Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the U.S. credit downgrade as a "lagging indicator" of economic and fiscal conditions, after Moody's took the U.S. off its top tier.

Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary at the White House, held a special briefing to mark ‘take your child to work day’ on Tuesday. She was overloaded with questions from the child reporters whose parents are official staff and journalists.

Among the many White House press secretaries in history, a few went on to make names for themselves outside of the president's shadow. From Fox News' Dana Perino to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to gun safety activist Jim Brady,

Pope Leo XIV met with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio a day after formally taking his role as leader of the Catholic church.