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USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump's foreign aid block, then says he's been put on leave
By Andrea Shalal (Reuters) - A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency will result in ...
Mar 02, 2025
Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve; prices spike
By Trevor Hunnicutt WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in a new U.S. crypto strategic reserve on Sunday, s...
Mar 02, 2025
Mexico, Canada tariffs coming Tuesday, but Trump will set exact levels, says US commerce head
By David Morgan (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a Sunday Fox News interview that tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect as planned on Tuesday, but that President D...
Mar 02, 2025
Rubio says he has not spoken with Ukraine's Zelenskiy since Friday White House clash
(Reuters) - U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio has not spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since Friday's Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, Rubio said on Sunday's "This ...
Mar 02, 2025
US House looks to pass stopgap funding bill to avert shutdown, Speaker Johnson says on NBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he hoped to pass a "clean" stopgap federal funding bill that would freeze funding at current levels to avert a partial government ...
Mar 02, 2025
NGO's newspaper ad asks Americans for donations after Trump's drastic aid cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An international non-governmental organization has placed a full-page advertisement in Sunday's New York Times calling on Americans to provide donations to support hundreds of m...
Mar 02, 2025
US Senate plan to make Trump tax cuts permanent raises 'debt spiral' worry
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A controversial plan by U.S. Senate Republicans to make President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts permanent by ignoring the cost to the deficit is raising warnings f...
Mar 02, 2025
US judge declares Trump's firing of watchdog agency head illegal
By David Shepardson and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Saturday declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the sc...
Mar 01, 2025
Former NAACP President Hazel Dukes dies at 92
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Hazel Dukes died at her home in New York City on Saturday at 92. "While she may have p...
Mar 01, 2025
ACLU sues to block migrant transfers to Guantanamo, alleging 'degrading conditions'
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. civil rights group on Saturday sued to block the Trump administration from potentially transferring 10 migrants from the U.S. to a naval base in Guantanamo ...
Mar 01, 2025
