Maseru, Lesotho — President Trump in March described Lesotho as a place “nobody has ever heard of,” and then this week he hit the tiny African kingdom with the highest of his “reciprocal” trade tariffs for any single nation. Mr. Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs included a whopping 50% levy on the small, impoverished nation’s
Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, has been fired by the Trump administration, the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees confirmed late Thursday night. Haugh’s removal from the spy agencies was disclosed by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, ranking member of the House
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Washington — The Trump administration plans to freeze $510 million in federal grants to Brown University while it reviews the school’s response to antisemitism and its efforts to eliminate diversity policies, the White House confirmed Thursday. Brown, however, said it was unaware of the funding freeze. “At this moment, we have no information to substantiate
Billionaire Elon Musk will continue to be a “friend and an adviser” to President Trump after he formally leaves government, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday on Fox News. On Air Force One on Thursday, Mr. Trump told reporters Musk can stay “as long as he’d like.” Asked if he would potentially appoint Musk to
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