Fox News - 21 hours 50 min ago
MSNBC host Katie Phang attacked President Donald Trump' during her Saturday show for his plan to house criminal illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay.
The Guardian - 21 hours 50 min ago
Office of personnel management workers say anxiety is palpable amid intimidation and threat of dismissal US government workers are describing an atmosphere of "fear" and "madness" as they grapple with a barrage of executive orders issued by Donald Trump and threats to their jobs from the office of personnel management, the agency tasked with managing the federal civil service, which has been taken over by the billionaire Elon Musk. Weeks before the administration transition, federal...
Vox - 21 hours 50 min ago
Employees and supporters protest outside the headquarters for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday, February 3, 2025, after Elon Musk posted on social media that he and President Donald Trump would shut down the agency. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images About two and a half months ago, I wrote a piece about what foreign aid might look like in the second Trump term. Reading that piece now feels bizarre. I thought that Trump's second term would look...
The Raw Story - 22 hours 15 min ago
by Isabel Kua with Danny Kemp in Washington and Daniel Rook in Mexico City China said Tuesday it would impose tariffs on imports of U.S. energy, vehicles and equipment, firing a return salvo in an escalating trade war between the world's two biggest economies. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday announced sweeping measures against major trade partners Canada and Mexico, with goods from China hit with an additional 10 percent tariff on top of the duties they already endure. Minutes after...
The Raw Story - 22 hours 20 min ago
by Danny KEMP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as Israel and Hamas say they are ready for negotiations on a new phase in their fragile Gaza ceasefire. Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Trump returned to power last month, will discuss the truce's future and efforts to end the Gaza war. Hours before their meeting, Netanyahu's office said Israel would send a delegation to the Qatari capital Doha later...
Newsweek - 22 hours 22 min ago
Backlash to the proposed shuttering of the department and halting of aid is ongoing.
The Guardian - 22 hours 29 min ago
China also announced an investigation into Google in an apparent retaliation. Plus, the Senate confirms a fracking executive as energy secretary Good morning. Donald Trump has fired the opening salvo of his trade war, imposing tariffs on China on Tuesday that prompted instant retaliation from Beijing and fears about the global economic repercussions. What could be the impact on ordinary Americans? Economists have warned Trump's tariff plans risk raising prices for millions of Americans just...
The Raw Story - 22 hours 29 min ago
Two Panamanian lawyers filed a complaint Monday to cancel the concession of a Hong Kong-based company for operating two ports on the Panama Canal, following U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to seize the vital waterway. A subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings -- owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing -- manages two of the canal's five ports, an arrangement in place since 1997 via a concession from the Panama government. But Norman Castro, one of the lawyers in the case brought before...
The Hill - 22 hours 29 min ago
In today's issue: President Trump agreed Monday to delay for a month the aggressive tariffs he levied on Canada and Mexico over his advisers' misgivings, receiving in return pledges from both trading partners to help him strengthen U.S. border security. But China struck back against new U.S. tariffs with a targeted tit-for-tat warning. Trump's initial...
The Raw Story - 22 hours 32 min ago
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will meet President Donald Trump on a visit to the United States this week, top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Tuesday. "If circumstances permit, he will visit the United States from February 6-8 and hold (his) first face-to-face Japan-US summit meeting with President Trump in Washington DC," Hayashi said. "Through this visit we hope to build a strong relationship of trust with the new US administration and take the US-Japan alliance...
The Independent - 22 hours 36 min ago
Donald Trump has issued a demand to Ukraine in which Kyiv guarantees supplies of rare earth minerals to the US as payment for war aid.
The Raw Story - 22 hours 41 min ago
by Oliver HOTHAM China has made good on its threats to retaliate in the escalating trade war with the United States, imposing tariffs on American imports of energy, cars and machinery parts. That came just minutes after a 10 percent tariff hike on Chinese goods, announced by US President Donald Trump on Saturday, came into effect. Here's the state of play in the rocky US-China trade relationship: - How much trade is at stake? - Trade between China and the United States, the world's two largest...
Newsweek - 22 hours 48 min ago
Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to meet with Trump since his return to the Oval Office and comes as the prime minister's popular support is faltering.
Los Angeles Times - 22 hours 49 min ago
Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new book about the transgender experience, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner and her own trans daughter.
Los Angeles Times - 22 hours 50 min ago
When the president announced tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, stocks tumbled, responding to economic realities that politicians and their supporters often ignore.
The Guardian - 22 hours 50 min ago
Exclusive: move to purge those who worked for Jack Smith came from Trump, sources say, in show of unchecked power The US justice department fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the criminal cases against Donald Trump hours after the president directly ordered it to take place in the Oval Office, according to two people familiar with the intervention. The move to purge people who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith had ostensibly come from the acting attorney general James McHenry...
The Guardian - 22 hours 50 min ago
Trump administration pulling references online won't make crisis' stop impacting Americans' lives, say experts Donald Trump's administration has started to remove or downgrade mentions of the climate crisis across the US government, with the websites of several major departments pulling down references to anything related to the climate crisis. Climate scientists said they were braced "for the worst". A major climate portal on the Department of Defense's website has been...
Newsweek - 22 hours 55 min ago
President Donald Trump has begun his rampage on reproductive rights, and it's as bad as we expected.
The Guardian - 22 hours 56 min ago
Israeli PM in Washington for talks with US president as Hamas says it is ready to discuss details of second phase of ceasefire and hostage releases Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the latest news from the Middle East. Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington for talks with US President Donald Trump about the ceasefire in Gaza. Trump said on Monday he did not known whether the ceasefire deal in Gaza was going to last. "I have no guarantees that the peace...
The Independent - 22 hours 59 min ago
Let me tell you we have a thug in charge of the United States', Crockett fired out...
Newsweek - 23 hours 15 min ago
California lawmakers signed off on $50 million in funding on Monday to defend immigrants and protect state policies.
The Independent - 23 hours 19 min ago
Dana White has opened up about his fears for his close friend Donald Trump .
Fortune - 23 hours 20 min ago
UBS said investor sentiment remained positive in Q4, with the market backdrop reflecting an "increase in investors' risk appetite" following the re-election of Donald Trump.
Sky News - 23 hours 34 min ago
China has, as expected, hit back at Donald Trump's imposition of a 10% tariff on its exports to the United States.