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  • EU seeks unity in first strike back at Trump tariffs

    04/06/2025 3:49:16 PM PDT · by Nifty · 18 replies
    Reuters ^ | 4/6/2025 | Philip Blenkinsop
    BRUSSELS, April 6 (Reuters) - European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures on up to $28 billion of U.S. imports from dental floss to diamonds. Such a move would mean the EU joining China and Canada in imposing retaliatory tariffs on the United States in an early escalation of what some fear will become a global trade war, making goods more expensive for billions of consumers and pushing economies around the world into recession.
  • Analysis-After tariff shock, Trump may weaponise finance against allies

    04/04/2025 5:33:52 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 7 replies
    Reuters | MSN ^ | April 4, 2025 | by Francesco Canepa and John O'Donnell
    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - With the ink still fresh on U.S. President Donald Trump's latest batch of tariffs, some are already bracing for what may come next in his effort to strong-arm trading partners into doing his bidding. As the epicentre of the financial world and the issuer of the global reserve currency, the United States has a number of levers that Trump can pull to coerce other countries, from credit cards to the very provision of dollars to foreign banks. While deploying these unconventional weapons would come at a large cost for the U.S. itself and may even backfire altogether,...
  • China Urges US to Immediately Lift Tariffs, Vows Retaliation

    04/03/2025 8:09:55 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 23 replies
    NewsMax ^ | Thursday, 03 April 2025 08:19 AM EDT
    China Thursday urged the United States to immediately cancel its latest tariffs and vowed countermeasures to safeguard its own interests, after President Donald Trump declared sweeping levies on all U.S. trading partners around the world.The U.S. move disregards the balance of interests reached in multilateral trade negotiations over the years and the fact that it has long benefited greatly from international trade, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement.'SAFEGUARD RIGHTS & INTERESTS'"China firmly opposes this and will take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests," the ministry said, as the world's largest economies look set to spiral deeper...
  • Trump Says He Doesn't Care if Liberals Beat Conservatives in Canada

    03/18/2025 8:24:43 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 31 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 18, 2025
    U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wouldn't mind if the Liberal Party won the upcoming Canadian election, saying: "I'd rather deal with a liberal than a conservative." Trump has taken a tough stance toward Canada, imposing tariffs on Canadian imports and repeatedly threatening to make it the 51st U.S. state. During an interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," host Laura Ingraham pointed out that Trump's treatment of Canada could propel the ruling Liberals to win the next election and lead a government that's hostile to the U.S. "I don't care," Trump responded. "I think it's easier to...
  • Cockroaches and working in a closet: Inside Trump's return-to-office order

    03/17/2025 4:40:25 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 87 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 16, 2025 | By Tim Reid, Ted Hesson, Sarah N. Lynch and Leah Douglas
    WASHINGTON - At NASA headquarters in Washington, just a mile from the U.S. Capitol, employees returned to an infestation of cockroaches and some are working in chairs with no desks, according to two people familiar with conditions there. In a private chat, staffers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services likened the hunt for desks in some regional offices to "The Hunger Games," the popular series of novels and films where young people must fight to the death in a government-sanctioned contest. And at an Internal Revenue Service office in Memphis, Tennessee, tax assessors sharing a training room are unable to...
  • Trump halts all U.S. military aid to Ukraine, White House official says

    03/03/2025 6:22:26 PM PST · by Mariner · 52 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | March 3rd, 2025 | Andrea Shalal and Gram Slattery
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week, a White House official, deepening the fissure that has opened between the two one-time allies."President Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution," said the official on Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.The White House had no immediate comment on the scope and amount of aid...
  • Exclusive-Trump administration directs ICE agents to find, deport unaccompanied migrant children

    02/23/2025 11:32:10 AM PST · by 11th_VA · 22 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | Marisa Taylor, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke Sun, February 23, 2025
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors. It lays out four phases of implementation, beginning with a planning phase on January 27, though it did not provide a start date for enforcement operations. More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without...
  • Argentina’s opposition threatens impeachment trial after Milei touts crypto coin [looks like Milei screwed up]

    02/16/2025 3:55:06 PM PST · by Eccl 10:2 · 35 replies
    Reuters ^ | 2/16/25 | Reuters
    Argentine President Javier Milei could face an impeachment trial in Congress, opposition lawmakers said on Saturday, after the libertarian leader touted a cryptocurrency which crashed soon after.
  • Reuters: As Trump shakes Justice Department, deeply conservative prosecutors head for exits

    02/15/2025 2:39:12 PM PST · by RandFan · 56 replies
    Reuters/MSN ^ | Feb 15 | Story by Jack Queen, Mike Spector, Luc Cohen and Sarah N. Lynch
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's drive to shake up the U.S. government drove out a rising star in conservative legal circles: A career federal prosecutor who once clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Danielle Sassoon, tapped to lead the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office on Trump's second day in office, quit on Thursday rather than go along with a Justice Department order to drop a criminal corruption case against Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams. The department ordered the case dropped, citing the city's approaching November mayoral election and saying that prosecuting Adams could interfere with...
  • US government begins wave of mass firings as Trump, Musk purge federal workers

    02/13/2025 5:17:45 PM PST · by hardspunned · 27 replies
    USAID front Reuters ^ | 2/13/25 | Paid USAID stooges at Reuters
    WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. government began firing hundreds of people at multiple agencies on Thursday as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America's federal bureaucracy, union sources and employees familiar with the moves told Reuters. Termination emails have been sent in the past 48 hours to government workers, mostly recently hired employees still on probation, at the Department of Education, the Small Business Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the General Services Administration, which manages many federal buildings. It was not immediately clear how many domestic federal workers stood to lose their...
  • Trump Demands ‘Radical Left’ Reuters Return $9 Million to US Gov — That He Gave Them — After Baseless Elon Musk Claim

    02/13/2025 8:49:54 AM PST · by ransomnote · 50 replies
    mediaite.com ^ | Feb 13, 2025 | David Gilmour
    President Donald Trump unleashed on “Radical Left Reuters” over a 2018 Pentagon contract to “study large-scale social deception”—a contract awarded during his own administration—and demanded the news agency “GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!”The brief but furious outburst was pushed out early on Thursday as the president cited the revelation as a finding of his newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump posted on Truth Social:DOGE: Looks like Radical Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study “large scale social deception.” GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!Indeed, DOGE’s agency head Elon Musk boosted a post on X...
  • US federal employees fear mass firings as Thursday buyout deadline nears [40,000!]

    02/05/2025 6:03:34 PM PST · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 05, 2025 | Tim Reid, Valerie Volcovici, David Shepardson and Nandita Bose
    Fearful U.S. government workers weighed whether to take a buyout offer from the Trump administration ahead of a Thursday deadline, as officials pressed ahead with a restructuring effort that could dramatically shrink the U.S. civil service. Federal worker unions urged their members not to take the offers and said they may not be legal, despite administration assurances. The unions sued to block the offer, with a court hearing scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday (1800 GMT). At least 40,000 have taken the deal so far, according to a White House source, about 2% of the government's 2.3 million...
  • US foreign aid contractors fire staff, face cash crunch as Trump causes chaos

    02/04/2025 1:24:35 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 108 replies
    Reuters ^ | Feb 5, 2025
    WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's overhaul of U.S. foreign assistance has led to chaos in the aid and development field, leaving hundreds of contractors in a severe financial crunch with some already having to lay off staff and others facing millions of dollars in unpaid invoices. Hours after coming into office on Jan. 20, Trump ordered a sweeping review of almost all U.S. foreign aid and tasked billionaire Elon Musk, who has falsely accused USAID of being a "criminal" organization, with scaling down the agency. Since then, dozens of USAID staff has been put on leave, hundreds...
  • FBI staff ordered to reveal their role in Jan. 6 probes by Monday

    02/03/2025 4:32:16 AM PST · by hardspunned · 72 replies
    Reuters ^ | 2/2/25 | Sarah N. Lynch
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI employees were ordered on Sunday to answer a questionnaire about any work they may have done on criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, stoking fear about a fresh round of firings at the law enforcement agency. The list of questions in the memo, seen by Reuters, direct employees to give their job title, any role they played in the investigations into the Jan. 6 riot by supporters of President Donald Trump and whether they helped supervise such investigations.
  • Reuters Fact Checks Babylon Bee Article Stating ‘Allahu Akbar’ Has Replaced ‘Cheerio Mate’ As UK’s Favoured Farewell

    12/11/2024 5:51:59 AM PST · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Modernity ^ | December 11, 2024 | Steve Watson
    Reuters is at it again with their team of ‘fact checkers’. They’re targeting The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, over an article that states the most favoured farewell in the UK, ‘cheerio mate’ has been replaced with ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The humorous satire piece states, “A recent poll conducted by the University of Oxford just revealed that ‘Allahu Akbar’ has officially replaced ‘Cheerio, mate!’ as the most popular greeting in the UK,” adding that experts called the results of the “survey” a “flippin’ landslide, old bean.” Kyle Mann, the Editor-in-Chief of the Babylon Bee, shared the lunacy on X, noting that...
  • Trump Taps US Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State

    11/11/2024 5:50:03 PM PST · by V_TWIN · 160 replies
    usnews.com ^ | Nov. 11, 2024 | Gram Slattery
    Donald Trump selected U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, the New York Times reported on Monday, putting the Florida-born politician on track to be the first Latino to serve as America's top diplomat once the Republican president-elect takes office in January. Rubio was arguably the most hawkish option on Trump's shortlist for secretary of state, and he has in years past advocated for a muscular foreign policy with respect to America's geopolitical foes, including China, Iran and Cuba. Over the last several years he has softened some of his stances to align more closely with Trump's...
  • Israel Confirms Death of Heir Apparent to Slain Hezbollah Leader

    10/22/2024 5:03:57 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    Reuters ^ | October 22, 2024 | By Humeyra Pamuk, Maayan Lubell and Nidal Al-Mughrabi
    Israel on Tuesday confirmed it had killed Hashem Safieddine, the heir apparent to late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who was killed last month in an Israeli attack targeting the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group. The military said Safieddine was killed in a strike carried out three weeks ago in Beirut's southern suburbs, its first confirmation of his death. Earlier this month, Israel said he had probably been eliminated. There was no immediate response from Hezbollah to Israel's statement that it had killed Safieddine. "We have reached Nasrallah, his replacement and most of Hezbollah's senior leadership. We will reach anyone who threatens...
  • Exclusive: Stop Israel from bombing Iran's oil sites, Gulf states urge US

    10/10/2024 8:02:30 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 14 replies
    Reuters ^ | 10/10/24 | Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Pesha Magid
    DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Gulf states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran's oil sites because they are concerned their own oil facilities could come under fire from Tehran's proxies if the conflict escalates, three Gulf sources told Reuters. As part of their attempts to avoid being caught in the crossfire, Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are also refusing to let Israel fly over their airspace for any attack on Iran and have conveyed this to Washington, the three sources close to government circles said.
  • Exclusive-Former Republicans and Democrats form new third U.S. political party

    07/27/2022 6:20:10 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 122 replies
    MSN ^ | 27 July 2022 | Tim Reid
    Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America's dysfunctional two-party system. The new party, called Forward and whose creation was first reported by Reuters, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters. Party leaders will hold a series of...
  • Harris holds onto 1 point lead over Trump in latest Reuters/Ipsos poll (Kamala bounce fading)

    07/31/2024 2:13:35 PM PDT · by libh8er · 70 replies
    Reuters ^ | 7.30.2022 | Bo Erickson
    The three-day poll, completed on Sunday, showed Vice President Harris supported by 43% of registered voters, with former President Trump supported by 42%, within the poll's 3.5 percentage point margin of error. A Reuters/Ipsos poll last week showed Harris up 44%-42%.