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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump will be “talking about all of the great economic news,” including mortgage rates falling below 6%.

The House Oversight Committee said it will seek to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after he failed to appear for a deposition in its Jeffrey Epstein probe.

President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom

Trump repeated his call for lower rates after the investigation became public. “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell should cut interest rates, MEANINGFULLY!!!” Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday. The probe appears to center on Powell’s testimony to Congress last year about a multi-billion-dollar office renovation project.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will hold a news conference Friday, a day after she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House. The news conference is expected to begin at 11 a.m. EST. Watch live in the player above.

Donald Trump dashed the hopes of the hot favorite to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to his face on live television. Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council,

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