I’m not sure what President Trump’s precise tariff plans are at this point but the general goal seems to be to renegotiate trade deals with countries around the world in ways that made trade more favorable to the US. Here’s what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday on Meet the Press. ...
Donald Trump has threatened China with an additional tariff of 50% on goods imported into the US if it does not withdraw a countermeasure and reiterated he would not pause other tariffs as global markets tumbled for a third day. Speaking at the White House on Monday the US president said that he is not...
The US and Iran are holding “direct talks” over a possible nuclear deal on Saturday, Donald Trump has said. Discussions between Washington and Tehran will be at a “very high level”, the US president said on Monday, before warning it would be a “very bad day for Iran” if no agreement was reached. Last month,...
An analysis of Trump’s tariffs shows they will cost the typical US family around $3,800 in extra spending per year. In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump falsely insinuated that his administration’s across-the-board tariffs on dozens of countries wouldn’t affect consumer costs in the U.S., and that prices of commonly purchased goods...
Part of the Series Challenging the Corporate University In 2023-2024, students in solidarity with Palestine launched the largest campus movement in the U.S. since the anti-Vietnam War protests, and chapters of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine and Educators for Justice in Palestine sprang up to support them. The Palestine solidarity movement has continued...
A new report doesn’t include a definitive list, meaning there are likely many more examples of citizens being detained. A new report highlights how at least seven U.S. citizens — but likely far more — have been detained, deported or otherwise targeted by the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. According to the report from The...
He urges readers to “reclaim the university and join the student movement to carry forward the work of the past year.” In an op-ed dictated to his attorney from a detention facility in Louisiana, Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil late last week condemned the Ivy League institution’s complicity in the Trump administration’s targeting of Palestinian...
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to block lower court rulings requiring that a man deported to El Salvador be returned to the US. A federal judge in Maryland ordered the government to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back by Monday night. The order was upheld by an appeals court on Monday. The...
Getty Images Bill Ackman switched allegiance to Trump before the 2024 presidential election A billionaire backer of Donald Trump has urged the US president to pause his recently announced trade tariffs, or risk “a self-induced, economic nuclear winter”. Amid market turmoil, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said the president should take three months to allow...
A US judge has issued a scathing opinion against the Trump administration after immigration officials admitted to having mistakenly deported a man living in the US to a prison in El Salvador. The opinion issued by US District Judge Paula Xinis on Sunday reaffirms her earlier ruling that demands Kilmar Abrego Garcia be returned to...
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced he will suspend tariffs on goods imported from the US in an attempt to build a “positive relationship” with President Donald Trump’s administration. The move comes days after Trump imposed 18% tariffs on Zimbabwean exports to the US. “This measure is intended to facilitate the expansion of American imports...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has described the era of globalisation as “ended”, following Donald Trump’s new tariffs. It comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer suggested in a Sunday Telegraph article he was about to announce state intervention to protect UK firms from the US president’s move. The UK was among nations...
An artist whose official portrait of Donald Trump was publicly lambasted by the president said his comments are “directly and negatively impacting” her business, threatening its future. British-born artist Sarah A Boardman painted Trump’s official portrait for the Denver State Capitol Gallery of Presidents, where it hung for six years. In January Trump described Boardman’s...
Pool/BBC President Donald Trump has built another wall, and he thinks everyone else is going to pay for it. But his decision to impose sweeping tariffs of at least 10% on almost every product that enters the US is essentially a wall designed to keep work and jobs within it, rather than immigrants out. The...
The US began collecting a 10% “baseline” tariff on all imports on Saturday as President Donald Trump urged Americans to “hang tough” after market turmoil. The UK and France are among hundreds of countries impacted and its leaders have said nothing is off the table. While China, which has been hit the hardest by President...