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BBD’s Weekly Wrap: The Supreme Court Tries to Stop Trump’s Tariffs Welcome back to Friday! This is the weekly wrap of economic and financial news from Breitbart Business Digest, where we never overreach with our emergency powers. This week, there were huge fights over who pays for the tariffs, major signals that the U.S. manufacturing sector is strengthening, a trade report showing that the deficit has been almost cut in half since Liberation Day, and a GDP report that was disappointing, thanks in part to the government shutdown.  We’re going to put all of that aside for now (but you…

The US journalist had arrived in the country to interview American ambassador Mike Huckabee US journalist and podcaster Tucker Carlson has said he was briefly detained at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday after taping an interview with the American ambassador to Israel.Carlson, who frequently criticizes US aid to West Jerusalem, told the Daily Mail that Israeli officials took his passport and escorted his executive producer to an interrogation room.“Men who identified themselves as airport security took our passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador…

Los Angeles County has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, the popular online gaming platform, alleging the company has failed to adequately protect children from predatory behavior and grooming on its platform. Variety reports that the lawsuit, filed on Thursday, represents the latest legal challenge facing Roblox over issues related to child safety. Los Angeles County accuses the gaming platform of creating an unsafe online environment despite marketing itself as a secure space for creativity and digital interaction. According to the county’s legal filing, Roblox has become what officials describe as a “breeding ground for predators.” The lawsuit alleges that children…

President Donald Trump reportedly blasted the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday morning, which found many of his tariffs illegal, as “a disgrace.” Trump was hosting governors for breakfast at the White House when the ruling came down. CNN cites two sources as saying the president called the ruling “a disgrace.” The outlet also reported: He told those gathered that he has a backup plan in mind, according to one of those people. Officials inside the Trump administration had been bracing for a loss at the Supreme Court, assuring the president that if the court struck down his tariffs there would…

President Donald Trump said Friday that it seems what becomes of the revenue generated by International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs will have to be “litigated” over the coming years. Trump blasted the Supreme Court, which ruled 6-3 that his IEEPA tariffs are unlawful, for not ruling on what becomes of the reportedly $ 175 billion in tariff revenue. “Since Liberation Day, there’s about $175 billion in tariff revenue that is now in limbo. Do you have to refund $175 billion?” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked. “Very fair question. They take months and months to write an opinion, and…

The $1.5 billion deal will reportedly take the Israeli company public through a merger with a Florida construction firm Eric Trump, the second of US President Donald Trump’s three sons, is investing in Israeli drone producer Xtend, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The funding reportedly comes as part of a $1.5 billion deal expected to take the company public through a merger with a Florida-based construction firm.Defense analysts have cited the increasingly central role of UAVs in intelligence, surveillance, and precision strike operations – with investments in emerging drone manufacturers seen as a strategic financial move amid rising global…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Thursday sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook questioning the political bias benefitting leftist outlets on the popular Apple News app. “I write to express my concern with recent reporting that Apple News has systematically suppressed news articles from conservative publications while amplifying articles from liberal outlets,” Blackburn, the chair of the Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy subcommittee, wrote in her letter to Cook. “The American public increasingly relies on services like Apple News to provide them with information, and they deserve to have access to perspectives across the political spectrum. To deny…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to stop commenting on the death of conservative university student Quentin Deranque. The 23-year-old Catholic activist was killed last week during an anti-mass immigration protest in Lyon in an alleged act of Antifa violence. As Breitbart News reported, the young man’s death sparked widespread condemnation of far-left violence. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, said on Sunday that “clearly it was the far left was behind it.” On Wednesday, Meloni, in a social media post, said the killing of  Deranque is “deeply shocking and saddening,” describing the incident as a “wound for the whole…

The president of a family-owned full-line steel service center praised President Donald Trump’s tariff policies during Trump’s visit to the company’s facility in Georgia on Thursday, a day before the Supreme Court struck down many of the president’s tariffs. Coosa Steel president Andrew Saville said that he began seeing a massive influx of orders for tire racks in July 2025 after the tire rack industry began “really dropping off around 2010.” “The tire rack industry was going to China. There were no tariffs. They were bringing them in, and they were decimating the tire rack business in America,” Saville said.…

Belgian Defense Minister Theo Franken has criticized public statements on nuclear deterrence as poorly timed and inappropriate European leaders should keep their “mouth shut” on nuclear deterrence, Belgian Defense Minister Theo Franken said on Wednesday, calling out their public statements on the issue as particularly ill-timed and inappropriate.Talk of Europe developing its own nuclear deterrent has intensified since Washington announced it would scale back security commitments to its European allies, focusing instead on homeland defense and containing China.Commenting on X about a recent podcast interview with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Franken said: “Regarding nuclear deterrence, I really don’t understand why…