The first test for a much-celebrated US–China trade truce is looming. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hopes to finalise a rare earth deal by next week’s Thanksgiving holiday, but experts say a breakthrough is unlikely as the two sides maintain sharply different narratives of what was discussed and agreed on key issues. From rare earths…
The public furor around unreleased files related to disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein continues to rage on. SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Earlier this week, new documents were released allegedly depicting facets of US President Donald Trump’s relationship with Epstein — including an allegation that documented, in CNN’s words, “Epstein’s claim that Trump…
President Donald Trump has said he knows “nothing” about comments recently released in which disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Trump “knew about the girls.” Why It Matters Democrats in the House of Representatives released emails this week that show Epstein discussing Trump. Epstein wrote that President Trump “spent hours at my…
If the BBC thought it had placated Donald Trump and threats of a billion dollar lawsuit with an apology over its misleading documentary edit, POTUS made it clear tonight, that’s not happening Despite getting the atonement he requested from the UK public broadcaster over a spliced clip that ran last year of his infamous Eclipse…
A House committee released 23,000 documents related to Jefferey Epstein on Wednesday, many of them emails the convicted sex offender sent to his rich or influential friends, or to reporters, over many years. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee initially released three emails where Epstein mentioned President Donald Trump. Republicans on the committee responded by…
Topline The House Oversight Committee on Monday night publicly released records shared by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate in response to a subpoena—including a redacted copy of his 50th birthday book with a lewd drawing and birthday message purportedly signed by President Donald Trump—and several other documents with new alleged revelations. A screenshot of a page from…
Mark Knoller, a longtime White House correspondent for CBS News, has died, according to the network. He was 73. A cause of death was was not disclosed, but he had reportedly suffered from diabetes and was in poor health. “Mark Knoller was the hardest-working and most prolific White House correspondent of a generation,” Tom Cibrowski,…
July 2025 sparked a fresh new wave of Jeffrey Epstein controversy, thanks to none other than President Donald Trump. US Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had the Epstein client list “sitting on her desk” on February 21. At a MAGA influencer event held at the White House on February 27, she and her team…
Services were held Tuesday for Jamileh Kamran, the founder of Arkansas’ first fashion school and a designer for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Kamran, 72, died of cancer on July 17 at her home in Little Rock, Ark., according to her daughter, Nirvana Manning. Prior to her passing she was still leading the Jamileh Kamran School of…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump. Nathan Howard | Jonathan Ernst | Reuters A new research note gaming out possible scenarios if President Donald Trump decides to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warns that, regardless of what exactly happens next, “this would be a mess.” “We expect, as…