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Despite President Donald Trump’s Truth Social declaration that “WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!” on Monday, Las Vegas is doing its best to court visitors from Canada as it grapples with plummeting Canadian tourism.The casino and convention hub is particularly vulnerable to Canadian calls to boycott travel to the…
America’s largest trade association of cattle producers says President Donald Trump’s plan to lower beef prices is political theater.The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which represents more than 175,000 cattle producers and feeders, said on Friday that the strategy would do more harm than good for the industry. Earlier that day,…
Shots of Fireball could soon get pricier.The Trump administration’s threatened 50% tariffs on some popular Canadian goods went into effect Saturday morning after trade talks with its northern ally fell apart the night before.President Donald Trump first announced the new round of tariffs last month to “offset Canadian discrimination” against…
After years of criticizing the new electromagnetic catapults on the US Navy’s newest aircraft carriers, President Donald Trump is now officially pushing for a return to steam-powered systems for a future carrier.The first Navy aircraft carrier to use electromagnetic catapults to launch aircraft was USS Gerald R. Ford, setting a…
Truth Social’s new paid service for faster access to the president’s social media posts is raising questions — including from some of his own supporters.Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth API on Saturday. The service sends paying customers a machine-readable feed of posts from the “highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.”…
On July 2, federal prosecutors charged David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympian, with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC.Hearn had made a “a violent effort” to damage the pool, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.A month later, Pirro’s office told the court she wanted to drop the case.It…
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have become a defining feature of his second term, central to his strategy for reshaping global trade, even after the Supreme Court struck down many of his tariffs in February.Aggressive tariff policies have been rare at the White House in recent decades, but history offers…
The Trump administration is introducing a new rule that puts an expiration date on how long people on student visas can initially stay in the US.For decades, international students have been allowed to remain in the US on a student visa, called the F-1, for the duration of their course…
A White House teleprompter operator has been placed on unpaid leave following reports that he used a prediction betting platform to profit from the content of President Donald Trump’s speeches.Gabriel Perez, who has worked for Trump since his first presidential campaign, is being investigated by the United States Commodity Futures…
A proposal to build a massive AI data center roughly 20 miles from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was rejected late Wednesday by county commissioners after a marathon hearing.The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners’ 5-1 vote on “Project Tango” followed months of organized opposition…
