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Two U.S. border inspectors in Southern California have been charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes to allow people to enter the country through the nation’s busiest port of entry without showing documents, prosecutors said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez were assigned to immigration inspection booths at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. They were charged after investigators found phone evidence showing they had exchanged messages with human traffickers in Mexico and discovered unexplained cash deposits into their bank accounts, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. Surveillance video showed at least one instance in…
More than 50 countries have directly contacted the White House to initiate trade talks following US President Donald Trump’s imposition of wide-ranging punitive tariffs, administration officials have said. The tariffs, which caused a nearly $6 trillion drop in US stock values last week and battered global markets, have drawn worldwide attention and sparked fears of a potential economic downturn. But the Trump administration has downplayed that and potential further catastrophic economic fallout In the meantime, investors nervously awaited the open of US trading after Wall Street’s selloff last week, anticipating another week of turbulence as other nations react. Asian markets…
WASHINGTON — Multiple House Republican lawmakers vowed on Saturday to reject the sweeping budget plan that Senate Republicans passed overnight. Reps. Andy Harris, R-Md., and Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, the chairs of the House Freedom Caucus and the House Budget Committee, slammed the Senate bill in separate statements Saturday. Harris said he was “unconvinced” by the topline budget cuts Senate Republicans signed off on overnight, saying, “I can’t support House passage of the Senate changes to our budget resolution until I see the actual spending and deficit reduction plans to enact President [Donald] Trump’s America First agenda.” Arrington called the Senate bill “unserious…
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi once again attacked members of the judiciary in a Fox News interview Sunday, criticizing federal judges who have struck down or paused portions of President Donald Trump’s agenda and saying the Supreme Court will ultimately hear the court battle over the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. “The Supreme Court will get involved,” Bondi said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This is an out of control judge, a federal judge, trying to control our entire foreign policy, and he cannot do it.” Trump administration officials and the president himself have repeatedly criticized…
President Donald Trump gathered his Cabinet secretaries for a third known meeting Monday morning with Elon Musk in attendance, praising his department leaders for their cost-cutting measures even as he acknowledged they may not be “popular.” Trump told the room that the cuts had to happen regardless of the political ramifications, saying, “I have no idea how it plays out in the public … but it’s something that has to be done.” Musk, who is leading the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting initiative, has drawn criticism over his downsizing effort, and the meeting appeared choreographed to highlight its effectiveness and…
Musk tonight bashed federal judges whose rulings have impeded Trump’s policies, accusing them of “undermining faith in the legal system.” “We’ve got this issue with with judges that are activists. They’re not judges. They’re just pretending to be judges. They’re just politicians wearing judges’ robes,” Musk said during a livestreamed event with his super PAC, America PAC, in which he responded to questions from callers. “These judges are undermining faith in the legal system because they’re supposed to be objective, but they’re clearly not being objective. They’re being just politicians, and this is not right,” Musk said, without naming any…
President Donald Trump has favored tariffs for years. His expanding trade war is sure to ripple through the global economy for a long while, too. That’s because ramping up tariffs on foreign governments frequently draws retaliation — a likelihood that even industries Trump aims to support are already bracing for. While he has been rolling out an ever-shifting series of import taxes for months, the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he announced Wednesday are opening salvos in what could become drawn-out tit-for-tats with potentially dozens of governments. Unlike the narrower, targeted tariffs Trump imposed on certain countries and products in his first term, his latest duties are set…
The massive tariffs that President Donald Trump announced for dozens of trading partners Wednesday were pitched as “reciprocal,” simply aiming to match the tariffs other countries charge the United States. But the methodology behind Trump’s attempt to rebalance trade has nothing to do with the tariff rate that foreign countries impose on the US. The Trump administration instead used a grossly oversimplified calculation that it said factored in a broad set of issues such as Chinese investment, alleged currency manipulation and other countries’ regulations. The administration’s calculation divided a country’s trade deficit with the US by its exports into the The president…
At Columbia University, which has long borne witness to protests and dissent, the atmosphere has shifted under a new regime of policy changes ostensibly aimed at heightening security,with more than a dozen students and faculty. most of whom requested to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals – described a tense mood on campus as the changes take hold. The atmosphere is far from what Maria, a master’s student at Columbia whose name has been changed to protect her identity, imagined when she enrolled last spring. “I put my money down for Columbia thinking that I would be going to a…