Mr. Trump has also taken aim at Powell's handling of a Federal Reserve office renovation project.

President Donald Trump ’s critics on Wednesday were stunned after he appeared to forget who appointed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

“He’s a terrible fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him. But they did,” Trump said.

By David Shepardson and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday vowed to fight an "illegal" move by President Donald Trump's administration to cancel $4 billion in federal grants for the state's ambitious but much-delayed high-speed rail project.

The Trump administration revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project on Wednesday, intensifying uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of build...

“This is California’s fault. Governor [Gavin] Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled this waste for years,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a prepared statement.

The Senate passed a bill overnight that would make $9 billion in cuts to previously approved funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

President Donald Trump was recently diagnosed with a common vein condition called chronic venous insufficiency.

Chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, happens when veins in the legs can’t properly carry blood back to the heart.

Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as “depraved monsters” had been sent to its prisons.

Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program are in prison, where they will be held in solitar...

Nigeria’s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar said last week that Washington had put “considerable pressure” on several countries, including Nigeria, to accept deportees but that Nigeria already had 230mn ...