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Israel's Security Cabinet approved a plan on Friday to take control of Gaza City. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement that the Israeli military "will prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones." Israel's cabinet is expected to endorse the Gaza City plan. President Donald Trump will hos...

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to sign a series of executive orders on Thursday, including one that punished banks for restricting services to customers based on their political or religious beliefs, and another that aims to allow private equity, real estate, cryptocurrency and other alternative assets in 401(k) retirement accounts. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on Thursday that the FBI resp...

President Donald Trump is imposing an additional 25 percent tariff on India, lifting the total rate to 50 percent. Trump, writing in an Wednesday executive order, said India’s government is “currently directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil.” Trump is expected to announce on Aug. 6 that Apple will increase its U.S. investment commitment by an additional $100 billion. The new pledge...

President Donald Trump has told CNBC that higher tariffs look set to be introduced for India. “I think I’m going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours because they’re buying Russian oil, they’re fueling the war machine,” Trump said on Tuesday. “And if they’re going to do that, then I’m not going to be happy.” The U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday is proposing new rules to...

The European Union will suspend its two packages of countermeasures to U.S. tariffs for six months, a European Commission spokesperson said on Monday. The spokesperson said in a statement that the bloc “continues to work with the U.S. to finalise a Joint Statement, as agreed on 27 July.” More than 3,200 Boeing machinists have walked off their aerospace jobs in the St. Louis, Missouri, area after m...

Former special counsel Jack Smith is being investigated for potentially committing illegal political activity related to the 2024 election. How have the recent tariffs affected U.S. businesses, consumers, and the overall economy? We discuss this with a panel of experts. Can music help the injured brain heal? Brendon Fallon joins us from NTD’s Vital Signs to share insights into how music affects th...

On Thursday, the eve of the Aug. 1 deadline for trading partners to reach trade agreements with the United States, President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a new wave of tariffs on dozens of countries. Global trading partners responded on Friday, with some welcoming the move after securing favorable terms, while others expressed disappointment as their tariff rates increased. U.S....

U.S. appeals court judges questioned on Thursday whether President Donald Trump's tariffs were justified by the president's emergency powers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., is considering the legality of "reciprocal" tariffs that Trump imposed on a broad range of U.S. trading partners in April, as well as tariffs imposed in February against China, Canada and...

President Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social that he will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax. He cited India’s tariffs, nonmonetary trade barriers, and decision to buy Russian energy during the Russia–Ukraine war as reasons for the new tariff rates. A tsunami sent waves as far as Russia, Japan, Hawaii, and the West Coast of the United States after an...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building before taking his own life was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League, but took the wrong elevator. Officials identified the alleged shooter as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old with an address in Nevada. The suspect allegedly carried a note with him that appear...

U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting in Scotland on Monday. Speaking to reporters, Trump expressed his disappointment with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he is going to reduce the original 50-day deadline for a cease-fire deal between Russia and Ukraine. ‘I am going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today,’ Trump said. U.S. and...

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with the head of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, on Sunday to clinch a trade deal that would likely impose a 15 percent baseline tariff on most EU goods but end months of uncertainty for European companies.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Hamas did not want to make a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza. The comments come as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was now considering "alternative" options to achieve its goals of bringing its hostages home from Gaza and ending the rule of Hamas in the territory. Trump said he believed Hamas leaders would now be "hun...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called on her Chinese counterpart to ensure more balanced trade with Europe as current relations between Brussels and Beijing have reached “an inflection point.” Von der Leyen, along with European Council President António Costa, was in Beijing on Thursday for the EU–China summit. Hulk Hogan, the American sports and entertainment star who made...

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is holding a hearing on Wednesday to discuss strategies for countering the CCP's economic coercion against democracies around the world. Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel are set to testify. Bryan Kohberger—the man who killed four University of Idaho students in 2022—is ex...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday welcomed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to the White House, saying the two countries were close to finalizing a trade agreement. "We're going to talk about trade today and we are very close to finishing a trade deal, a big trade deal actually," Trump told reporters at the start of his meeting with the Philippine leader. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...

The Trump administration is more concerned with the quality of trade agreements rather than their timing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline for securing a trade deal or facing steep tariffs. "We're not going to rush for the sake of doing deals," Bessent told CNBC in an interview. On China, Bessent said there would be "talks in the very near future." A...

President Donald Trump signs Genius Act into law and vows to make United States the "crypto capital of the planet." The bill received bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. The House passed the act on Thursday by a 308–122 margin.

On Friday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hosts a press conference in Nashville, Tennessee exposing the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens arrested by the Department under President Trump’s leadership in the Volunteer State. The House approved Trump's $832 billion defense funding request for fiscal year 2026 in an early-morning vote. Five Democrats joined in s...

The State Department has called on Beijing to end its eradication campaign against Falun Gong ahead of July 20, the date that marked the start of the persecution in 1999. More than 1,000 Falun Dafa practitioners and human rights advocates gather in the nation’s capital on Thursday for a rally and parade, demanding the Chinese Communist Party end its persecution. The number of Americans filing for...

Bahrain's Prime Minister, Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalif announces plans to invest more than $17 billion in the United States during a meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday. President Trump will host congressional leaders and families impacted by the opioid epidemic on Wednesday. He'll be signing bipartisan legislation into law. It classifies fentanyl-related substances as Sche...

The United States and Indonesia have reached a trade agreement, President Donald Trump announced on social media. “Great deal, for everybody, just made with Indonesia. I dealt directly with their highly respected President,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. This comes soon after the president sent a formal letter to Indonesia announcing a 32 percent levy on Indonesian goods entering the Unite...

President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 100 percent secondary tariff on Russian goods, if Moscow doesn’t agree to a deal to resolve the Ukraine conflict within the next 50 days. “I’m disappointed in [Russian President Vladimir Putin], because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there,” Trump said as he hosted NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to the...

President Donald Trump reflects on last year's assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, and describes how that experience changed him. Trump levies new tariffs on Mexico and the European Union—here's why some say it could mean higher prices at home. Plus, the stock market's reaction. How will Trump’s new tariffs on Mexico and the EU impact U.S. relations with these allies? We spe...

President Donald Trump is in Texas for a firsthand look at the damage caused by the recent flooding. The president did an aerial tour of some of the hardest-hit areas. The White House also says he'll visit the state emergency operations center to meet with first responders and the relatives of some of the flood victims. Trump will also get a briefing from officials. Secretary of State Marco Rubio...