On 60 Minutes, President Trump denied lifting sanctions on Russian diesel. Treasury records show his administration issued a license in October that exempts the fuel from those sanctions, and a week later he waived nearly all of a new Russia sanctions law. Diesel and heating oil still cost more than $6 a gallon.
Trump spent his first public appearance after the election touring his White House ballroom. Starting Jan. 3, Democrats in charge of Congress plan to use their investigative and spending powers on his arch, his ballroom and his plans for a public golf course.
A Joint Economic Committee investigation released Tuesday found no unified federal accounting of money seized from overseas scam compounds or returned to victims, even as Americans reported nearly $18 billion in cyberfraud losses last year.