The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said in a letter that the M.T.A. must provide a…
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles off the east coast of England. This set off a series of large explosions and a huge plume of black smoke, while a still unknown…
President Trump threatened to escalate a trade war with the European Union after the bloc announced 50 percent tariffs on U.S. whiskey and several other American products to kick in on April 1, in retaliation to a batch of U.S. tariffs that took effect this week. “If this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S….
U.S. President Donald Trump points as he attends the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon hosted by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 12, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to hit back against Europe’s own retaliatory move to Washington’s…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. Dan Kitwoodnicholas Kamm | Afp | Getty Images China’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it “firmly opposes” U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods and vowed retaliation, if necessary. “If the U.S. insists on its own way, China will…
US President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2025. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from the European Union, claiming that the economic and political bloc was formed “to screw” the U.S. On Wednesday,…
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Feb. 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images Elon Musk on Monday night doubled down on his threat to fire federal employees who fail to submit…
Ursula von der Leyen (CDU, r), President of the European Commission, stands in the plenary chamber of the European Parliament. Philipp von Ditfurth | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The European Union plans to retaliate against the United States for new steel and aluminum tariffs, adding another element to rising global trade tensions. “Unjustified tariffs…
A trade war is not in the interest of the European Union or the U.S., Spain’s prime minister told CNBC Wednesday. “We share a strong transatlantic bond … our economies are very interlinked and I believe a trade war is not in the interest [of either party], neither for the U.S., neither for the European…
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates. On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to supply Central Europe with Russian natural gas. Slovakia had been the main entry point…
