'We Want Those Names': Trump Demands Info On Harvard’s Foreign Students 'We Want Those Names': Trump Demands Info On Harvard’s Foreign Students
'We Want Those Names': Trump Demands Info On Harvard’s Foreign Students President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he wants the names and countries of origin of all foreign-born students enrolled at Harvard University, escalating his ongoing battle with the Ivy League school as it continues to unfold in the courts and the media. Last week, Trump sought to bar the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ivy League school from enrolling international students, alleging the university promotes "rampant anti-American and antisemitic ideologies." However, on Friday, May 23, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking that attempt after Harvard’s atto…
Virginia Father Smuggled 17-Year-Old Honduran Girl To Help Raise His Kids, Feds Say Virginia Father Smuggled 17-Year-Old Honduran Girl To Help Raise His Kids, Feds Say
Virginia Father Smuggled 17-Year-Old Honduran Girl To Help Raise His Kids, Feds Say A Virginia man who allegedly paid to smuggle a 17-year-old Honduran girl across the border so she could help raise his kids has been charged with conspiracy, federal officials announced. Luis Alonso Argueta-Diaz, 35, was arrested without incident on Monday, May 19, in Virginia, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Agents say Argueta-Diaz arranged and partially paid for the unaccompanied teen to be illegally transported into the United States from Honduras.  On May 3, she was apprehended by US Border Patrol near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, after unlawfully crossing the bo…
Trump Unveils ‘Golden Dome’ Space Anti-Missile System Costing Billions Trump Unveils ‘Golden Dome’ Space Anti-Missile System Costing Billions
Trump Unveils ‘Golden Dome’ Space Anti-Missile System Costing Billions This story has been updated. President Trump has announced the formation of a massive, so-called "Golden Dome" antimissile shield defense system. It would integrate ground-based interceptors and satellites to defend against sophisticated threats. "Once fully constructed the 'Golden Dome' will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world and even if they are launched from space," Trump said in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon, May 20. Space Force General Michael Guetlein is expected to lead the project that aims to protect the US against thre…
White House Weighing Suspension Of Habeas Corpus To Combat Immigration Crisis: Reports White House Weighing Suspension Of Habeas Corpus To Combat Immigration Crisis: Reports
White House Weighing Suspension Of Habeas Corpus To Combat Immigration Crisis: Reports President Donald Trump is reportedly considering suspending habeas corpus—the right a person has to challenge their detention in court—ABC News reports. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters that the move is being considered to "take care of the immigration problem," ABC News said. Suspension of habeas corpus is traditionally reserved for "actual rebellion or invasion posing the most dire threats to public safety," according to CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig. "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be susp…
Trump’s 100% Movie Tariff Plan Rattles Studios, Sends Streaming Stocks Sliding Trump’s 100% Movie Tariff Plan Rattles Studios, Sends Streaming Stocks Sliding
Trump’s 100% Movie Tariff Plan Rattles Studios, Sends Streaming Stocks Sliding President Donald Trump said he wants to slap a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies to support what he called a "dying" industry, sparking pushback from film producers and lawmakers. Trump announced his plan for the movie tariffs in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday, May 4. His post claimed he was authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to begin instituting the 100% tariffs on films made outside the US. It's unclear how tariffs would be imposed on movie production and distribution. "The Movie Industry in America is DYING…
‘Master Of Mutilation’ In Maryland Accused Of Funding Brutal Attacks In Cameroon: DOJ ‘Master Of Mutilation’ In Maryland Accused Of Funding Brutal Attacks In Cameroon: DOJ
‘Master Of Mutilation’ In Maryland Accused Of Funding Brutal Attacks In Cameroon: DOJ A Maryland man known as the "Garri Master" — or Master of Mutilation — is facing federal charges for allegedly masterminding a brutal conspiracy to fund violent attacks, kidnappings, and mutilations in Cameroon, federal prosecutors announced. Eric Tano Tataw, 38, of Gaithersburg, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland after what authorities described as a vicious, years-long plot to support violent separatist fighters known as the Amba Boys. According to the indictment, Tataw — a Cameroonian national living in Maryland — called for attacks on Cameroonian civilians, municipal offic…
Northeastern Small Businesses Sue Trump Over Tariffs: 'Unprecedented Power Grab' Northeastern Small Businesses Sue Trump Over Tariffs: 'Unprecedented Power Grab'
Northeastern Small Businesses Sue Trump Over Tariffs: 'Unprecedented Power Grab' A group of small businesses is suing President Donald Trump over his sweeping new tariffs, warning the policy is driving up prices, threatening jobs, and putting their companies at risk of shutting down. The lawsuit argues that Trump has no legal authority to impose the "liberation day" tariffs. The suit was filed in the US Court of International Trade on Monday, April 14. Trump reversed course and paused many of his tariffs for 90 days but escalated duties on China to 145%. He enacted the tariffs unilaterally, invoking the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to …
Trump Now Says There Will Be 'No Exceptions' On Tariffs For iPhones, Other Chinese Electronics Trump Now Says There Will Be 'No Exceptions' On Tariffs For iPhones, Other Chinese Electronics
Trump Now Says There Will Be 'No Exceptions' On Tariffs For iPhones, Other Chinese Electronics Not so fast. Just days after new guidance was released by the government stated that machines used to make semiconductors, flat-screen TVs, tablets, and desktop computers are excluded from President Trump’s 125 percent tariff on Chinese goods, the administration is now saying those exemptions are only temporary. In a social media post on Truth Social on Sunday, April 13, Trump said there are “no exceptions,” and tariffs will apply to those items, apparently clarifying the US Customs and Border Protection bulletin issued Friday, April 11. “NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,' ” Trump wrot…
TikTok Ban In US Delayed, Trump Claims Tariffs Help Negotiations Despite Crashing Markets TikTok Ban In US Delayed, Trump Claims Tariffs Help Negotiations Despite Crashing Markets
TikTok Ban In US Delayed, Trump Claims Tariffs Help Negotiations Despite Crashing Markets TikTok will stay online in the US until at least the middle of June after a federal ban on the popular video app was delayed again. President Donald Trump said he'll sign an executive order to extend a 75-day delay on enforcing the ban. The order comes just one day before the app could have been shut down in the US under the divest-or-ban law. Trump, who once supported a TikTok ban, made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday, April 4. "My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress," the Presid…
Trump Fires 6 National Security Council Members After Meeting With Conspiracy Theorist: Reports Trump Fires 6 National Security Council Members After Meeting With Conspiracy Theorist: Reports
Trump Fires 6 National Security Council Members After Meeting With Conspiracy Theorist: Reports President Trump fired at least six staffers on the National Security Council following a meeting with a conspiracy theorist who claimed that they were "disloyal" to him, according to multiple reports. The firings on Thursday morning, April 3 came a day after the far-right activist, Laura Loomer, visited the Oval Office, and stated she was furious that the so-called "neocons," a term to describe so-called "war hawks," were hired in the first place, according to Axios. Other members of the NSC are expected to be fired as well, The New York Times reported, citing a US official with direct…
New Texts, Including Specific Attack Plans, Released From Leaked Chat Involving Trump Advisers New Texts, Including Specific Attack Plans, Released From Leaked Chat Involving Trump Advisers
New Texts, Including Specific Attack Plans, Released From Leaked Chat Involving Trump Advisers The Atlantic has just released the precise attack plans laid out by Trump Administration advisers during a leaked chat on a commercial app prior to a military strike against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this month. Two days ago, Jeffrey Goldberg, who edits The Atlantic, published a story stating that US national security leaders included him in an encrypted Signal messaging group chat. However, Goldberg did not release specific details regarding the attack itself. In a new story published Wednesday morning, March 26, headlined "Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advis…
Trump Says He Didn't Know Secret War Plans Were Texted By Mistake Hours After News Broke Trump Says He Didn't Know Secret War Plans Were Texted By Mistake Hours After News Broke
Trump Says He Didn't Know Secret War Plans Were Texted By Mistake Hours After News Broke President Donald Trump told reporters he was not aware that secret US war plans were texted by mistake through a commercial messaging app to a shocked American journalist hours after news of the stunning security breach first broke. New details have emerged on the massive mistake, including the names of the senior US officials who were involved in the group chat at the center of the situation. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote in a story published Monday afternoon, March 24 that US national security leaders included him in an encrypted Signal messaging g…