U.S. and China Dig In on Trade War, With No Plans for Formal Talks
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U.S. and China Dig In on Trade War, With No Plans for Formal Talks

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they are talking at all. At a White House economic briefing this week, Treasury…

Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy
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Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The traditional gathering of former Treasury secretaries to welcome a newly minted one into the fold is usually a lighthearted and pleasant affair. But when the group convened this month, on President Trump’s “Liberation Day,” the tone was strikingly serious. The dinner, organized…

Judge Says One DOGE Member Can Access Sensitive Treasury Dept. Data
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Judge Says One DOGE Member Can Access Sensitive Treasury Dept. Data

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A Manhattan federal judge ruled on Friday that one member of Elon Musk’s government efficiency program could have access to sensitive payment and data systems at the Treasury Department, as long as that person goes through appropriate training and files disclosures. The order…

Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs: From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’
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Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs: From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For the past week, President Trump has been urging calm in the face of the financial chaos that he created and resisting calls for him to rethink his approach. “I know what the hell I’m doing,” he told Republicans on Tuesday as the…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under the law needed to return. On Saturday,…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Refuses to Guarantee Ukraine’s Safety as Part of Mineral Deal
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Refuses to Guarantee Ukraine’s Safety as Part of Mineral Deal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump told his cabinet on Wednesday that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was expected to come to Washington to sign a framework agreement enabling the United States to share in the country’s mineral wealth, but he insisted the United States would not…

Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk’s Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary
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Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk’s Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk’s monthlong rampage through the federal bureaucracy appears to have met its first real test, as some of President Trump’s top loyalists flatly reject the billionaire’s demand that their employees justify their jobs or be summarily fired. By Monday, just 48 hours…

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems
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Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lawyers for the Trump administration argued late Sunday that a court order blocking Elon Musk’s aides from entering the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems impinged on the president’s absolute powers over the executive branch, which they argued the courts could not usurp….

Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste
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Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since taking office, President Trump has set his sights on big targets, like Greenland. But he has also taken aim at small ones, like paper straws. And pennies. On Sunday night, Mr. Trump said he had ordered the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, to…

Live Updates: Trump to Impose Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports on Monday
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Live Updates: Trump to Impose Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports on Monday

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 40 lawsuits filed in recent days by state attorneys general, unions and nonprofits seek to erect a bulwark in the federal courts against President Trump’s blitzkrieg of executive actions that have upended much of the federal government and challenged the Constitution’s…