Among the strongest performers, Thermo Fisher Scientific rose 12%, topping the leaderboard for large-cap stocks, followed by T-Mobile US, up 9%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 507 points, or 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.6% to hit its own record. Stocks jumped even more in Tokyo, where the Nikkei 225 rallied 3.5% after President Trump announced a trade framework that would place a 15% tax on imports coming from Japan.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

After The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive on an apparent letter written to Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump went to battle.

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Friday against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal over the newspaper's reporting on ties between Trump and disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein.

H ouse Democrats are requesting a copy of the alleged "birthday book" compiled for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein 's 50th birthday that the Wall Street Journal reported contains a "bawdy" letter from Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice met with Ghislaine Maxwell for the second time today. Also, new reporting from the New York Times reveals President Trump is in a list of contributors in Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book.

President Donald Trump says he doesn’t know about a lewd letter bearing his name that the Wall Street Journal reported was included in a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein. The July 17 story described a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003,