• Wall Street tumbles in its worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

    Wall Street tumbles in its worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

    Oct 10, 2025 08:57 PM EST

    ... war could remove worries about disruptions to oil supplies, which had kept crude’s price higher than it otherwise would have been. Losses accelerated following Trump’s tariff threat, which could gum up global trade and lead the economy to burn less fuel. Brent crude, the international standard, dropped 3 ...

  • MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

    MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

    Oct 10, 2025 07:58 PM EST

    ... already aligned with some of the values outlined in the deal, including prioritizing merit in admissions and making college more affordable. RED MORE: Critics say Trump’s push for fairness in college admissions is leaving out legacy preferences Kornbluth said MIT was the first to reinstate requirements for standardized admissions ...

  • Trump threatens more tariffs after China restricts key exports

    Trump threatens more tariffs after China restricts key exports

    Oct 10, 2025 06:23 PM EST

    ... further complexity to the global supply chain of rare earth elements," the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said in a statement. Just what Trump's threat meant was open to interpretation, as it could simply be an attempt to gain some leverage under the belief that China has ...

  • WATCH: 8 children displaced by war are reunited with their families through talks with Putin, Melania Trump says

    WATCH: 8 children displaced by war are reunited with their families through talks with Putin, Melania Trump says

    Oct 10, 2025 04:21 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump announced Friday that eight children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war have been reunited with their families following ongoing talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Watch the announcement in our video player above. Melania Trump in August wrote a letter to Putin and had her husband ...

  • Trump visits Walter Reed medical center for 'semiannual physical'

    Trump visits Walter Reed medical center for 'semiannual physical'

    Oct 10, 2025 03:59 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had what he has described as a “semiannual physical” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. The visit, which the White House announced earlier this week, comes as Trump is preparing to travel to the Middle East on the heels of a ceasefire ...

  • Putin praises Trump's peace efforts, despite failure to win Nobel prize

    Putin praises Trump's peace efforts, despite failure to win Nobel prize

    Oct 10, 2025 03:26 PM EST

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday praised U.S. President Donald Trump's peace efforts, despite not winning a Nobel, and voiced hope for securing an agreement to extend a pivotal nuclear arms pact with Washington for another year. Asked by reporters whether he thinks Trump was unjustly ...

  • N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge after pressure from Trump

    N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge after pressure from Trump

    Oct 09, 2025 10:42 PM EST

    ... Trump has taken that line to heart and has basically in public directed the DOJ to go after people who investigated him in the past. Trump has also said publicly these won't be the only investigations we see. And we know that the national security adviser and others have ...

  • ICE escalates aggressive raids in Chicago as Trump moves to deploy National Guard

    ICE escalates aggressive raids in Chicago as Trump moves to deploy National Guard

    Oct 09, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... into a car? And who knows after that? William Brangham: The president has defended the hard-line tactics of federal agents, citing public safety. Donald Trump: They don't want to have a safe Chicago, and we can solve the problem very quickly. And we're doing that anyway. William ...

  • Read the Trump administration's full indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James

    Read the Trump administration's full indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James

    Oct 09, 2025 10:14 PM EST

    A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution Thursday. It is the latest indication of President Donald Trump and his administration’s determination to use the Justice Department to pursue the president’s political foes. Read ...

  • What to know about Trump's National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland

    What to know about Trump's National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland

    Oct 09, 2025 05:50 PM EST

    ... s Guard troops were to be federalized and deployed to the nation’s third-largest city, along with 400 others from Texas. Pritzker has denounced Trump’s plan to put troops on the ground, saying in a lawsuit that it is “unlawful and dangerous.” Trump claims troops are needed to ...