President Donald Trump first announced the plan to impose tariffs on China in November 2024. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he is considering imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports in response to China’s failure to curb fentanyl trafficking into the United States. Trump, who was sworn in for a second
NEW YORK CITY—Mayor Eric Adams has defended his decision to cancel several Martin Luther King Jr. Day plans in New York City to attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump. At 12:07 a.m. Jan. 20, Adams’ office released a public schedule for the mayor that included MLK Day events in Brooklyn and Harlem and a
The new president is seeking a return to ‘non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring.’ President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 21 directing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to immediately cease hiring workers based on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and focus instead on individual capability. The order is among dozens the commander-in-chief signed into
On his first day in office, Trump issued seven executive orders cutting the size and costs of the federal workforce. WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump wasted no time following his Jan. 20 swearing-in to sign dozens of executive orders, including seven specifically aimed at fundamentally changing the culture, costs, and size of the federal workforce. Most immediately,
In doing so, the president fulfills a campaign promise to the libertarian movement. President Donald Trump has issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of an underground online marketplace called Silk Road that was designed to let people anonymously buy and sell various unlawful goods and services. Trump said in a Jan. 21 post
Two cities and 16 states are filing suit against the order that scraps rules granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States. California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined more than a dozen other state attorneys general is challenging the constitutionality of an executive order redefining birthright citizenship, issued by President Donald Trump on the
WASHINGTON—A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday. The release of two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before President Joe Biden left office