Politics

Egg prices hit record highs in the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, alongside increases in the average prices in other staple food categories. The increase comes as retailers continue to brace for the effects of President Donald Trump’s global 10 percent tariff rate — which remains in effect despite …

Donald Trump blinked, and his massive new trade war has been drastically scaled back. Or, maybe not? Perhaps he’s just tweaking the details during a partial 90-day pause, and he preps other, different, and more magnificent tariffs. Regardless, the president of the United States will continue to hold the American …

Donald Trump blew up his tariff agenda on Wednesday, writing in a Truth Social post that he is instituting a “90-day pause” on the bulk of the import taxes he had announced a week earlier. The surprising reversal came as financial markets were tanking, and as the president and his …

Donald Trump’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has proudly announced that if it crosses the border illegally, they will stop it. This includes people, money, products, and … ideas? In posts published — and later deleted — on X and Instagram today, ICE declared that it would stop any “ideas” that …

The Supreme Court has ordered that President Donald Trump’s administration “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported on March 15 to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known for human rights abuses. The conservative-controlled court’s ruling was unanimous, with all nine justices backing a lower-court order to return …

B en Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National ­Forest in California. He was moving up the ladder, had recently received a positive performance review, and was “making the world a better place,” he says. Yet, over Presidents’ Day weekend in February, …

Another key recession indicator is rearing its head as President Donald Trump’s administration enacts reciprocal tariffs on large swaths of goods imported into the United States. On Wednesday morning, the price of U.S. Treasury bonds took a nosedive, while yields spiked — a sign that bond holders are dumping their …

Cameron Allen is close to the Democratic Party’s ideal voter. A millennial lawyer from Kentucky, Allen was part of the wave of energized younger Democrats who sent Andy Beshear to the governor’s office in 2018 and mobilized behind Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. Allen detests Donald Trump and opposes the Republican …

As if firing tens of thousands of veterans from federal service, gutting Veterans Affairs benefits, and slashing Medicare and Social Security weren’t enough, Donald Trump is now moving to deport veterans — many of whom have risked their lives for a country that’s now kicking them to the curb like …

Donald Trump is bailing on his tariff agenda after less than a week. The president said on Wednesday that he has authorized a “90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff” for countries who have not economically “retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States” and …