Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Grandson of Tenth President, Is Dead
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President Trump has ended an idealistic cooperation with South Africa that obscured rising foreign policy tensions between Washington and Pretoria.
One year ago today, a jury of 12 New Yorkers convicted Donald Trump for falsifying business records as part of an alleged hush money scheme to influence the 2016 election. The conviction left an indelible mark on Trump -- making him the first president or former president to be found guilty of a crime -- and his fight to erase that legacy continues to this day.
This week’s ruling blocking many of the president’s tariffs will not lift those on Canadian cars, steel and aluminum. A trade expert explains what’s next.
Nayib Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating.
Many of the tariffs rest on a law Congress passed in 1977, giving the president the authority to “regulate” aspects of American trade “to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat”. The first court found that “regulate” did not include the power to impose tariffs.
The president is no king, and he does not have the power to impose taxes in the form of tariffs whenever he feels like it.
The Trump-Vance campaign rode to victory in part on its vow to undertake the largest deportation push in American history. The Trump administration has since expanded the range of people who can be targeted for removal, sped up the deportation process for others and, in some cases, tightened the rules for legal immigrants.
A federal court ruling on Donald Trump’s global tariffs, which found that the president “exceeded his authority” when he imposed his so-called “Liberation Day” levies last month, has been temporarily halted on appeal.