As the fallout from Trump’s tariff plans comes into relief, a harsh truth is emerging for the automotive industry: there are lots of losers and not many winners. But foreign automakers, those without US facilities, will be hit especially hard. As Bloomberg notes, from South Korea’s Hyundai to Germany’s Volkswagen, and to a lesser extent America’s own General […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel was not part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans, but that didn’t spare him from being questioned by lawmakers this week about whether the nation’s premier law enforcement agency would investigate. Patel made no such commitments during the […]
Wearing a smile and a t-shirt with the Jolly Green Giant logo on it, Steve Davis looks about as far from Elon Musk’s shadowy henchman as you could imagine. The photo, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, was taken in 1997 during Davis’s senior year at high school in Massachusetts. Back then Davis, now 45, […]
WASHINGTON (TNND) — For the second time in as many weeks, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down the same reporter during a news briefing. The journalist, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, asked Leavitt a follow up question Wednesday about how top national security officials shared sensitive attack plans over the messaging app Signal — and […]
President Trump on Wednesday adjusted tariffs on foreign-made cars to impose 25% tariffs on “imported passenger vehicles (sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans) and light trucks, as well as key automobile parts (engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components), with processes to expand tariffs on additional parts if necessary.” This comes as the President’s executive […]
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” […]
U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia have started to target the northern U.S. border with Canada, FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers Wednesday. During testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, Patel told lawmakers that the “effective resolution” to the crisis at the southern border has caused adversaries such as China, Russia and […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is on board with banning students’ cellphone use in schools. The secretary, in a March 20 interview with “Fox & Friends,” applauded the states with restrictions on when students can use their personal devices while in school, saying cellphones have […]
One of the regular tropes from our previous exercise in self-destruction that I kept handy was the fact that the claim that “we hire only the best people” never would stop being funny. Now that we’re deep into Hell’s Encore, it’s time to trot it out again, with the caveat that it isn’t as funny […]
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (WVVA) – According to a press release, Governor Patrick Morrisey and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be appearing together in Martinsburg on Friday. The two are at set to “make announcements” regarding food dyes and proposed changes to SNAP in a press conference at St. […]
