This week, Donald Trump completed a three-country trip to the Gulf. And he put a major emphasis on deals being done – with the US and with US businesses. But the trip also put a spotlight on the president’s own business interests. The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins takes a look. Produced by Catherine Karelli....
On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.” The order claimed “onerous Federal policies” have hindered domestic timber production and that expanding logging was a matter of protecting “national and economic security.” It ordered the secretary of the Interior and head of the U.S. Department of...
The ruling is not a repudiation of Alien Enemies Act deportations and focuses solely on migrants’ due process rights. For the second time in less than a month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s dubious use of an 18th century law to deport immigrants including at least one person with...
BBC “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” So supposedly said the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The diplomatic whirlwind that has surrounded US President Donald Trump this week suggests the old Bolshevik might have been onto something. For the protectionist president, who promises always to put America...
A budget bill, long touted by Donald Trump as the “big, beautiful bill” hit a roadblock on Friday when lawmakers from the president’s own party voted against it in congress. Five Republicans joined all Democrats in delivering a stunning setback to President Trump’s domestic agenda, demanding deeper budget cuts. Trump, who has muscled through close...
Bernd Debusmann Jr and Kayla Epstein BBC News Watch: Should judges be able to block Trump on birthright citizenship? US President Donald Trump took his bid to end birthright citizenship to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, in a case that could help further his agenda on immigration and other issues. The case asks whether...
Reuters US President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at a signing ceremony in Doha on Wednesday In his eagerness to accept a plane from Qatar, Donald Trump has achieved a remarkable feat, uniting many partisans across America’s bitter political divide. The problem for the White House is that unity is...
Transportation of immigrants to ICE jails and countries that have agreed to accept them is a billion-dollar business. As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations in an effort to reach its goal of removing 1 million immigrants by the end of this year, new air carriers have signed contracts with Immigration and...
Donald Trump has said his administration is now exploring the possibility of normalising relations with Syria – his comments coming shortly after he met Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose forces ended the decades-long dictatorship of the Assad family. The extraordinary encounter, unthinkable just months ago, was short but significant. “I think he has got...
Donald Trump has met with dozens of officials in Saudi Arabia, as part of his first major diplomatic international visit of his second term as US president. A timelapse shows a huge queue of people waiting to shake hands with the president. Trump is in Saudi Arabia as part of a four-day trip to the...
Well, yes and no. Maybe. It depends on how you look at it. And it depends on what the results will be. It’s hard to say. It’s complicated. How is that for a non-answer? Pretty good, eh? There’s a reason for my not giving a definitive answer, because the way drug pricing worldwide works really...
Anbarasan Ethirajan South Asia Regional Editor Reuters Donald Trump announced a ceasefire at the weekend For decades, if there’s one thing that’s been a taboo in the Indian foreign ministry, it is third-party mediation – particularly in the long-running dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. Those in the know, then, are not surprised that US President...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday asking drugmakers to voluntarily lower pharmaceutical costs for U.S. consumers — but the order lacks a clear mechanism for enacting such reductions. Trump’s order recognized that costs for prescription medicines are higher in the United States than they are in other countries. “Drug manufacturers, rather than...
Ana Faguy BBC News Reporting fromPort Huron, Michigan BBC At the end of a waitressing shift, Kristina Lampert used to separate her tips in two piles: Canadian cash and American. But it’s been weeks since she has done that. Freighters, the restaurant where she works, is one of the first places people can grab a...
Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Lily Jamali BBC News, Alcatraz Island Daniel A. Edwards Hopkins has moved back to his home state of Florida since he was released in 1963 When Charlie Hopkins thinks back to the three years he spent in one of America’s most famous prisons, he remembers the “deathly quiet” the...