Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has played a balancing act trying to reassure nervous investors that the U.S. would maintain its global leadership role, while staying true to the Trump administration’s skepticism of multilateral banking organizations.

The Trump Administration has canceled a $12 million federal grant aimed at helping Richmond upgrade its aging water treatment.

The recent withdrawal of funds from the Department of Energy by the Trump administration could impact projects across southwestern Virginia.

Virginia Tech is home to over 30,000 people. To get the opinions of the people on campus, I set up two chairs, placed a microphone down, and invited people to talk and share their thoughts.

A temporary federal funding freeze, initiated by the Trump administration, went into effect at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

Governor Glenn Youngkin is ruling out going to Washington in a Trump Administration.

A businessman who once pitched himself as someone who could expose corruption in the Trump Administration over its dealings in Ukraine is facing trial in New York City.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee will hold a hybrid hearing on "The Capitol Insurrection: Unexplained Delays and Unanswered Questions.”

He is now 50 days into his presidency. Dr. Karen Hult, a long-time political science professor at Virginia Tech, weighed in on Biden’s first 50 days. “Certainly this will be seen as a key move by the Biden Administration. There are still bumps in the road, but clearly, this is a step forward for the Biden Administration,” commented Dr. Hult. On the same day, Biden marked 50 days in office, Congress passed his massive trillion-dollar COVID-19 relief package.

Maloney wrote that the Commerce Department — which oversees the Census Bureau — missed a Nov. 24 deadline to give the documents to the committee. Maloney threatened a subpoena if “a full and unredacted set” of the requested documents are not given to the committee by Dec. 9. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Census Bureau switched its deadline for wrapping up the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from the end of July to the end of October. The Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule of two and a half months for processing the data collected during the 2020 census — about half the time originally planned. The bureau has not officially said what the anomalies were or publicly stated if there would be a new deadline for the apportionment numbers.

NEW YORK – Chinese-owned TikTok asked a judge to block the Trump Administration's attempt to ban its app, suggesting the video-sharing app's forced deal with Oracle and Walmart remains unsettled. An app-store ban of TikTok, delayed once by the government, is set to go into effect Sunday. President Donald Trump set this process in motion with executive orders in August that declared TikTok and another Chinese app threats to U.S. national security. But he also said he could retract his approval if Oracle doesn't “have total control.”The two sides in the TikTok deal appear at odds over the corporate structure of TikTok Global. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, said Monday that it will still own 80% of the U.S. entity after a financing round.

ROANOKE, Va – Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is demanding more answers from the Trump Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about COVID-19 cases at the Farmville Detention Center. Kaine referenced a new report from the Washington Post that claims the administration transferred detainees from COVID-19 hot spots in Florida and Arizona to the center in Virginia. “This is outrageous. It demonstrates this area of immigration the Trump administration often operates at the apex of cruelty of incompetence and violation of the law,” said Kaine. He also encouraged Virginians to get ready to take part in early voting which starts this Friday.

NEW YORK Video app TikTok said it will wage a legal fight against the Trump Administration's efforts to ban the popular, Chinese-owned service over national-security concerns. TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, insisted Monday that it is not a national-security threat and that the government is acting without evidence or due process. President Donald Trump has issued two executive orders in August, first a sweeping but unspecified ban on anytransaction with ByteDance, to take effect within 45 days. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have shared concerns about TikTok that ranged from its vulnerability to censorship and misinformation campaigns to the safety of user data and childrens privacy. But the administration has provided no specific evidence that TikTok has made U.S. users data available to the Chinese government.

Altria's big investment in Juul isn't looking so hot now amid growing concerns about health risks tied to vaping and a broad regulatory crackdown on e-cigarettes. But the tobacco giant is unlikely to give up on Juul anytime soon. (CNN) - Leading e-cigarette company Juul Labs will stop selling several flavored products in the United States, the company announced Thursday. This latest move comes after the Trump Administration announced the US Food and Drug Administration would issue guidance that would remove flavors from the market. It also comes amid efforts to ban the sale of flavored products in some states.

"Americans are weary of war, and have no interest in entering another Middle East conflict, particularly on behalf of Saudi Arabia," Pelosi argued. Saudi Arabia is a sovereign nation perfectly capable of defending their own sovereignty." Now, he insists on sending young Americans to Saudi Arabia and the UAE," Amash tweeted. Pelosi noted that both chambers voted to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE earlier this summer. In July, Trump vetoed three joint resolutions prohibiting arms sales to the two countries.

CNNThe Trump Administration has received a rare legal win its efforts to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, The Associated Press reported Friday. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 decision. The opinion overturns a nationwide injunction issued by a Los Angeles federal judge, the AP reports. The city had sued after it didnt win a grant when it had failed to certify its cooperation in 2017, the wire service said. Federal courts have blocked other Trump administration efforts to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities, the AP said.