APRIL 3, 2025
President Trump Holds Cabinet Meeting.
Layoffs across the U.S. surged 205% in March when compared with a year earlier, with last month's 275,240 job cuts fueled by widespread firings engineered by billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
March's layoffs represent the third-highest monthly total ever recorded, Challenger said. The two previous...
APRIL 3, 2025
Germany Leads EU Nations in US Car Imports | US imported $24.8 billion worth of cars from country last year. - US Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration
Europe’s automakers are raising prices and preparing to shift car production to the US to try to protect themselves from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Volkswagen AG plans to add import fees to the...
APRIL 3, 2025
A 3D-printed miniature model of U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Flag and word "Tariffs" are seen in this illustration taken, April 2, 2025. - REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
U.S. President Donald Trump further escalated a trade war on Wednesday by announcing he would impose reciprocal tariffs to match duties put on U.S. goods by other countries.
"It's our declaration of independence,"...
APRIL 2, 2025
James Carville and Donald Trump. (Photo: Left: Marion Curtis/StarPix/AP; Right: AP)
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville appeared Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” to discuss President Donald Trump’s steep international tariffs, sharing both confusion about their economic logic and the potential reason behind them.
“They’re just Trump going power mad,” Carville told Melber.
“He gets in there and he figures, ‘I don’t...
APRIL 2, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. - REUTERS/Carlos Barria
President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled global reciprocal tariffs during an event at the White House.
Following are highlights of Trump's remarks:
* "In many cases, the friend is worse than the foe in...
APRIL 2, 2025
Frank Luntz, Cory Booker (Photo: Getty Images)
Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz was so impressed by the record-breaking speech by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) this week that he thinks the Democratic Party may have a new leader in its midst.
“I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history,” he told NewsNation’s Leland...
APRIL 2, 2025
President Trump arrives at the Rose Garden of the White House to announce new tariffs. Photo:(Evan Vucci / AP)
President Trump announced sweeping global tariffs Wednesday — a risky move that he vowed would lure manufacturing back to the United States, but which experts warned could upend the global economy.
In a Rose Garden speech, Trump said the U.S....
APRIL 1, 2025
Indian Union Home Minister, Amit Shah.
The Lok Sabha passed the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 on Thursday. The Bill aims to replace four existing laws governing immigration: the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920, the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939, the Foreigners Act, 1946, and the Immigration (Carriers’ Liability) Act, 2000.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah discussed the Bill in...
APRIL 1, 2025
Proxy battle: Elon Musk and former NFL star Brett Favre have put their weight behind Republican Brad Schimel for the vacant seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.
Voters go to the polls in Wisconsin on Tuesday to vote in a normally obscure judicial contest that Elon Musk says risks “the entire destiny of humanity”.
The state Supreme Court race has...
APRIL 1, 2025
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks at a rally in support of USAid on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on February 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. - Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in...
