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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanTrump slams EU over tech fines
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump lashes out at EU over tech fines President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union’s (EU) fines against major U.S. tech firms as “discriminatory actions” and threatened to start a trade investigation, opening the door to additional tariffs. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Trump lashed out at the European bloc after...
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Economy loses jobs for the first time since 2020
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Economy loses jobs for the first time since 2020 The latest jobs report from the Labor Department is the first to register a net negative jobs month for the U.S. economy since December 2020, when the...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Lutnick on trade spat: India 'will say sorry in 2 months'
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Friday India will likely resume trade negotiations with the United States in two months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi began leveraging his relationship with Russia and China due to the onset of new tariffs from President Trump. “I think, yes, in a month or two months, I think India's going...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Trump says 2026 G20 will take place at his Doral resort
President Trump said Friday the U.S. would host the 2026 Group of 20 (G20) summit at his golf club near Miami, further blurring the lines between the government and his businesses. "I think that everybody wants it here because it’s right next to the airport. It's the best location. It’s beautiful everything," Trump said in...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:WATCH: NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces he is continuing his reelection campaign
New York City MayorEric Adamsinsisted again Friday that he won't end his reelection campaign, stressing that he will remain in the race as reports swirl that he’s been approached about possibly taking a job in the Trump administration.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:McConnell challenges Trump to beef up defense spending after ‘War Department’ change
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is challenging President Trump to follow up his executive order to rename the Defense Department the "War Department" with a bigger increase in the Pentagon’s budget to deter threats from China, Russia and other adversaries. “If we call it the Department of War,...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Judge blocks Noem from revoking temporary protections for Venezuelans, Haitians
A federal judge on Friday blocked Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from ending temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled that Noem’s efforts to revoke the Biden administration’s extensions of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) were arbitrary and capricious and exceeded her authority, so they...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Eric Adams says he's staying in NYC mayoral race
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Friday he is staying in the race for another term amid reports he might be offered a job in the Trump administration. Speculation reached its peak Friday throughout the day that Adams would end his campaign after The New York Times reported President Trump’s advisers have been floating...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Judge blocks DHS from ending temporary legal status for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April or whose protections were about to expire Sept. 10 have status to stay and work in the United States. It also keeps protections for about 500,000 Haitians.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Anutin Charnvirakul elected prime minister of Thailand in parliamentary vote
Anutin, 58, succeeds Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was dismissed by court order as prime minister last week after being found guilty of ethics violations over a politically compromising phone call with neighboring Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Deported Venezuelan mothers ask Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children
A group ofVenezuelan mothers and grandmothersis appealing to first lady Melania Trump to help them see their children and grandchildren again. Members of the group, backed by Venezuela’s government, say they sent Trumpa letterseeking her assistance last month.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in Webb Space Telescope’s latest snapshot
Released this week, the picture provides a breathtaking view of a nearby star-birthing center, 5,500 light-years away. A single light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Federal authorities detain 475 people during immigration raid in Georgia, official says
Some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, according to a Homeland Security official.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:White House says Trump will seek ‘Department of War’ rebrand for Pentagon
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand theDepartment of Defenseas the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of toughness for America's military.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Schiff responds to ProPublica report on Trump cabinet mortgages: 'Staggering' hypocrisy
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to ProPublica reporting about Trump Cabinet members’ mortgages, saying that “the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is nothing short of staggering.” “Donald Trump has made mortgage fraud accusations his weapon of choice to attack people standing in his way and people standing up to him, like me,” Schiff...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Trump presses tech CEOs on American manufacturing investments at WH event
President Trump on Thursday night hosted top tech executives in a one-of-a-kind White House event, during which he asked attendees to say how much their companies were investing in U.S. manufacturing. The president sat beside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a long table, with first lady Melania Trump on the other side. Microphones and place...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Rubio says U.S. is designating 2 Ecuadorian gangs as foreign terrorist groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement Thursday while in Ecuador as part of a trip to Latin America overshadowed by an American military strike against a similarly designated gang, Venezuela's Tren de Aragua.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Trump’s strike on ‘narco-terrorist’ boat legally murky
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump’s strike on ‘narco-terrorist’ boat legally murky The Trump administration's few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea has fueled questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Appeals court halts order requiring Alligator Alcatraz dismantling
An appeals court issued a Thursday order halting the dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration's migrant detention site based in the Florida Everglades. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a lower court’s order that deemed the site a threat to the environment. Judge Barbara Lagoa and...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Biden had procedure to remove skin cancer from forehead
Former President Biden underwent a procedure recently to have skin cancer removed from his forehead, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Thursday. A Biden spokesperson told The Hill that the former president had Mohs surgery, a procedure where surgeons cut away thin layers of skin, examining each for signs of cancer, until no signs...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Northwestern’s president will resign following tenure marked by White House tension
Northwestern emerged as a prominent target of President Donald Trump's campaign to reshape elite colleges he has derided as hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:China’s Xi and North Korea’s Kim pledge deeper ties between nations at meeting in Beijing
China has been North Korea’s biggest trading partner and aid provider, though questions have lingered about the strength of their bilateral relationship.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:In tense hearing, RFK Jr. challenged on vaccine views and trust in health agencies
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled during a combative hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Senators pressed Kennedy on his views on vaccines and whether he was effectively limiting access and destroying trust in past data and public health agencies. The hearing comes just a week after his decision to fire the director of the CDC, Dr. Susan Monarez. Lisa Desjardins reports.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Blackburn pushes for KOSA
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Blackburn presses for kids online safety bill Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is pushing for the passage of kids’ online safety legislation in the face of growing concern about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on young users. Greg Nash Blackburn, who has long advocated for the...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Examining RFK Jr.’s claims about vaccines, COVID and the health of Americans
In a fiery Senate hearing, Robert Kennedy Jr. made a number of questionable or misleading claims about vaccines, COVID and the health of Americans. Amna Nawaz discussed some of these claims with Dr. Richard Besser, the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Obama administration.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: D.C. suing Trump administration to end National Guard deployment
In our news wrap Thursday, D.C. is suing the Trump administration to end its deployment of the National Guard in the city, President Trump’s nominee to fill an open seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors said he would not resign his position at the White House if confirmed to the role and Gaza health officials say more than 64,000 people have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:GOP senators grill Kennedy: Watch 3 key moments
It wasn't only Democrats confronting President Trump's health secretary during a heated hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. Three Republican senators — Bill Cassidy (La.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) — also harshly questioned Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his opinion on Trump’s COVID-19 response,...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Trump to sign order renaming Department of Defense to 'Department of War'
President Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order Friday formally renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the White House confirmed. Trump had in recent days signaled the change was coming, pointing to the history behind the name and his belief that it better reflected the Pentagon's offensive operations. Fox News first...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:U.S. military strikes on suspected drug smugglers spark legal and diplomatic concerns
The Trump White House is signaling a new war on drug cartels. On Monday, the president released video of what the administration says was a strike on a drug-running boat off the coast of Venezuela. Nick Schifrin takes a closer look at what happened and at the administration’s case for both the policy and the legality of this renewed focus on drug trafficking.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Parents mourning daughter lost in Texas floods push state to strengthen camp safety rules
It’s been two months since at least 135 people were killed in flash floods that roared through the Texas Hill Country. In the weeks since, families of the victims have been pushing state lawmakers to pass camp and flood safety legislation. Lacey and Lars Hollis lost their 8-year-old daughter, Virginia, in the floods at Camp Mystic. They joined Amna Nawaz to discuss their support for the bill.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Trump’s strike on ‘narco-terrorist’ boat enters murky legal waters
The Trump administration has offered few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that it has asserted killed 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, fueling questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human rights conventions. President Trump, who announced Tuesday that American forces destroyed a vessel from Venezuela allegedly...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Remembering iconic designer Giorgio Armani and his lasting impact on fashion
The world of fashion has lost one of its greats. Italian designer Giorgio Armani died at the age of 91. He is credited with elevating a quintessentially Italian aesthetic in his clothes and making red carpet affairs cultural moments. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic and former senior critic-at-large at The Washington Post.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:How Tiny Chef captured the internet’s heart
He’s a little guy with a huge following online. Tiny Chef, the Instagram sensation who also happens to be animated, has gained millions of fans of all ages while whipping up vegetarian meals with a side of heart. Stephanie Sy reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Noem, Bondi discuss plans for ICE detention facility in notorious Louisiana prison
Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of Homeland SecuritySecretary Kristi Noemsaid Wednesday.
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