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US and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days

42 minutes ago The US and China have agreed a deal that will significantly cut the import tariffs, or taxes, both sides have imposed on one another for a 90-day period. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both countries would lower their reciprocal tariffs by 115% for 90 days. The announcement came after the two countries held intensive talks in Switzerland over the weekend. It was the first meeting between the two countries since US President Donald Trump had levied steep tariffs again ...

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House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts

May 12, 2025, 12:36 AM WASHINGTON -- House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's “ big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks. Tallying hundreds of pages, the legislation is touching off the biggest political fight over health care since Republicans tried to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during Trump's first term in 2017 — which end ...

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'Very bad idea': Republicans revolt over Trump scheme to get $400 million plane from Qatar

May 11, 2025 3:43PM ET ABC News on Sunday reported President Donald Trump is poised to accept “what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government” — “a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar” to be used “as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation.” According to ABC News, “the gift is expected to be a ...

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Man suing Trump puts president on notice: 'We're not going to let him get away with it'

May 11, 2025 6:15PM ET The state attorneys general who are suing Donald Trump will keep it up, according to one of them. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appeared on MSNBC on Sunday, and was asked about holding Trump accountable in a court of law. He said that he and the other state authorities will "continue to sue Donald Trump every time he breaks the law." He continued, further saying, "I don't wake up in the morning wanting to sue Donald Trump." "But I' ...

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Pam Bondi's Qatar Links Under Scrutiny Over Trump's Luxury Plane Gift

Published May 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM EDT Attorney General Pam Bondi's links to Qatar are under scrutiny again following reports that President Donald Trump will be gifted a luxury plane from the Qatari government. Bondi worked as a foreign lobbyist for the nation of Qatar, earning $115,000 a month in the role which she held in 2020 and in the run up to the World Cup in 2022. In this role, she lobbied Congress on behalf of Qatari interests. She also worked in a separate lobbying position for the ...

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Trump to sign executive order to cut prices of medicine to match other countries

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would sign an executive order to cut prescription prices to the level paid by other high-income countries, an amount he put at 30% to 80% less. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would sign the executive order on Monday morning to pursue what is known as "most favored nation" pricing or international reference pricing. -snip- "They will rise throughout the World in order to equalize and, for the first time in many years, bring ...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says There Will Be Hell To Pay If Dems Are Arrested For ICE Protest

May 11, 2025, 01:41 PM EDT Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had a stern message for Republican officials threatening to arrest lawmakers who were involved in a confrontation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, New Jersey. The congresswoman accused President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally preventing a group of Garden State Democrats from touring the facility, where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing on Friday. Afterwards, a ...

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MAGA Is Bombarding Judges With Pizzas in 'Intimidation' Plot

Updated May 11 2025 1:08PM EDT Published May 11 2025 9:52AM EDT The nation’s justices are facing a bizarre new scourge of food delivery pranks they say are designed to intimidate them into not challenging President Donald Trump‘s policies in court. Federal judges told the Washington Post that pizza orders, possibly numbering in the hundreds, have been sent to the homes of jurists in at least seven states since Trump assumed office for the second time. The stunts appear to eerily draw upon t ...

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How One Ivy League University Has Avoided Trump's Retribution So Far

May 11, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET Some 600 college leaders recently signed a letter opposing the Trump administration's interference in higher education. The only Ivy League president who did not sign the letter was Sian Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College. Instead, she wrote her own letter to her campus, saying that higher education institutions should strive to do better, "to further our standing as a trusted beacon for knowledge and truth." "Reflection does not mean capitul ...

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Bessent Says U.S.-China Trade Talks Were 'Productive,' Without Offering Specifics

GENEVA—Senior economic officials from the U.S. and China concluded their weekend trade talks Sunday without announcing details of their discussions to ease the continuing trade war between the countries. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who led the U.S. delegation, told reporters that substantial progress was made during the marathon discussions with their Chinese counterparts, led by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng. The talks were “productive,” Bes ...

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Republicans leave many issues unresolved as they push Trump tax bill forward

23 min ago - May 12, 2025 1:03 PM EDT Updated an hour ago WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Monday sought to advance elements of their sweeping budget package that would cut taxes and tighten healthcare benefits for the poor, thou ... (Reuters)

Amid Trump's battle against DEI, nonprofits filling critical labor gaps are caught in the crossfire

1 hr ago - Updated 9:28 AM EDT, May 12, 2025 CHICAGO (AP) — Recruiting women into construction has for years been a painstaking but broadly popular effort, with growing bipartisan and industry support amid persistent labor shortages. But President Donald T ... (AP)

IDF: Red Cross confirms it has Edan Alexander, bringing him to Israeli troops now

2 hrs ago - The IDF says the Red Cross has notified the military that hostage soldier Edan Alexander was handed over to it by Hamas in southern Gaza's Khan Younis. The Red Cross is now bringing Alexander to IDF special forces inside Gaza to then be escorted out ... (Times of Israel)

Pharmaceutical industry criticizes the drug pricing plan Trump will sign

2 hrs ago - May 12, 2025, 7:28 AM WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's plan to change the pricing model for some medications is already facing fierce criticism from the pharmaceutical industry before he's even signed the executive order set for Monday that, if ... (ABC News/AP)

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues

2 hrs ago - Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan. Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described ... (BBC)

These AI Tutors For Kids Gave Fentanyl Recipes And Dangerous Diet Advice

3 hrs ago - KnowUnity’s “SchoolGPT” chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed recipe for how to synthesize fentanyl. Initially, it had declined Forbes’ request to do so, explaining the drug was dangerou ... (Forbes)

Homeland Security subpoenas California's immigrant assistance program in latest crackdown on illegal immigration

4 hrs ago - May 12, 2025 / 7:00 AM EDT In its latest legal challenge, the Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed California's cash assistance program for immigrants. It is demanding a slew of records from Los Angeles County to determine if individuals in ... (CBS News)

RFK Jr's autism comments place blame and shift research responsibility to parents, critics say

4 hrs ago - Mon 12 May 2025 07.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 12 May 2025 07.01 EDT Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has intimated that parents are to blame for their children’s autism, and that they are responsible for researching every aspect of ... (The Guardian)

Pratt and Whitney strike enters second week as lawmakers join picket line

4 hrs ago - The strike began at midnight last Monday after the union overwhelmingly rejected the company's final contract offer. May 12, 2025, 6:01 AM Updated 2 hr ago More than 3,000 union workers at Pratt and Whitney are now in their second week of striking. S ... (News12)

Pentagon spent at least $21 million on flights to Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 migrants

5 hrs ago - May 12, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT The Trump administration spent at least $21 million transporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay on military aircraft between January 20 and April 8, according to figures provided to Congress by the U.S. military. The naval base ... (NBC News)

Trump claims credit for new American Pope Leo's election - despite having nothing to do with Conclave

5 hrs ago - Donald Trump has suggested he played a role in Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s election as the new pontiff. That’s despite the U.S. president having nothing to do with the traditional Conclave process that selects a new pope. In a Truth Social ... (The Independent)

States bear the brunt of House GOP Medicaid plan

5 hrs ago - 05/11/2025 10:56 PM EDT Updated: 05/11/2025 11:54 PM EDT House Republicans opted against some of the most dramatic changes they had been considering for Medicaid, the joint federal-state program covering nearly 80 million Americans. But they are plow ... (Politico)

Pam Bondi's Qatar Links Under Scrutiny Over Trump's Luxury Plane Gift

6 hrs ago - Published May 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM EDT Attorney General Pam Bondi's links to Qatar are under scrutiny again following reports that President Donald Trump will be gifted a luxury plane from the Qatari government. Bondi worked as a foreign lobbyist for ... (Newsweek)

Governor of Mexican state says the US withdrew tourist visas from her and her husband

6 hrs ago - Updated 8:05 PM EDT, Sun May 11, 2025 Mexico City CNN — The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California says the United States has withdrawn tourist visas from her and her husband. Marina del Pilar Ávila, of the ruling Morena party ... (CNN World)

U.S. suspends importation of live cattle from Mexico over screwworm pest

7 hrs ago - May 11, 2025 / 7:38 PM EDT The United States will suspend imports of live cattle through ports along the southern border with Mexico for at least two weeks to review the joint strategy in the fight against the screwworm, the U.S. Department of Agric ... (CBS News/AP)

Scoop: Dem seeks probe into reports Qatar plans to gift plane to Trump

7 hrs ago - Updated 8 hours ago A House Democrat is seeking an investigation into reports that the Trump administration plans to accept a jet worth roughly $400 million from Qatar to serve as Air Force One — and President Trump's personal plane after he lea ... (Axios)

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts

8 hrs ago - May 12, 2025, 12:36 AM WASHINGTON -- House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's “ big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 tr ... (ABC News/AP)

Man suing Trump puts president on notice: 'We're not going to let him get away with it'

8 hrs ago - May 11, 2025 6:15PM ET The state attorneys general who are suing Donald Trump will keep it up, according to one of them. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appeared on MSNBC on Sunday, and was asked about holding Trump accountable in a court o ... (Raw Story)

New Mexico governor says potential GOP cuts to Medicaid would 'destroy health care as we know it'

9 hrs ago - Sun, May 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM EDT New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) on Sunday blasted Republican efforts to reduce Medicaid funding, saying potential cuts would “destroy health care as we know it.” “This is very simply an effor ... (Yahoo! News/The Hill)

Birthright citizenship debate erupts as Supreme Court arguments near

9 hrs ago - 11h President Trump’s efforts to upend the conventional understanding of birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court this week, the first time in his second term that the justices will consider a major administrative action from the bench ... (msn/The Hill)

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