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Trump announces plan for more choice in health care, lower drug prices

President Trump released a health care plan Thursday that calls for delivering government assistance directly to consumers rather than through insurance companies and for lowering prescription drug prices.

January 15, 2026

Trump: Control of Greenland is price of U.S. missile defense

President Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. must take control of Greenland to build its Golden Dome missile-defense system and become an effective deterrent to China and Russia, and anything less is "unacceptable."

January 14, 2026

ICE agent who shot Renee Good was treated for internal bleeding

Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, received treatment for internal bleeding in his torso after the incident, according to a new report.

January 14, 2026

Trump says U.S. control of Greenland is necessary for Golden Dome project, NATO prowess

NATO needs the U.S. to take control of Greenland to be an effective deterrent to China and Russia, and anything less is "unacceptable," President Trump said Wednesday.

January 14, 2026

Inflation rose 2.7% on an annual basis in December report that shows stabilizing prices

Prices rose 2.7% for the year ending in December, the federal government said Tuesday, matching the previous month's report and Wall Street's expectations.

January 13, 2026

Foreign central bankers back Fed Chair Powell during DOJ controversy

The controversy around Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has gone global.

January 13, 2026

Wall Street reacts negatively to Powell probe, credit-card proposal

U.S. stocks dove into negative territory to start the week on Monday after the Department of Justice sent subpoenas to the Federal Reserve as part of a criminal inquiry into Chair Jerome Powell's remarks to Congress.

January 12, 2026

Former Fed chairs, some GOP lawmakers rebuke Justice Dept. inquiry of Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Lawmakers and former Federal Reserve officials rallied Monday to the defense of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, one day after the central bank said it received a grand jury subpoena from President Trump's Justice Department.

January 12, 2026

Trump says U.S. presence in Greenland is not enough, needs ownership ‘title’

President Trump says a military presence on Greenland is not sufficient, and he wants to have ownership of the Arctic island, citing the Russian and Chinese presence in the Arctic.

January 12, 2026

Tillis says Justice Department credibility in doubt after Fed subpoena

Sen. Thom Tillis says he will block any nomination President Trump makes to the Federal Reserve until a legal case against Chair Jerome Powell is resolved.

January 11, 2026

Venezuela’s Machado expected to visit White House, might share Nobel Peace Prize with Trump

President Trump says Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will visit the White House soon for a meeting that will focus on the future of the Western Hemisphere -- and the fate of her Nobel Peace Prize.

January 9, 2026

Art of the drug deal: TrumpRX website will direct patients to heavily discounted medicines

President Trump's self-branded attempt to cut drug prices -- TrumpRx -- is set to launch within weeks, offering a novel pathway for consumers to buy medicines directly from drugmakers without insurance or middlemen involved.

January 9, 2026

U.S. added 50K jobs for December, or lower-than-expected; unemployment rate slips to 4.4%

The U.S. added 50,000 jobs in December, the federal government reported Friday, a downturn from the prior month and a lower figure than Wall Street had anticipated.

January 9, 2026

Trump says he canceled additional attacks on Venezuela, pointing to prisoner release

President Trump says he canceled a "second wave of attacks" on Venezuela because he sees progress in Caracas under the interim government.

January 9, 2026

Vance says he is heavily involved in Venezuela planning

Vice President J. D. Vance on Thursday rejected media reports that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was shut out of planning for the raid on Nicolas Maduro because of her past opposition to military intervention in Venezuela.

January 8, 2026

U.S. ready for more superpower moves in its hemisphere as plans are made for Venezuela’s oil

Oil company executives are scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss plans for stabilizing and boosting Venezuela's oil production after the ouster of President Nicholas Maduro.

January 8, 2026

Monthly trade deficit shrinks to lowest reading since 2009, Commerce Dept. says

The U.S. trade deficit with other countries fell to $29.4 billion in October, an $18.8 billion decline from September as President Trump uses tariffs to trim imports of foreign goods and bolster exports from American firms.

January 8, 2026

U.S. broke the law with oil tanker seizure, China says

China accused the U.S. of violating international law by grabbing a merchant vessel that last docked in Venezuela and was accused of dodging U.S. sanctions while flying a Russian flag.

January 8, 2026

Trump says Venezuela will buy only U.S. products with new oil money

President Trump says Venezuela will use proceeds from its U.S.-guided oil production to buy American products.

January 8, 2026

U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tankers, starts to market crude for sale

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it's marketing Venezuelan crude oil for sale and will control the flow of crude from the South American country "indefinitely" as U.S. forces seized two sanctioned tankers in Atlantic waters.

January 7, 2026