Day: February 3, 2025

President Trump made Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a ‘special government employee’ at the White House. Here’s what that means.

CBS sports broadcaster and University of Houston alumnus Jim Nantz is the new owner of a car formerly driven by the world’s top golfer, Scottie Scheffler, after winning it at an auction for a Corpus Christi-based charity. Nantz, who paid $50,000 for the 2012 GMC Yukon XL, received the car last week at his home in California, according to Golfweek. Nantz first placed the $50,000 bid on the car at a charity event for the Triumph Over Kid Cancer…

Stocks cut their initial losses on Monday, but investors are still worried about the aggressive trade policy from the White House.

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced Monday he will place a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s nominees to the State Department until the president backs off his effort to shut down USAID, the nation’s chief foreign assistance agency. “Until and unless this brazenly authoritarian action is…

Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the U.S. Agency for International Development provides billions in humanitarian assistance overseas.

The Mexican president announced she and President Donald Trump reached a deal to pause tariffs for a month.

Critics sound the alarm after Musk and DOGE allies ‘given access’ to internal Treasury payment system

AMMAN — Under Royal directives, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maj. Gen. Yousef Huneiti ordered the medical evacuation of Gazan child Habibatullah Mahmoud Abdulnasser to Jordan for urgent treatment. Upon her arrival in Jordan, the child was transported via helicopter to Queen Rania Children’s Hospital at King Hussein Medical Centre, where a specialized medical team will assess her condition and provide the necessary treatment, according…