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The European Union announced retaliatory commercialized actions Wednesday, focusing caller duties connected U.S. concern and workplace products from Republican-led states, wrong hours of the Trump administration’s 25% tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum imports. Trump promises the taxes volition assistance make U.S. mill jobs, but his seesawing threats are jolting the banal marketplace and raising fears of an economical slowdown.
The Education Department announced plans to laic disconnected much than 1,300 employees, a prelude to Trump’s program to wholly dismantle the agency. And the Trump medication is halting a $1 cardinal programme that helps support tens of thousands of units livable for low-income Americans, according to a papers obtained by The Associated Press.
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Trump pressured Ukraine for a bid deal. Will it propulsion Russia arsenic well?
Rubio wouldn’t accidental arsenic helium spoke with reporters en way to talks with U.S. allies successful Canada.
“We don’t deliberation it’s constructive to basal present contiguous and accidental what we’re going to bash if Russia says no,” Rubio said, adding helium wants to debar statements astir Russia that “are abrasive successful immoderate way.”
The Trump medication chopped disconnected subject and quality enactment to Ukraine for a week to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement to talks. Trump and Vice President JD Vance besides angrily confronted Zelenskyy successful a televised White House meeting.
Rubio did enactment that Biden medication sanctions connected Russian President Vladimir Putin implicit his 2022 penetration of Ukraine stay successful place.
Rubio defends apprehension of pro-Palestinian Columbia student
The caput of authorities says that if a greenish paper holder supports Hamas, riles up anti-Jewish activities and shuts down assemblage campuses, “we’re going to footwear you out. It’s arsenic elemental arsenic that.”
“This is not astir escaped speech. This is astir radical that don’t person a close to beryllium successful the United States to statesman with. No 1 has a close to a pupil visa. No 1 has a close to a greenish card,” Rubio said.
Mahmoud Khalil, a ineligible U.S. nonmigratory calved successful Syria who was a postgraduate pupil astatine Columbia until December, was detained Saturday and flown to an migration jailhouse successful Louisiana.
Student leaders accidental their wide anti-war question besides includes Jewish students and groups and is not antisemitic.
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US says shot successful Russia’s tribunal connected talks to extremity its warfare connected Ukraine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is pursuing aggregate points of interaction to spot if Russian President Vladimir Putin is acceptable to negociate an extremity to his warfare against Ukraine.
“The shot is genuinely successful their court,” Rubio said aft mediation successful Saudi Arabia saw Ukraine hold to commencement contiguous talks with Russia connected ending their three-year war.
Rubio spoke to reporters en way to Group of Seven talks with U.S. allies successful Canada.
Rubio expressed hopes that Russia volition halt attacks connected Ukraine wrong the adjacent fewer days arsenic a archetypal step, saying “It’s hard to commencement a process erstwhile radical are shooting astatine each different and radical are dying.”
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The Education Department was created to guarantee adjacent access. Who would bash that successful its absence?
Officials person suggested different agencies could instrumentality implicit the Education Department’s large responsibilities erstwhile it’s dismantled.
But the question remains astir what could hap with a much lofty portion of its ngo — promoting adjacent entree for students successful an American acquisition strategy that is fundamentally unequal.
Without the department, advocates interest the national authorities would not look retired successful the aforesaid mode for mediocre students, those inactive learning English, disabled students and radical and taste minorities.
The equity extremity of the Education Department, which was founded successful 1980, emerged partially from the anti-poverty and civilian rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Trump has said helium wants to instrumentality each power of schools to states.
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President Donald Trump spent the nighttime aggravated astatine Rep. Thomas Massie
“GRANDSTANDER!” Trump posted connected Truth Social, his societal media platform, astatine 1:23 a.m.
The Kentucky congressman was the lone House Republican to ballot against authorities to forestall a authorities shutdown.
The president antecedently suggested Massie would look a superior challenge, though he’s been capable to support enactment successful his location authorities contempt antagonizing leaders successful Washington.
Massie said the backing authorities didn’t bash capable to code the national deficit. Trump and different Republicans person said that volition beryllium addressed successful different measures this year.
Education Department cuts fractional its staff, a prelude to Trump's elimination
The Education Department plans to laic disconnected much than 1,300 of its employees, a prelude to Trump’s program to dismantle the agency.
The Trump medication had already been whittling the agency’s staff, done buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees. After Tuesday’s layoffs, the department’s unit volition beryllium astatine astir fractional of its erstwhile 4,100, the bureau said.
The layoffs are portion of a melodramatic downsizing directed by Trump arsenic helium moves to trim the footprint of the national government. Thousands of jobs are expected to beryllium chopped crossed the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and different agencies.
Department officials said it would proceed to present connected its cardinal functions specified arsenic the organisation of national assistance to schools, pupil indebtedness absorption and oversight of Pell Grants.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said erstwhile she got to the department, she wanted to trim bloat to beryllium capable to nonstop much wealth to section acquisition authorities.
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Trump’s 25% tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum imports spell into effect
Trump officially accrued tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum imports to 25% connected Wednesday, promising that the taxes would assistance make U.S. mill jobs astatine a clip erstwhile his seesawing tariff threats are jolting the banal marketplace and raising fears of an economical slowdown.
Trump removed each exemptions from his 2018 tariffs connected the metals, successful summation to expanding the tariffs connected aluminum from 10%. His moves, based disconnected a February directive, are portion of a broader effort to disrupt and alteration planetary commerce.
Trump told CEOs successful the Business Roundtable connected Tuesday that the tariffs were causing companies to put successful U.S. factories. The 8% driblet successful the S&P 500 banal scale implicit the past period connected fears of deteriorating maturation appears improbable to dissuade him, arsenic Trump argued that higher tariff rates would beryllium much effectual astatine bringing backmost factories.
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UK calls Trump tariffs disappointing but doesn’t retaliate
The British authorities called the Trump administration’s tariffs connected planetary alloy and aluminum imports “disappointing,” but said that it won’t enforce retaliatory measures.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, however, did not regularisation retired aboriginal tariffs connected U.S. imports and said helium would “continue to prosecute intimately and productively with the U.S. to property the lawsuit for U.K. concern interests.”
Britain is not portion of the European Union, which Wednesday announced import taxes connected American goods, ranging from alloy and aluminum to bourbon, peanut food and jeans successful effect to Trump’s move.
Center-left U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has worked to physique beardown ties with Trump, successful anticipation of avoiding the tariffs levied connected galore different U.S. trading partners.
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The EU retaliates against Trump's tariffs, slapping duties connected nutrient from Republican states
The European Union connected Wednesday announced retaliatory commercialized enactment with caller duties connected U.S. concern and workplace products, responding wrong hours to the Trump administration’s summation successful tariffs connected each alloy and aluminum imports to 25%.
The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared successful advance, but the measures inactive spot large strain connected already tense transatlantic relations. Only past month, Washington warned Europe that it would person to instrumentality attraction of its ain information successful the future.
The EU measures volition screen goods from the United States worthy immoderate 26 cardinal euros ($28 billion), and not conscionable alloy and aluminum products, but besides textiles, location appliances and cultivation goods.
The EU duties purpose for unit points successful the U.S. portion minimizing further harm to Europe. The tariffs — taxes connected imports — chiefly people Republican-held states.
▶ Read much astir the EU’s tariffs connected GOP states
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