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President Donald Trump said Sunday the armed suspect who breached security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner had a manifesto expressing anti-Christian hate. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was taken into custody after law enforcement said he ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night and exchanged gunfire…
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President Donald Trump granted a 90-day extension to a shipping waiver that makes it easier to move oil, fuel and fertilizer around the United States, the White House said on Friday, the latest effort to curb rising energy costs linked to the war with Iran. The decision adds roughly three months to the existing waiver…
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President Donald Trump intensified scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center following a sweeping federal indictment, declaring that if the allegations are proven true, the 2020 presidential election should be “permanently wiped from the books.” In an early morning Truth Social post on Friday, Trump described the SPLC as “one of the greatest political scams in American…
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President Donald Trump is reviewing an administration plan to cut back on some State Department overseas operations and internal offices dealing with issues including refugee and human rights, according to The New York Times. The Times report indicated the president is close to approving the plan and could sign an executive order for the changes within a…
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China said Wednesday its economy topped forecasts in the first quarter, as exporters rushed to shift goods ahead of swingeing US tariffs, but warned it faced “certain pressures” from Donald Trump’s trade blitz. Beijing and Washington are locked in a fast-moving, high-stakes game of brinkmanship since the US president launched a global tariff assault that…
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Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said on Friday that the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation produced “no credible evidence that would link President [Donald] Trump’s campaign to Russia in any form or fashion.” In March, Trump signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia. Comer said Trump’s order…
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The United States said on Tuesday that 104% duties on imports from China will take effect shortly after midnight, even as the Trump administration moved to quickly start talks with other trading partners targeted by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan. U.S. stocks retreated on the news. Global markets had previously posted gains on hopes…
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Indonesia announced a spate of concessions for US imports on Tuesday (Apr 8), including reducing taxes on electronic goods and steel, ahead of trade negotiations with Washington over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. South East Asia’s biggest economy will send a high-level delegation to the United States next week seeking a deal to ease the impact…
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Singapore will form a national task force to support businesses and workers in response to sweeping new US tariffs that could slow economic growth and impact jobs and wages, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced on Tuesday (Apr 8). The task force, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong, will…
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President Donald Trump on Friday said “bad, bad things will happen to Iran” if the Middle Eastern country continues down the path to developing nuclear weapons. Trump addressed Iran while taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office after swearing in Alina Habba as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. “Iran is very high on my list of…
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The United States needs to take control of Greenland for international security, President Donald Trump said in remarks at the Oval Office Friday as Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha, were visiting the island nation. “It’s not a question of do you think we can do without it,” Trump told reporters Friday, in…
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among federal contractors and grant recipients. Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois halted the Labor Department from requiring federal…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the declassification of FBI files connected to the inquiry into his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia, The Hill has reported. The memorandum calls for the declassification of “all files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, who added that “we believe…
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Múte B Egede sees the move as deliberately provocative, following Donald Trump’s threats to take control of the island. Greenland’s prime minister has hit out at a planned visit to the island by senior US officials, calling the move “highly aggressive” in light of Trump’s threats to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Múte…
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As we reported earlier, Donald Trump suggested that the US could take over running Ukraine’s nuclear power plants as a form of security guarantee in his call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Like he said during talks over a possible minerals deal, Trump believes that US workers on the ground in Ukraine would provide an adequate guarantee…
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The 30-day pause in airstrikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure that Donald Trump got Vladimir Putin to agree to lasted perhaps a few hours. The White House had claimed “we’ve never been closer to a peace deal” before the phone call between the two leaders yesterday. Instead, Mr Trump appears to have achieved little in his conversation with Mr Putin, whose…
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