MARCH 22, 2025
The White House is directing federal law enforcement officials to seek sanctions against attorneys or law firms that challenge President Donald Trump’s actions in court, a move seen as an escalation of the president’s attacks on those who oppose his aggressive policy changes or who have litigated against him in the past.
A White House memo issued late Friday...
MARCH 22, 2025
Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned the impact of the new US administration’s policies will have a “seismic” impact on the global economy, ahead of his fourth national budget due to be handed down on Tuesday.
Chalmers will unveil new cost-of-living assistance for Australians in the budget on Tuesday night, with subsidies on electricity bills to be extended...
MARCH 22, 2025
Undersea cables map. - GB News (CA)
China has revealed a breakthrough deep-sea cable cutting device which could sever underwater communications lines across the world.
The tool is said to be able to operate as deep as four kilometres below the waves - twice as far down as the maximum depth at which telecoms cables can run.
The device has been...
MARCH 22, 2025
Activists hold a rally and march through downtown Chicago to show support for Mahmoud Khalil on March 11. - Scott Olson/Getty Images
A Colorado business owner called her immigration attorney in a panic this week, wrestling with a worry she never expected: If she travels abroad for a conference, could she end up getting deported?
A woman from Cameroon...
MARCH 22, 2025
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York, September 25, 2019. - JONATHAN ERNST, REUTERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a video circulated last weekend by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, the new inmates of his infamous Terrorism Confinement...
MARCH 21, 2025
Financial Markets Wall Street. - Seth Wenig / AP
Stocks are sliding in morning trade amid ongoing concerns about U.S. tariffs and signs that the American economy is faltering.
The Dow Jones Industrial Complex was down 236 points, or 0.6%, to 41,717 as of 11:17 a.m. EST, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 0.6% and 0.5%, respectively.
Investors are pulling...
MARCH 20, 2025
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump places his hands on a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
A client of Paul Weiss has fired the U.S. law firm in a criminal case in New Jersey, citing U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order that...
MARCH 20, 2025
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Accenture is displayed on a building, on the first day of the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 15, 2024. - REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Consultancy firm Accenture said on Thursday the Trump administration's efforts to reduce federal spending have led to delays and cancellations of new contracts, sending the company's shares down more...
MARCH 20, 2025
Stocks rose after the Fed held interest rates steady Wednesday. - Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
The Federal Reserve’s first set of projections since Donald Trump’s inauguration underscored—in the central bank’s understated and technocratic fashion—just how much the president’s plans to press ahead with widespread tariffs have turned the economic outlook on its head.
Months ago, policymakers presumed they would spend 2025 gradually cutting...
MARCH 20, 2025
As President Donald Trump argued in recent weeks — for the first time, the third time, the 10th time — to eliminate Canadian sovereignty and convert the country into America’s 51st state, messages started arriving in attorney Mitchell Wine’s inbox.
“A couple friends wrote me and said, ‘It’s all your fault,’” Wine recalled with a chuckle.
Wine does not,...
