Articles filed under Donald Trump
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US Postal Service flip-flops on Hong Kong-China packages, lifting a ban imposed a day earlierFeb 05, 2025 8:48 am - The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong.
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Iran praises US for cutting foreign aid funding as it looks for a Trump message on nuclear talksFeb 05, 2025 7:54 am - Iran's government seems to be welcoming some recent decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.
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Trump’s suggestion the US ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip is rejected by allies and adversaries alikeFeb 05, 2025 6:40 am - President Donald Trump's proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denounced on Wednesday by American allies and adversaries alike.
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US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacueesFeb 04, 2025 7:59 am - In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia.
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RFK Jr. appears on track to become US health secretary as he wins key Republican senator’s supportFeb 04, 2025 7:45 am - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if he has cleared the first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate Finance Committee votes on his nomination.
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Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countriesFeb 04, 2025 7:20 am - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
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China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate GoogleFeb 04, 2025 7:12 am - China countered President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports Tuesday, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures.
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Wall Street falls following Trump’s tariffs, but not as badly as feared in the morningFeb 03, 2025 4:01 pm - The threat of a punishing trade war sent Wall Street on a roller coaster Monday. After initially falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, U.S. stocks pared their losses after Mexico said it had negotiated a one-month reprieve.
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Democrats push back after Musk says Trump agrees to close USAID and workers are kept outFeb 03, 2025 2:44 pm - Democrats have delivered a strong rebuke against the Trump administration’s attempt to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease, calling it illegal, vowing a court fight and lambasting billionaire Elon Musk for wielding so much power in Washington.
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Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could own part of TikTokFeb 03, 2025 1:56 pm - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the U.S. to take steps to start developing a government-owned investment fund that he said could be used to profit off of TikTok if he's successful at finding it an American buyer.