President Donald Trump’s second week in office seemed to deliver a daily dose of shock therapy for the country. And there were chaotic reminders of his first term.
apnews.comFears grow for global trade with major indices likely to plunge as US trading partners quickly retaliate, fuelling chance China and EU will follow suit
theguardian.comA growing number of countries, including American allies, are striking trade deals as the Trump administration erects a higher fence around its global commerce.
nytimes.comAsked by the BBC, President Trump says the EU "don't take our cars, they don't take our farm products. They take almost nothing."
bbc.comThe emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary dynamic — a White House adviser who's using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while threatening its detractors.
President Trump’s tariffs hurt China, but his other actions have alienated U.S. allies, giving Beijing an opening to strengthen its global standing.
nytimes.comWas Trump just “weaving” when he ranted about diversity initiatives after a horrific plane crash, or getting back on message after a week of executive overreach?
newyorker.comPresident says measures against bloc will ‘definitely happen’ following moves against Mexico, Canada and China
theguardian.comMusk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday morning on social media.
nbcnews.comPresident Donald Trump is on the verge of hitting America’s three biggest trading partners with sweeping tariffs, a far more aggressive use of his favorite economic weapon than anything he did during his first term.
cnn.comPresident Donald Trump says he thinks last week’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter wouldn't have happened if the U.S. had a more modern air traffic control computer system.
Even as Canada’s prime minister announced more than $100 billion in retaliatory tariffs, he made clear that he was imposing them reluctantly.
nytimes.comFox News Digital spoke with Parents Defending Education's President Nicole Neily about President Trump's executive orders on education.
foxnews.comUS’s biggest trading partners hit back after Donald Trump follows through on his threats of imposing tariffs on Canada,
aljazeera.comEmployees condemn ‘unprecedented and scary’ effort to push out those who had worked on diversity programs
theguardian.comTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Donald Trump is not asking the Federal Reserve to lower its short-term interest rates, but what he and the president do want is to bring down longer-term borrowing costs via 10-year Treasury yields.
President Donald Trump called for CBS News program 60 Minutes to be “immediately terminated” and its network shut down Thursday, as he escalated campaign threats to punish media outlets that don’t offer coverage to his liking. He also tried to shoehorn the network into an online rightwing conspiracy theory that falsely claimed media outlets took millions in government kickbacks. In a post on Truth Social, Trump reiterated his claim that 60 Minutes committed “election interference” last year by a
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation of the country’s polices, claiming a “massive” human rights violation is happening over a new land expropriation law.
apnews.comPresident Cyril Ramaphosa last month signed into law a bill aimed at speeding up land reform.
bbc.comWith Canada, Mexico, China, Colombia and the Middle East, President Trump has wasted no time threatening to use American might to force recalcitrant countries to back down and do what he wants.
nytimes.comMany Africans were caught off guard by the abrupt halt to U.S. foreign aid, stopping money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls' education and free school lunches.
npr.orgTrump’s anti-DEI push is part of a war over the meaning of the Constitution’s “equal protection” guarantee, which dates to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
nbcnews.com“It’s beyond repair,” the billionaire adviser to the President said of the agency that administers billions of dollars in global humanitarian, development, and security assistance.
time.comPresident Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.
nytimes.comPresident Donald Trump has quickly mobilized wide swaths of the federal government to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants in the United States, part of a broader strategy to amass a large enforcement machine.
cnn.comFederal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has flung the door open for Wall Street to further adopt bitcoin and crypto...
forbes.comOne federal employee who spoke with NBC News said that the government workforce feels like they're being attacked regularly with "psychological warfare."
nbcnews.comBy targeting allies and neighbours with tariffs, the US is playing into the hands of China
ft.comIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will discuss “victory over Hamas,” countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with U.S.
apnews.comSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off aid over the alleged mistreatment of White farmers, denying Trump’s claim that authorities were “confiscating land.”
cnn.comPresident’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say
theguardian.comSpace constraints and court orders have led ICE to release migrants on monitoring programs after they’re arrested.
nbcnews.comAsked by the BBC, President Trump says the EU "don't take our cars, they don't take our farm products. They take almost nothing."
bbc.co.ukFederal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has flung the door open for Wall Street to further adopt bitcoin and crypto...
forbes.comChina chose swift retaliation for trade measures in the first Trump administration, but that led to an upward spiral of trade measures and much broader tariffs.
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