4 h. ago Trump’s China tariffs may threaten the future of America’s fireworks festivals

Industry insiders warn the full effects of Trump’s tariffs may be felt by 2026, in time for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding

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8 h. ago Trump threatens crippling attack on the EU that'll leave key industry on its knees

President Donald Trump has reportedly threatened the European Union with a 17 percent tariff on food exports, a move that could cripple that industry.

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9 h. ago Trump threatens 17% tariffs on food and farm produce exports from Europe

EU says it ‘favours a negotiated solution’ but is prepared for potential trade war with retaliatory dutiesDonald Trump threatened to impose 17% tariffs on food and farm produce exports from Europe during talks in Washington this week, it has emerged.Such tariffs would hit everything from Belgian chocolate to Kerrygold butter from Ireland and olive oil from Italy, Spain and France, all big sellers in the US. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he threatens to feed migrants to alligators

Donald Trump is now openly threatening to arrest Democrat politicians who he doesn't like and feed migrants to alligators

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60 h. ago Trump administration sued for giving Medicaid data to deportation officials

Twenty states say giving immigrants’ health data to DHS broke privacy laws and threatens access to emergency careThe Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials, a group of 20 states allege in a lawsuit.Last month advisers to the secretary of the Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr, ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Trump bill latest: House Republicans threaten to tank ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ after marathon vote passes welfare cuts

President’s megabill could face further opposition in House after narrowly passing Senate on Tuesday thanks to JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote

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3 d. ago ‘We’ll have to arrest him’: Trump threatens jail for Mamdani in NYC and calls Biden a ‘son of a b****’ in wild ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ visit

The president christened his new ‘escape-proof’ detention center in Florida Tuesday and things went off the rails at times

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3 d. ago Trump threatens to throw 'bad' citizens 'the hell out' of the U.S. as his next major action

President Donald Trump warned American criminals they may be the next inhabitants of the 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility as he expressed his wish to have more built.

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3 d. ago Can Trump deport Elon Musk? US citizenship explained as Battle of the Billionaires hots up

US President Donald Trump has threatened to deport billionaire rival Elon Musk as their intense feud ramps up, but what are the chances of this happening?

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3 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he threatens Elon Musk in another epic breakup

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have fallen out again - and it's not going to end well. Meanwhile the Donald is off to visit "Alligator Alcatraz" - and we show you how to smell just like Trump.

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3 d. ago Trump bill latest: Musk threatens to form new party if megabill passes as Senate vote continues

Senators voting on unlimited series of amendments to sprawling tax and spending megabill

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3 d. ago Trump threatens to turn DOGE on Musk as he warns billionaire will have to 'close up shop and head back to South Africa'

The president was responding to Musk's day-long protest over the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill,' which Musk is using to stoke fears of launching a third party.

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4 d. ago Elon goes nuclear on 'insane spending bill' with new pledge that could threaten Trump's Republican majority

Ex-Trump ally billionaire Elon Musk 's latest promise could throw a major wrench into Trump's governance plans for his second term.

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4 d. ago Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath

The Trump administration has promised to ‘flood the zone’ and conduct unprecedented enforcement actions against businesses employing undocumented workers

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4 d. ago Trump administration finds Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, threatens to cut all funding

Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action

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5 d. ago Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani ‘doesn’t behave’

Democratic mayoral candidate denies Trump’s accusation that he is communist while reaffirming push to tax wealthyDonald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, “doesn’t behave himself” should he be elected.Mamdani, meanwhile, denied that he was – as the president said – a communist. But he reaffirmed his commitment to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers while saying: “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago This national monument is ‘part of the true history of the USA’. Will it survive Trump 2.0?

Sáttítla Highlands, with its unique lava-flow landscape, feels like ‘another planet’, but its protected status, granted by Joe Biden, is now threatenedIt’s easy to get lost in the Sáttítla Highlands in remote north-eastern California. There are miles of rolling lava fields, untouched forest and obsidian mountains. At night, the darkness and silence stretch on indefinitely.This is one of America’s newest national monuments. It’s also one of the most threatened. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump threatens to force journalists to reveal who leaked report undermining his narrative on Iran bombing

Iran strikes destroyed supply of enriched uranium and fully halted weapons development program, president insists again as he declines to provide evidence

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5 d. ago Trump hits out at Republican senator for refusing to back ‘big, beautiful bill’

Trump threatened to back primary challenge against Senator Thom Tillis for opposing his domestic billDonald Trump has hit out at Senator Thom Tillis over the North Carolina Republican’s refusal to back his “big, beautiful bill”, even as the president’s signature piece of domestic legislative action narrowly passed a procedural vote in the Senate late Saturday.In a post on Truth Social, Trump threatened Tillis, who is up for re-election in 2026 in the battleground state, by saying he would meet with potential candidates to challenge him in a Republican primary. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump’s tariff war and aid cuts threaten poorest nations’ recovery

Smaller countries face ‘perfect storm’, says UN and WTO trade tsar ahead of key sustainable development summit in Spain

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