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The sale of face-to-face access to President Trump using the Trump family’s own cryptocurrency has done more than benefit him financially, though it has certainly done that.Mr. Trump announced last month that leading buyers of a digital coin his family is marketing would be rewarded with a private dinner with him at one of his golf courses and that the very top bidders would win a tour of the White House.The auction, which ends Monday, has set off a spectacle that has drawn bipartisan criticism, triggered a suspicious trading pattern, and left a sitting United States president wide open to…

Washington — President Trump is set to depart Monday for Saudi Arabia, embarking on what will be the first international trip of his second administration. Mr. Trump also visited Saudi Arabia before any other nation during his first term in the White House, bucking the tradition for U.S. presidents to make their first foreign trip to the United Kingdom. Saudi Arabia will be the first stop on a four-day trip to the Middle East for Mr. Trump this week.”Last time I went to Saudi Arabia, they put up $450 million,” Mr. Trump told reporters in March, while pledging to make the…

Society / StudentNation / May 7, 2025 After mass layoffs and scholarship freezes, students and tribal leaders are suing the Trump administration for violating treaty obligations. Ad Policy (Saul Loeb / Getty) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more Student Nation, check out our archive or learn more about the program here. StudentNation is made possible through generous funding from The Puffin Foundation. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]. …

A crash involving a tour bus and an S.U.V. in Los Angeles early on Sunday morning killed at least one person and left 32 other people injured, the authorities said.The crash happened around 5 a.m. on the 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights, which is about 20 miles southeast of the city of Los Angeles.When firefighters arrived, the S.U.V., a Nissan Pathfinder, was fully engulfed in flames and trapped the driver inside, but the fire did not spread to the bus, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.The male driver of the Nissan, who was the only occupant of the…

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The Trump administration has started an investigation into the import of commercial aircraft, jet engines and related parts that could lead to new tariffs on top of the many it has already put in place.According to a federal notice posted online on Friday, the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, started the investigation on May 1 under a provision of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows the president to impose tariffs on foreign products in the interest of national security.President Trump has already used that authority to impose tariffs on aluminum and steel, and to start similar investigations, including one last month…

House Republicans released a plan late on Sunday that would cause millions of poor Americans to lose Medicaid health coverage and millions more to pay higher fees when they go to the doctor, but that stopped short of an overhaul that would make the deepest cuts to the program.The proposal, which is one piece of a sweeping bill to enact President Trump’s domestic agenda, including large tax cuts and increased military spending, omits the structural changes to Medicaid that ultraconservative Republicans have demanded. Instead, it bows to the wishes of a group of more moderate and politically vulnerable G.O.P. lawmakers…

Yet another equipment outage at Newark Liberty International Airport has caused widespread delays on Sunday.The Federal Aviation Administration said the third outage in less than two weeks happened after a backup air traffic control system momentarily failed.45-minute ground stop follows latest outageThe FAA confirmed there was another system outage Sunday morning, but unlike the previous two out of the Philadelphia facility that controls Newark Liberty’s operations, the latest one involved a momentary failure of a backup system, which prompted a 45-minute ground stop to ensure that system was back up and running properly. While the FAA said operations returned to normal,…

President Trump, seen here boarding Air Force One Joint Base Andrews on March 21, is said to have been offered a new plane by Qatar. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is in talks with the Qatari government about accepting a luxury Boeing 747 airplane, a senior White House official said, that could temporarily serve as Air Force One. The offer, which was first reported by ABC News, comes on the eve of Trump’s visit to the Middle East. The president is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and…

Four people were killed, four others were critically injured and about 30 people were rescued after flames engulfed an apartment building in Milwaukee on Sunday morning, the authorities said.The fire, at a four-story building in the western part of the city, was reported a little before 8 a.m., Fire Chief Aaron Lipski of the Milwaukee Fire Department told reporters at the scene.More than two dozen people were rescued by multiple ground and aerial ladders or by firefighters on their hands and knees dragging people out of the building, he said.“Our firefighters ascending from the second floor to the third floor…