Joseph Konig

2 months ago | spectrumnews1.com | Maddie Gannon |Joseph Konig

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled his long-pledged and highly anticipated sweeping new tariffs on nations across the globe, establishing a 10% baseline on nearly all imports while upping the rate to impose higher individual rates on dozens of countries with which the U.S. has a deficit on trade, including key allies like the European Union and geopolitical rivals like China.

2 months ago | baynews9.com | Joseph Konig

WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance debated the merits of U.S. airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels with the country’s top national security officials, questioning President Donald Trump’s judgment ahead of the deadly bombings that ultimately were carried out.

2 months ago | spectrumnews1.com | Joseph Konig |Cassandra Semyon

WASHINGTON — Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., told reporters Tuesday that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer should “of course” remain in his role after she criticized her Senate colleagues last week for conceding the fight on the Republican spending bill. Pelosi also said her successor, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, is the leader the party needs headed into next year’s midterm elections. She encouraged him to take a page out of the playbooks of fellow New York Rep.

2 months ago | spectrumlocalnews.com | Joseph Konig

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and other senior national security and White House officials earlier this month planned bombings on Houthi rebels in Yemen in a text message group chat on the app Signal that accidentally included The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, according to the longtime foreign policy reporter.

2 months ago | spectrumnews1.com | Joseph Konig

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump continues to institute a massive restructuring of the federal government, two of the top Republicans in Congress overseeing the Pentagon said in a public statement they were “very concerned” by reports that the U.S. may no longer appoint a general to serve as NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe, consolidate some of the military’s 11 combatant commands and cancel an expansion of U.S. operations in Japan.