China to fast-track applications for rare-earth minerals to US, EU
A rare earth mine is in Ganxian county in central China's Jiangxi province. Photo by EPA-ESE June 7 (UPI) -- China has agreed to fast-track…
Trump lauds Musk as special adviser in farewell Oval Office appearance
May 30 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump bid multi-billionaire Elon Musk farewell from his role as a senior adviser tasked with shrinking the government through…
S. Korean candidate Kim Moon-soo backs Trump summit with Kim Jong Un: adviser
1 of 3 | Policy advisor Kim Hyung-suk said Monday that People Power Party presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo would support a summit between U.S. President…
Treasury, State Department ending Syrian sanctions to speed recovery
May 24 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's administration is lifting sanctions on war-torn Syria, with the goal of speeding recovery and reconstruction efforts in the…
Record number of Americans apply to become British citizens after Trump took office
May 24 (UPI) -- A record number of Americans applied to become British citizens during the first three months of this year after Donald Trump…
Florida Gators NCAA basketball champs visit Trump at White House
President Donald Trump (C), alongside coach Todd Golden (L), welcomes the 2025 NCAA men's college basketball champions, the University of Florida Gators, to the White…
Zelensky, Vance meet against backdrop of first papal mass
May 18 (UPI) -- Against the backdrop of Pope Leo XIV's first papal mass Sunday, Vice President JD Vance met privately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
United States, Britian to announce trade deal
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump, seen here together in Washington in February, are set to announce a trade deal between…
Federal Reserve maintains interest rate amid economic uncertainty
May 7 (UPI) -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced the lending rate would hold steady due to economic uncertainty caused by the Trump administration's…
Former Georgia Sen. David Perdue now new U.S. ambassador to China
May 7 (UPI) -- Former Sen. David Perdue, R-Georgia, is the United States' newest ambassador to China after being sworn in Wednesday afternoon at the…
After tough talk on social media, Trump radiates warmth in person for Canada’s new prime minister
WASHINGTON — President Trump welcomed Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, with a bit of menace on social media, only to then turn on the charm and…
Column: The ‘USA’ brand was 250 years in the making. It took just 100 days to trash it
Ken Griffin, one of Republicans’ billionaire donors who’d convinced themselves that President Trump wouldn’t do some things he campaigned to do, finally got it right…
Trump, Norwegian PM Store discuss ending the Ukraine War
1 of 8 | U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Jonas Gahr Store (L), Norway's prime minister, in the Oval Office of the White House…
Trump’s executive order on college accreditation process promotes competition, supporters say
April 23 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that targets the college accreditation process, including encouraging competition in the process.…
Paul Atkins sworn in as SEC chairman
April 22 (UPI) -- Paul Atkins, who was nominated by President Donald Trump in what some say was a nod to the crypto industry, was…
Trump administration checking whether Federal Reserve chairman can be fired
April 18 (UPI) -- White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Friday spoke about tariff negotiations, a budget bill and the Federal Reserve on the…
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni to meet with Trump to talk EU tariffs
April 17 (UPI) -- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was in Washington Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump to talk about the tariffs he…
AG Pam Bondi says Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘not coming back to our country’
April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the United States will not return a wrongly deported Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as…
Column: Gov. Whitmer’s party should learn from what she did in the Oval Office
Kudos to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. She managed to generate the most negatively iconic photo of a Democrat since Michael Dukakis wore a helmet atop…
Democrats will travel to El Salvador to push for release of illegally deported Maryland man
April 15 (UPI) -- Democratic lawmakers say El Salvador must return a Maryland man wrongly deported by the Trump administration or they will visit the…