Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested on Wednesday that hopes the central bank will step in to tamp down on market volatility are likely misplaced.
April 16, 2025
The Trump administration is weighing penalties that would block China's DeepSeek from buying U.S. technology and is debating barring Americans' access to its services, the New York Times
April 16, 2025
Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn’t find evidence of fraud in clean energy program
April 16, 2025
Hedge fund Greenlight Capital gained 8.2% in the first three months of 2025, buoyed by a bet on gold that it said should pay off further as it expects Trump
April 16, 2025
The Federal Reserve can stay patient and wait to see how tariffs and other economic policies of the Trump administration play out before making any changes to interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday
April 16, 2025
World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Wednesday he has had constructive talks with the Trump administration about the development lender but he did not know how
April 16, 2025
Boasberg finds ‘probable cause exists’ to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating orders on deportation flights
April 16, 2025
The Trump administration has taken its next steps toward imposing more tariffs on key imports, launching investigations into imports of computer chips and products that contain them, chip making equipment and pharmaceuticals
April 15, 2025
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April 16, 2025
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to universities by the U.S.
April 16, 2025
On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige
April 15, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, will travel to Paris this week for talks with European allies on U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine
April 16, 2025
Trump DOJ sues Maine over refusing to comply with ban on transgender athletes in high school sports
April 16, 2025
‘Pink tariffs’ cost women more than $2 billion a year
April 16, 2025
Harvard University has turned to Elon Musk's longtime law firm, Quinn Emanuel, and a pair of Washington insiders with strong Republican credentials for its multibillion-
April 15, 2025
Waste from coal plants was one of the Trump administration's recent deregulatory targets
April 16, 2025
PBS and NPR are in a once-in-a-generation funding fight. They might well lose
April 16, 2025
A ship full of lifesaving wheat is sailing towards Yemen. When it arrives next month, it may rot or be pillaged
April 16, 2025
Harvard’s president rejected Trump’s demands. Here’s how other university leaders have responded to the White House
April 15, 2025
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April 15, 2025
The Trump White House is axing the wire service spot from the coverage pool, the latest salvo in its battle with the AP
April 15, 2025
A dozen students in U.S.
April 16, 2025
In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to campus policy
April 15, 2025
The two attorneys representing Harvard University in a pitched fight with the Trump administration are no strangers to the spotlight or to Washington investigations that reach into the White House
April 15, 2025
More than 22,000 employees at the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service have accepted the Trump administration's latest buyout offer, two agency
April 15, 2025
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April 15, 2025
The Trump administration has granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene
April 15, 2025
The U.S. military is set to consolidate its presence in Syria over the coming weeks and months, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, in a
April 15, 2025
Three law students on Tuesday sued a U.S. civil rights agency, claiming that its probe into diversity policies at 20 large law firms is illegal and could expose the
April 15, 2025
A U.S. judge on Tuesday demanded U.S. officials provide documents and answer questions under oath about what it had done to secure the
April 15, 2025
A federal judge says she will order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
April 15, 2025
The NAACP sued the U.S.
April 15, 2025
The Trump administration announced an emergency transfer of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Army to help prevent illegal immigration, the Interior
April 15, 2025
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars meant to finance climate and infrastructure projects across the country
April 15, 2025
The Trump administration on Tuesday condemned attacks by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on civilians in North Darfur and called for parties in the country's civil war to be
April 15, 2025
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to cost Iowa farmers their biggest market for the hundreds of millions of bushels of soybeans they grow every year
April 15, 2025
The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department
April 15, 2025
The administration of President Donald Trump has appointed a key member of billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as the acting head of
April 15, 2025
Justice Department fires immigration lawyer who argued case of mistakenly deported man
April 15, 2025
More students living in the United States are applying to Canadian universities or expressing interest in studying north of the border as U.S
April 15, 2025
With the Trump administration expected to reverse a controversial 2023 decision on the permanent location of U.S. Space Command, a review by the Defense Department inspector general could not determine why Colorado was chosen over Alabama
April 15, 2025
The Trump administration has exempted 47 companies from regulations to curb mercury and air toxics for their coal-fired power plants for two years, according
April 15, 2025
Here’s what’s about to become more expensive with the next round of tariffs
April 15, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S.
April 15, 2025
Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts
April 15, 2025
About 25% of IRS workers planning to take buyout offer
April 15, 2025
Trump administration looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates
April 15, 2025
Chile, Canada and Peru - three of the largest copper suppliers to the United States - have told President Donald Trump's administration that imports of the
April 15, 2025
A group of former U.S.
April 15, 2025
CNN's Kaitlan Collins talks with Harvard Law Professor Andrew Crespo about why the university decided to be the first to fight back against the Trump administration's demands.
April 15, 2025
Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's administration will force them to scale back or eliminate celebrations next year commemorating the nation's 250th anniversary
April 14, 2025
Ranchers hope President Donald Trump's tariffs will make imported beef expensive enough that Americans will turn to cattle raised at home for all their hamburger and steaks
April 15, 2025
A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 15, 2025
Dozens of UWM students march in protest after Trump administration revokes 13 student visas on campus, no explanation given yet
April 15, 2025
The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University
April 14, 2025
Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejects request for policy changes
April 14, 2025
What to know about Abrego Garcia’s deportation case as White House and Bukele make clear he won’t be returned to US
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
A U.S. judge in Vermont on Monday ordered the Trump administration not to deport a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested upon arriving
April 15, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes around Yemen’s rebel-held capital have killed at least seven people and wounded 29 overnight
April 14, 2025
The Trump administration has turned a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press away from covering an Oval Office news conference involving President Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele
April 14, 2025
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters
April 14, 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday asked a federal court to throw out a regulation capping credit card late fees at $8, saying it agreed with business and banking groups that
April 14, 2025
President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month
April 14, 2025
IRS employees expect to learn their layoff fate around Tax Day, their busiest time of the year
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
Small businesses sue Trump administration over authority to impose tariffs
April 14, 2025
Confusion over President Donald Trump's tariffs remains following a weekend of questions around trade in consumer electronics
April 14, 2025
The U.S.
April 14, 2025
Nick Gioia was terminated from the U.S.
April 14, 2025
Democrats in the U.S.
April 14, 2025
A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, a move that could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
The Trump administration's tariff policies are a major shock to the U.S. economy that could lead the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to head off
April 14, 2025
Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United States for the first time
April 14, 2025
An unidentified options trader's multi-million dollar bet on a short-term rebound in Apple Inc.'s shares was set to reap a sizable profit as the iPhone-
April 14, 2025
Steps taken to reform Social Security during the Biden and Trump administrations have only made the prospects for a funding crisis more serious.
April 14, 2025
Trump administration cuts across federal health agencies have sent shivers through a biotech industry already struggling through a prolonged downturn
April 14, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a former deputy finance minister as a special envoy to the United States after the ambassador was expelled last month
April 14, 2025
US stock futures rise amid temporary tariff exemptions for tech products
April 13, 2025
Trump administration insists it isn’t required to work with El Salvador to bring back man mistakenly deported
April 14, 2025
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April 13, 2025
U.S. officials said in court filings on Sunday that they were not obligated to help a Maryland resident get out of prison in El Salvador after he was erroneously deported,
April 14, 2025
Pete Marocco, the Trump administration official who played a major role in dismantling the U.S.
April 13, 2025
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says tariff exemptions announced Friday on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, The Trump administration had said late Friday it will exclude electronics like smartphones and laptops from reciprocal tariffs, a move that could help keep the prices down for popular consumer electronics that aren’t usually made in the U.S....
April 12, 2025
The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month and remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador
April 12, 2025
The U.S. has deported another 10 people that it alleges are gang members to El Salvador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday, a day before that country's president is
April 13, 2025
Protesters gather in Cambridge to demand Harvard University protect international students
April 13, 2025
US-Iran negotiators hold ‘constructive’ nuclear talks, will meet again next week
April 11, 2025
Harvard University professors are suing to block the Trump administration's review of nearly $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to the Ivy League
April 12, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration could lay off workers at the U.S.
April 12, 2025
Harvard University professors sue Trump administration to block review of nearly $9 billion in federal funds
April 12, 2025
Pressures from Kyiv and Washington led to US ambassador’s resignation, sources say
April 12, 2025
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze funds intended for a Maine child nutrition program that were suspended amid a disagreement between the state and the president over transgender athletes
April 12, 2025
Dozens of DHS staffers, including top FEMA officials, given lie detector tests over alleged leaks
April 12, 2025
Trump can shrink consumer protection agency but cannot dismantle it entirely, appeals court says
April 12, 2025
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China's dominance in battery minerals and rare earth supply chains, the
April 12, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration wants to strike 90 trade deals in 90 days, but the challenges to quickly resolving the president's
April 12, 2025
TRADING DAY Scorn in the USA If there is one takeaway for investors above all others from yet another tumultuous week in world markets, it may be this:
April 11, 2025
The administration of President Donald Trump aims to eliminate the arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that oversees research on climate change
April 11, 2025
U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on Friday on a U.S. proposal to gain access to Ukraine's mineral wealth, a source with knowledge of the matter said, adding
April 11, 2025
A federal judge on Friday refused to limit the Trump administration's immigration enforcement activities in places of worship, ruling against a group of 27 religious
April 11, 2025
The Trump administration has terminated temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in the U.S., a U.S.
April 11, 2025
The U.S. Military Academy and the U.S.
April 11, 2025
Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve
April 11, 2025
A U.S. federal judge said on Friday it was "extremely troubling" that the Trump administration failed to
April 11, 2025
Lawyers for the Trump administration say they are unable to provide information on the location and status of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is playing out in hearings in key cases
April 11, 2025
A federal judge lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, President Donald Trump’s administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador
April 11, 2025
The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers is an escalation of the president’s crackdown on people who were legally allowed to live in the U.S. under programs instituted by his predecessor
April 11, 2025
A federal judge is siding with the Trump administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship despite a lawsuit filed by religious groups over the new policy
April 11, 2025
Trump administration lists thousands of immigrants as dead in new policy
April 11, 2025
Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately
April 11, 2025
Donald Trump says he is a big fan of oil and gas. His actions may not be of great interest to the industry. And the results may not be what he says he wants.
April 11, 2025
Suicide car bomber strikes a school bus in southwestern Pakistan, killing 4 children, officials say
Wi-Fi industry clashes with mobile operators over additional EU spectrum
Under attack by Trump, South Africa's Ramaphosa responds with trade deal offer
Amazon fires drive unprecedented global forest loss in 2024, report says
Panthers look every bit like reigning Stanley Cup champs in routing Hurricanes to open Eastern final
Trump Organization to break ground on golf club in Vietnam amid trade talks
Tennessee prepares to execute Oscar Smith, 3 years after last-minute reprieve