APRIL 16, 2025
Trump and Zelensky’s meeting in the White House in March descended into a shouting match (Getty)
What could possess Donald Trump to victim-shame Ukraine’s president and endorse the actions of an indicted war criminal by backing Vladimir Putin? Personal hatred of Volodymyr Zelensky? A near-demented obsession with personal sleight? A radical strategic vision that’s upended world affairs? Something worse?
Probably.
Soon after the massacre in Sumy, where two...
APRIL 16, 2025
Americas Infrastructure Grades. - Patrick Semansky
BOSTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars meant to finance climate and infrastructure projects across the country.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, sided with conservation and nonprofit groups and issued a preliminary injunction until she rules on the merits...
APRIL 15, 2025
China’s reported ban on Boeing deliveries has forced President Donald Trump to pay attention to the manufacturer, BofA said. - Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg—Getty Images
China reportedly asked its airlines to halt Boeing orders, which has put the aircraft manufacturer in the middle of the U.S.’s trade war with China. Boeing, a major U.S. company, relies heavily on international orders, and CEO Kelly...
APRIL 15, 2025
Nicole Micheroni, an immigration attorney, in her office in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday. - Photograph: Matthew J Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen is speaking out after she received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country.
Nicole Micheroni described receiving an email on 11...
APRIL 15, 2025
Education International Students. - David Goldman
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a day. These were foreigners studying in the U.S., and they'd discovered in early April their legal status had been terminated with little notice. To their knowledge, none of the students had committed a deportable offense.
In recent...
APRIL 14, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 14, 2025. - REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
WASHINGTON, D.C. - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on Monday he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States as he met...
APRIL 13, 2025
Millions of people visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture every year. - Jasper Colt/USA TODAY
WASHINGTON, D.C. ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few years ago.
“Everyone understood why he had tears in his...
APRIL 13, 2025
Donald Trump has created a hair trigger in US Treasury markets that threatens to again let loose at any moment - Sean Thew/Shutterstock
Well done, President Donald Trump. Though he doesn’t seem to realize it, he has just given a textbook lesson on how to spark a financial crisis.
By partially retreating from the imposition of retaliatory tariffs, Mr Trump...
APRIL 13, 2025
Ray Dalio, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, warned Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press" about other economic concerns in addition to Trump's tariffs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ray Dalio, the founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said he is "worried about something worse than a recession" if President Donald Trump does not properly handle tariffs and...
APRIL 13, 2025
President Trump speaks about his tariffs at the White House on 2 April. - Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
Last week, Mao Ning, head of China’s foreign ministry information department, posted a blurry black -and -white clip of a moment in history. In 1953, the late Chairman Mao, in his heavily accented, high-pitched voice, made a defiant speech of resistance to what he called...
