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4 days ago | 
nowhabersham.com | Ashley Murray
(States Newsroom) — The United States and China agreed Monday to lower steep tit-for-tat tariffs for 90 days, temporarily cooling a trade war but still leaving a cloud of uncertainty over businesses in the world’s two largest economies. American and Chinese officials announced the pause will go into effect Wednesday, following talks in Geneva, Switzerland, as negotiations on a final deal continue. U.S. markets rallied following the announcement.
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1 week ago | 
ncnewsline.com | Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Veterans and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday protested the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the Department of Veterans Affairs that include slashing some 80,000 jobs, which many worry will affect the massive agency’s delivery of medical care and benefits.
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2 weeks ago | 
ohiocapitaljournal.com | Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Mike Waltz, a former Florida congressman who became known for sharing U.S. plans to strike Yemen on a Signal group chat, was out as White House national security adviser on Thursday. President Donald Trump announced he will instead nominate Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a position that requires U.S. Senate confirmation.
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2 weeks ago | 
nowhabersham.com | Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — Senate Republicans defended President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs Wednesday, blocking a largely symbolic measure to terminate the president’s import taxes that have shocked the economy. The resolution failed in a tied 49-49 vote Wednesday evening. Vice President J.D. Vance broke the tie on a subsequent procedural vote to stop the measure from receiving another chance on the floor.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonstatestandard.com | Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled a reprieve on auto tariffs will come Tuesday ahead of the president’s stop in Michigan to mark his first 100 days in office. Bessent and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday curtailing the import taxes for domestic car manufacturers, but offered few specifics. The president’s 25% levy on cars and auto parts went into effect at the beginning of April.
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3 weeks ago | 
nowhabersham.com | Jennifer Shutt |Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — Republicans in Congress have a difficult few months ahead of them as they look to broker agreement within their exceptionally narrow majority on policy issues that have already begun to divide centrists from far-right members of the party. The negotiations will be the first test of the sort for Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who weren’t in the top posts eight years ago when the GOP passed its last reconciliation package.
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3 weeks ago | 
circlevilleherald.com | Ashley Murray
(WASHINGTON, DC) - The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new round of deportations under the wartime Alien Enemies Act until the high court considers the case of several migrants in Texas whose lawyers say are at risk for “imminent removal.” kAm%96 ;FDE:46D :DDF65 E96 @?6\A286 @C56C ;FDE 27E6C ` 2]>] t2DE6C?[ 5:C64E:?8 E96 8@G6C?>6?E “?@E E@ C6>@G6 2?J >6>36C @7 E96 AFE2E:G6 4=2DD @7 56E2:?66D 7C@> E96 &?:E65 $E2E6D F?E:= 7FCE96C @C56C @7 E9:D r@FCE]”k^Am kAm%96 @C56C...
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3 weeks ago | 
ncnewsline.com | Ashley Murray
The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new round of deportations under the wartime Alien Enemies Act until the high court considers the case of several migrants in Texas whose lawyers say are at risk for “imminent removal.” The justices issued the one-page order just after 1 a.m. Eastern, directing the government “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.” The order was unsigned and noted...
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3 weeks ago | 
azmirror.com | Ashley Murray
The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new round of deportations under the wartime Alien Enemies Act until the high court considers the case of several migrants in Texas whose lawyers say are at risk for “imminent removal.” The justices issued the one-page order just after 1 a.m. Eastern, directing the government “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.” The order was unsigned and noted...
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4 weeks ago | 
nowhabersham.com | Ashley Murray
GREENBELT, Md. (States Newsroom) — A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday ordered a defiant Trump administration to provide evidence about how it has tried to secure the release of an immigrant mistakenly deported to a brutal mega-prison in El Salvador, saying that to date, the record shows “nothing has been done.” District Judge Paula Xinis laid out a two-week timeline for the government to produce sworn statements on whether and how immigration officials are complying with her previous...
