More than 180 current and former employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agencyย published a letter Mondayย warning that debilitating cuts to the agency charged with handling federal disaster response risks a catastrophe like the one seen afterย Hurricane Katrina.
Some National Guard units patrolling the nationโs capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that makes good on aย directive issued late last weekย by his defense secretary.
Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under theย United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact,ย Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming months but gave no hint on the timing of a move and suggested the central bank will proceed cautiously as it continues to evaluateย the impact of tariffsย and other policies on the economy.
A New York appeals court on Thursday threw outย President Donald Trumpโsย massive financial penalty while narrowly upholding a judgeโs finding that he engaged in fraud by exaggerating his wealth for decades.
Presidentย Donald Trumpย stood among several hundred law enforcement officers, National Guard troops and federal agents at aย U.S. Park Police operations centerย in one of Washington, D.C.'s most dangerous neighborhoods.
Wall Street is rallying on Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve indicated the cuts to interest rates that investors and President Donald Trump have been craving so muchย may be coming soon, though he gave no clear clue about when.
"I have two small children, and at our peak I was paying over $900 a month for our infant, and over $800 a month for our four-year-old at the time, and in total we were paying over $21,000 a year for high quality child care," she says.