Trump Touts Progress After Trade Talks With Japanese Officials

The Trump administration is working with dozens of countries to negotiate new trade deals, White House officials said. President Donald Trump met with Japanese officials at the White House on April 16 to discuss trade negotiations, and his quick reaction on social media afterwards suggested a positive result. “A Great Honor to have just met

Trump Open to Deporting American Criminals to El Salvador–But Only If It’s Legal, White House Says

“It’s a legal question that the president is looking into,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. President Donald Trump would consider deporting American citizens convicted repeatedly of violent crimes to prisons outside the country if it were legally allowed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. “It’s a legal question that the

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Freeze on Climate, Infrastructure Grants

The judge said agencies following the president’s direction cannot ‘hamstring in perpetuity two statutes passed by Congress during the previous administration.’ A federal judge on April 15 blocked the Trump administration from freezing the disbursement of funds for climate and infrastructure grants, finding that the pause in disbursing funds was illegal. Nonprofits suing the administration

DOJ files lawsuit against Maine claiming state violated Title IX

Washington — Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is filing a civil lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education for “discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women’s sports” in what she alleged is a violation of Title IX. “The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are

AP says its reporters were blocked from Oval Office despite court order

Washington — The Associated Press said its reporters were prevented from attending an Oval Office event with President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele even though a federal judge had ordered the White House to restore the news outlet’s access as of Monday. An AP spokesperson said in a statement that its “journalists were blocked

Judge blocks WH from enforcing parts of executive order targeting law firm

Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday said she will prevent the Trump administration from enforcing portions of an executive order that targets the law firm Susman Godfrey, finding that the directive likely retaliates against the firm and its clients for their exercise of constitutionally protected speech. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan granted the firm’s

15 State Attorneys General Ask CEOs of Major Corporations to Dump DEI Policies

Fifteen state attorneys general urged a group of top corporate leaders on April 15 to drop their companies’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Such programs are “divisive” and “unlawful,” the state officeholders, led by Andrew Bailey of Missouri, said in correspondence addressed to Business Roundtable. The six-page letter was signed by 14 other state