Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News, Washington Watch: White House says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador will ‘never’ live in US again The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison. Press secretary Karoline…
Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration’s welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had “taken a hatchet” to Social Security, a system which Donald Trump and Elon Musk – who is leading the White House’s cost-cutting efforts – have said…
Getty Images Gene Hackman with his wife Betsy Arakawa in 1986 Nests and some dead rodents were found in outbuildings of the house where Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead. New Mexico Department of Public Health records seen by BBC News document evidence of the animals in eight detached…
A shopper at a farmer’s market in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 27, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A day without major tariff developments from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is, for markets, a period of cautious optimism (or at least what passes as “optimism” in such unusual times). There was…
People shop at a grocery store in Manhattan on April 01, 2025, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images A day without major tariff developments from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is, for markets, a day of cautious optimism (or at least what passes as “optimism” in such unusual times). There was breathing…
US President Donald Trump is in “excellent cognitive and physical health”, says his White House physician. In the first annual physical of his second presidential term at a Washington DC-area hospital, Trump was also found to have “scaring on the right ear from a gunshot wound”, after an assassination attempt last July. “President Trump remains…
A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press’s access to presidential events after the White House blocked the news agency in a dispute over the term “Gulf of America”. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration’s restriction on AP journalists was “contrary to the First Amendment”, which guarantees…
Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a “moron” over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla. Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – also said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X. It was…
A driver for an independent contractor to FedEx delivers packages on Cyber Monday in New York, U.S, on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order shutting the de minimis trade loophole, effective May 2. Trump in February abruptly ended the de minimis…
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump’s forthcoming tariffs will take effect right after they are unveiled on Wednesday, the White House said. “My understanding is that the tariff announcement will come tomorrow. They…
