Politics

Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China are targeting government workers who have been laid off amid the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize to recruit as spies, according to new intelligence. “New intelligence indicates agents from China, Russia, and other countries have set their sights on recently fired probationary […]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As markets nosedived and foreign allies recoiled after the unveiling of sweeping tariffs to be imposed by the U.S., President Donald Trump said he was looking toward the future impact of his levies. In the case of manufacturing growth, a key administration interest in imposing a 10% levy on all […]

Julia Beverly/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, was among the numerous officials far-right activist Laura Loomer urged President Donald Trump to remove during her official Oval Office meeting earlier this week, citing evidence of disloyalties, multiple sources tell ABC News. In her Oval Office meeting, Loomer presented the […]

(via White House Flickr) (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump reacted for the first time on Thursday to the fallout from his tariff announcement, which included markets nosediving and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. Trump had no public events on his schedule a day after his dramatic unveiling of severe tariffs against virtually all U.S. trading partners, […]

Omar Havana/Getty Images (BRUSSELS) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting NATO’s headquarters in Brussels for a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers, putting him on the front lines of the Trump administration’s push against traditional American allies in Europe. European leaders were already bracing for a contentious gathering. President Donald Trump’s decision to […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services this week, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut. Kennedy’s comments were in response to a question about a branch at the Centers […]

Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump reacted for the first time on Thursday to the fallout from his tariff announcement, which included markets nosediving and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. Trump had no public events on his schedule a day after his dramatic unveiling of severe tariffs against virtually all U.S. trading partners, […]

Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Thursday was standing firmly behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout despite markets nosediving, businesses recoiling and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. While Trump had no public events on his schedule a day after his dramatic Rose Garden announcement, White House press secretary Karoline […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For decades, Donald Trump has used a signature phrase to show his contempt for countries he says cheat and take advantage of the U.S.: “They’re ripping us off.” He used those very words again Wednesday as he capped off his long-standing personal grievance by announcing sweeping tariffs in the Rose […]

Ezra Acayan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has announced it has agreed to a request from top senators and is launching a probe into the use of the commercial messaging app Signal by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior Trump administration officials to discuss a future U.S. military strike against Houthi militants […]