Politics
U.S. public schools brace for ‘fiscal cliff’ after surge in hiring meets budget shortfalls
Public schools across the United States are facing a financial reckoning in 2025 as federal pandemic relief funds expire and student enrollment continues to decline, according to data from the Georgetown Edunomics Lab. The funding crisis stems largely from the end of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, which pumped billions of federal […]
Read More
Bessent says he expects ‘de-escalation’ in U.S.-China tariff fight in the ‘very near future’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told investors in a closed-door meeting Tuesday he expects “there will be a de-escalation” in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China in the “very near future,” a person in the room told CNBC. “No one thinks the current status quo is sustainable” with tariff rates at their current levels, Bessent […]
Read More
Trump administration proposes major shake-up of U.S. State Department
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the U.S. State Department that would eliminate more than 100 offices including some working […]
Read More
Trump stands ‘strongly behind’ Hegseth, White House says
President Donald Trump stands “strongly behind” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, despite new reports that he discussed highly sensitive military information on a Signal chat with family and friends. Hegseth is “doing a tremendous job, and he is bringing monumental change to the Pentagon,” said Leavitt. “There’s […]
Read More
At least 20 feared killed in militant attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir, security sources say
Local Kashmiris and Indian police, along with armed forces, gather outside the hospital to receive the dead and wounded after gunmen attacked Indian tourists on April 22, 2025 in Anantnag south of Srinagar, India. Yawar Nazir | Getty Images News | Getty Images At least 20 people were feared killed after suspected militants opened fire […]
Read More
Trump to host Walmart CEO, Target and Home Depot execs for WH tariff meeting
President Donald Trump listens to reporters’ questions as he meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House on April 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images President Donald Trump will meet Monday afternoon with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, a White House official told CNBC, as […]
Read More
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem robbed at D.C. restaurant
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, April 8, 2025. Rebecca Noble | Afp | Getty Images A thief stole Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse while she was dining at a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C., on Sunday night, two […]
Read More
Trump ramps up attacks on Powell, demands ‘loser’ Fed chair lower rates ‘NOW’
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during an Economic Club of Chicago event in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Jamie Kelter Davis | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday ratcheted up his pressure campaign on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, calling him a “major loser” and warning […]
Read More
‘A man of the people’: World leaders react to the death of Pope Francis
Pope Francis greets people as he attends the weekly general audience in St. Peter’s square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023. Guglielmo Mangiapane | Reuters Tributes and condolences poured in from around the world following news of the death of Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday at the age of 88. Francis, who was […]
Read More
Trump draft executive order would make sweeping changes to the U.S. State Department
(L-R) US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) look on during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The Trump administration could soon roll […]
Read More