WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military strike on what the Trump administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela came after the vessel had turned around and was heading back to shore, raising fresh questions as members of Congress are demanding more information about the provocative attack. National security officials acknowledged during a closed briefing…
Hundreds of federal agents descended on a sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in Georgia and detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals. This is the latest in a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. But the one on Thursday is especially distinct…
By Hritam Mukherjee and Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will continue to buy Russian oil as it proves economical, its finance minister said on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s decision to impose heavy import tariffs on Indian goods due, in part, to its energy purchases from Moscow. As Europe and the U.S. have shunned…
Nvidia (NVDA) has reportedly cut an unprecedented deal with the Trump administration to save its China business that would entail sharing as much as $3 billion in revenue with the US government for the current fiscal year to resume sales of its H20 chips. Multiple media outlets have confirmed with unnamed sources that leading AI…
By Liam Mo, Brenda Goh and Karen Freifeld BEIJING/SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Nvidia placed orders for 300,000 H20 chipsets with contract manufacturer TSMC last week, two sources said, with one of them adding that strong Chinese demand had led the U.S. firm to change its mind about just relying on its existing stockpile. The Trump administration…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The U.S. has already deported eight men to another African nation, South Sudan, after the Supreme Court…
(Reuters) -The Trump administration’s tariffs are likely to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs and real income in a majority of states, but lower employment and income adjusted for inflation in the country as a whole, new research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve showed on Monday. Assuming a 25% increase in U.S. tariffs on imports from…
US President Donald Trump’s administration is expanding scrutiny of Chinese and other foreign ownership of American farmland and starting to cancel agricultural contracts with entities from “countries of concern” amid apprehension over the national security risks of such foreign involvement. As part of a new seven-part National Farm Security Action Plan, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins…
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is not about to “take advantage” of international students and scholars facing difficulties in the United States but it will just focus on welcoming and nurturing talent, its head has said, revealing it was handling over 100 transfer applications. Vice-chancellor Xiang Zhang, a renowned scientist, told the Post that…
(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday, with a brief equity rally fizzling out as investors assessed the latest twists and turns in the Trump administration’s erratic trade policy, and a bevy of mixed corporate results. Wall Street jumped for a second consecutive session on Wednesday on signs the White House was open to…