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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based Court of International Trade came after several lawsuits arguing Trump has exceeded his authority, left U.S. trade policy dependent on his whims and unleashed economic chaos. “The Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs,” the court wrote, referring to the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The White House did not immediately respond…

A caller posing as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has reportedly asked for money from US elites US authorities are investigating an individual who has allegedly been impersonating White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.The impersonator has been attempting to deceive prominent Republican senators, governors and business leaders over the past several weeks, by pretending to be Wiles, sources familiar with the investigation have told the newspaper. The individual has reportedly used text messages and phone calls using a voice likely generated by AI.Some of the targets interacted with the imposter,…

This won’t make many headlines but – Americans woke up to a slew of incredibly positive economic news. “This is a GREAT four-month start to any year,” exclaimed CNBC’s Rick Santelli as brand new economic indicators show inflation is down, incomes are up, and the trade deficit is narrowing — shattering economists’ expectations once again. INFLATION IS DOWN: “Inflation rate slipped to 2.1% in April, lower than expected, Fed’s preferred gauge shows,” CNBC reports. INCOME IS UP: Personal income increased 0.8% in April — “almost TRIPLE the expectations.” “They’re powerful numbers — up 0.6% in January, up 0.7% in February, up 0.5% last month, up 0.8% this…

Rosé’s “Apt” holds on the Hot 100 for a thirty-first week, tying Psy’s “Gangnam Style” as the … More third-longest-charting K-pop song in U.S. history. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 04: Rosé attends the 2023 LACMA Art+Film Gala, Presented By Gucci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for LACMA)Getty Images for LACMA Rosé’s single “Apt.” is pushed down on the Hot 100 this week as the ranking is dominated by tracks from Morgan Wallen’s new album I’m the Problem. The country superstar fills 36 spots on…

The Lake Tahoe area of Nevada is home to the majority of the state’s richest cities.getty A series of recent studies analyzed and identified the richest cities in a number of states that lie in the geographic Mountain division, such as Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. For this article, the analysis will be for Nevada’s richest cities. This study analyzed 134 cities in Nevada with complete data from the Census Bureau, in terms of their median household income, mean (average) household income, median home value, and median property taxes paid per year, to come up with a list of the…

Prices barely climbed in April, pulling the annual rate of inflation down toward the Federal Reserve’s two percent target, even while personal income climbed at a rapid rate. The personal consumption price index climbed 0.1 percent in April, the second month in a row in which consumers got relief from inflation that had plagued the economy throughout the Biden administration. In March, the index showed prices were flat. Compared with a year ago, prices are up just 2.1 percent. That just one-tenth above the two percent rate of inflation the Fed says it targets. In March, prices were up 2.3…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials reported on Tuesday taking about 40 people into custody on Nantucket Island and Martha’s Vineyard in a largescale operation that netted members of the dangerous MS-13 gang as well as at least one child sex offender. “ICE officers and FBI, DEA and ATF agents worked together to arrest a significant number of illegal alien offenders which included at least one child predator,” ICE wrote in a statement. “Our partners in the U.S. Coast Guard facilitated a safe and efficient transport of the alien offenders off Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, ensuring the safety of the residents…

Berlin’s approval of Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia could result in Moscow removing its own constraints, Sergey Shoigu has said Moscow has the means to respond to Berlin’s decision to lift the range restrictions on Ukrainian strikes with missiles provided by Germany, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has said.Earlier this week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed that “there are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, neither from the British nor the French, nor from us, nor from the Americans.”In a separate interview on Wednesday, Merz said deliveries of German Taurus missiles – which have a…

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is the apparent target of a hacking scam, according to a new report. According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited sources it did not name, the White House and FBI are investigating after political and business leaders received fake communications supposedly from Wiles The Journal reported, “senators, governors, top U.S. business executives and other well-known figures” have received texts and calls from someone claiming to be Wiles. The Journal said, the scam has been going on for several weeks, with Wiles claiming someone hacked into her personal cellphone contacts — although it…

Topline The White House did not deny Thursday that a report on childhood chronic disease produced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission was partly based on fictitious research—even as Kennedy has repeatedly claimed widely available medical research is unreliable. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on as he testifies before a … More Senate subcommittee to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Health and Human Services, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 20, 2025. (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP…