Politics
Bessent to Milken conference: Trump will make America ‘more appealing for investors like you’
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 5, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday sketched out the roadmap of President Donald Trump’s “America First Vision” in a pitch to a roomful of global investors on the future of […]
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Trump’s DHS offers $1,000 stipends, travel assistance to immigrants who ‘self-deport’
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Mayorkas provided an update on planning and operations ahead of the lifting of the Title 42 public health order. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday […]
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Hollywood studio stocks briefly fall after Trump proposes foreign film tariff
The famed Hollywood sign is viewed on September 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Investors in Hollywood’s top studios and streaming services were trying to make sense Monday of President Donald Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on movies made overseas. Shares of Netflix, Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery briefly fell […]
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Trump set to raise millions from crypto and memecoin this month
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images President Donald Trump has two crypto-focused dinners on the calendar this month — one aimed at deep-pocketed political donors, the other at meme coin millionaires. Both are poised to help him rake in millions. The first event, a $1.5 million-per-plate fundraiser set for Monday, is among the most […]
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Incoming German chancellor Merz vows reforms and investments as parties sign coalition agreement
Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), signs the coalition contract between the CDU, the CDU’S Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the German Social Democrats (SPD) on May 05, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday […]
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Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside U.S.
The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2024 Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the U.S. movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers. “This […]
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NPR and PBS CEOs say they’ll challenge Trump administration over federal funding cuts
A sign for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is seen on its building headquarters on Feb. 18, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images The CEOs of NPR and PBS said they’re looking into options to challenge the Trump administration following the president’s executive order to cut off public funding to the news […]
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Trump, asked if he has to ‘uphold the Constitution,’ says, ‘I don’t know’
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the National Day of Prayer, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 1, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Donald Trump argued in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that fulfilling his ambitious campaign promise to rapidly carry out mass […]
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Trump rejects concerns about prices and economic uncertainty as he defends his agenda
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a commencement address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S., May 1, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump played down the fears of his critics — from the potential harms of a recession to worries about rising prices due to his tariffs to the possibility that […]
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‘I’ll be an eight-year president’: Trump weighs in on third-term speculation
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on after disembarking from Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. May 1, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump offered his clearest indication yet that he will leave the White House at the end of his second term without trying to extend […]
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