U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, on Wednesday met with Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa to discuss opening U.S. military bases in the ports of Manta and Salinas.

Critics are questioning whether it’s appropriate for the interior secretary to be traveling abroad at taxpayer expense when the federal government is shut down.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A new White House rule issued Friday restricts the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other top communications officials in the West Wing, near the Oval Office.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which impacts roughly 42 million Americans, could resume as soon as Wednesday.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he plans to take a “ringside seat” at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Energy Secretary Christopher Wright clarifies U.S. nuclear testing plans, confirming no explosive detonations but systems testing of weapons components instead.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will be in Fort Wayne next week to headline a summit hosted by Sen. Jim Banks.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reportedly killed more than 450 people in a hospital and carried out ethnically targeted killings of civilians while seizing el-Fasher last week.