The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is the executive branch's agency responsible for international trade.

PolitiFact found three reports that showed Florida last or second-to-last nationally on mental health care — one from 2025 and two based on data that is at least a decade old. Other rankings put it in ...

President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of treason following a report by Tulsi Gabbard, the current director of national intelligence, about the intelligence community’s ...

One of the Trump administration’s biggest tariff boosters, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, recently said tariffs not only will energize the U.S. industrial sector but also help the government’s ...

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On July 17, the White House announced Trump has a chronic venous insufficiency, which can cause leg swelling. Experts say the condition is common in older patients and not typical ...

The data exaggerates the tax gains for households with modest incomes by focusing on the change in their tax liability, rather than their after-tax income — the measure analysts more commonly use. Now ...

Lori Chavez-DeRemer became U.S. Labor Secretary in 2025 as an appointee of President Donald Trump. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Oregon’s 5th Congressional District ...

"California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government," Newsom said in a July 14 X post highlighting the interview. "Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide ...

The "Epstein files," refer to the federal government’s investigative files pertaining to the prosecution of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The two federal investigations into Epstein took ...

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...

"In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal prisons or local jails," Brinkley-Rubinstein said. "ICE detention facilities and ...