China’s Iran ties complicate Trump-Xi summit as tensions test US leverage

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said Tuesday he expects to have a “long talk” with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Iran this week, an issue now looming over a summit that was originally expected to focus heavily on trade, technology and Taiwan. “It was a fantastic day,” Trump said … Read more

Some state officials say shifting mail ballot deadline will complicate plans for November elections

As he left the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices had just heard arguments Monday over whether to prevent states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar texted his staff 3,000 miles away. His directive: Get ready to plan how to run November’s midterm elections … Read more

Iran war threatens Trump’s affordability push as rising energy prices complicate Fed rate cuts

The war with Iran is quickly becoming an economic problem for the United States — and a policy dilemma for the Federal Reserve. Rising oil prices, shipping disruptions in the Middle East and fresh signs of weakness in the U.S. labor market are creating a complicated backdrop just as inflation had begun to show some … Read more