U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the CEOs of six major banks Sunday in an apparent attempt to reassure jittery financial markets coming off a turbulent week in the stock market that is now bracing for potential repercussions from a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery.
A top White House official warned Sunday that it’s “very possible” the partial government shutdown stretches into the new year and that how quickly numerous shuttered Cabinet departments and agencies resume doing the people’s business is up to Congress.
For the second year in a row, the number of pregnancies in the Trump White House press quarters defies all norms. Call it the “Trump bump” – a sign of journalist fecundity that should be the envy of fertility clinics.
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will now leave his post on Jan. 1, tweeting that deputy Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan will take over as acting secretary to cover the accelerated departure.
