Minnesotans to Launch Economic Strike Over Trump Immigration Raids
Scores of businesses across Minnesota were expected to close for the day on Friday in what religious leaders and labor unions are describing as a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers…
Vaccine Firms Brace as Kennedy’s Health Policies Take Shape
LONDON- Sweeping U.S. policy changes under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are having a chilling effect on vaccine makers as anti-vaccine rhetoric has turned into concrete changes to inoculation schedules and recommendations, investors and executives said. The administration of…
US Brings Charges in Alleged Classified Information Leak Case
WASHINGTON- The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it had brought criminal charges against a man who allegedly shared classified military information with a Washington Post reporter, whose house was raided during the investigation. Aurelio Perez-Lugones, 61, is accused of taking…
Four Minnesota Children Detained by ICE, School Officials Say
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS – U.S. immigration officials have detained at least four children, including a five-year-old, from the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights, according to school officials and a lawyer for the family, who challenged the government narrative of the five-year-old’s…
Hassett says new Fed chair should be ‘an independent person’ who respects mandates
White House adviser Kevin Hassett, one of the candidates in the running to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, told CNBC in an interview on Thursday that the central bank’s new chair should be “an independent person who respects the…
Hilton drops Minneapolis hotel over cancelled ICE bookings
NEW YORK – Hilton Worldwide Holdings has removed from its system a Minneapolis hotel that has refused to accept the bookings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the hotel operator said on Tuesday. A Hampton Inn hotel, a Hilton brand,…
Tensions in Minneapolis rise over ICE fatal shooting of woman
MINNEAPOLIS – Tensions between Minnesota and federal officials deepened on Thursday over a U.S. Immigration agent’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis, an incident that drew condemnation from local officials and sparked widespread protests in the…
US House Democrats holding January 6 riot forum on Trump election ‘threats’
WASHINGTON – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will mark the fifth anniversary of a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump with an unofficial hearing that will probe “ongoing threats” to elections and…
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee draws legal challenge from US states
By Daniel Wiessner Dec 12 – California and 18 other U.S. states will file a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s…
Americans skeptical of Trump on Epstein, but Republican doubts ease, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By Andy Sullivan and Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Dec 12 – Americans are deeply skeptical of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, though he is shoring up support among his core Republican followers who have long focused on…
Trump approval rating rises as Republicans back cost-of-living efforts
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Dec 9 – President Donald Trump’s approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling of the cost of living, a sign the administration’s new focus on affordability might…
As shutdown drags on, US voters see blame game threatening Democrats and Republicans
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia -Betty Snellenberg and Grace Cook stood on opposite sides of the walkway into the early voting center in Virginia Beach – one promoting the Democratic ticket for the November 4 statewide election, the other distributing pamphlets for…
US senators Warren, Sanders urge big banks to boost loans instead of dividends
NEW YORK -U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Monday blasted the nation’s top six lenders for easing regulations to enrich shareholders instead of boosting lending to businesses and households. Banks are making wealthy shareholders richer and increasing executive…
Cheers, boos or indifference? US Open preps for Trump visit
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump plans to attend the high-profile final match of the U.S. Open in New York City on Sunday, raising questions about how he will be received amid reports that cheers or boos could be censored…
EU to work on using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine after war
COPENHAGEN – The European Union will examine how to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction after the war, but confiscating them now is not politically realistic, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday. Some…
US EPA fires some employees who signed letter criticizing Trump administration
WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump’s administration has fired some Environmental Protection Agency employees after they signed a letter critical of the Trump administration’s policies in late June, the EPA said on Friday. The EPA did not mention how many people were…
Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ she is unaware of any Epstein ‘client list’
NEW YORK -Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, told a top Justice Department official in July that she was not aware of any “client list” belonging to the late…
South Korea’s Lee in Japan to shore up ties before meeting Trump
TOKYO -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Japan on Saturday for a summit expected to reaffirm security cooperation between the two East Asian neighbours before Lee meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday. On his first…
Elon Musk must face lawsuit claiming he ran illegal $1 million election lottery
Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world’s richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1…
Trump administration to vet immigration applications for ‘anti-Americanism’
WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump’s administration has said it will assess applicants for U.S. work, study, and immigration visas for “anti-Americanism” and count any such finding against them, sparking concern about implications for free speech. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services…