100 days of injunctions, trials and ‘Teflon Don’: Trump second term meets its biggest tests in court
President Donald Trump has spent the first 100 days of his second White House term signing a flurry of executive orders aimed at delivering on his policy priorities: slashing government spending, cracking down on illegal immigration and eliminating many diversity and equity initiatives enacted under the Biden administration. The more than 150 executive orders Trump has signed far outpace those ...
The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed a bill backed by first lady Melania Trump that cracks down on the posting of explicit images, including ‘deep fake’ nudes generated of people by artificial intelligence, without consent. The Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks – known as the TAKE IT DOWN Act – was approved ...
Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., announced on Monday that he introduced seven articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. ‘Donald Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he is unfit to serve as President and represents a clear and present danger to our nation’s constitution and our democracy,’ Thanedar said in a news release. The articles allege wrongdoing by Trump including ‘Obstruction of ...
Airbus has finalised a major deal to acquire parts of Spirit AeroSystems’ UK business, including the historic Short Brothers factory in Belfast and key operations in Prestwick, as it moves to secure critical components for its aircraft production lines. The agreement follows Boeing’s $4.7 billion takeover of Spirit last year, a move aimed at reinforcing its supply chain. However, the ...
HSBC has set aside $876 million to cover expected bad loans, warning of growing risks from President Trump’s escalating trade war and protectionist policies that are disrupting global commerce. In its first-quarter results, the FTSE 100-listed bank revealed that $150 million of the provision was linked directly to “deterioration in the forward economic outlook” caused by sweeping new US tariffs. ...
Canada’s Liberal Party is projected to win the country’s federal election for the fourth consecutive time. The Liberals are led by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who took over after Justin Trudeau resigned. As of late Monday, the Liberal Party was also leading with 137 seats won in Parliament as opposed to the 98 seats held by the Conservative Party. ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., issued a ruling Monday to restore a lower court’s order barring the Trump administration’s planned mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau (CFPB). The court ruled 2-1 to restore an earlier ruling by federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, which temporarily halted the Trump administration’s reductions in force (RIF) ...
Pakistan’s defense minister on Monday said he believes an incursion by India is ‘imminent’ as tensions remain heightened following a militant attack in India’s Kashmir region last week, which saw the killing of 26 people, first reported Reuters. India, which has not named any group it suspects of leading the attack but said it believes Pakistan to have backed the ...
Mike Fox Senior US District Judge John Kane. Most Americans think of our criminal justice system as being like Law and Order, where all defendants go to trial, and prosecutors must prove their case to a jury. But that’s largely fictional at this point—the shocking reality is that 98.3 percent of all federal convictions (and a similar percentage of state convictions) come from ...
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar India and Pakistan are in danger of starting another armed conflict. India may attack Pakistan after accusing its neighbor of aiding a terrorist attack in the Indian-held part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir that took 26 lives last week. Several terrorist attacks of lesser magnitude have occurred in the last year. Indian Prime Minister ...