WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration has nominated Harry Kumar as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, the White House announced while sending up a trove of names to Congress. Kumar currently ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Iowa Board of Regents member David Barker, recently reconfirmed to serve another term ...

He has been nominated to be Assistant U.S. Secretary of Postsecondary Education. The post had been held since 2022 by Nasser Paydar, the former chancellor of Indiana University, but in April ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a gathering of power brokers in Beverly Hills that President Trump’s controversial trade policies should be viewed as one leg of a three-pronged vision ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is making his pitch to nervous international investors. "We have uprooted government waste and harmful regulations. We have planted the ...

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) [left] questioned US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent [right] during a Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing on "Oversight Hearing of the US ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Rhode Island native nominated by President Donald Trump to be an assistant secretary of defense is one vote away from being confirmed. Michael Cadenazzi was ...

In other news Wednesday, Jack Lew, nominee for Treasury Secretary, defended his time as CEO of Citigroup, during which he invested in a Citi fund registered in the Cayman Islands. Also ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as early as August without congressional action, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Friday. He is calling on Congress ...