President Donald Trump’s administration can temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the US, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The ruling put on hold a previous federal judge’s order stopping the administration from ending the “parole” immigration programme, established by former President Joe Biden. The programme protected immigrants fleeing...
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The FBI is investigating an effort by one or more unknown people to access the personal phone of Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, sources told the BBC’s US news partner CBS. The key Trump ally told people that her phone had been hacked after a impersonator – or impersonators – used her...
Allow me to put my most sympathetic reaction to the Walter Duranty Prize Board’s predicament in text form: Bwa-hahahahahahaha. This saga starts with the Pulitzer Prize board’s refusal to withdraw the awards it granted the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for their coverage of what turned out to be a hoax about...
“Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re … in sync with the administration,” she said. Universities should ensure that their research output is “in sync” with Trump administration goals in order to keep their federal funding, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said on Wednesday, as scientists across the U.S....
AFP/Getty The Trump administration has said it will take its tariffs case to the Supreme Court Friday, unless an order that struck down many of President Donald Trump’s new import taxes is put on hold. In a filing on Thursday, lawyers for the White House asked the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to...
The billionaire’s term as a “special government employee” is set to end, but his outsized influence remains. Billionaire Elon Musk announced late Wednesday that he is leaving the Trump administration after spearheading a monthslong, lawless rampage through the government that hollowed out entire agencies, hurled critical functions such as the distribution of Social Security benefits...
A lot of people were shocked when J.D. Vance denounced the Europe-wide abandonment of and active hostility to free speech at the Munich Security Conference back in February. To say that Vance was unusually blunt is a gross understatement. It’s more accurate to say that he dropped a bunker-busting bomb on the European Union. ????????VP...
The short answer to that question: appeal to the Supreme Court. The longer answer, especially in time: appeal to Congress. Right now, both appear to have the same prospects … somewhere between slim and none. Yesterday, the Court of International Trade — yes, we actually have one — overruled Donald Trump’s attempts to vastly expand...
Getty Images “Watch the courts” was the whispered message a well-connected diplomat told me in Washington DC last month, amid the previous episode of US tariff chaos. Most eyes were on the high-profile case in California from the Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom – that President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs were illegal. In the event, it...
This is a novel approach to doing battle with someone who doesn’t like you very much and can pretty much prove the bias he’s claiming you openly display without so much as breaking a sweat – file a First Amendment lawsuit. Who knew? The Babylon Bee Would Like To Announce We Are Joining NPR In...
US President Donald Trump has appeared to set a two-week deadline for Vladimir Putin, threatening a different response if the Russian counterpart was still stringing him along. As the Kremlin escalated its attacks on Ukraine, Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Wednesday if he thought Putin wanted to end the war. “I can’t...
BBC A US federal court has ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority by imposing global tariffs, in a major blow to a key part of his economic policies. The Court of International Trade ruled that an emergency law invoked by the White House does not provide unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly...
We find out the identity of the man who has been charged with multiple offences after the Liverpool crash. Read full article at source...
Donald Trump began his presidency with the shortest of honeymoons. To give you an idea of just how set people’s opinion of Trump really is, a “honeymoon” for him is an evenly divided country. He inched into positive territory on some polls, and given pollsters’ history of getting Trump’s support wrong, it’s not unfair to...