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ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an Easter cease-fire in his invasion of Ukraine. A statement said Russian military operations would cease from 6 p.m. Moscow time Saturday…

Vice President JD Vance's comment about Chinese people has esclated online tension between the US and China over a back-and-forth trade war."What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it's based on two principles — incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries…

The Internal Revenue Service had another leadership shake-up on Friday, marking the third turnover the bureau has seen since tax week began — and the fifth since Donald Trump took office in January.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced in a Friday statement that he had appointed his deputy, Michael Faulkender, to become acting commissioner of the IRS.…

President Donald Trump wants to shake up the Federal Reserve, and he has sights set on the right person for the job.Trump is considering Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor, to replace Jerome Powell as the Chair of the Federal Reserve, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.Publicly, the president made it clear…

Javon Walker-Price was squashed in a van on Wednesday afternoon, driving from Nebraska to Iowa, when the news came: His group of AmeriCorps members was being sent home.By Thursday, Walker-Price's whole crew had to be on planes. They were only three months into a ten-month service contract and had been preparing to go to Minnesota…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Meta will be one of the co-sponsors of the 2025 White House Easter Egg roll. Corporate sponsorships are expected to be a larger part of the 2025 event than past editions. Meta is facing…

Javon Walker-Price was squished in a van on Wednesday afternoon, driving from Nebraska to Iowa when the news came: His group of AmeriCorps members was being sent home.By Thursday, Walker-Price's whole crew had to be on planes. They were only three months into a ten-month service contract and had been preparing to go out to…

President Donald Trump is moving forward with his promise to slash a top federal consumer watchdog.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began sending termination notices to nearly 90% of its employees on Thursday night, slashing the agency spearheaded by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2011 with the aim of preventing another financial crisis like the one that…

A ranking member of the House Oversight Committee wrote in a new letter that DOGE has unleashed "chaos" at the Social Security Administration, putting Americans' privacy, security, and access to benefits at risk.In a Thursday letter to Michelle Anderson, the SSA's Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Democratic Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia urged the agency…

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he expects an agreement "over the next three to four weeks" that would end the escalating trade war with China."I believe we're going to have a deal with China," said Trump during an executive order signing session in the Oval Office alongside Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. "I think…