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James B. McWhorter covers the intersection of politics, and financial policy, with a focus on how global and regional developments shape markets and everyday life.
On Friday, October 24, 2025, day 24 of the government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., talks with reporters outside the closed House chamber at the Capitol in Washington.
2025, in Washington, President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the McDonald's Impact Summit.
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former devoted follower of President Donald Trump who is now a critic, said on Friday that she will be leaving Congress in January.
On Friday, October 24, 2025, day 24 of the government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., talks with reporters outside the closed House chamber at the Capitol in Washington.
2025, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms talks during a campaign stop in Columbus, Georgia, as part of her Democratic campaign for governor in 2026.
After killing Ta'Kiya Young in a grocery store parking lot, an Ohio police officer was cleared of all charges. The Black mother, who was pregnant, was charged with shoplifting.
President Trump has signed legislation mandating that the Justice Department release the Jeffrey Epstein files. However, some survivors are concerned about the sudden shift in politics and the potential for manipulation.
The logo of the Jefferies Financial Group in New York is displayed in this file photo from May 23, 2019.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said there were “strongly differing views about how to proceed in December” at the next policy meeting and a further reduction in the benchmark rate is not “a foregone conclusion.”
At dawn on June 25, 2025, the cooling towers at Constellation's nuclear power station on Three Mile Island, known as the Crane Clean Energy Center, close to Middletown, Pennsylvania, are reflected in the Susquehanna River.
On Thursday, August 14, 2025, clouds cover the Walmart store in Manchester, New Hampshire.
