Getty Images US President Donald Trump has signed an order doubling tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from 25% to 50%. The move hikes import taxes on the metals – key inputs in everything from cars to canned food – for the second time since March. Trump has said the measures, which come into effect...
Republicans have claimed they’re “saving” Medicaid from “waste, fraud and abuse” with massive cuts. President Donald Trump has quietly commuted the sentence of a Florida health care executive convicted of leading a Medicare fraud scheme to pilfer $205 million from the program through false means — even as the GOP claims that their massive cuts...
Trump didn’t really turn his back on NATO, but he rightly decided not to let Europeans take the lead on NATO policies while simultaneously weakening their own militaries. Ever since the end of the Cold War, the United States has tolerated the systematic demilitarization of NATO countries. When Russian tanks were trained on Germany, that...
Getty Images Many South Africans are deeply attached to their land South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the centre of a political firestorm after he approved a law that gives the state the power to expropriate some privately owned land without compensation for owners. The law, which is yet to be implemented, has drawn...
Progressive critics and Democratic lawmakers responded with predictable fury and contempt after President Donald Trump delivered new details for his 2026 budget request in a Friday night news dump that appeared timed to attract as little attention as possible from the voting public. “It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on...
The provision will make it so only the well-to-do would be in a good position to launch legal challenges against Trump. A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month is causing growing concern among democracy watchdogs who warn the provision will make it so...
This story was originally published by The 19th. Over the last four decades, the United States has built a web of federal policies and funding to address domestic and intimate partner violence, a pervasive health and safety crisis. In just 130 days, the Trump administration has put that safety net in jeopardy. Funding pauses, cuts,...
WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania — Local steelworkers, community leaders and economic experts said President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic “big, beautiful deal” the 47th president has made. ...
UK steelmakers said US President Donald Trump’s decision to double import taxes on steel and aluminium to 50% is “yet another body blow” to the industry. Trade group UK Steel warned some orders could be delayed or cancelled, with uncertainty surrounding some shipments which are already halfway across the Atlantic. Trump’s new 50% import tax...
The court battles over tariffs got all the attention this week but that wasn’t the only sign the Trump administration is still engaged in a trade war with China. On Wednesday the administration suspended the sale of jet engines and some high tech chips and software as well. The target of these new restrictions seems...
We have been bombarded by commentary that Trump has taken a serious hit in the polls, and that his voters are suffering from “buyer’s remorse.” I can’t tell you the number of times I have seen “influencers” tell stories about Trump voters coming up to them and confessing that they regret voting for Trump, and...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Watch: A black eye and a gold key – Musk’s last day at Doge Elon Musk’s time in the Trump administration has come to an end with a news conference in the Oval Office in which he and the US president defended the work of Doge – and...
US President Donald Trump has commended Elon Musk for his work at Doge as he hosted the tech mogul at the White House on his last day as as a special government employee. The president said that Musk “is not really leaving” and will occasionally be back at the White House because Doge is his...
Live by the EO … die by the EO. Or so the Supreme Court says today, anyway — to the extent they said much at all. In an unsigned order that seven of the justices backed, the court stayed a district court decision that prevented the Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from...
Image Credit: Bettmann/Getty (R) We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.” “During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities...