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The European Union has announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%. The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared in advance, but the measures still place great…
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The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation. Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for…
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Tuesday that high Canadian tariffs on U.S. goods result from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement negotiated by President Donald Trump during his first administration. “It was President Trump’s deal. It was the greatest deal ever. And that’s fine. Now, it’s not the greatest deal. That’s fine, too. Let’s sit down and negotiate,” Ford told…
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President Costa! President von der Leyen! Dear colleagues, glad to see you all. I’ve already spoken to many of you these days and weeks, and I am grateful for your support. Ukrainians really appreciate that in a time of such great emotions in global politics, European integrity is preserved, and Europe is really trying to…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with European leaders in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday as his nation seeks to weather continued attacks from Russia and growing political pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration in the U.S. The Ukrainian president’s latest visit to Brussels comes at a difficult moment for his nation, the White House having announced an open-ended pause on…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shot back at China on Wednesday after the communist nation rattled sabers by stating it is prepared for “any type of war” with the U.S. following the start of President Donald Trump’s additional tariffs on Chinese imports. “We’re prepared,” Hegseth told Fox News, according to Blaze Media. “Those who long for peace…
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Billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising President Donald Trump on plans to radically shrink the U.S. government, said on Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. “I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference. “I think we should…
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Billionaire Elon Musk arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday and learned about something new — budget rescission, an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his federal budget slashing effort and enshrine the cuts into law. Musk joined a lunch meeting with Republican senators just hours after the Supreme Court issued a setback to…
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Israel says it is stopping all goods and supplies into Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed Hamas was refusing to “accept the Witkoff outline for continuing the talks, which Israel agreed to”. Under a plan put forward by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, the first phase of the ceasefire deal would continue through…
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Sir Keir Starmer has pledged his “unwavering support” for Ukraine, adding that “we are at a turning point” in the war, ahead of a crucial meeting with world leaders today. The prime minister welcomed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Downing Street on Saturday, where they signed a new loan deal for Ukraine following the Ukrainian president’s disastrous meeting with Donald…
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The Trump administration is directing all federal agencies to “promptly” begin preparations for large-scale layoffs and restructuring, and submit plans for doing do so by March 13, according to a new memo obtained by ABC News. The memo, from White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, and Charles Ezell, the head of the Office…
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How much have America, Britain and the rest paid Ukraine in aid since the Russian invasion? And do they have any hope of getting money back in return? These are big questions, and they’re likely to dominate much of the discussion in the coming months as Donald Trump pressurises his Ukrainian counterparts for a deal on ending…
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President Donald Trump pushed back against reports circulating in the European press that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in May. “No, I’m not,” Trump told reporters during the swearing-in ceremony for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to The Washington Times. On Friday, French newspaper Le Point reported that Trump was “most likely to visit” Moscow…
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US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced the two key European leaders will have a seat at the negotiating table after EU leaders raised the alarm over Donald Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine. Is French President Emmanuel Macron’s gamble starting to pay off? After organising two emergency meetings this week in Paris with…
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Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries’ top diplomats said after talks that reflected an extraordinary about-face in U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump. In an interview with The Associated Press after the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State…
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Russia’s ambassador to the UN is addressing the security council in New York now, telling the meeting the EU and UK are “absolutely unfaithful to their word”. “They cannot be a party to any future agreement on the resolution to the Ukrainian crisis whatsoever,” Vasily Nebenzya adds. “They are blinded by primitive Russophobia, their maniacal…
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