Washington — Backlash to President Trump’s tariffs cropped up throughout Capitol Hill on Thursday, as Democrats, and some Republicans, expressed concern about the sweeping levies on foreign imports — while putting forward a handful of possible methods to counter them. On Wednesday, the president announced a 10% baseline tariff on all U.S. trading partners while
A federal judge in Boston considered Thursday a case involving a Tufts University Ph.D. student taken into custody in Massachusetts and moved by Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to Louisiana last week. The government claimed in a filing Tuesday that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar, had already been removed from Massachusetts
The Pentagon inspector general’s office said in a memo Thursday it will evaluate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month. “The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and
At least three senior staffers at the National Security Council have been fired, with more firings expected, two U.S. officials with knowledge tell CBS News. The sources were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak with the press. The firings came after rightwing personality Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office on Wednesday and
President Trump’s nominee to be U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is touting his recent legal work for U.S. Capitol riot defendants in the questionnaire he submitted to the senators ahead of a confirmation vote. Trump has named Ed Martin to the unique U.S. attorney post, which oversaw the historic prosecutions of more than 1,500 defendants
New York City Mayor Eric Adams will skip the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent, he announced Thursday. The announcement came a day after his federal corruption case was dismissed by a judge. Adams confirmed his 2025 campaign in a six-minute video posted on social media. “Although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing
Global markets tumble after tariffs news Global stock markets tumble after Trump’s tariffs news 05:19 President Trump on Wednesday, announced so-called reciprocal tariffs on imports from about 90 nations, in addition to a 10% across-the-board tax applied to all imports to the U.S. Describing the announcement as “Liberation Day,” the president said the new taxes