March 13 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration will receive a fee of about $10 billion from investors in the recently closed deal “to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance in January finalized a deal to establish a…
US military forces have caught another suspected drug smuggling ship in the Caribbean, destroying the ship and killing all six on board. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the move in a social media post stating that his department had carried out what he called a “lethal kinetic attack” on the ship, which he claimed…
By Jeff Mason, Tom Polansek and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is quadrupling the tariff quota on Argentine beef to 80,000 metric tons in a bid to drive down prices, a White House official said on Thursday. The move allows Argentina to send more meat to the United States at…
The US military has attacked and destroyed two ships on the Pacific side of South America for the first time, as part of its continuing and controversial fight against what it says are drug trafficking activities. The attacks – on Tuesday night and then early Wednesday – killed five people, according to US Defense Secretary…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration had violated his earlier court order by implementing a nearly identical policy that again made state cooperation with federal immigration authorities a condition of receiving grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island,…
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge in Boston had some direct words for Donald Trump as he issued one of dozens of court decisions in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies. “I fear that President Trump believes that the American people are…
By Bo Erickson Washington (Reuters): With the United States government eight days since its 15th partial closure since 1981, Washington has been in a family territory with an important difference: the administration of President Donald Trump has not widely shared his plans for what functions they will cease and what will continue if Congress does…
The Trump administration has begun to recruit hundreds of military lawyers to sit as immigration judges, presiding over what are often federal decisions of life and death for immigrants in the United States, since experts warn that the White House strategy is of high risk and possibly illegal. The judges are temporary, but renewable, and…
