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The United States doubled its steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% Wednesday, casting a pall on a gathering of OECD ministers as President Trump’s intensifying trade war weighs on the world economy. The boosted levies went into effect at midnight EDT.Mr. Trump’s sweeping tariffs on allies and adversaries alike — including ones on imported steel and autos — have strained U.S. ties with trading partners and sparked a flurry of negotiations to avoid the duties. And the pressure is mounting as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a 38-nation grouping of mostly developed countries, cut its global growth…

Federal prosecutors charged a Southern California man with allegedly threatening to kill President Trump on Facebook after last year’s election.The man — identified as 73-year-old Thomas Eugene Streavel of San Bernardino County — was indicted last week on three counts of making threats against a president-elect, the Justice Department said in a news release Tuesday. An indictment unsealed Tuesday lists out a series of angry Facebook messages that Streavel allegedly penned about Mr. Trump both before and after the election — some of which expressed a desire for him to be assassinated. The charges focus on three messages allegedly written in November,…

The new official portrait of Donald Trump shows the president staring into the camera with an expressionless face. White House hide caption toggle caption White House The White House unveiled a new portrait of President Trump this week, replacing the image taken in January that had drawn comparisons to a mugshot. In the new photograph, announced by the White House on Monday via X, Trump stares directly into the camera. His right eye is slightly squinted and his mouth is pressed into a straight line. He is dressed in a blue suit with one of his signature red ties, and…

Police in Florida arrested a man who allegedly climbed a fence and tried to enter President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club early Tuesday, the Secret Service said.The alleged intruder — described only as an adult male — “scaled a perimeter fence and triggered alarms” shortly after midnight on Tuesday, a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. He was detained by the Secret Service “without incident” before local police in Palm Beach took him into custody and charged him with trespassing, according to the spokesperson. The arrested man allegedly told local police he hoped to speak with Mr. Trump about…

June 3, 2025 The “big, beautiful bill” has reaffirmed that a pledged golden age is really just a windfall for the über-wealthy. Ad Policy Supporters gather on May Day at City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally along his Fighting Oligarchy Tour.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission. The blush is off the rose, or, rather, the orange. The erstwhile “First Buddy” and born-again fiscal hawk Elon Musk recently said he was “disappointed” by Donald Trump’s spendthrift budget currently under debate in the…

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Six Nobel laureate economists said a massive budget bill passed by House lawmakers last month and backed by President Trump would weaken key safety-net programs while greatly lifting the federal debt. The tax and spending package, which Republicans have dubbed the “one big beautiful bill,” would hurt millions of Americans by slashing Medicaid and food stamps, the economists wrote in a June 2 letter on behalf of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “Even with the safety net cuts, the House bill leads to public debt rising by over $3 trillion in coming years (and over $5 trillion over the…

A banner showing an image of US President Donald Trump hangs on the side of a US Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2025. USDA has put on hold a demand that states turn over sensitive data about food assistance recipients. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Agriculture’s unprecedented demand that states and payment processors turn over sensitive data about people who receive federal food assistance is on hold — for now. A USDA official said in court filings late Friday the agency has not…

Washington — The U.S. Navy plans to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran, and is considering renaming multiple naval ships named after civil rights leaders and prominent American voices, CBS News has learned.  Norfolk Va., (Sept. 24, 2024) — Civil Service Mariners (CIVMARS) aboard Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) fleet replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206) completed their first replenishment-at-sea (RAS) with two Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) vessels.  LaShawn Sykes U.S. Navy documents obtained by CBS News and used to brief the secretary of the Navy and his chief of…

The fight might between the president and the conservative old guard might just be the biggest legal development of Trump’s second term. Ad Policy Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society, and Donald Trump.(Nordin Catic / Getty Images for The Cambridge Union; Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) One of the keys to Donald Trump’s enduring popularity with the worst people this country has to offer is that he often says mean things about the people his supporters hate. Whether Trump does anything to those people, and whether his actions actually solve the problems his supporters have with those people,…