All but one Senate Republican voted on Thursday to confirm President Donald Trump’s nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to serve as an assistant attorney general. While the 52-45 vote was almost entirely along party lines, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, joined Democrats in voting against Dhillon’s confirmation. Fox News Digital reached out to a Murkowski spokesperson on Friday morning to request ...
Gold prices surged to a record high this week, capping the strongest quarterly rally in nearly three decades, as investors seek protection from mounting global economic uncertainty fuelled by President Trump’s aggressive US trade tariffs. On Tuesday, the precious metal climbed another 1.2 per cent to $3,120.20 per ounce, setting a new all-time high. Gold has now risen almost 20 ...
Live shopping — a blend of entertainment and e-commerce — is making its way from Asia into Western markets, with brands increasingly turning to interactive livestreams to sell products and engage customers. But as platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Amazon invest in this retail trend, many are asking whether live shopping will truly take off in the UK. ...
Carbon nanotubes are one-dimensional nanomaterials with amazing strength and excellent electrical and thermal conductivity. They’re making waves in industries like new energy vehicles, the 3C digital sector (that’s computers, communications, and consumer electronics), semiconductors, and power infrastructure. When it comes to large-scale commercial use, the biggest demand for carbon nanotubes comes from lithium batteries and conductive plastics, with lithium batteries ...
Senate Republicans cleared the way on Thursday for an eventual vote on the latest version of a budget to push through several key agenda items for President Trump, including the southern border and extending his 2017 tax cuts. A motion to proceed was agreed to in the upper chamber just one day after Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham unveiled ...
President Donald Trump said he wants Elon Musk to stay on his team ‘as long as possible’ during a conversation with reporters Thursday, adding DOGE had found something ‘horrible’ without divulging details. The president made his remarks during a conversation with reporters on Air Force One after Trump was asked how much longer Musk would stay on as a ‘special ...
President Donald Trump confirmed that multiple employees within the National Security Council were fired Thursday, adding to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s recent political woes that have snowballed since Democrats first slammed him over March’s Signal chat leak. ‘Always, we’re going to let go of people we don’t like, or people we don’t think can do the job, or people ...
Tad DeHaven Where does one begin? Well, in no particular order, and certainly not a complete listing, here are five absurd aspects of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tax hike on American consumers and businesses. And, yes, the entire situation itself is absurd. Penguins Better Stop “Ripping Us Off” The Heard and McDonald Islands are remote volcanic islands in the southern ...
Colin Grabow, Scott Lincicome, and Kyle Handley For all of President Donald Trump’s talk about reciprocity, it turns out that he just wanted higher tariffs. After weeks of threatening “reciprocal” tariffs to match the higher tariffs and trade barriers of US trading partners, Trump announced yesterday that the United States was slapping a 10 percent tariff on everyone. Dozens more countries face still higher tariffs—up ...
President Donald Trump laid out his plans for imposing a host of new tariffs on imports to the U.S. Wednesday — a day his administration touted as ‘Liberation Day’ and vowed would restore the American dream. Trump unveiled the new tariffs in a ceremony at the White House’s Rose Garden for a ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ event, where he declared ...