President Trump is keeping his powder dry, at least for now, in deploying tariffs to advance his administration’s push to redefine trade relations with other major economies around the world. Mr. Trump, who as president-elect said he could move to apply sweeping levies on foreign imports on his first day in office, stopped short of imposing so-called
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the murder of her estranged husband. The court, over two dissenting votes, threw out a federal appeals court ruling that upheld
While President Joe Biden issued many pardons before leaving office, he did not pardon various individuals Trump has blasted who were connected to cases against the Republican figure.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order officially creating the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting initiative helmed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The EO included fresh details about DOGE’s goals and structure, such as a mandate to upgrade the government’s IT systems. Mr. Trump first announced DOGE in November with
House Republicans are pushing a new bill to limit birthright citizenship to babies born with at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker bashed President Trump's executive orders on immigration and birthright citizenship, calling it "unconstitutional."
Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. The executive action was