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Trump says he told the U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies because each costs more than 2 cents to make

The U.S. Mint reported losing $85.3 million in the 2024 fiscal year that ended in September on the nearly 3.2 billion pennies it produced.

10.02.2025 20

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump’s agenda faces legal pushback

"Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vance wrote on X on Sunday morning.

10.02.2025 10

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump, the ‘America First’ candidate who pledged no new wars, now is looking into imperialism: ‘This is maximum Trump’

Trump's swaggering rhetoric marks a continuation of the kind of testosterone-heavy energy that was a signature of his campaign.

09.01.2025 10

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump says Jan. 6 pardons could start in the ‘first 9 minutes’ and plans a ‘virtual closure’ of the Education Department

Those are some of the highlights from the president-elect's 65-minute interview with Time magazine.

13.12.2024 30

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump trading Mar-a-Lago for Paris this weekend with a VIP pew at Notre Dame’s grand reopening

This marks President-elect Donald Trump's first foreign trip since winning re-election in November.

03.12.2024 6

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Who is Matt Whitaker? Former football player with a controversial past and now Trump’s NATO pick

Whitaker has faced questions about his past business dealings, including his ties to an invention-promotion company that was accused of misleading...

20.11.2024 2

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump expected to tap RFK Jr. to lead Health and Human Services, despite his history of skepticism toward vaccines and medicine

HHS houses the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the National...

15.11.2024 10

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump says he doesn’t mind reporters being shot and regrets leaving White House after 2020 loss

"I have this piece of glass here. but all we have really over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake...

04.11.2024 20

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Puerto Rico labelled a ‘floating island of garbage’ at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally as campaign enters final stretch

The normally pugnacious Trump campaign took the rare step of distancing itself from the words, but other speakers also made incendiary comments....

28.10.2024 100

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump calls Harris ‘lazy as hell’ for not holding event after more than 14 straight days of campaign travel

Trump's comments ignored that Harris spent her day in meetings in Washington and recording interviews with Telemundo and NBC.

23.10.2024 8

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Donald Trump is safe after shots were reported in his vicinity in Florida

The U.S. Secret Service said it was investigating and that the incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m.

15.09.2024 3

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump tells business leaders that increasing tariffs on foreign imports will help solve rising child care costs

In June, the right-leaning Tax Foundation estimated that Trump’s proposed tariffs would amount to a $524 billion yearly tax hike that would shrink...

06.09.2024 10

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Kamala Harris’ magic number for revamping the corporate tax rate is nearly double what Trump is proposing

Harris is focused on making it easier to start a small business in America.

05.09.2024 30

Fortune

Jill Colvin

JD Vance says Trump would veto a national abortion ban

“Donald Trump’s view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these...

26.08.2024 10

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Trump openly criticizes Harris, says he is ‘entitled to personal attacks’ on his campaign opponent

Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of weaponizing the justice system against him. As vice president, Harris has no direct control over DOJ or its...

16.08.2024 4

Fortune

Jill Colvin

Did Trump pick Vance? Rubio and Burgum are told it’s not them, AP sources say

15.07.2024 1

The Buffalo News

Jill Colvin

Trump shooting is being investigated as assassination attempt; FBI not ready to release dead gunman’s identity yet

Trump's campaign said in a statement that the former president was “fine” after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.

14.07.2024 10

Fortune

Jill Colvin