The Trump administration launched an investigation into the state’s education department over its policies on transgender ...

President Donald Trump’s cabinet members are a ragtag band of loyalists, many of them profoundly unqualified, but all of them ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Bryan Bedford to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, putting ...

The Financial Services Forum, which represents eight of the largest banks in the U.S., has lured Amanda Eversole from the American Petroleum Institute to be its next president and chief executive.

The Court’s conservative majority has, once again, shrugged off the administration’s authoritarian motives in bypassing ...

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President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50% on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics are ...

President Donald Trump has described Jair Bolsonaro as a friend and hosted the former Brazilian president at his Mar-a-Lago ...

Her scorched-ink strategy may be cathartic, but her allies fear she is undermining the very institution she claims to want to ...

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump imposed tariffs of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent on Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. The letters followed threats of 25 per cent ...

In our news wrap Wednesday, President Trump announced 50 percent tariffs on Brazil for what he called a "witch hunt" against ...

After the Supreme Court allowed President Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to ...