Politics
Toys expected to cost more by fall due to new US tariffs on Chinese imports
As toy inventors, toy manufacturers and buyers for stores that sell toys met for a four-day annual trade show in New York last weekend, a topic besides which items were destined for holiday wish lists permeated the displays. President Donald Trump had announced days before that he planned to increase the extra tariff he put on Chinese imports…
Read MoreTrump changes course and delays some tariffs on Mexico and Canada
President Donald Trump on Thursday postponed 25% tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada for a month amid widespread fears of the economic fallout from a broader trade war. The White House insists its tariffs are about stopping the smuggling of fentanyl, but the taxes proposed by Trump have caused a…
Read MoreWhat is a censure vote in Congress? Here’s what to know following Al Green decision
A disruption during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress has brought a congressional policy into the limelight. The House voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, after he disrupted Trump’s address on Tuesday. The 77-year-old rose up, shook his cane toward Trump and began shouting at him before he was removed from the chamber. So,…
Read MoreTrump considering major NATO policy shift
President Donald Trump is considering a major change to the U.S.’ participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to three current and former senior U.S. officials and one congressional official. Trump has discussed with aides the possibility of calibrating America’s NATO engagement in a way that favors members of the alliance that spend a set percentage of their gross…
Read MoreLifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research job cuts
Rural cancer patients may miss out on cutting-edge treatments in Utah. Therapies for intellectual disorders could stall in Maryland. Red states and blue states alike are poised to lose jobs in research labs and the local businesses serving them. Ripple effects of the Trump administration’s crackdown on U.S. biomedical research promise to reach every corner…
Read MoreHouse votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s speech to Congress
The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in approving the censure resolution. Green and freshman Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala., voted present. As the vote proceeded, Green sat by himself along the center…
Read MoreVance visits the US-Mexico border to tout Trump’s immigration crackdown
Vice President JD Vance is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday to highlight the tougher immigration policies that the White House says has led to dramatically fewer arrests for illegal crossings since Donald Trump began his second term. Vance will be joined in Eagle Pass, Texas, by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National…
Read MoreSecond federal judge extends block on Trump administration funding freeze
A second federal judge on Thursday extended a block barring the Trump administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars. U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island granted the preliminary injunction in the lawsuit filed by nearly two dozen Democratic states after a Trump administration plan for a sweeping pause…
Read MoreCanadian stores pull U.S. liquor from shelves as Trump’s tariffs take effect
As the Trump administration’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, Canadians discovered empty shelves where U.S. liquor products were once stocked. Canadian social media users posted photos and videos of stores across the country seemingly pulling U.S.-made liquor from their inventories. Joshua Gariepy, a university student in Quebec, posted a photo Wednesday…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s most senior diplomat in London loses job over Trump remarks
New Zealand’s most senior envoy to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about U.S. President Donald Trump at an event in London this week, New Zealand’s foreign minister said Thursday. Phil Goff, who is New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the U.K., made the comments at an event held by the…
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