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The White House is gambling that other countries will also suffer enough pain that they will open up their economies to more American exports, leading to negotiations that would reduce the tariffs imposed Wednesday.

The people say Loomer made her case for the firings in an Oval Office meeting attended by Trump and other top officials.

The initial steps taking by Andrea Lucas, acting chief of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, have earned her backing from the Trump administration.

Adams' criminal case was dismissed Wednesday. He said in a video Thursday he will not run in the Democratic primary in June because the case "dragged on too long" while the "false accusations were held over me."

The Trump administration's sweeping tariffs have touched rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic, tiny tropical islands and a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was targeted.

The measured responses from key trading partners highlighted a lack of appetite for an outright trade war.

Financial markets around the world are reeling following President Donald Trump's latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it.

A trio of off-cycle election results show the president and his party losing political ground, even as they won two of the three races. Political correspondent Lisa Desjardins has a look at the message sent by voters in Wisconsin and Florida.

Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

Just hours after Trump announced his plan for import taxes on a slew of international trading partners -- his so-called "Liberation Day" -- the Senate was expected to vote on a resolution that offers Republicans an off-ramp to the import taxes on ...