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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin admitted under questioning from Representative Ayanna Pressley on Wednesday that a redesigned $20 bill featuring abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will not be unveiled next year, pushing off a change initiated by his predecessor in the Obama administration. During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Mnuchin said the redesign would not be finalized until “way past my term,” in 2026. Mnuchin said he was focused on improving the currency to prevent counterfeiting. “We will meet the security feature redesign in 2020, th

MORE became the first foreign leader to meet with Japan's new emperor at a ceremony in Tokyo on Monday morning.  Trump met Emperor Naruhito at a ceremony full of pageantry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

MORE’s escalating trade war with China is threatening to wash away the positive economic effects from his signature tax cuts, which could endanger his reelection prospects. Trump has regularly pointed to the booming economy as a central reason he believes he will be reelected and credits the tax cuts with boosting output and bringing down unemployment. But economists say that his latest tariffs are all but canceling out the effects of the tax cuts for all but the wealthiest American families.

MORE on Monday morning said he “personally thinks lots of good things will come from North Korea” following a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “I personally think lots of good things will come with North Korea. I may be right. I may be wrong,” Trump told reporters after he and Abe spoke for about 17 minutes with translators in Tokyo. “There’s good respect built between the U.S. and North Korea.

MORE on Monday sounded an optimistic note about future negotiations with Iran, saying at a press conference in Japan that he's not looking for regime change despite increasing tensions between the two countries. "I’m not looking to hurt Iran at all. I’m looking to have Iran say, ‘no nuclear weapons,'" Trump said during a press conference in Japan. The president, who as recently as last weekend threatened that war would be "the official end of Iran," appeared far more welcoming to sitting down with the country's leaders.

In a tweet sent Sunday evening, Biden shared a clip of a campaign speech with the caption: "Everybody knows who Donald Trump is, we have to let them know who we are. We choose hope over fear. Truth over lies. And unity over division." Trump is the first U.S.

At an ACLU town hall event at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) School of Law on Thursday evening, a questioner named Amy/Alex said “they” were a “gender-queer-trans person” whose gender “lies between male and female” and who uses “they/them pronouns.” When asked about two New Hampshire bills that would allow for a gender “X” marker on birth records and whether he would support the third gender marker on passports, Well said he “absolutely” would before discussing his past leadership on various LGBT issues. “So yes, and hell yes,” Weld said. New Hampshire could soon allow “people who don’t

“I celebrate that America has always been a melting pot,” Weld reportedly said this week at an Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate event on the 2020 election.

Stern told CNN host Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired in full on Friday evening that psychotherapy has helped him and Trump would “flourish” if he gave it a try. “From what I know of Donald and his relationship with his father, it sounds traumatic. It sounds like the father was very domineering. The father expected a lot of him. And the father, I don’t know, there was military school. You know, you read these drips and drabs and you go wow,” Stern said. “I can assure you he’s been traumatized because, you know, Donald, you know, his level of narcissism is so strong.

Germany’s government commissioner on antisemitism, Felix Klein, said in an interview published Saturday he “cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany,” due to the rise in anti-Jewish attacks and sentiment. Rivlin said Klein’s remarks “shocked” him, and while appreciating the German government’s “commitment to the Jewish community,” accused it of bowing to those