Author: Leslie Stewart

After months of delays and extensions, President Donald Trump’s comprehensive and sweeping tariff slate came into effect on Thursday shortly after the Midnight ET, shifting his global trade reset to high gear.Most imports into the US face a baseline 10% obligation, and the overall average effective tariff rate has risen to over 17% (the highest of the highest Great Fear Presion since 1935), thanks to the higher missions of some of the largest US trading partners, according to the non-partisan Yale Budget Lab think tank.A wide variety of products will be attacked. Tariffs are collected on everything from European Union…

As new grades approach, the typical worry of getting supplies and organizing schedules gets worse for families in mixed immigration conditions. I wonder if I’ll send my children to class due to fear of an immigrant attack at school.”I’ve heard a lot of people ask what to do,” said Oleana, a mother of four who is registered with a school in Phoenix, Arizona.The fact that places like churches and schools are no longer considered “sensitive” spaces from immigration enforcement behaviour “causing a lot of fear,” said a Venezuelan woman. Until late January, when President Donald Trump took office, immigration and…

Russian President Vladimir Putin bids farewell to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi following a meeting in the Russian Kremlin on July 9, 2024. Gavriil Grigorov | Via ReutersRussia will be heavily on the growing spat between India and the US on Tuesday, with the Kremlin saying New Delhi can freely choose its own trading partner.Washington and India’s leadership is in the Loggerheads over Russian oil imports, and President Donald Trump is threatening New Delhi with many sudden tariffs if he continues to buy goods from Russia.The Kremlin, a key trading partner in India and has remained silent after nausea has…

Opinion: Hatu Sheikh, founder of Coin TerminalCrypto has largely failed retail investors. Insiders and agencies scooped up lucrative opportunities before reaching the open market. Memecoins and purely speculative theatre are the only way retail investors can regain stock in Pie. They remain exposed to the “crime supercycle” that began with an unregulated initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017-18. At the time, early DEX products (IDOs) emerged, providing retail investors with open and fair access to early stage projects. Gradually, however, high threshold requirements, long vesting periods, and information asymmetry made most IDOS a no-go for retail investors. IDOs are generally…

US President Donald Trump is watching President Donald Trump wearing a Magazine hat before he greets the military and his family during a military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 4, 2025. Brendan Smirowski | AFP | Getty ImagesSay what you love about President Donald Trump’s leadership style and policy. But he has a way in words.Trump’s love for contract creation and his previous career as a real estate tycoon are both well known, and the loving president often laments speeches and interviews with business-related terminology. Now, he is turning to…

Hiroshima, Japan – For over half a century, chimes have run off to Hiroshima, a Japanese city every morning.The strict ritual shows the exact moment on August 6, 1945. The US bomber Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on top of Hiroshima, killing about 70,000 people immediately.Aerial photograph of Hiroshima just after the US atomic bomb.Universal History Archive/Getty Images FileOn Wednesday, the people of Hiroshima celebrated the 80th anniversary of a devastating attack as nuclear weapons are brought globally amid unresolved military conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.In a silent tribute for a minute, the city recalled…

US President Donald Trump will meet with Syrian President Ahmed Alshara in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in this handout released on May 14, 2025. Saudi Arabia’s press | via ReutersSpeaking to the fierce crowd at the Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh in May, US President Donald Trump surprised listeners by announcing he would order a full lifting of US sanctions in Syria.”Now it’s their time for sparkle… Syria for good luck,” Trump said.Within three months, the Trump administration struck Syria at the highest tariff rate in every country around the world: 41%.Syria has little trade with the US due to years of sanctions, but…

(Combo) This photo combination, created on February 21, 2020, shows President Donald Trump made his remarks at Keep America Great Rally held in Phoenix, Arizona on February 19, 2020.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesThe rift between Moscow and Washington appears to be set deeper after Russia’s economy says it “stinks” and lower oil prices will attack President Vladimir Putin’s oil-funded war machinery.”Putin will stop killing people when the energy reaches another $10 barrel. His economy will stink so he won’t have a choice,” the president told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” on tuesday.Comments come after the relationship between Moscow and Washington.…

Not long after it was first reported that Ghislaine Maxwell had been moved to one of the country’s most flexible federal detention facilities, a private Facebook group dedicated to current and former federal prison staff exploded in shock and rage.The federal prison camp in Brian, Texas is one of the seven lowest security dorm-style federal security facilities that do not normally house prisoners like Maxwell, who have been convicted of a sex crime and are serving a long sentence.”As a retired BOP employee, this makes me sick,” one person wrote on the Facebook page of “Prison Staff and Retirement.””When are…

President Donald Trump told CNBC on Tuesday that he narrowed down the future Federal Reserve chair area to four candidates.The president refused to reveal who was fighting, but he revealed that Bescent, previously considered a major candidate, has come out of the fight for himself.”Well, I love Scott, but he wants to stay where he is,” Trump said in a “Scokebox” interview. “I asked him last night, ‘Is this what you want?’ (Bescent said),’ “I want to stay where I am. It’s a great honor.The news follows the surprise announcement of Fed Gov. Adriana Coogler on Friday that she had…