Somebody’s getting fired… Beyoncé was forced to stop her show in Houston on Saturday night when the car she was sitting in started to tilt mid-air. The elaborate stage prop – a red Cadillac – is suspended on cables and carries the superstar high over her fans near the end of her Cowboy Carter stadium...
Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead. That seems to be the case today,...
Rubio pointed to Trump’s supposed “antisemitism” orders in a cable announcing upcoming guidance. The Trump administration has put a pause on new student visa application interviews as it prepares to expand its surveillance of the social media activity of those seeking to study in the U.S., Politico reports, in the latest instance of the administration’s...
Have the Houthis waved the white flag? And did they do so a day too late? Donald Trump announced a few minutes ago that the US would pause its bombardment in Yemen after the Iranian proxy terrorist army “capitulated.” Trump claims that they have pledged to stop targeting Red Sea shipping, at least: BREAKING: President...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) says it has stopped taking online orders as the company struggles to recover from a cyber attack. Customers began reporting problems last weekend, and on Tuesday the retailer confirmed it was facing a “cyber incident”. It told the BBC on Wednesday customer-facing systems were back to normal, but some systems remained...
US shares have rocketed after US President Donald Trump said he would suspend steep tariffs on goods from most countries, and instead impose a 10% import tax rate. The White House said it was backing off on higher levies for trade partners that had agreed to negotiate, although Trump said he would raise tariffs on...
President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for countries hit by higher US tariffs, but escalated a spiralling trade war with China. In a dramatic change of policy, just hours after levies against roughly 60 of America’s trading partners came into effect, Trump said he was authorising a universal “lowered reciprocal tariff of 10%”...
Well, this screws up my writing schedule for the day. I had a post scheduled for this time but this one is much more important. President Trump just paused almost all his tariff increases, citing the flood of countries begging for new trade deals to avoid the massive increase in business costs they would impose...
Is this a win? Procedurally, it’s more of a pause, and may not even be much of a pause, as we’ll see. It may, however, send an important signal to lower courts, and to judges inclined to toss sand in the gears of the executive branch. Maybe. Earlier this afternoon,...