2 h. ago US moves ahead on tariffs with investigations into computer chips and pharmaceuticals

The Trump administration has taken its next steps toward imposing more tariffs on key imports, launching investigations into imports of computer chips and products that contain them, chip making equipment and pharmaceuticals

Economics

3 h. ago Obama judge blocks Trump's plan to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants from four countries

An Obama-appointed judge will prevent the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status.

Politics

4 h. ago John Swinney urged to show solidarity with Americans at 'sharp end' of Donald Trump regime

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Harvie branded the Trump Administration an "increasingly fascist regime".

Politics

5 h. ago How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown and multi

Harvard is the first of six Ivy League schools threatened with funding cuts to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands, a key early battle as 60 universities face investigation

Politics

6 h. ago A bigger hole: Trump has already spent $155bn more than Biden. Musk now claims DOGE only saved $150bn

The Trump administration has already spent $155 billion more than former President Joe Biden did over the same period of time after their inaugurations, according to Treasury Department data. And Elon Musk is now claiming that his Department of Government Efficiency has only managed to save $150 billion.

Politics

6 h. ago Trump administration halts $2.2bn in Harvard funds after it defied pressure

Move marks escalation in stand-off between White House and US universities

Politics

6 h. ago Trump administration halts $2.2bn in Harvard funds after university defies pressure

Move marks escalation in stand-off between White House and US universities

Politics

8 h. ago Columbia student activist and green card holder arrested during citizenship interview

Mohsen Mahdawi is among latest Palestinian international students targeted by Trump administration for their activism

Events

9 h. ago US begins inquiry into pharmaceutical and chip imports in bid to impose tariffs

Notices show Trump administration setting stage for levies on both sectors on national security groundsThe Trump administration is kicking off investigations into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on national security grounds, notices posted to the Federal Register on Monday showed.The filings scheduled to be published on Wednesday set a 21-day deadline from that date for the submission of public comment on the issue and indicate the administration intends to pursue the levies under authority granted by the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Such inquiries need to be completed within 270 days after being announced. Continue reading...

Politics

11 h. ago Harvard refuses to comply with Trump administration’s demands over $9 billion

Trump administration asked Harvard to end DEI programs, comply with Department of Homeland Security and reduce student and faculty’s authority

Politics

11 h. ago Trump administration slashes $2.2bn in federal money from Harvard after it refuses president’s ‘dictates’

‘The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,’ said a letter from Harvard’s lawyers.’ No private university ‘can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’

Politics

12 h. ago The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch

The US says it can’t aid in his return as he’s in El Salvador; El Salvador says to help would be like ‘smuggling’ him backIt is difficult to find a term more fitting for the fate of the Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García than Kafkaesque.Abrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported under the Trump administration to the Cecot mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a macabre partnership with the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator”, Nayib Bukele. Continue reading...

Politics

12 h. ago Harvard defies Trump's demands and risks $9B in federal funding

Harvard University says it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as a condition for it to received almost $9 billion in funding

Politics

12 h. ago Trump memo outlines plan to slash US state department budget in half

Cuts would mean dramatic decreases in funding for humanitarian aid, global health and international groupsThe Trump administration is reportedly proposing to slash the state department budget by nearly half in a move that could drastically reduce US international spending and end its funding for Nato and the United Nations, according to an internal memorandum.The memo based on spending cuts devised by the White House office of management and budget envisions the total budget of the state department and USAID, the main foreign assistance body which has been largely dismantled by Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, being reduced to $28.4bn, a reduction of $27bn or 48% from what Congress approved for 2025. Continue reading...

Politics

13 h. ago Free US family planning clinics face ruin after White House freezes funds

Title X, with services like STI tests and cancer screenings, in limbo after Trump administration pauses $66m in fundsMore than 10 days after the Trump administration froze roughly $66m of federal funds that had been earmarked for no- and low-cost family planning services, the providers that had been scheduled to receive that money are staring down the possibility of financial collapse.Title X, the country’s largest federal family planning program, provides clinics across the country with more than $200m each year for services such as contraception, STI tests and cancer screenings. In 2023, more than 2 million people received healthcare through Title X, which helps people regardless of income, age or citizenship status. For many, Title X is their only source of healthcare. Continue reading...

Society

14 h. ago Trump administration has no evidence Tufts student was tied to antisemitism or terrorism before ICE arrest, State Dept. memo says

ACLU attorneys say government lawyers have not shared any evidence to back up claims supporting her removal

Events

14 h. ago El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

Supreme Court ordered Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from Salvadoran prison

Politics

15 h. ago El Salvador President Nayib Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

Supreme Court ordered Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from Salvadoran prison

Politics

16 h. ago Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ the man’s return after he was deported and incarcerated in a Salvadoran prison

Politics

16 h. ago John Oliver skewers ‘toddler’ Trump’s tariffs fiasco and JD Vance’s role in administration

Comedian rebukes president for ‘total chaos’ of economic policy and warns: ‘The monkey still has a gun!’

Politics