Senate Democrats are pushing the Trump administration for more information on US efforts to prevent American private equity and venture capital firms from bankrolling advances by China and other adversaries in key technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, five Democratic senators demanded a update on plans…
Plying everything from handbags to salt in a cavernous Shanghai exhibition hall, US exporters hit by the trade war with China said Thursday they hope improving bilateral relations will bring much-needed stability. After spending much of this year in a tit-for-tat tariff escalation, the United States and China have agreed to walk back from some…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will be rendered “defenseless’’ and possibly “reduced to almost Third World status’’ if Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs he imposed this year on nearly every country on earth. The justices sounded skeptical during oral arguments Wednesday of his sweeping claims of authority…
Mayor-elect of New York says he will not mince words on Trump, but ‘door open’ to dialogue. United States President Donald Trump has suggested that he is open to assisting New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, but warned that the trailblazing democratic socialist will need to be “respectful” of Washington to succeed. Trump made the comments on…
Photo by: NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx Workers of the world, unite — and dress nicely, if you can afford it. That appears to be Zohran Mamdani’s approach, with Puck reporting on Wednesday that the New York City mayor-to-be has been “working with” Bailey Moon, a fashion stylist with a star-studded list of clients. The democratic socialist’s wife, Rama Duwaji,…
Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Bernie Moreno (R-OH) sparred in a tense exchange on Wednesday over the shutdown, and Moreno apparently tracking Rosen’s car to try and argue she’s a hypocrite. The shouting match happened during a Senate Commerce Committee meeting on transportation department nominees. Moreno told the committee, “Would it surprise you that I…
Less than one year into President Donald Trump’s second term, we finally have solid evidence that the coalition that carried him to victory one year ago today is unraveling. The slate of Republican losses — and the magnitude of Democratic wins in New Jersey and Virginia, especially — suggest not just that the Democratic backlash…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block a new U.S. House map that California voters decisively approved at the ballot. Proposition 50, backed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is designed to help Democrats flip as many as five congressional House seats in the midterm elections next year. The lawsuit claims the map-makers illegally used race…
The Supreme Court’s Wednesday morning argument on President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariffs went better for him than the 2025 elections, but only slightly so. At least two of the Court’s Republicans — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared very likely to join the three Democratic justices in striking down those tariffs, and…
Colorado voters Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Proposition LL, which will let the state keep and spend all the revenue it collects under a 2022 tax policy change that raises money for a program offering free breakfasts and lunches to every student enrolled in K-12 public schools. The Associated Press projected that Proposition LL would pass at…