MARCH 8, 2025
Log booms float on the Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia, March 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier
BEIJING - China announced tariffs on over $2.6 billion worth of Canadian agricultural and food products on Saturday, retaliating against levies Ottawa introduced in October and opening a new front in a trade war largely driven by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats.
The...
MARCH 8, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The government database — created to help enforce child support payments and overseen by the Administration for Children...
MARCH 7, 2025
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The U.S. Department of State issued warnings for travelers heading to 126 destinations, including 21 places where U.S. citizens should not travel.
Why It Matters
The State Department considers a variety of factors when issuing travel advisories, including crime, terrorism, civil unrest, health, likelihood of a natural disaster and current events.
What To Know
Travel advisories are reviewed by the...
MARCH 7, 2025
The Trump administration on Friday announced that it would cancel approximately $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University "due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."
The move comes just days after the administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism notified Columbia that it was going to conduct a "comprehensive...
MARCH 7, 2025
Stew Leonard Jr., CEO of grocery store Stew Leonard's, is considering shifting some suppliers due to potential tariffs. AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey
President Donald Trump's tariffs are shaking up supply chains for everything from cars to tequila.
Stew Leonard's, a family-owned grocery chain in the Northeastern US, is making changes in response.
CEO Stew Leonard Jr. said he's trying to...
MARCH 6, 2025
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. - Alex Brandon/AP
A federal judge on Thursday shot down President Donald Trump's effort to oust a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
In a fiery ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that Trump is trying to carry out a...
MARCH 6, 2025
Democratic strategist James Carville argued the “simplest and most direct” explanation for President Donald Trump’s actions thus far in office is that he “hates” his own country.
In a video for Politicon, Carville accused Trump of deliberately trying to “harm” the United States with moves like his tariffs on Canada and Mexico and his explosive meeting in front of cameras with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In Carville’s nearly-10...
MARCH 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s not his fault.
Billionaire Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers that he is not to blame for the firings of thousands of federal workers, including veterans, as pushes to downsize the government. Instead, he said in private talks this week that those decisions are left to the various federal agencies.
The message from one of President Donald Trump's most influential advisers...
MARCH 6, 2025
Demonstrators rally during a protest against billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading U.S. President Donald Trump's drive to shrink the federal government, outside the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File
Summary
US-based employers announced 172,017 job cuts in February
DOGE leads reasons for layoffs, accounted for 63,583 cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C. -...
MARCH 6, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joins Right Side Broadcasting Network's Brian Glenn on camera during a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate and then-former President Donald Trump at the Forum River Center on March 9, 2024, in Rome, Georgia. Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The White House’s favored new reporter, the one who scolded Ukrainian...
