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...
May Day 2025 in the United States came amid the most aggressive assault on U.S. workers in a century. The federal agencies that provide some minimal protection against corporate power — the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and many more — are being systematically destroyed. On May 1, hundreds of...
One of the most striking things about the second Trump administration is the diversity of opinions and specialties he has embraced and brought into his administration. They all share the same goals, but in a very real sense, he has created a “team of rivals”–the term Doris Kearns Goodwin used to describe Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet...
When the higher-ups asked me to review Townhall Media’s new mini-documentary about Trump’s first 100 days in office, I was a bit skeptical that I would be able to write with enthusiasm. After all, the 100 days thing is a bit tiresome and artificial, and we have all written the retrospectives, so what more is...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation In a Washington Post op-ed written from the LaSalle Detention Center, the Palestinian American activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil described “the breakneck speed” with which an immigration judge decided that the Trump administration would be allowed to deport him. He also questioned...