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‘Economic Security Is National Security,’ Treasury Secretary Bessent Declares
“Economic security is national security,” Bessent declared Thursday at the close of the Export-Import Bank’s annual…
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EXIM Is ‘On Fire,’ Says Lutnick as He Outlines Trump’s Trade Agenda and Push for Self-Reliance
Secretary Howard Lutnick took the stage at the EXIM annual conference on Thursday morning in an upbeat mood. He opened…
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Secretary Burgum Says EXIM ‘Knows the American Way’
America’s 55th Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, addressed the Export-Import Bank of the United States annual conference on Wednesday, delivering strong praise…
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EXIM Chairman Jovanovic: American Dream Brings Us Here
Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic, known among friends as “Captain America,” opened the bank’s annual conference Wednesday morning at the…
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James Comey Indicted Over ‘8647’ Instagram Post
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted over a social media post that authorities…
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Starmer Puts Big Tech on Notice Over Children’s Safety Online
Executives from Google, X, TikTok and Meta were called into Downing Street on Thursday by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to account for what they are doing…
TRUMP’s diArY
Trump Says He Wants ‘to Live to Make This Country Great’ After Shooting Incident
“This was very unexpected,” President Donald Trump said of the shooting incident at the Washington Hilton, adding that the event now “unified” members of both parties…
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President Trump to Hold Press Conference After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
A late-night press conference will be held in approximately 30 minutes at the White House briefing room, President Donald Trump said, after law enforcement ordered the evacuation of…
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BREAKING: President Trump Evacuated From White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump have been evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after several loud bangs were heard inside the…
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Trump: Iran ‘Doesn’t Know Who Its Leader Is’
President Donald Trump signaled a further escalation in the U.S. posture toward Iran on Thursday, declaring there is “no time pressure” for negotiations and “no time frame” for…
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Iran Warns of ‘New Battlefield Cards’
The future of peace negotiations between the United States and Iran, is uncertain as a ceasefire deadline nears its expiration. Donald Trump struck an optimistic tone…
Melania Trump Lends Whistler Painting to Tate Britain and Van Gogh Museum
First Lady Melania Trump has authorized a rare international loan from the White House Collection, sending Nocturne by James McNeill Whistler to Tate Britain and the Van Gogh Museum for a major retrospective. “It is…
J.D. Vance Is Having a Very Bad Week
J.D. Vance is having a bad week—but more precisely, he is having the kind of week that clarifies a political position he once seemed to…
CRYPTO SCOOP
Howard Lutnick Reveals: Trump to Unveil Bitcoin Reserve Strategy at White House Crypto Summit
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a significant shift in cryptocurrency policy this week, including plans for a Bitcoin strategic reserve, according to Commerce…
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Alberto Simoni: Don’t Celebrate Too Soon After Orbán
Alberto Simoni, U.S. Bureau Chief for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, covers the White House and American politics at a moment of deep transatlantic uncertainty. A longtime foreign policy editor who spent a decade shaping the paper’s international coverage, Simoni has interviewed—and closely followed—the rise and…
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We Still Do Not Know Melania Trump
We should start with a simple admission: we do not know Melania Trump. And after watching the documentary—now streaming on Amazon Prime —we still do not. The film presents access, but it delivers distance. Melania appears exactly as the world has come to expect her: composed, controlled,…
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