Author: Nermeen Nabil
President Trump’s new global tariffs based on forced-labor violations have already drawn a lawsuit and criticism from American allies, but experts say the legal basis may make them harder to strike down than previous tariffs. Trump’s previous “liberation…
U.K. House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle landed in Washington this week, arriving just as the United Kingdom cycled through yet another prime minister. “We’re overachieving on prime ministers,” he said during an interview…
Paramount Skydance said Friday that it has agreed to delay the company’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery amid a pending lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general to block the merger. The company and…
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday during a press conference that Canada is prepared to respond to President Trump’s threat of 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods if intensified negotiations for a comprehensive trade…
The White House is quietly trying to discourage a candidate previously endorsed by the president from switching congressional districts in Louisiana, as the GOP looks to pick up an additional seat in the state following…
President Trump said Friday that “nobody got out ahead” of him in the announcement of a nuclear deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, despite the president changing the terms of the agreement the next…
Morris Katz, the Democratic strategist who helped recruit Graham Platner to run for the U.S. Senate in Maine, reflected on the string of controversies that led up to Platner’s decision to exit the race. In…
President Trump described NBA superstar LeBron James as a possible racist, saying he prefers Michael Jordan when asked about the two in the Oval Office on Friday. “Well, Michael Jordan’s a guy that’s a friend…
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story OpenAI, Hugging Face breach stokes fears on what’s next for AI Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of…
President Trump’s new tariffs were hit a legal challenge Friday from two small businesses who are represented by part of the legal team that toppled Trump’s earlier tariffs at the Supreme Court. The new surcharge,…
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is investigating two stabbings as possible hate crimes, police said Thursday. An Asian man and a Jewish man were injured in separate attacks, which occurred midday Thursday in…
The Education Department said Thursday that it is rescinding a long-standing policy allowing statistical disparities to serve as evidence of discrimination in schools during civil rights investigations. The policy, which took place immediately, eliminated guidance…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in her state’s contentious Democratic Senate primary on Friday, wading into one of the highest-profile ideological battles within the Democratic Party. “As governor, I have one strategy:…
President Trump on Friday pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to immediately take up a House-passed budget resolution to advance critical funding for the Iran war despite Thune’s statement on Thursday that the measure…
President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Senate Republicans to quickly advance a $95 billion budget blueprint — even as the mood on Capitol Hill signals GOP senators are inclined to wait until later…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is pushing back on the idea that he supports the “far right,” quipping in a recent interview that he backs “normal people” and slamming the media for its coverage…
Ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann called House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) recommendation of criminal charges for former special counsel Jack Smith “preposterous.” In an interview on MSNOW with Jen Psaki, Weissmann added, “You cannot…
Federal health officials have linked cyclospora outbreaks in four additional states to the same iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico that has sickened thousands of people in the Midwest. The new states are Illinois, Kansas,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Trump in Washington next week as the widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran fuels growing concerns about the conflict’s endgame. Netanyahu will travel to Washington on Monday…