Judge Orders Trump Administration to Resume Foreign Aid Spending
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Resume Foreign Aid Spending

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday night to unfreeze foreign aid spending President Trump halted during his first week in office, the latest of several legal roadblocks to Mr. Trump’s aggressive first-month agenda. The ruling by Judge Amir H. Ali…

Banks Sell .7 Billion of X’s Debt, in a Sign of Investor Demand
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Banks Sell $4.7 Billion of X’s Debt, in a Sign of Investor Demand

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When Elon Musk bought X for $44 billion in 2022, more than a quarter of that was financed by loans from banks including Morgan Stanley. Banks normally quickly sell off such loans, but in this case they kept much of that debt because…

Trump and Modi Shove Disputes Into Background in White House Visit
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Trump and Modi Shove Disputes Into Background in White House Visit

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hours after President Trump paved the way for upending the United States’ trade relationship with India with broad “reciprocal” tariffs, he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a united front during a news conference on Thursday at the White House. Mr. Modi became…

How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams
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How the Justice Dept. Helped Sink Its Own Case Against Eric Adams

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump had just taken office when lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York went to the White House with an extraordinary request: They formally asked in a letter that the new president pardon the mayor in a federal corruption case that…

Jim Guy Tucker, Ex-Arkansas Governor Caught Up in Whitewater, Dies at 81
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Jim Guy Tucker, Ex-Arkansas Governor Caught Up in Whitewater, Dies at 81

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Jim Guy Tucker, a former governor of Arkansas who was caught up in the long-running investigation that unsuccessfully targeted his predecessor as governor, Bill Clinton, died on Thursday in Little Rock, Ark. He was 81. His death, at a hospital, was caused by…

Senate Confirms RFK Jr., a Prominent Vaccine Skeptic, as Health Secretary
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Senate Confirms RFK Jr., a Prominent Vaccine Skeptic, as Health Secretary

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mr. Kennedy’s views about vaccination were at the center of Democrats’ fight against him. He has said he favors both the measles vaccine and the polio vaccine, and would not do anything to prevent or discourage people from taking them. But he opposes…

Hot Inflation Raises Stakes of Trump’s Tariffs
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Hot Inflation Raises Stakes of Trump’s Tariffs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hot inflation has raised the stakes of President Trump’s plans to escalate his use of tariffs on the country’s biggest trading partners, risking even higher consumer prices and pushing back the prospects of the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates soon. New inflation data…

Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies.
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Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Senate has just confirmed as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, a science denialist who once said there is no vaccine that is safe and effective, who has suggested that Covid might have been genetically engineered to spare Jewish and Chinese people and…

Opinion | Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him
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Opinion | Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The U.S. Constitution established three branches of government, designed to balance power — and serve as checks on one another. That constitutional order suddenly appears more vulnerable than it has in generations. President Trump is trying to expand his authority beyond the bounds…

Opinion | Chrystia Freeland on the U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum
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Opinion | Chrystia Freeland on the U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A 25 percent tariff on Canadian aluminum is an act of self-harm — economic self-mutilation — by the United States. President Trump’s announcement on Monday that he was raising tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum to 25 percent was all too…