Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says U.S. is working to provide $20 billion in additional financing for Argentina to help Trump ally Javier Milei before Oct. 26 midterms, bringing total aid to $40 billion.
Trump hosts dinner at the White House for wealthy donors funding his $200 million ballroom and refuses to release attendee list.
Judge blocks Miami Dade College land transfer for Trump library, ruling college violated Florida Sunshine law with insufficient notice about 2.6-acre downtown property.
Investment fund with Trump Jr. as partner sold sponsorships for conference marketed as official Treasury AI summit where Bessent would unveil policy, before Treasury approved materials.
Jersey City’s Heights University Hospital seeks $25 million in emergency state aid amid $60 million shortfall less than two years after CarePoint Health bankruptcy.
Sen. Cantwell warns Big Ten presidents that proposed $2 billion private equity partnership could jeopardize schools’ tax-exempt status and conflict with academic goals as nonprofit institutions.
New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted for bank fraud by Trump-installed prosecutor despite career prosecutor determining no probable cause for charges.
Seattle paid Civic Hotel owners $2.7 million for empty shelter rooms after rejecting cheaper alternative, with Chief Deputy Mayor saying she wanted nonprofit leader “out of the homelessness business” despite superior placement rates.
Treasury defends $1 coin featuring Trump on both sides despite 1866 law banning living people on currency to avoid monarchy appearance, removes explanatory webpage.
Bessent names Social Security head Frank Bisignano as IRS’s seventh commissioner this year and first CEO, bypassing Senate confirmation as both agencies lose up to 25% of workforce from DOGE cuts.
Navajo company bids one-tenth of a penny per ton for 167 million tons of federal coal as only bidder after Trump reverses Biden climate ban, down from $1.10 at last sale.
Trump approves 211-mile Ambler mining road through Gates of the Arctic National Park despite local opposition, reversing Biden as US government invests $35 million in Canadian company developing the district.
Treasury confirms $1 coin draft with Trump on both sides for 250th anniversary despite 1866 law barring living persons to avoid monarchy appearance.
Speaker Johnson cancels House votes through Oct. 13 to pressure Democrats on shutdown while delaying Epstein files discharge petition set to succeed once new Democrat sworn in.
Administration empties Guantánamo migrant detention site that held fewer than 700 people since February despite plans for tens of thousands, while keeping more than 600 government workers deployed there.
National Archives ousts Eisenhower Library director who refused to allow removal of federal artifact from permanent collection for Trump to gift King Charles, citing federal law prohibitions.
Trump and budget director Vought plan to determine which “Democrat Agencies” to cut during shutdown after already canceling $18 billion in infrastructure funding for New York.
Administration cuts $7.6 billion in clean energy grants affecting 223 projects exclusively in 16 states that backed Harris and whose senators voted against the GOP funding bill during the shutdown.
White House withdraws Brian Quintenz nomination to lead CFTC after crypto billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss pressed Trump to reconsider, marking end of once-certain confirmation.
Trump strips funding from council that trains and equips 14,000 federal investigators who root out government waste, fraud and misconduct, calling watchdogs ‘corrupt.’
Florida transfers $66 million college property to Trump library foundation that will house Qatar plane retrofitted by taxpayers at hundreds of millions in costs before transferring to Trump after presidency.
Trump announces Harvard deal requiring $500 million for trade schools, contradicting university leaders who said days earlier they have ‘no idea’ about talks, as White House pursues debarment proceedings.
FTC sues Zillow and Redfin over $100 million deal to eliminate rental listing competition, alleging Redfin fired hundreds of employees who were then selectively rehired by Zillow.
FBI director gifts at least five New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns that violate the country’s firearms laws and must be destroyed after safety authority finds them potentially operable.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale registers as foreign agent for Israel under $6 million deal to create pro-Israel content targeting Gen Z Americans and influence AI models like ChatGPT.
Senator Mark Kelly, who commanded Discovery on two space missions, joins effort to block shuttle’s $375 million relocation from free Smithsonian display to paid Houston museum, questioning why taxpayers should fund moving artifact already protected and accessible.
Trump threatens 100% tariff on movies made outside U.S. in vague threat targeting Newsom, despite his own Hollywood advisers’ plan calling for federal tax credits instead of tariffs.
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension, with $22 million funding White House State Ballroom construction through tax-exempt trust, the third platform to settle with Trump this year.
Trump administration opens 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, triple what law required, and slashes royalty payments companies owe from 12.5% to 7% while investing $625 million in taxpayer funds to expand the coal industry.
Trump releases 20-point Gaza peace plan and will personally chair international board overseeing Gaza’s governance, promising Israel full U.S. backing to finish the war if Hamas rejects it.
Trump’s 18-year-old granddaughter launches clothing brand using White House as photo backdrop two days after riding Marine One to golf tournament.
Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs chief Lisa Monaco after Laura Loomer alerts him to her Biden administration role.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem fast-tracks $11 million for Florida tourist pier after campaign donor intervenes, then dines with him.
Abu Dhabi royal fund and ByteDance will hold over one-third of TikTok US despite Trump’s claim of “American control.”
Trump demands up to 10% stake in Nevada lithium mine for renegotiating $2.26 billion loan while opposing automakers’ EV transition.
The Justice Dept. appears poised to charge James Comey with lying to Congress just days after Trump installed his former personal lawyer as the new prosecutor.
A Justice Dept. official suggested a criminal probe into the FBI agent who sued Alex Jones just three days after the official was photographed with Jones.
Trump installs his personal lawyer with no prosecutorial experience as U.S. attorney after firing the prosecutor who refused to charge James Comey and Letitia James.
Trump pledges the Presidential Medal of Freedom to political loyalist Ben Carson, his third such promise to an ally in September.
Trump taps his legal adversary Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell for the U.S. investor group buying TikTok after freezing a congressionally mandated sale.
Trump publicly demanded Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute his rivals one day after firing the federal prosecutor who declined to charge Letitia James.
The Trump Justice Dept. closed a corruption case against border czar Tom Homan one year after FBI agents allegedly recorded him accepting $50,000 in cash.
Trump nominated a former personal lawyer to run the Virginia prosecutor’s office one day after firing the U.S. Attorney who declined to charge Letitia James.
The Trump administration plans to collect a multibillion-dollar fee from US investors as its price for approving the TikTok takeover.
Trump uses an executive order to shift federal public school funds to private vouchers, sidestepping congressional authority.
Following months of public pressure on the Fed, the Trump administration appeals a block on its firing of Governor Lisa Cook for alleged fraud.
Trump says he is increasing the size of the new $200 million White House ballroom by nearly 40 percent.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directs federal funds to a no-bid contract to research the disproven link between vaccines and autism.
Nearly 300 South Korean workers arrested in a raid at a Georgia battery plant rejected Trump’s offer to let them stay and train Americans.
A reopened Tennessee prison run by CoreCivic has begun housing ICE detainees after the Town of Mason approved a deal worth over $500,000 annually.
