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” […]
Judge Tanya Chutkan The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday temporarily blocked Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order doxxing DOGE workers. Earlier this month Judge Chutkan demanded Elon Musk and DOGE turn over sensitive documents and data within 21 days—all to appease a coalition of Democrat state attorneys general. Chutkan’s order mandated that DOGE disclose sensitive […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.“This will continue to spur growth,” Trump told reporters. “We’ll effectively be charging a 25% […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) argued that the Trump administration’s defense in the aftermath of its Signal group chat leak “doesn’t pass the smell test.” Warner, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joined CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Wednesday, where he was asked about the fallout from The Atlantic releasing information received by Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey […]
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 […]
