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Good morning. President Donald Trump’s Middle East tour has already been full of surprises. On Monday, he accepted Qatar’s gift of a plane, despite ethics concerns. And yesterday, he announced a big ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he and President Trump are considering who would lead the Federal Reserve next. “We think about it all the time,” Bessent said in a Bloomberg TV interview ...