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Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Devastating Small Businesses
Small businesses owners are already feeling the effects of Donald Trump’s tariff scheme that he claims will boost American manufacturing…
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Politics
Press Secretary Says Trump Wasn’t Joking About Deporting U.S. Citizens
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt waffled Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump’s threat to deport U.S. citizens to foreign…
Politics
Pro-Israel Group Asks Trump Attorney General to Investigate Ms. Rachel
The right-wing StopAntisemitism group thinks that children’s YouTube educator Ms. Rachel should be investigated by Attorney General Pam…
Politics
IRS Strikes Unprecedented Deal With ICE on Undocumented Immigrants
On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to start sharing tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help the Trump…
News
Immigration Agents Detain Lawyer Representing Student Protester
The Trump administration is continuing its unconstitutional attack on attorneys it disagrees with, this time by detaining an American…
Business
Justice Department Announces Stunning Change on Crypto Investigations
Trump’s Justice Department is going to pull back on prosecuting cryptocurrency fraud, according to a memo from Deputy Attorney General…
Politics
Musk Trashes Trump’s “Moron” Trade Adviser Amid Major Tariff Blowback
Elon Musk called Donald Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks” Tuesday, once again betraying the…
Politics
Trump Trade Adviser Struggles to Explain Tariffs on Top U.S. Ally
Senator Mark Warner became exasperated Tuesday with Trump Trade Representative Jamieson Greer as he was unable to give a real answer as to…
Politics
Supreme Court Backs Trump on Fired Federal Workers—For Now
“It is sad, a sad day, when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well…
Politics
Economist Cited in Trump’s Wild Tariffs Says He Got Math “Very Wrong”
The Trump administration’s calculations justifying the most consequential tariff scheme of the last century are all wrong. In an op-ed for…
Politics
Trump Weighs Bombing Mexico—Because Everything Else Is Going So Well
The Trump administration is thinking about bombing Mexico. Former and current U.S. military officials who spoke with NBC News said that…
Business
Wall Street braces for souring corporate earnings amid trade war
US stocks reeling from the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs face another big test starting later this week: corporate earnings.…
Politics
MAGA Rages at Amy Coney Barrett After She Turns Against Trump
Initially, Marks said that he tried to be on good terms with his vaccine-skeptic new boss regarding vaccine safety, making plans to…
Business
Dollar falls as prospect of tariff talks calms global markets
The US dollar fell on Tuesday (Apr 8) while the euro perked up as stocks bounced in Asia and Europe on hopes that US President Donald…
Business
Greenback falls as prospect of tariff talks calms global markets
THE US dollar fell on Tuesday (Apr 8) while the euro perked up as stocks bounced in Asia and Europe on hopes that US President Donald…
Politics
China Warns Trump It Will Fight to the End After Tariffs Threat
Initially, Marks said that he tried to be on good terms with his vaccine-skeptic new boss regarding vaccine safety, making plans to…
Business
Trump’s tariff chaos becomes US$700 billion storm for big banks
Financial services are excluded from Donald Trump’s trade war for now. Banks are still feeling the pain. HSBC Holdings’s market value has…
Business
SGX securities turnover value up 25% in March, volume down 23%
The total securities market turnover value on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) increased 25 per cent year on year to S$29.7 billion in March,…
Politics
Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs
Sargent: Yeah. And I think when Republicans start getting a real earful from their constituents, even much worse than it is now, you’re…
Business
Resolving succession at Kwek Leng Beng's Hong Leong Finance
Succession troubles surfaced recently at local-listed property and hotel group City Developments Limited (CDL), when executive chairman…
Business
The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”
The prescriptions that flow from those assessments are bleak. Naturally, Wall Street is looking to find investment opportunities and avoid…
Politics
Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like
In fact, until news of my grant cancellation arrived last Thursday, I had spent most of the week working on a curricular initiative to…
News
Japan debt deals pulled as tariffs hit deals outlook across Asia
Three Japanese companies have postponed the sale of 100 billion yen (S$916.7 million) worth of yen-denominated bonds in the wake of global…
News
Alibaba chases international AI users with new Qwen upgrades
The expansion, through its Singapore availability zones, shows Alibaba ramping up an aggressive campaign to lure AI users and developers…