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Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Friday, May 23, 2025. Bessent said that US regulators this summer may ease a rule that’s served as a constraint on banks’ trading in the $29 trillion Treasuries market. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bessent says U.S.-China talks ‘stalled,’ pushes for Trump-Xi call

By Daniel Flatley and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 06: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the House Appropriations Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. Bessent testified during an oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of the Treasury. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Bessent says debt limit measures could run out in August

By Daniel Flatley, Gregory Korte, and others

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2024. Republican former president Donald Trump closed in on a new term in the White House early November 6, 2024, just needing a handful of electoral votes to defeat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

How Trump could put his campaign promises on tariffs into action

By Daniel Flatley, Eric Martin, and others

Foreign visitors are visiting Huawei’s stand at the 2024 Mobile World Congress (MWC Shanghai) in Shanghai, China, on June 26, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Even the Pentagon can’t completely freeze Huawei out of its operations

By Daniel Flatley and Bloomberg

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A TikTok ban? Joe Biden just endorsed a bill that could kick the Chinese app out of the U.S.

By Jenny Leonard, Anna Edgerton, and others

Biden and Xi

What decoupling? China and U.S. trade in 2022 was record-breaking.

By Daniel Flatley and Bloomberg

LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 19: Tom Cruise (C) attends the Royal Performance of “Top Gun: Maverick” at Leicester Square on May 19, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ studio paid U.S. Navy more than $11,000 an hour for fighter jet rides—but Tom Cruise wasn’t allowed to touch the controls

By Daniel Flatley and Bloomberg

Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) speaks to the press in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 3, 2022 the Russian leadership was responsible for civilian killings in Bucha, outside Kyiv, where bodies were found lying in the street after the town was retaken by the Ukrainian army. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. won’t let Russia pay its debt at American banks, forcing Moscow to default or drain money from its war machine

By Daniel Flatley, Giulia Morpurgo, and others

Four fighter jets fly in the sky.

U.S. working on 3-way plane swap to supply Ukraine with Russian-made fighter jets

By Jennifer Jacobs, Daniel Flatley, and others

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on at a press conference for selected media at his official residence the Maryinsky Palace on March 3,2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukrainian president asks U.S. for no-fly zone in first address to Congress over Zoom

By Daniel Flatley, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

A visitor walks past logos of the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games during the Beijing Olympic Expo marking the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Olympic Games, in Beijing on August 8, 2018. (Photo by WANG ZHAO / AFP) (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)

Two U.S. lawmakers are proposing a ban on companies who back the Beijing Winter Olympics

By Daniel Flatley and Bloomberg

UNITED STATES – April 20: Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks during a news conference following a House Republican caucus meeting in Washington on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

House GOP leader: Republicans are questioning Liz Cheney’s leadership over Trump criticism

By Daniel Flatley and Bloomberg

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – JANUARY 20: Outgoing US President Donald Trump waves to supporters lined along on the route to his Mar-a-Lago estate on January 20, 2021 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump, the first president in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration, is expected to spend the final minutes of his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Conviction of Trump unlikely after most Republicans vote against holding impeachment trial

By Laura Litvan, Steven T. Dennis, and others

Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, wears a protective mask in an elevator at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Congress faces a rapidly approaching deadline to pass a new round of funding for the U.S. government, with dimming odds both of confirming Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve Board and hashing out another coronavirus relief package. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

11 GOP senators—led by Ted Cruz—will vote to reject Biden’s victory

By Josh Wingrove, Daniel Flatley, and others

Dow Jones Industrial Average Passes 30,000 For The First Time

Bill that could delist Chinese companies from U.S. exchanges is one step closer to becoming law

By Daniel Flatley, Ben Bain, and others