On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill aiming to curtail federal judges’ ability to issue nationwide restraining orders — an action that, if successful, would flout hundreds of years of judicial case law and precedent. Judges have always had the power to impose nationwide injunctions on local, state or federal governments and...
“Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time?” Schiff asked. Following the tumultuous ups and downs in the stock market this week in reaction to President Donald Trump’s tariff actions, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California) is calling on Congress to investigate the possibility of insider trading by the administration. Trump’s...
“Coalition of the willing” meet in Brussels to discuss plans for peacekeeping force. Read full article at source...
Have you grown tired of the winning yet? Especially after the past week? Yesterday, the media narrative on the House was “Republicans in disarray!” Today, Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump corralled their caucus to pass a renegotiated budget plan that will allow Trump’s tax cuts and spending reductions to pass through reconciliation: The House...
BBC There were some heroic efforts overnight from Donald Trump and those around him to suggest the past seven days were something other than absolute chaos. By this reading, Trump’s 4D game of chess has left China in check. Certainly the Chinese economy faces a massive hit from punitive tariffs in its biggest market. But...
Hours before Trump announced his pause on tariffs, he posted a clear signal to everybody that it was a great time to buy stocks. ( @realDonaldTrump – Truth Social Post )( Donald J. Trump – Apr 09, 2025, 9:37 AM ET ) THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT pic.twitter.com/QLMJkjARw1 — Donald J. Trump ????????...
Donald Trump is going to “make America’s showers great again” by easing rules restricting water flow, the White House says. The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall. This served “a radical green...
Most of Thursday’s front pages reflect on news from Washington that Donald Trump has paused tariffs on most nations for 90 days – apart from China. “Trump blinks first in trade war,” is the Daily Telegraph’s headline which notes that US stocks had a good day bouncing back after the announcement. There is also a...
John Sudworth Senior North America correspondent Watch: China tariffs ‘not good’ for the economy – US shoppers Suddenly, Donald Trump’s trade war is in much sharper focus. Rather than a fight on all fronts against the world, this now looks far more like a fight on familiar Trumpian territory: America v China. The 90-day pause...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent in Washington•@awzurcher Watch: Why US markets shot up like a rocket after tariffs pause For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said...
I’ve never been a fan of Jamelle Bouie and his latest take on Trump and tariffs is a good example of why. As with everything he writes, it comes with no surprises or genuine insights. Instead, it’s more anti-Trump, anti-Republican material for his audience of like-minded readers. His job is to convince you he’s being...
The Supreme Court made two key initial procedural rulings on Monday in cases related to the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to grease the wheels of mass detention and mass deportation primarily through outsourcing to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison, which is known worldwide for its flagrant human rights abuses. In its...
Hundreds of recently deported immigrants were labeled as gang members despite having no criminal histories. Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s so-called “border czar,” has said that nothing more than the word of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is needed to prove that a noncitizen living in the U.S. is a gang member, and...
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%”...