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The Supreme Court's ruling that struck down the sweeping global tariffs at the heart of President Trump's economic policies has produced enormous cracks in the GOP's outward show of party unity.
After spending the past year rallying behind Trump on virtually every facet of his second-term agenda, Republican lawmakers spanning the ideological spectrum are publicly praising the decision as a victory for free trade, the separation of powers, or both.
"In defense of our Republic, the Supreme Court struck down using emergency powers to enact taxes," Sen. Rand Paul, a libertarian-minded Kentucky Republican who has long opposed Trump's tariffs, posted on X. |
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Less than six weeks before the 2020 election, President Trump stepped into the White House Rose Garden to fete his newest Supreme Court nominee.
"She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution," he enthused. "Judge Amy Coney Barrett."
Barrett would duly be confirmed, the third newly minted Supreme Court justice of Trump's first term. The first had been Neil Gorsuch, back in 2017. At an event to mark Gorsuch's swearing-in, Trump called him "a man of great and unquestioned integrity … of unmatched qualifications."
That was then, this is now. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
President Trump suffered a striking blow to his bid to refashion global trade with sweeping tariffs as the Supreme Court on Friday struck down his use of an emergency statute to execute the strategy core to his economic agenda.
Trump was the first president in history to attempt to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs and had warned that an adverse ruling to his efforts would wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. "This was an important case to me," Trump said during a White House press briefing, where he also made rare remarks lambasting conservative justices, including two he nominated, who ruled his use of emergency powers was unlawful. |
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President Trump said he signed an executive order on Friday imposing a 10 percent tariff on imports from countries around the world, hours after the Supreme Court ruled a set of sweeping emergency tariffs were unconstitutional.
"It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. The details of the plan were outlined in the text of the order and a fact sheet released by the White House late Friday. |
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The Supreme Court has struck down Trump's authority to impose tariffs on other countries through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). But it's not the only tool at the president's disposal to press on with his tariff regime.
"The reality is the president is going to have tariffs as part of his trade policy going forward," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in an interview with The New York Times on Jan. 15 in response to rumblings that the Supreme Court may overturn some or all of Trump's tariffs. In the interview, Greer said if the high court did not rule in the administration's favor, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has equipped the president with a number of mechanisms buried within the 1974 Trade Act that would allow him to continue to see through his trade goals. |
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President Trump's attack plans for Iran have roiled a deal for the United Kingdom to cede control of the tiny and isolated island of Diego Garcia, where a strategic American air base sits in the middle of the vast Indian Ocean.
Trump took to his Truth Social media account Wednesday to warn British Prime Minister Keir Starmer against returning the island to the small African country of Mauritius, part of a decades-long legal battle to address Britain's colonial past.
"Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego Garcia, and the Airfield located in Fairford [England], in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime," the president posted. |
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The United Kingdom has blocked a request by the U.S. to use the country's bases for a potential strike on Iran, according to multiple British media reports.
The decision by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, first reported by The Times, was reportedly made due to concerns that such action could violate international law.
President Trump had requested that the U.S. be allowed to use the facilities at Diego Garcia and Royal Air Force Base Fairford in Gloucestershire, the European hub for America's fleet of heavy bombers, the outlet reported. |
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) denied a request to have the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson lie in honor in the Capitol, a source confirmed to The Hill.
After the civil rights leader died this week at age 84, Jackson's family requested that he lie in honor in the Capitol, another source said. CNN was first to report Johnson's decision. The Speaker considered past precedent of mostly reserving the practice for former presidents and select former government officials and military honorees. Requests for conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and former Vice President Dick Cheney to lie in the Capitol were also recently denied. |
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The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is rolling out what the department is calling the "Pledge America Campaign," which encourages broadcasters to air "patriotic, pro-America content" to celebrate the nation's history.
The goal of the initiative, the FCC said as part of the announcement it made Friday, is for major broadcasters to put on programming that "celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump Administration today." Suggestions of pro-America content the department made include running public service announcements, short segments, or full specials specifically promoting civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history or starting each broadcast day with "The Star Spangled Banner" or Pledge of Allegiance. |
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OPINION | It's no secret that Democratic leaders despise school choice, usually at the behest of their teachers union backers. But do they hate it so much, they'll let a huge amount of their home states' wealth flow to Republican competitors?
That's the question liberal governors face from California to Connecticut to almost every blue state in between. They're deciding whether to opt into the federal school-choice program that Donald Trump and congressional Republicans created last year. The program opens in 2027, at which point any American can annually donate up to $1,700 to organizations that offer scholarships to students attending public or private schools. In return, the donor will get a dollar-for-credit tax credit, lowering or even eliminating their tax bill for the year. |
OPINION | AI data centers are essential to winning the global AI race — but most communities don't want them in their backyards. It's easy to see why. These facilities are enormous, resource-intensive and often difficult for communities to digest.
Yet these anxieties, while real, cannot become a pretext for retreat. If the U.S. wants to win the AI race — economically, militarily and for national prosperity — we must build public support for data centers. |
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In India, the timing of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against President Trump's use of an emergency law to impose tariffs caused acute whiplash. The country had just escaped a 50 percent tariff with a trade deal announced not even three weeks ago. One term of that deal has been making India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, particularly uncomfortable. |
BY JASON DOUGLAS, KIM MACKRAEL AND PAUL VIEIRA |
The Supreme Court's decision overturning President Trump's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports isn't the game-changer for international trade that it might appear to be at first. In Asia, Europe and the Americas, governments don't expect Trump to abandon his favorite tool of economic policy, despite the legal setback. Trump has said tariffs are essential for reviving U.S. manufacturing and raising revenue. U.S. trading partners are bracing for more tariff action as the president seeks substitutes for the levies the Supreme Court said he must now remove. |
King Charles III' s brother was under arrest. Police were searching two royal properties, and news commentators were endlessly discussing the details of a sex scandal with tentacles that stretched to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
So how did Britain's royal family spend Thursday afternoon? The king sat in the front row on the first day of London Fashion Week. Queen Camilla attended a lunchtime concert, and Princess Anne visited a prison. |
BY LAUREN WEBER, LENA H. SUN AND CAITLIN GILBERT |
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years campaigning against vaccines, but with the flu shot, he's suggested it's personal. Kennedy has linked his strained, raspy speech to the vaccine, despite several medical experts saying there is no scientific evidence to support that claim.
Federal guidance revised under Kennedy last month, while the United States is experiencing a hard-hitting flu season, no longer recommends routine flu vaccines for children and adolescents. The day after he assumed office a year ago, he ordered the end of a government ad campaign encouraging flu vaccination. |
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