President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at immediately increasing American production of critical minerals like uranium, copper, potash and gold by invoking the Defense Production Act to expand leasing and development on federal lands.

The move is intended to help the US reduce its reliance on imports from countries like China, which dominates the industry for production and processing of many of these important materials.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.

Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming into view.

The most authoritative election analyses draw on a variety of different data sources, including large sample polling, precinct-level returns, and voter file data that shows definitively who did and did not vote. And those last figures became available only recently.

President Trump was darn right to revoke the security clearance of the 51 Spies Who Lied — the former intel officials who misled the nation by falsely dismissing The Post’s 2020 scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Russian information operation.”

These officials — James Clapper, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Mike Morell and others — simply cannot be trusted with access to classified government info.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.

China is sending Vice-President Han Zheng to US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday - the first time a senior Chinese leader will witness a US president being sworn in.

Trump had invited Chinese President Xi Jinping, among other leaders - a break with tradition given foreign leaders traditionally do not attend US presidential inaugurations.

China's foreign ministry on Thursday announced that the country's vice president would attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week instead of Chinese President Xi Jinping. 

China is for the first time sending one of its highest-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials to Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, illustrating Beijing’s two-pronged strategy of outreach to the next American president while also signaling it will hit back hard and fast if relations sour.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that it is "fashionable" to be :"beating up on China" while quizzing former Rep. Lee Zeldin on how he would work with the geopolitical foe to tackle climate change.

The Donald Trump confirmation train kept rolling Thursday as senators questioned the president-elect’s picks to run the Treasury, Interior, and Housing and Urban Development departments, as well as the EPA – and heard from witnesses in Pam Bondi’s bid to become the next U.S. Attorney General.