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We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Looks like an airship, acts like a windmill. Engineer says…
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a judge on Thursday to bar top Trump administration officials — including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi — from making “baseless public attacks” against their client, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year. The motion was filed in Nashville federal…
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a judge on Thursday to bar top Trump administration officials — including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi — from making “baseless public attacks” against their client, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year. The motion was filed in Nashville federal…
By Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in 2024 from Fox News Digital and had previously freelanced at Business Insider. He has interviewed such notable figures as Benjamin Netanyahu, Gen. David…
President Trump’s steep 50% tariff on Indian goods is now in effect. The president had initially announced a 25% tariff on India, but earlier this month he signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tax because India buys Russian oil. CBS News business contributor Javier David has more. Source link
Susan Monarez, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being ousted from her role less than a month after the Senate confirmed her to lead the public health agency, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News. It’s not clear why Monarez was removed from the job. She…
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to dozens of “sanctuary” cities and counties — covering several of the largest cities in the U.S. The judge had previously ruled in April that it was unconstitutional for President Trump to freeze funding for local governments that limit their cooperation…
The sudden decision by the Trump administration to halt work on a nearly completed wind farm under assembly in New London has left state officials and the developers scrambling to find a way to convince federal authorities to reverse course — and keep the multibillion-dollar project afloat. On Monday, officials said they had yet to…
As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — emergency response — when it mattered most, an investigation from KFF Health News shows. The outbreak soon became the worst the United States has endured…