Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese importsApr 09, 2025 12:38 pm - Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.
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Trump administration halts $790 million in federal funding for Northwestern, $1 billion for CornellApr 09, 2025 8:15 am - More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University has been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, the White House said.
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Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workersApr 08, 2025 11:23 am - The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
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Cracks appear among Trump’s cheerleaders amid market turmoilApr 08, 2025 8:08 am - The criticism is an early sign that the economic turmoil caused by Trump’s trade war could leave lasting political scars for the president.
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Trump order seeks to tap coal power in quest to dominate AIApr 08, 2025 7:56 am - President Donald Trump is moving to expand the mining and use of coal inside the US, a bid to power the boom in energy-hungry data centers while seeking to revive a declining US fossil fuel industry.
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As China and the US spar, countries brainstorm over how to cope with the trade warApr 08, 2025 6:59 am - U.S. President Donald Trump and China sparred over tariff hikes and other retaliatory moves on Tuesday, as governments elsewhere were brainstorming strategies to cope with the trade war between the global economic giants.
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Asia markets rebound despite tariffs threat on ChinaApr 08, 2025 6:31 am - Markets across the Asia-Pacific region rebounded when they opened Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump threatened to hit China with additional tariffs that would escal...
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Supreme Court allows use of wartime law to deport alleged gang membersApr 08, 2025 6:30 am - The Supreme Court on Monday removed a temporary block on the Trump administration’s use of a controversial wartime authority to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gan...
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First Black Republican woman in Congress honored in Utah after her death from brain cancerApr 07, 2025 1:37 pm - Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49.
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A few countries offer to drop all tariffs on U.S. in response to TrumpApr 07, 2025 1:10 pm - Amid the global market chaos sparked by the Trump administration’s announcement of tariffs on the vast majority of trading partners, a handful of countries have responded by proposing an immediate, drastic concession: giving in to President Donald Trump’s trade war demands by dropping tariffs on U.S. goods.