Trump’s 50 Percent Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Take Effect, Aimed at Boosting US Production

By doubling the levies, foreign companies ‘can no longer get over the fence,’ Trump said. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum went into effect at midnight on June 4, following through on last week’s announcement at a U.S. Steel facility. The measure, enacted through an executive order signed on Monday, doubles

Trump Administration Removes Hospital Guidance on Emergency Abortions

The Trump administration announced that it was ending Biden-era guidance that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions for women across the country. Issued in 2022, the guidance was an effort to preserve abortion access nationwide for women in extreme cases in the wake of the Supreme Court issuing the Dobbs Decision, which overturned Roe v.

Man arrested for trying to scale fence at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club: Secret Service

Police in Florida arrested a man who allegedly climbed a fence and tried to enter President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club early Tuesday, the Secret Service said. The alleged intruder — described only as an adult male — “scaled a perimeter fence and triggered alarms” shortly after midnight on Tuesday, a Secret Service spokesperson said in a

Battle Lines Form After Musk Criticism of Big, Beautiful Bill Divides Republicans

‘Elon is simply wrong,’ said House Speaker Mike Johnson. But Sen. Rand Paul sided with the DOGE chief, saying, ‘We can and must do better.’ Battle lines are forming in Congress after former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk delivered his harshest criticisms yet toward Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act. On June

Rubio Condemns CCP’s Tiananmen Square Massacre, Marking 36th Anniversary

‘We remember the brutal crackdown 36 years ago … Freedom, democracy, and self-rule are human principles the CCP cannot erase,’ said U.S. Secretary of State. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “brutal crackdown” of the June 4, 1989, student protests in Tiananmen Square, in a social media post ahead