On Friday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: President Donald Trump made another major move on tariffs Thursday. USA TODAY World Affairs Correspondent Kim Hjelmgaard takes a look at the impact from President Trump’s executive order to freeze spending, pending a review, at the U.S. Agency for International Development. RFK Jr. was sworn in Thursday as Secretary of Health and…
Investigators are searching for explanations for the rare mid-air collision that resulted in the nation’s deadliest aviation disaster in more than two decades. USA TODAY tracked how Project 2025 is showing up in President Donald Trump’s actions so far. The Grammy Awards are this weekend, and we’ve got everything you need to be ready for music’s…
Donald Trump’s release of a new fragrance line is reviving familiar questions about financial conflicts of interests, and generating new ones about the legality of using Jill Biden’s image to promote the products. Trump announced a new line of perfumes and colognes on Sunday with a social media post that links to a website where…
Brian Frye is a sixth-generation Iowa farmer, a former crude oil broker, and an energy expert with over 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. steps into his role as the expected nominee to head the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Iowa farmers — and…
U.S. stocks are extending their lead over global peers and some investors believe that dominance could grow if President-elect Donald Trump can implement his economic platform without becoming mired in a full-blown trade war or ballooning the federal deficit. The S&P 500 .SPX has gained over 24% in 2024, putting it well ahead of benchmarks in Europe, Asia and…
President-elect Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks and raising eyebrows on both sides of the aisle with choices looking very different compared to his first White House administration. Trump most recently tapped environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late Democratic U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the Health and Human Services…
The big bump Wall Street got from last week’s presidential election and cut to interest rates keeps fading, and U.S. stocks are falling again Friday as they head for a losing week. The S&P 500 fell 1% in morning trading and was heading for its worst loss since before Election Day. The Dow Jones Industrial…
President-elect Donald Trump placed a key campaign figure in the coming cabinet Thursday, nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy spent the majority of the 2024 campaign as an independent candidate but dropped out and endorsed Trump. He became a de-facto advisor on public health after…
While a watch party has kicked off at the Palm Beach Convention Center, there’s another festive gathering at Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago club with Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in attendance. An estimated 1,000 people are gathered at the private club where they have enthusiastically cheered a string of states called for Trump. As…
WASHINGTON − What a year. Who would have guessed, 12 long months ago, that voters on Tuesday would be casting ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with President Joe Biden − the biggest vote-getter in American history − on the sidelines and headed for retirement? Who could have foreseen the failed assassin’s…