Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, known as "El Tigre," publicly thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday after winning the first round of the country's presidential election with nearly 44 percent of the vote.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected claims Wednesday that President Donald Trump made Iran war decisions based on personal financial interests, calling the Democratic allegation "completely false" during a contentious House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.
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.
