … Read more