House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that Republicans are pressing ahead with a third budget reconciliation bill focused on combating fraud and reducing the cost of living, even as their second package was still working through the Senate.
Federal prosecutors arrested a Southern California technology executive Wednesday on charges he spent more than a decade smuggling U.S.-origin computer networking and encryption equipment to Iran's nuclear and military programs, laundering more than $15 million in the process.
The Southern Poverty Law Center used $4.1 million in tax-exempt donor funds to pay Ku Klux Klan members to remain inside the hate group, reimbursing them for cross-burning materials and KKK robes and hoods, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday in a superseding federal indictment.
The Trump administration announced that it is directing billions of dollars toward programs seeking to address homelessness by emphasizing recovery and self-sufficiency.
The Trump administration unveiled proposed tariffs of at least 10% on 60 countries Tuesday night, invoking a 1974 trade law to rebuild the president's tariff framework months after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier duties.
