Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny
The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.
Author: Associated Press
‘Unquestionably in violation’: Judge says US government didn’t follow court order on deportations
The White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to the chaotic African nation of South Sudan, a federal judge said Wednesday.
Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s use
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for President Donald Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said Wednesday, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.
House Republicans pass Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session
House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval Thursday.
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense plan was inspired by Israel’s multitiered defenses
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for a “Golden Dome” to protect the United States from long-range missiles was at least partly inspired by Israel’s multitiered missile defenses.
Speaker Johnson and Republicans head to the White House as Trump’s tax breaks bill hits trouble
With President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package at risk of stalling, House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservative Republican holdouts are heading Wednesday to the White House for the last-ditch talks to salvage the “big, beautiful bill.”
South Carolina death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed
After his best friend and four other of his fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which would likely mean his own execution in weeks or months.
Trump selects concept for $175 billion ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system
President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered, $175 billion system that for the first time will put U.S. weapons in space.
US stocks drift as S&P 500 flirts with its first drop in 7 days
U.S. stock indexes are drifting on Tuesday, as momentum slows for Wall Street after it rallied from a deep hole nearly all the way back to its all-time high set earlier this year.
Trump on Capitol Hill implores divided Republicans to unify behind his big tax cuts bill
President Donald Trump implored House Republicans at the Capitol to drop their fights over his big tax cuts bill and get it done, using encouraging words but also the hardened language of politics over the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing before planned votes this week.
