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A high school basketball coach in South Carolina was arrested after he tried to bring a gun into the school gym after an altercation with another coach, according to police.

Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, plans to tell senators during his confirmation hearing the next four years will present an opportunity for an “economic

Bessent spoke before the Senate Finance Committee about his economic vision for America, addressing key issues like tax policy, inflation and wealth inequality.

The billionaire money manager from South Carolina, Scott Bessent, takes questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee for confirmation to the Treasury Department. Bessent would be the first openly LGBTQ Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration.

The stakes have never been higher, but with Bessent at the helm of the Trump economic team, a brighter future is within reach.

Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick as Treasury secretary, owns North Dakota farmland on which he earns between $100,000 and $1 million per year, but plans to divest himself of it if he is confirmed,

In a new memo obtained by NBC News, Senate Finance Democratic tax staff found that Scott Bessent avoided over $950,000 of self-employment taxes.

Plus: Relief for taxpayers impacted by wildfires, itemizing deductions, civil forfeiture programs, Direct File, Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts, tax filing deadlines, and more

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling,

Trump's pick for Treasury secretary says letting the 2017 tax expire would unleash a $4 trillion tax hike that could crush the U.S. economy.