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Lawful permanent residents like Mahmoud Khalil have a right to freedom of speech – but does that protect them from deportation?
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born university students who participated in Palestinian rights protests.
In early March, the federal government arrested, detained and began ...Read more

Commentary: How Trump's tariffs affect US economic freedom, and why that matters
For a moment on April 9, the average U.S. tariff rate leapt to 32%, making American consumers the highest tariffed people in the world. For the next 90 days, the average U.S. tariff rate will be about 25%, which will leave Americans paying more than the citizens of any other industrialized nation, putting us in the company of Sudan and Djibouti....Read more

South Korea's presidential front-runner vows to boost stock markets
Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s presidential-election front-runner, said he would make changes to the nation’s equity markets to eradicate stock manipulation and protect shareholders.
The former leader of the main opposition Democratic Party will seek gradual reform of the corporate governance system by amending a key bill on board duties, ...Read more

Sullivan and Begich ramp up fundraising ahead of 2026 elections
Laying the groundwork for 2026 reelection campaigns, U.S. Rep. Nick Begich and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan each reported raising around $800,000 in the first three months of the year, according to campaign finance reports filed recently.
Begich reported bringing in more than $824,000. Nearly $272,000 — a full third of his haul — was transferred ...Read more

First shockwaves of Trump's tariffs are about to hit the world economy
Three weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively declared a trade war with the whole world, new economic forecasts and surveys will point to the initial fallout.
A few blocks from the White House, the International Monetary Fund is set to lower its outlook for economic growth in new projections released on Tuesday.
The following day,...Read more

Trump's global trade war hangs over Vance's India visit
JD Vance’s visit to India beginning Monday takes place against the backdrop of a global trade war that President Donald Trump sparked, but the cross-country tour also offers both political and personal significance for the vice president.
Vance arrives Monday as the U.S. is threatening to increase the 10% tariffs on Indian exports to 26% if ...Read more

Supreme Court's Alito calls block of deportations 'questionable'
The U.S. Supreme Court acted on “unprecedented and legally questionable” grounds when it blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, Justice Samuel Alito said in a dissent.
The conservative-leaning justice issued the dissent late Saturday to the high court’s order ...Read more

Trump draft proposes radical reshaping of State Department
A draft Trump administration executive order circulating among U.S. diplomats proposes a radical reduction to and restructuring of the State Department, according to a copy of the document seen by Bloomberg.
The changes, if implemented, would be one of the biggest reorganizations of the Department since its founding in 1789. The 16-page draft ...Read more
Fired Pentagon officials weren't told what they were probed for
Three Pentagon officials who were reported to have been fired amid a inquiry into leaks said they weren’t told what they were being investigated for or if there was even a probe into the unauthorized disclosure of information.
The three are senior adviser Dan Caldwell; Darin Selnick, who was the defense secretary’s deputy chief of staff; ...Read more
Taiwan extends short-selling curbs amid Trump tariff uncertainty
Taiwan again extended its restrictions on short-selling to curb market volatility, amid ongoing uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariff measures.
The Financial Supervisory Commission in Taipei reimposed a limit on the volume of intraday short-sell orders for borrowed securities, capping it at 3% of a stock’s average daily trading volume over...Read more

Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Japan is looking into reviewing its car safety standards as the country seeks to strike a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, Japanese business daily Nikkei reported on Sunday.
The report comes after Japan’s chief negotiator Ryosei Akazawa kicked off tariff discussions with U.S. counterparts in Washington last week. Preparations are ...Read more

With Trump's honeymoon 'very likely over,' Colorado's Gabe Evans, Jeff Hurd navigate tough political terrain
DENVER — Two of Colorado’s newly seated Republican congressmen have been forced to bob and weave across an increasingly tricky political minefield amid a flurry of Trump administration executive orders and policy shifts that could complicate their midterm elections next year.
President Donald Trump’s actions so far have spooked global ...Read more

'Not in our name': Jews in NYC say Trump attacks on Gaza activists not about fighting antisemitism
NEW YORK — As the Trump administration escalates its campaign against international students and Palestinian activists, Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly refuting the idea that the president’s efforts are actually about fighting antisemitism.
After Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at his U.S. citizenship test in Vermont, a ...Read more

US Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick visited Ukraine and signed a missile to Putin
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, congressman took his support for Ukraine to the country this past week, visiting soldiers on the front lines, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and signing a missile addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the role the U.S. could play in any peace negotiations remains nebulous.
Rep. ...Read more

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift deportation halt
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court to roll back its decision to block the deportation of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that the early-morning order was overbroad and premature.
In 15-page filing, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the detainees’ lawyers were wrong to turn to ...Read more

Firing Powell would hurt the dollar and US economy, France says
President Donald Trump would put the credibility of the dollar on the line and destabilize the U.S. economy if he fired Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, French Finance Minister Eric Lombard warned.
“Donald Trump has hurt the credibility of the dollar with his aggressive moves on tariffs — for a long time,” Lombard said in an ...Read more

Supreme Court blocks deportation of Venezuelans from Texas
A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
The order, issued around 1 a.m. Saturday in Washington, came after detainees filed urgent requests in four courts to block their ...Read more

Supreme Court blocks deportation of Venezuelans from Texas
A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
The order, issued around 1 a.m. Saturday in Washington, came after detainees filed urgent requests in four courts to block their ...Read more
Republican Moraitis matches Democrat Moskowitz in early money raised for Florida's hottest 2026 Congress race
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In his first four weeks as a candidate in Florida’s most competitive congressional district, Republican George Moraitis raised almost as much as incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz took in during the first three months of the year.
Moraitis raised $152,369 over 29 days in March, according to his first campaign ...Read more

Iran cites progress in US nuclear talks with more meetings set
Iran’s foreign minister said his country has a “better understanding” with the U.S. on a range of principles after talks Saturday on Tehran’s nuclear program, with negotiations to continue next week.
“It was a good session, and the negotiations are moving forward,” Abbas Araghchi told Iran’s state TV on the Oman-mediated talks in ...Read more
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