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

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard provided documents to the Justice Department seeking a criminal investigation into Obama officials stemming from their assessment of Russia’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 ...

"The White House just announced that Trump only has four days left," one narrator said in a July 19 TikTok. "Trump’s cancer is getting worse — people are posting these pictures of his ankles. Swollen ...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer shared a chart July 17 on X showing lower- and middle-income Americans gaining the most from the new law’s tax provisions.

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 ...

California tends to pay more in individual and corporate federal taxes than Texas does, because of its larger population and higher incomes. Newsom’s specific numbers come from 2022, the most recent ...

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As a candidate, Trump promised to lift taxes on overtime. The new law allows workers to deduct up to $12,500 in overtime compensation (for single filers) or $25,000 (for joint filers). This deduction ...

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the ...

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 ...