Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon At 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 15, the Trump administration quietly announced that imports of more than 400 additional products—valued at almost $210 billion in 2024—would be subject to “national security” tariffs on steel and aluminum. The action is disturbing for many reasons. For starters, many of the listed items can’t plausibly be considered “steel ...
The Trump administration began handing over documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case to the House Oversight Committee on Friday, a spokesperson for the panel said. House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., has committed to making the documents public in the interest of transparency, albeit after a committee review for sensitive information related to Epstein’s victims. ‘The production contains thousands of ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — a largely taxpayer-funded body that has taken in hundreds of millions in federal dollars — is facing pushback for fast-tracking a climate review that critics say is an attempt to undermine the Trump administration’s energy agenda. Earlier this month, Politico reported that NASEM is using ‘internal funding’ to pay for a ...
Colleen Hroncich When her daughter turned five, Chris Hauer thought, “Well, we could do one year of homeschool. We’re doing okay at preschool, we could probably handle kindergarten.” But she knew they needed to find some friends, so she found a homeschool group, the Helena Homeschool Enrichment Co-op. Little did she know where that would lead. “I showed up the ...
Longtime Republican consultant Roger Stone lambasted Trump adviser-turned-staunch-critic John Bolton following the FBI raid on his Bethesda, Maryland residence on Friday. ‘Good morning. John Bolton. How does it feel to have your home raided at 6 o’clock in the morning?’ Stone riffed on X, six years after the Biden FBI raided his own Fort Lauderdale home in an operation to ...
The FBI launched a raid Friday morning into the home and office of John Bolton — President Donald Trump’s national security advisor from 2018 and 2019 — months after Trump yanked Bolton’s security clearance in January upon taking office. The two men have a long history of trading barbs following Bolton’s exit from Trump’s first administration — all of which ...
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is lauding FBI Director Kash Patel and other Trump administration officials for their promises to take down the ‘deep state’ as federal agents raided John Bolton’s home and office. ‘I don’t know what John Bolton did. Obviously, he deserves due process,’ Comer told ‘America’s Newsroom’ on Friday. ‘But I do believe that Kash ...
Jeffrey A. Singer The US and the European Union released details of their trade “framework agreement” yesterday. If the deal goes through, American patients can expect to pay more for pharmaceuticals. But it could have been much worse, as I wrote in April. At that time, President Trump threatened a 250 percent tariff on all imports from the EU. About ...
David Inserra Americans generally don’t have to worry about online platforms removing speech because one person complains. We get into Facebook arguments, engage in debates on Reddit, criticize a podcaster or journalist on YouTube, laugh or wince at gamer hot takes on Twitch, or complain about the fairness of a Wikipedia entry all the time—but we aren’t concerned that some ...
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is preparing to appeal a High Court ruling that ordered the closure of a migrant hotel in Essex, amid warnings the case could set a precedent for asylum housing across the UK. Dan Jarvis, the security minister, confirmed on Wednesday that the Home Office will seek to overturn the temporary injunction forcing the shutdown of ...