President Trump’s tariffs remain in place, at least for now, after an appeals court ruled that his administration can continue to collect import fees.
The latest ruling came just a day after a separate courtruled that Trump had overstepped his power, a judgment that his administration has pushed back against.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that America cannot function when diplomatic or trade negotiations are “railroaded by activist judges”.
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TheTrump administrationis racing to halt a major blow to thepresident’s sweeping tariffsafter a US court ruled they “exceed any authority granted to the president.”
A US trade court ruledthe US president’s tariffs regimewas illegal on Wednesday in a dramatic twist that could block Trump’s controversial global trade policy.
On Thursday, an appeals court agreed to a temporary pause in the decision pending an appeal hearing. TheTrump administrationis expected to take the case to the supreme court if it loses.
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Republicans and close allies ofDonald Trumpare railing against a federal judicial panel thatblockeda wide swath of the US president’s tariffs Wednesday night, including those against China.
Some attempted to frame the decision as part of a broader fight between the Trump administration and US justice system. Trump has frequently complained about legal decisions that don’t go his way, attacking judges on social media in ways that have alarmed civic society experts.
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Donald Trump’stariffpolicy wasderailedby a libertarian public interest law firm that has received money from some of his richest backers.
The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the US president’s “reciprocal” tariffs on behalf of five small businesses, which it said were harmed by the policy.
Previousbackersof the firm include billionaires Robert Mercer and Richard Uihlein, who were also financial backers of Trump’s presidential campaigns.
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China has lodged a formal protest over the US declaration that it will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students, with the foreign ministry saying it had objected to the announcement made a day earlier by Marco Rubio.
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TheFederal Reserveissued a rare, strongly wordedstatementon Thursday after chair Jerome Powell spoke withDonald Trumpat the White House on Thursday morning, holding firm on the central bank’s independence amid pressure from Trump to lower interest rates.
The three-paragraph statement emphasized the Fed’s independent, non-partisan role in setting monetary policy based on economic data.
“Chair Powell did not discuss his expectations for monetary policy, except to stress that the path of policy will depend entirely on incoming economic information and what that means for the outlook,” the statement read.
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Twenty two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against theTrump administrationover its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.
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TheTrump administrationhas set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year.
The new target, tripling arrest figures fromearlierthis year, was delivered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, and Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, in a strained meeting last week.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to aninvestigationby the US publication Notus.
Top House Democrat Jamie Raskin has demanded Donald Trump reveal a list of who attended his private dinner last week for major investors in his meme coin,as questions swirl about the deep and secretive connections between the Trump administration and thecryptocurrencyindustry.
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