The Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to confirm former Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the government’s leading agency on environmental rules and regulations. President Donald Trump tapped Zeldin, who previously served as a congressman from New York’s 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under his administration. During his tenure in Congress, Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, launched a...

President Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the Commerce Department, Howard Lutnick, told senators the argument that tariffs cause inflation is “nonsense” during a confirmation hearing. “The two top countries with tariffs, India and China, do have the most tariffs and no inflation,” Lutnick noted.  “A particular product’s price may go up,” he conceded, while arguing that levies would not cause broad inflation. “It is just nonsense to say...

President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a notice of appeal for his conviction in his Manhattan trial, Fox News Digital confirmed on Wednesday, which found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.   “PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that President Donald J. Trump hereby appeals to the First Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York from the judgment of conviction...