President Trump’s antitrust cops are friendlier thus far about mergers than their predecessors, but they are refusing to let up on one prominent priority of the Biden administration: monopoly prosecutions of the nation’s best-known tech giants. Six months into Trump’s second term in office, his antitrust regulators have already given the green light to more…
(Reuters) -The Trump administration escalated its feud with Harvard University on Wednesday, saying the Department of Homeland Security planned to issue subpoenas for information about alleged misconduct by foreign students. The Departments of Education and of Health and Human Services also said in a statement they had notified the school’s accreditor that it had violated…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that there will be “no amnesty” for agricultural workers from the Trump administration’s efforts to deport all immigrants in the country illegally. The farm sector has warned that mass deportation of farm workers would disrupt the U.S. food supply. The administration of…
WASHINGTON/NAIROBI (Reuters) -The Trump administration has deported to South Sudan eight migrants who had been held for more than a month by the U.S. at a military base in Djibouti, the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday, after the migrants lost a last-ditch effort to halt their transfer. An aircraft carrying U.S. deportees arrived…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The sprawling tax and policy bill that passed Congress repeals a multibillion-dollar green bank for financing climate-friendly projects, and the Trump administration should be allowed to freeze its funding and cancel related contracts with nonprofits, federal officials said in a court filing. Climate United Fund and other nonprofits in March sued the…
Beijing’s point man on Macau affairs has embarked on a six-day fact-finding trip to the city and has acknowledged the “good start” made by the new administration. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), arrived in the city on Thursday afternoon for a visit that runs until Tuesday. “Upon his…
(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks snapped a five-day winning streak as a brief global relief rally gave up momentum after mixed signals from the Trump administration on its plans for China tariffs. Most Read from Bloomberg A regional gauge of stocks fell 0.3% as market enthusiasm got curbed after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cast doubt on…
Putin’s Men Burn Ukraine’s Top Munition Plant; Zelensky ‘Panics, Begs’ For NATO Weapons | Watch Russia has launched devastating strikes on Ukraine’s most critical artillery munitions production facilities—Zvezda and Impulse—in Shostka, Sumy region. The strikes come amid a dramatic slowdown in Russia’s territorial advances, with analysts predicting a possible stall by early summer—coinciding with Trump’s…
Elon Musk‘s wealth dropped below $300 billion on Monday for the first time since last year, as the impacts of recent Tesla backlash and sweeping new tariffs collided. The richest man in the world was worth $298 billion as of market close Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Since the beginning of the year,…
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but with certain limits. The court, in an unsigned…