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Tarifflation Keeps Refusing to Happen If the tarifflation alarmists were right, we should have seen the proof by now. April’s inflation reports were supposed to show the U.S. consumers were bearing the burden of President Trump’s new tariffs. The ten percent universal duty on imports and targeted higher rates on dozens of countries took effect April 2. That gave a full month for cost pressures to show up. They didn’t. Wall Street analysts thought the consumer price index would rise 0.3 percent but it edged up 0.2 percent. That’s after prices fell in March and rose just 0.2 percent in…
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) attended a House Homeland Security Committee hearing featuring Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem just days after she was caught on bodycam footage storming an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility. Over the weekend, McIver was captured on bodycam footage storming ICE’s Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey — seemingly getting physical with agents and shouting. DHS officials released the bodycam footage and Noem, at the hearing that McIver attended on Wednesday, called her actions “beneath” the institution of Congress. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) were also among…
Donald Trump has accused the host nation South Africa of persecuting its white minority The White House National Security Council has instructed US American federal agencies to suspend their preparations for the G20 summit in Johannesburg, as US President Donald Trump continues to accuse South Africa of “genocide,” The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.Citing two people familiar with the matter, WaPo said the move aligns with Trump’s earlier threat to boycott the November meeting over what he called a campaign of persecution against South Africa’s white minority.Pretoria has drawn international attention since passing a law in January permitting the expropriation…
The FBI, DHS and Secret Service are now investigating former FBI Director James Comey over his Trump assassination social media post. “We are aware of the recent tweet by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday evening. We are aware of the recent tweet by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and…
Indian Army Director General of Military Operations Lt. Gen. Rajiv Ghai (L), Indian Airforce Air … More Marshal AK Bharti (C), Indian Navy Vice Admiral AN Pramod (R) addresses during a press conference in New Delhi, on May 12, 2025. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images As India and Pakistan prepared for conflict over the last month, they revealed the next evolution of intimidating war rituals that once included banging shields and intimidating dances: the deployment of electronic warfare systems. In addition to tanks and artillery, this move reflects the…
New graduates are facing a changing job market. Getty Creative The job outlook for the Class of 2025 is murky, and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions are a big reason why. The Fed doesn’t hire or fire workers, but its interest rate decisions influence how much it costs businesses to borrow, invest and expand. Higher interest rates can lead companies to slow hiring, while lower rates may do the opposite. Right now, those rates are high—and have been for more than a year—as the Fed tries to bring down inflation. A pause on rate hikes is currently in place,…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran “must stop sponsoring terror” and its “bloody proxy wars” as part of any nuclear deal with the U.S. — key provisions that were absent from the deal reached by President Barack Obama in 2015. Trump spoke to a gathering of Arab leaders at the Gulf Cooperation Council in Saudi Arabia before leaving for Qatar on his visit to the Middle East — one focused on both commercial ties and diplomatic outreach. Trump said: We’ll stand with our friends and partners, and we’ll confront the aggression that threatens us all. I want to make…
Stephen A. Smith has fired a shot across the bow of one of his potential 2028 Democratic presidential rivals by saying that New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) will not appeal to centrist voters. Smith, who initially ruled himself out of the 2028 presidential race before thinking better of it and ruling himself back in a few weeks later, told viewers on Tuesday’s episode of his podcast, The Stephen A. Smith Show, that the outspoken leftist congresswoman would “turn off the centrist voters they need to win competitive races.” “I think if you are a Democrat, if you are a leftist who…
The US president could change his travel plans on Friday ‘if something happened’ US President Donald Trump is considering a visit to Türkiye on Friday, as Ukraine and Russia are set to resume direct peace negotiations for the first time since 2022.The US leader, who seeks to facilitate a truce in the Ukraine conflict, said he could alter travel arrangements amid his ongoing Middle East trip. “If something happened, I’d go on Friday if it was appropriate,” he told journalists in Qatar on Thursday morning.Trump reiterated his wish to end the Ukraine conflict and expressed hope “that Russia and Ukraine are…
Former FBI Director James Comey deleted his Instagram post, which appeared to call for the assassination of President Trump. James Comey posted a cryptic message to his Instagram account on Thursday spelled out in seashells: “86 47” “Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey said in his caption. Comey Trump assassination social media post Comey deleted the post after major backlash, and he updated with an unbelievable comment. “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with…