The return of Donald Trump to the White House could bring changes to global trade, with proposed tariffs raising alarms across markets and sparking urgent questions about the future of economic relations between the US, UK and EU. At the heart of these concerns is Trump’s pledge to introduce universal tariffs of 10% to 20%…
Elon Musk is tearing into the F-35, the most expensive weapons program in history and a favorite of his new best friend, President-elect Donald Trump. In a series of posts on X, the world’s richest man and proponent of driverless cars targeted the tri-service fighter jet program while coming out in favor of uncrewed aircraft….
At 6:52 p.m. on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice for Treasury secretary. Minutes later, he tapped a director for the Office of Management and Budget. Then came his picks for Labor secretary, deputy national security adviser and surgeon general. The evening flurry lasted just over an hour, and in that time Trump announced…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that it says is already limiting the federal government’s ability to provide security clearances and briefings to the incoming administration. Without the planning, says Max Stier,…
To all those Republicans who shed crocodile tears because their feelings were so hurt that people were calling Donald Trump a fascist: stop. To all the MAGA defenders who said it was over-the-top to compare Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to that held by the German-American Bund in an earlier incarnation of Madison Square Garden:…
Donald Trump’s latest boast about his crowd size fell apart in a hurry as he was fact-checked in real-time while he was still speaking. “We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it’s so great,” the former president said in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. “We never have an empty seat, never have, look at…
In the aftermath of the apparent second attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump, the Chicago Police Department has honed its attention on Trump International Hotel and Tower, located in downtown Chicago. A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department said the agency doesn’t divulge the exact number of patrols but acknowledged that they are giving…
