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During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 12, 2025, Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) got into a heated exchange with Treasury Scott Bessent, who tried to blame the current fiscal health of the ...

The New York Times sparred with the Biden White House over the refusal to grant interviews during his presidency, but he ...

Research indicates that insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are likely to go up by 75% in 2026, unless Congress steps in and does something about it, NPR reports. RELATED CONTENT: ...

As the Trump administration seeks to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, some call deportation a “death sentence” ...

Since President Trump took office, the Justice Department has backed challenges to gun regulations. And it did not appeal a ruling against a federal age limit on handguns.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in response to her criticizing the Trump ...

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US Rep. Ralph Norman and other SC GOP leaders, including Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, respond to whether Trump administration should release Epstein files.

For a quarter century, virtually every American president had made the same mistake, treating Russian leader Vladimir Putin as someone who shares the U.S. interest in a safer, more predictable ...

Ignorance, like history, repeats itself when people refuse to learn from it. One lesson we should have learned is that science and ideology do not mix. We saw this during Biden’s disastrous COVID ...

Apparently Mr Trump has gone full ape deporting undocumented immigrants. He is supposed to do this as was Mr Biden. Mr Obama before him was known as “deporter in chief.” The scale and recklessness ...