NEW YORK (AP) — A month-long calm on Wall Street was shattered Friday and U.S. stocks plunged after President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on China much further. The S&P 500 sank 2.7% in its worst day since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 878 points, or 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite fell…
By Ahmed Aboulenein, Andy Sullivan, Nathan Layne and Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday it had initiated substantial layoffs across the U.S. government, as President Donald Trump made good on his threat to cut the federal workforce during the government shutdown. Job cuts were being made at the Treasury Department,…
By Andrés Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what appeared to be the start of a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, a senior Russian diplomat has raised doubts that the “spirit of Alaska” is still alive….
Thirty-four men have been executed by court order in the United States this year, and eight more are scheduled before it closes, five of whom will die in the next eight days. This year’s total already far exceeds the 25 executions carried out last year. It could mark the highest figure since 2012, when 43…
NEED TO KNOW During an Oct. 8 meeting with conservative influencers, President Donald Trump received a note from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The note, which was captured by photographers in the room, revealed to the president that he needed to approve a statement on social media about the tentative peace deal between Israel and…
A Rutgers University professor teaching a course on anti-fascism was prevented from leaving the United States for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of far-left antifa – or “anti-fascist” – activists. Mark Bray, a historian who published the book Antifa: The…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will undergo a medical checkup at Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, Oct. 10, in what will be the 79-year-old president’s second exam at Walter Reed this year. His visit to the doctor comes after Trump was diagnosed in July with chronic venous insufficiency that has resulted in visible swelling…
Federal Government Shutdown Enters Second Week, But Quiet Talks Emerge WASHINGTON (AP) — Tours of the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House keeps its doors closed, while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes on a rejected plan to reopen the government. President Donald Trump is threatening to lay off…
By Leika Kihara Tokyo (Reuters) -with Sanae Takaichi will become Japan’s Prime Minister, moving forward in expansionist economic policies, the possibilities have increased that the Central Bank avoids increasing interest rates this month, although the pause may not last if it covers the YEN. Takaichi, who will probably become the first leading woman in Japan…
The new member of Congress, Adelita Grijalva, came to Washington DC this week, hoping that the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, was officially sworn. Two days later, he returned to his southern district of Arizona disappointed, if not a little confused. A swear ceremony had not been organized, which means that Grijalva,…
