Bessent spoke at the House Appropriations subcommittee about the latest tariff negotiations and claimed the U.S. was in negotiations with 17 trade partners. However, he noted that one major trade partner has not spoken to the U.S. yet.

Shara capped a remarkable turnabout for the leader of the rebel uprising that ousted Bashar al-Assad. Mr. Trump has said he would lift U.S. sanctions on Syria. President Trump met on Wednesday with the new president of Syria,

Republicans in the U.S. Congress advanced elements of President Donald Trump's sweeping budget package on Wednesday after a debate that lasted through the night, as a key committee voted along party lines to approve tax cuts that would add trillions of dollars to the U.