The Supreme Court’s ruling this week against President Trump’s tariffs was a major setback for the White House’s economic platform. The Trump administration has made bold promises that these sweeping tariffs would help elevate the U.S.’s standing on the global stage by pressuring international partners into new trade agreements. However, on Friday, the court ruled...
President Trump withdrew his endorsement for Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.) on Saturday over what he called a “lack of support” for the president’s sweeping tariff agenda, saying he would endorse Hurd’s challenger in the upcoming GOP primary instead. “Based of a lack of support, in particular for the unbelievably successful TARIFFS imposed on Foreign Countries...
The Trump administration is turning up the pressure on schools to rein in student loan default rates ahead of changes the federal government is implementing this summer that advocates worry could hurt borrowers. The Department of Education released guidance to universities this week to offer “best practices to reduce default rates” — and reminded schools...
Billionaire Elon Musk’s social platform X has appealed a $140 million fine from the European Commission in a landmark case that could shape how online platforms are regulated across Europe. The company’s Global Government Affairs team said in a Friday post that it had filed an appeal with the General Court of the European Union...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a pardon Friday to Somboon Phaymany, erasing his 1997 conviction on 10 counts of premeditated attempted murder and effectively shielding him from being deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
Governments and companies around the world scrambled Saturday to determine the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down some of the Trump administration sweeping global tariffs.
President Trump on Saturday said he will bump up the temporary global tariff on imported goods from 10% to 15%, a day after the Supreme Court struck down his initial duties.
Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday fired the top prosecutor leading the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia office hours after he took on the role to replace former Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan. U.S. District Judge M. Hannah Lauck administered the oath of office after longtime litigator James Hundley was unanimously appointed...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called the Supreme Court ruling against a majority of President Trump’s tariffs a “crushing defeat for the wannabe King.” “The Supreme Court decision striking down the harmful Trump Tariffs is a big victory for the American people,” Jeffries posted on the social platform X on Friday morning. “And another...
