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Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.Wall Street billionaires are not used to being on the outside looking in. But that is where they find themselves after President Trump ignored their appeals to call off his tariff plans which they fear could endanger the economy. With the backdrop of rapidly mounting stock market losses, corporate titans have worked every angle — phone calls, social media and even a typically staid shareholder letter — to try to change Mr. Trump’s mind. The day after the president announced his most...

April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked on Tuesday a judge's order for President Donald Trump's administration to rehire thousands of fired employees, acting in a dispute over his effort to slash the federal workforce and dismantle parts of the government. The court put on hold San Francisco-based U.S. Judge William Alsup's March 13 injunction requiring six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of recently hired probationary employees while litigation challenging the legality of the dismissals continues.

More than 100 educators at Wellesley College are striking, causing credit confusion for students while the college is calling on the union to sit down with a mediator. The union voted to authorize their strike to begin on March 27 after nearly a year of failed bargaining. Now, it says the administration has been “surface bargaining.” Non-tenure track faculty at the small liberal arts college initially voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers, in January of last year. Annie Brubaker, a senior lecturer at Wellesley and a member of the WOAW...

Millions of migrants unlawfully residing in America are about to get hit with a rude awakening. As Reuters reported, the Trump Administration announced they would be invoking a 1996 law that allows them to fine illegals $998 per day for refusing to leave America. The law was enforced for the first time in 2018, during President Trump’s first term in office. The outlet notes that the Trump Administration plans to apply the penalties retroactively for up to five years, possibly resulting in fines of over $1 million. Illegals also face property seizure for refusal to comply.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a federal judge's ruling requiring several federal agencies to reinstate around 16,000 workers the Trump administration had sought to fire. The decision to grant the administration's request means the federal government doesn't have to take steps to bring back some workers who were laid off while litigation moves forward before a federal judge in California.

WATCH: Rep. Byron Donalds, (R-FLa.), shouted down by leftist voters after he attempted to have a conversation with them regarding the issues "I'm gonna be your Governor, trust me," Donalds said.

Nintendo is facing criticism over the high price tag of its upcoming Switch 2 console, which is set to launch at $450 in the U.S. Despite leftists eager to blame Donald Trump’s tariffs for the console’s high price, Nintendo of America’s top boss has now said that tariffs had nothing to do with the hotly-anticipated gaming machine’s price. TechSpot reports that Nintendo has found itself in the midst of a controversy surrounding the pricing of its highly anticipated Switch 2 console. The Japanese gaming giant recently announced that the Switch 2 will launch at a price point of $450 in...

BEIJING — As part of an escalating global trade war, the Chinese government announced plans to retaliate against President Donald Trump's tariffs by putting worse fortunes into their cookies. Highly placed sources within the Chinese Communist Party confirmed that production had been ramped up on newer, more disturbing fortunes to place inside cookies to be shipped to thousands of restaurants across the United States. "Less than happy outcomes are in your future," said one slip of paper seen by a fortune cookie insider. Other fortunes reportedly created to combat Trump's tariffs include "Your baseball team is unlikely to make...

Stocks were higher in late-morning trading Tuesday, though well off their early-session highs, as volatile trading continues amid uncertainty about tariffs.

8 Apr 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump shot down the European Union’s offer of a zero-tariff trade relationship on some goods, demanding that the bloc do more to rectify the significant trading imbalance, such as purchasing more American-produced energy. With markets putting pressure on politicians worldwide, leading Eurocrats came out on Monday, attempting to appease Washington with concessions. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Brussels had relayed an offer of “zero-for-zero” tariffs on industrial goods, while trade envoy Maroš Šefčovič suggested a “boost in strategic areas” like semiconductors and minerals. 8 Apr 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump...

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forward...

Judge James Boasberg got gutted last night: the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can deport illegal aliens, they can invoke the Alien Enemies Act, and there’s nothing he can do to stop it. The little judge got owned, but Boasberg was mulling contempt hearings for Trump officials over the deportation flights, which is absurd. His rulings were vacated, but it seems he is hell-bent on holding this administration in contempt and beyond. The core of his argument has been smashed into dust, but one can still be held in contempt of rulings on appeal.

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police say 23-year-old Natalieann Aguirre has been arrested in a suspected road rage shooting on March 24. Authorities say during the incident, Aguirre shot at the victim on the highway while his 2-year-old granddaughter was in the back seat. The victim, in his 60's, didn't want to go on camera, but admitted to having some regrets for his actions that led up to the shooting. The victim says he was merging onto Highway 281 northbound from San Pedro Avenue when Aguirre was driving behind him. "[The other vehicle] went around me and cut back in...

The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve as bodyguards for Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a break from past practice in which the bureau’s No. 2 officials did not have security details, two current and two former FBI officials familiar with the matter told NBC News. Here's The Average Price for a 6-Hour Gutter Upgrade in Hammond Ad Here's The Average Price for a 6-Hour Gutter Upgrade in Hammond Homebuddy.com Learn more Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and New York police officer who became a wealthy pro-Trump podcaster, harshly criticized the bureau for years before President...

Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives slashed his price targets for Apple and Tesla over the weekend as President Trump’s tariffs threaten to disrupt both businesses. “The tariff economic Armageddon unleashed by Trump is a complete disaster for Apple given its massive China production exposure,” Ives said in a warning note over the weekend. “In our view, no U.S. tech company is more negatively impacted by these tariffs than Apple with 90% of iPhones produced and assembled in China.” Wedbush cut its price target for Apple stock by $75, down to $250 per share. Apple’s shares are down this afternoon by...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) advocated for illegal immigration in the U.S. and suggested black Americans were “done picking cotton.” Crockett’s words reportedly came while “speaking at Grace Baptist Church in Connecticut,” according to commentator Collin Rugg. While speaking, Crockett claimed that she was going around the U.S. educating “people about what immigrants” do for the U.S., and claimed that nobody is “trying to go and farm right now.” “I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we are a country of immigrants,” Crockett said in the video...

Revisiting this story of Her Rottonness's so-called "collapse" after the 911 ceremonies in 2016. Here is a video (many versions, but with many examples especially early on in a YT search that are obscurred a bit, this one is one of the more clear versions:Video Shows Clinton Before and After Stumbling at 9/11 Memorial There are two points in this infamous video that are relevant here. The first shows what looks like a right hand behind her back, but it's fuzzy. The next picture is a few seconds later, where it becomes highly suggestive that her right and left hands...

The White House wants to make it much costlier for litigants to challenge its policies. It is proving to be an uphill battle. President Trump in a March memo ordered government lawyers to request the payment of bonds in lawsuits seeking to temporarily block his policies. The bonds, which could impose a daunting financial burden on many plaintiffs, are part of a campaign to deter what Republicans see as activist litigation and overreach by judges issuing broad injunctions against administration policies. Federal judges in the past couple of months have largely balked at the requests, ordering minimal bonds or none...

VIDEO"When It Happens" that a terror cult ENCOURAGES assassination of a President then that terror cult needs to be investigated. Oh, they think that they can evade responsibility by being coy and cute in not outright stating the CRIME they are encouraging but the fact is that the meaning and goal of "When It Happens" is a very open non-secret. One only needs to read the comments that accompany such videos which drop all pretense of TDS secrecy. In addition, I have included along with the videos of the "When It Happens" assassination cultists, videos of good citizens who call...

The federal judge who blocked the Trump administration's use of a 1798 wartime law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals canceled a planned Tuesday court hearing to review the case after the Supreme Court handed a win to the president. In a minute order published Tuesday morning, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that the previously scheduled Tuesday afternoon hearing would be vacated in light of the high court's ruling – which determined, among other things, that the "appropriate venue for such proceedings is the Southern District of Texas," or wherever plaintiffs that are subject to potential removal are currently held....