The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed imposing additional duties of 10% or 12.5% on imports from 60 economies after determining their failures to curb trade in goods made with forced labor are unreasonable and restrict U.S. commerce.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for Alabama to use a pro-Republican congressional map that eliminates one of its two districts where Black voters make up a majority or near-majority, giving a boost to President Donald Trump as his party defends its control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.
Republican U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks won renomination in Iowa’s first congressional district on Tuesday, positioning the incumbent congresswoman for her third general election contest against Democrat Christina Bohannan.
Rebecca Bennett emerged from a highly competitive primary to take on Republican Representative Thomas Kean in the November general election in New Jersey’s seventh congressional district.
This gives Josh Turek a chance to become the party’s first senator from the state since 2008.
Gulf hostilities flared anew, with the U.S. military saying Iranian missile attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and other regional targets were either thwarted or failed.
Kurt Olsen, a White House official who aided President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, has joined the Justice Department as a senior attorney reporting to a prosecutor seeking to build a wide-ranging criminal case against the president’s foes.
Russia’s ‘Davos’ – formally known as the St Petersburg Economic Forum – kicks off on Wednesday and has attracted an eclectic crowd, including some Americans attracted to Moscow’s “anti-wokery” and support for “traditional values.”
British police faced a national backlash on Tuesday over the inflammatory case of an 18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a racist attack.
Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI training data, it said in an internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks of angry pushback from staffers.