President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariff policy—dubbed “Liberation Day” tariffs—will take effect next week, applying new import duties on goods arriving by sea starting October 5. The executive order targets more than 70 nations, with tariff rates ranging from 10% to 41%, depending on economic cooperation and diplomatic standing with the U.S.
President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on South African goods to 30%, delivering a major economic blow despite a recent Oval Office visit from President Cyril Ramaphosa. The White House announced the move Thursday through an executive order targeting nations that failed to negotiate favorable trade deals with the United States.
The U.S. economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, far short of the 104,000 expected by economists, according to Friday’s Labor Department report. Unemployment rose to 4.2 percent, with significant downward revisions to previous months raising alarm about the true state of the labor market.
Cambodia will nominate President Donald Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his role in brokering peace between Cambodia and Thailand. Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol confirmed the nomination at a press conference, praising Trump’s intervention during a border conflict that killed dozens and displaced over 260,000 civilians.
President Trump officially declared Brazil a national security threat this week, imposing harsh economic and human rights sanctions on the country and targeting one of its top judicial figures.
President Trump is open to discussions with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un surrounding the country's potential denuclearization, a White House official told Fox News.
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Army Green Beret Joe Kent on Wednesday as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), in a 52-44 vote that followed months of partisan debate and resistance from progressive lawmakers. Kent, a Trump appointee, will now lead one of America’s key national security agencies focused on preventing terrorist threats.
A newly released declassified annex from Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report confirms that Hillary Clinton personally approved a plan during the 2016 election to smear then-candidate Donald Trump by promoting a false narrative linking him to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The revelation comes from documentation declassified by Sen. Chuck Grassley and sheds new light on the origins of the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
