A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters. The lawsuit filed in Boston federal […]
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Trump to Outline AI Priorities in Speech Asserting US Edge
President Donald Trump plans to deliver a major address on artificial intelligence next week to outline his vision for ensuring American dominance in AI, marking his biggest statement on an emerging technology at the heart of the U.S.-China rivalry. Trump […]
Trump Reveals New Batch of Tariffs From Iraq to Philippines
President Donald Trump unveiled a new round of tariff demand letters on Wednesday with levies set to hit in August on imported goods from partners who fail to reach agreements with the US. Trump said he would levy a 30% […]
Trump to Levy 25% Tariffs on Japan, South Korea in August
President Donald Trump said he’ll impose tariffs of 25% on goods from Japan and South Korea beginning Aug. 1, giving the two export powers a narrow three-week window to open their markets to American products and manufacture more in the […]
Trump Taking Bid to Oust Consumer Product Safety Commissioners to Supreme Court
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three Democratic Consumer Product Safety Commission members by putting on hold a judicial order calling for their reinstatement. In the latest fight […]
Trump Can’t End FEMA But It Needs Reform, Says Obama’s FEMA Head
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and last week he gave a rough timeline for that: “after hurricane season.” “We want to wean off of FEMA, and […]
‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. […]