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The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, and the practical consequences are no longer limited to the policy debate in Washington. At airports across the country, TSA officers are quitting or calling out rather than work without pay, and the lines at security checkpoints are growing longer by the day….
The arithmetic of this past week on financial markets is striking enough to sit alongside the most turbulent periods of the post-financial-crisis era, even before the symbolic element of gold recording its worst weekly performance since February 1983 is factored in. Gold fell below $4,500 on Friday for the first time in weeks, down more…
President Donald Trump has spent the better part of fourteen months trying to push Jerome Powell out of the Federal Reserve, deploying every tool available short of the one he does not legally possess: the power to fire him. The irony now developing at pace is that the Justice Department investigation Trump encouraged into Powell’s…
More than five years after departing the Trump White House, Kellyanne Conway remains one of the most visible figures in Republican political circles, splitting her time between media commentary, corporate consulting, and high-profile speaking engagements. Conway served as Senior Counselor to the President during the first Trump administration from 2017 to 2020, and made history…
Acting IRS commissioner Scott Bessent has announced a “gigantic” tax refund for millions of Americans due to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Millions of Americans filing their 2025 federal tax returns this spring are receiving significantly larger refunds than in previous years, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicting what he called a…
The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold its benchmark interest rate in the 3.5% to 3.75% range on Wednesday was the most anticipated non-event of the year — until Jerome Powell started talking. What followed his opening remarks sent traders scrambling for the exits in a session that turned a routine hold into a full-blown risk-off…
Three weeks after Iranian missile and drone strikes forced the closure of Qatari airspace and grounded virtually the entire Qatar Airways fleet, the airline is attempting a partial return to operations this week, beginning with a limited scheduled service to dozens of destinations that started on March 18 and runs through to March 28. It…
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, Republicans didn’t just win an election — they inherited unified control of government and, with it, a mandate they treated as a license to govern at speed. Fourteen months later, the party looks considerably different from the one that swept into power, and not…
The Trump administration has invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950, a Cold War-era emergency statute, to direct Sable Offshore Corp. to restart a pipeline and offshore oil operation along the Santa Barbara coast that has been shut since a rupture in 2015. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued the order on Friday, framing it as…