The president is investing in the midterms, eliminating potentially bloody primary battles and promising to help the GOP stay in power.

That’s the case when gauging China’s evolving view of President Donald Trump’s second term. Beijing sees Trump’s disruptive actions — his gutting of institutions of U.S. soft power, his launching of trade wars against adversaries and allies alike,

The Trump administration has heard competing proposals that would significantly alter longstanding U.S. policy toward Myanmar, with the aim of diverting its vast supplies of rare earth minerals away from strategic rival China,

"We need to do some serious rethinking," a visibly frustrated Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a group of hostage families on Friday after the latest round of Gaza talks broke down, two people who attended the meeting tell Axios.

A federal judge on Monday denied a request by a Donald Trump ally to force the Federal Reserve committee responsible for directing US monetary policy to make its meetings publicly accessible and accused an investment firm of wasting the court’s time.

Trump Media and Technology Group will take up a strategy of trading options for BTC-related assets, without specifying the type of asset.

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Social media users mocked Mullin for suggesting he is trying to give “cover” to Trump over the Epstein files. This comes just one day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump in May that he was included in the Epstein files.

James Lewis of CSIS says the U.S.-China AI competition should be approached differently, and that in order for the U.S. stay ahead in the technology, they should be allowed to sell to China.

Trump Media, which owns the Truth Social app, announced in May that it planned to raise $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin, with the goal of creating a reserve of the cryptocurrency. The $2 billion bitcoin purchase is part of the company's "bitcoin treasury plan," Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes said in a news release on Monday.