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Donald Trump will not seek to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before the central banker’s term ends and would consider JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary if he won the Nov. 5 election, the former president told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday. JPMorgan declined to comment on Trump’s remarks. Powell’s term as chairman runs through Januray 2026, and his position as a Fed governor continues until 2028. The interview was conducted in late June, according to Bloomberg. Trump said the Federal Reserve should abstain from cutting rates before the November elections in which the Republican presidential...

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President Biden was raked over the coals by a group of center-left House Democrats on Saturday in what sources said was a "tense" – even "awful" – meeting aimed at stemming defections on Capitol Hill. Why it matters: Biden got particularly animated towards a question from Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) about slipping public confidence in his leadership as commander-in-chief, according to several members in the meeting. "That was a complete disaster. We saw the same Joe Biden from the debate," said one House Democrat on the call. "It was awful," said another lawmaker. A third told Axios: "Members were not...

WASHINGTON — In his short time in the U.S. Senate, J.D. Vance, the newly tapped Republican vice presidential nominee, has been a hawk on China. He has introduced legislation to restrict Chinese access to U.S. financial markets and to protect U.S. higher education from Chinese influence. In an interview with Fox News shortly after being named as former President Donald Trump’s running mate on Monday, Vance called China “the biggest threat” to the United States. When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, Vance said Trump would negotiate with Moscow and Kyiv to “bring this thing to a rapid close so...

Donald Trump’s decision to pick JD Vance as his running mate is a clear sign that the former president is determined to re-harness the populist and working-class energy that propelled his first campaign in 2016. The immediate task is to present that agenda in a winsome way to the country. In crucial ways, Vance has already demonstrated that he’s up to it, and it helps that the other side is in disarray following Joe Biden’s precipitous decline. Should the Trump-Vance 2024 ticket win – and polls indicate they will – the deeper challenge will be preserving that energy in office...

Has anyone heard that ABC is signing Tucker Carlson to replace Jimmy Kimmell?

President Biden, during his latest rambling, incoherent, bad-tempered and often excruciatingly awkward TV interview, was very clear about one thing regarding Donald Trump’s shooting: Don’t blame me, pal! In fact, he looked indignant that the interviewer, NBC’s Lester Holt, would even suggest such a terrible thing. It was extraordinarily insightful to watch Biden working so hard to deflect any attention to his own culpability in raising the political temperature to such scarily dangerous levels that someone would try to assassinate his rival four months before the election. When asked for his first reaction to the shooting, Biden instantly went on...

After police officers assisting with security at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee responded to a reported fight roughly one mile from the main RNC venue, ultimately shooting and killing a suspect who drew a knife, additional security incidents more directly impacting the convention were reported that raised concerns about what, exactly, is going on at the margins of the convention's secure perimeter. On Tuesday evening, Fox News Channel's Bill Melugin reported that authorities tasked with monitoring the secure perimeter around several blocks of the downtown area "stopped a suspicious man wearing a ski mask" a few blocks away from...

MILWAUKEE — President Biden once told Black voters that if they supported Donald Trump, then they “ain’t Black.” Rep. John James turned that joke on its head this week from the stage at the Republican National Convention: “I heard a little earlier today, ‘If you don’t vote for Donald Trump, you ain’t Black,’” the lawmaker from Michigan said as he flashed a smile to the crowd.Mr. James is one of a historic number of Black Americans making the argument at the convention that Mr. Trump has broken Democrats’ decadeslong lock on the Black vote.From the stage Monday, the first night...

CNN contributor and former Biden White House communications director Kate Bedingfield firmly planted her foot in her mouth Monday when she urged Democrats to “turn their fire” on former President Donald Trump — less than 72 hours after he was nearly felled by an assassin’s bullet. “[Biden] has said many, many times after having been questioned many times about this that he’s not stepping down and that he’s going to be the nominee. So at some point, Democrats have to decide that they want to try to win this election and turn their fire on Donald Trump,” Bedingfield said. Her...

Two drones targeting the US Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq. Iraqi sources say there were no casualties... Massive rains and heavy flooding in Toronto today... Elon Musk moving corporate headquarters of his "X" and "Space X" ventures to Texas to protest... 14 US, French and British warplanes violated Syrian airspace in the past day... In Congo a militia attack killing at least 72 people... A story leaked out of Washington D.C. claiming security around Donald Trump was heightened... Democrat US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey convicted by a federal jury of numerous charges... In Israel three thousand draft...

GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz confronted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the RNC Convention in Milwaukee on Tuesday. “What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz shouted at McCarthy as someone pulled the Florida lawmaker back. McCarthy ignored Gaetz so he came back and taunted him one more time. “If you took that stage you would booed off of it. You’d get booed off the stage!” Gaetz said to McCarthy. McCarthy refused to engage as Matt Gaetz pulled back. WATCH:

Donald J. Trump didn’t have to run for president in 2015, or in 2020, or in 2024. He had a magnificent life. Why subject himself to the barbs and arrows of a political class and their media allies well-versed in the politics of personal destruction?Only one reason: because he loved his country to the extent he was willing to sacrifice his wealth, livelihood and even his life to serve it.Donald Trump is the only president to have left the White House poorer than when he took office.I believe God himself protected Donald Trump on Saturday. Just a few millimeters in...

Investigators are probing the cause of a damaged offshore wind turbine blade that sent debris washing ashore at Nantucket Beach and shut down swimming in the area.

CHICAGO — Officials from the National Weather Service (NWS) have confirmed that five tornadoes touched down in Chicagoland, including one in the City of Chicago, as a round of intense evening storms swept through the region on Monday. Officials from the Chicago NWS said in a post on X on Tuesday afternoon that three EF-1 tornadoes and two EF-0 tornadoes touched down across parts of Chicagoland. Officials said one of those tornados, an EF-1, hit the ground on the near West Side of Chicago to the far western portions of the Loop.

In the wake of the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a joint intelligence bulletin. .... Snip.... The bulletin was first shared by Catherine Herridge on X. She wrote: NEW: Sources confirm “JOINT FBI/DHS INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN” TITLE: “Assassination Attempt on Former US President Donald J. Trump” TOP LINE: Bulletin says attempted assassination “reinforces our assessment that election-related targets are under a heightened threat of attack or other types of disruptive incidents.” CONTEXT: But near catastrophic lapses suggest the security posture did not reflect this...

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 has learned from multiple sources that Thomas Crooks was spotted at the rally, photographed as suspicious and officers were actively looking for him when he made his way onto the roof and fired at former President Donald Trump. Sources say the Secret Service was aware something was wrong, and the snipers were in position, but the pitch of the roof Crooks was on prevented them from seeing the 20-year-old until he moved to the peak and fired his weapon

MILWAUKEE — President Biden could secure the Democratic nomination for a potential second term as early as this month thanks to electronic voting by delegates, The Post has learned — a move seen by critics as trying to shove him through the process. Electronic delegate voting had been discussed before the embattled 81-year-old president’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump on June 27. But details about the timeline are only taking shape now, and the perception among some party stalwarts is that his camp wants to hurry things along — while critics try to slam the brakes on the process...

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