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Trump announces trade agreement with the Philippines and terms of deal with Indonesia
CNN — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines have reached a trade agreement. Shortly after, he also revealed more detailed terms of an agreement with Indonesia. Both agreements call for 19% tariffs on goods the US imports from the two countries, paid by American businesses, while American goods shipped there won’t be…
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Before Sending April 11 Demands, Trump Administration Privately Floated an Aggressive Agenda to Harvard | News
Updated July 22, 2025, at 2:19 p.m. The Trump administration drafted a confidential strategy memo in early April outlining policy demands it could impose on Harvard, including placing a lien on University assets, putting academic departments in receivership, and nixing a cultural center for minority students, according to a court filing last week. The four-page memo — which includes both…
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Columbia University disciplines at least 70 students who took part in campus protests
Columbia University has disciplined over 70 students for participating in two student-led protests, a source familiar with the matter said. In a Tuesday statement, the university confirmed that it was punishing students who participated in the protest at the school’s Butler Library, where at least 80 people were detained, as well as a similar demonstration during its annual alumni weekend…
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Video shows Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car
A video showing Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car during a traffic stop has sparked nationwide outrage, with civil rights lawyers accusing authorities of fabricating their arrest report. The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window,…
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Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Ousted As New Jersey U.S. Attorney
Topline Former Trump defense attorney Alina Habba was replaced as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey on Tuesday, according to a court order, failing to secure the votes needed from the state’s federal judges to remain, after the Trump ally drew controversy during her tenure for charging Democratic politicians over their clashes with federal immigration agents. Alina Habba speaks after being…
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Nicole Mitchell to resign after burglary conviction
Another possible candidate to replace Mitchell is former Rep. Kelly Fenton, a Republican who held a nearby House seat in the late 2010s. She asked on X after Friday’s verdict, “Is now a good time to make a big announcement?” Republicans, who have been calling for Mitchell to resign for more than a year, on Monday demanded she step down…
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Deputy attorney general to meet with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche intends to meet with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the next several days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday morning. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 for recruiting and grooming multiple teenage girls for over a decade to be sexually abused by Epstein. She was investigated and indicted…
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Trump administration releases files on slain civil rights leader
US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977. Prominent members of King’s family had opposed the release. A statement from his two living children…
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US Labor Department picks more than 60 rules for Trump’s deregulation mandate
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at constructions sites and in…
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AOC’s office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A Bronx office of US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating. The vandalism occurred as the progressive Democratic congresswoman grapples with “threats on [her] life”, as her campaign manager put it, after a recent US House vote involving American aid to Israel. Officers called out to Ocasio-Cortez’s…
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