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TikTok Is Back
TikTok Is Back
Feb 14, 2025 1:30 AM CST

TikTok Is Back

Google, Apple return it to their app stores

(Newser) - You can once again download TikTok from your app store of choice after Google and Apple both restored the social media app's availability. After a law banning TikTok went into effect in the US, the Chinese-owned app was removed from app stores, but it has now returned following President...

Wall Street Journal Warns of 'Biggest Threat' to Trump

Editorial is worried about rising inflation

(Newser) - Inflation helped get President Trump elected to a second term, but it also poses the "biggest threat" to his presidency from a political standpoint, warns an editorial in the Wall Street Journal . Trump, of course, is not to blame for this week's inflation report showing an increase for...

US Attorney Resigns After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case

Two top Justice Department officials quit, as well

(Newser) - The US attorney for Manhattan resigned on Thursday after being ordered by the Justice Department to drop the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Political reasons were given for abandoning the prosecution; the department's Emil Bove III, in accepting the resignation of Danielle Sassoon, said officials...

Trump Rolls Out &#39;Fair and Reciprocal&#39; Tariff Plan
Trump Rolls Out
New Tariff Plan
Feb 13, 2025 3:00 PM CST

Trump Rolls Out New Tariff Plan

He admits prices 'could go up somewhat' under 'fair and reciprocal' plan

(Newser) - President Trump announced plans for "fair and reciprocal" tariffs on America's trading partners Thursday, claiming they would raise a "staggering amount" of money. "They charge us a tax or tariff and we charge them the exact same," Trump told reporters before he signed the "...

Senate Panel Clears Kash Patel for FBI

Party-line vote sets up Trump's nominee for confirmation by full Senate

(Newser) - It's been another good day for President Trump's nominees. On the same day that Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed as health secretary , a Senate panel advanced the controversial nomination of Kash Patel to run the FBI, reports the Hill . The move clears the way for his confirmation by...

Feds Delete Mention of 'Tesla' in Lucrative US Contract

US to buy $400M worth of 'armored electric vehicles,' though it scrapped 'Tesla' after reports surfaced

(Newser) - The US government plans to buy $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles" as part of a newly revealed 2025 contract, reports Time . Might they be Teslas? They might, and both the New York Times and NPR report that the State Department is expected to buy armored Cybertrucks made...

Even Elon Musk Can't Escape Trump Litigation

X.com agrees to pay Trump $10M to settle suit over past ban following Capitol riot

(Newser) - Elon Musk's X.com has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle with President Trump, who sued the site formerly known as Twitter and its ex-CEO, Jack Dorsey, for censorship after he was banned from the platform after the Jan. 6 riot. "It's resolved," a...

Bondi: DOJ Is Suing New York Over Driver's License Law

New York governor calls the move a political stunt

(Newser) - The new attorney general used her first press conference to announce a lawsuit against New York for, as she called it, putting "illegal aliens over American citizens." Pam Bondi took issue with the state's "green light law," which allows driver's licenses to be issued...

Trump Guts Kennedy Center Board, Is Then Elected Chair

President had already declared the role for himself, promised to remove 'wokeness'

(Newser) - The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday voted to elect President Trump as its new chair, days after Trump declared himself the chair of the Washington, DC, institution . Trump followed that declaration up by removing all the Biden-appointed members of the board, the...

Trump's 2018 Steel Tariffs Cost US Consumers, Companies

Wall Street Journal debunks president's rationale

(Newser) - When President Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports in his first term, he said they were necessary to increase US production . But production was on the rise at the time. The real reason the industry wanted the tariffs was that higher prices on imports would let US companies...

This 1946 Law Has Been Fouling Some of Trump's Plans

A look at the Administrative Procedure Act

(Newser) - It's been a head-spinning few weeks, with President Trump issuing 60 executive orders and courts systematically blocking some of them, at least temporarily. NBC News takes a look at the federal law that's been fouling Trump's plans: the Administrative Procedure Act. What you need to know:
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Trump: Putin Has Agreed to Talks on Ending War

He says they had 'lengthy and highly productive' call

(Newser) - President Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call Wednesday to begin "negotiations" on ending the Ukraine war and would "work together, very closely" toward winding down the conflict. "We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great...

Report: Marc Fogel Swapped for Cybercrime Kingpin

Trump says another American prisoner is due to be released soon

(Newser) - Marc Fogel, a US teacher and former diplomat arrested in Russia , is back on US soil—and a Russian cybercrime kingpin is apparently set to depart from it. "We got a man home whose mother and family wanted him desperately," President Trump said Wednesday of Fogel, per ABC...

Inspectors General Fired by Trump Sue Him
Watchdogs Fired
by Trump Sue Him
Feb 12, 2025 10:30 AM CST

Watchdogs Fired by Trump Sue Him

8 IGs say their firings were unlawful, would like their jobs back

(Newser) - Eight government watchdogs have sued over their mass firing that removed oversight of President Trump's new administration. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington asks a judge to declare the firings unlawful and restore the inspectors general to their positions at government agencies. They said in the...

Hello Incandescent Bulbs, Goodbye Low-Flow Toilets?

It's possible as President Trump looks at rolling back environmental standards

(Newser) - President Trump has made it clear he's bringing back plastic, and it seems he may also want to bring back incandescent lightbulbs and less efficient toilets. He announced Tuesday that he will order the Environmental Protection Agency to roll back standards for lightbulbs and water-using appliances to the ones...

Judge Orders CDC, FDA to Restore Scrubbed Web Pages

Official calls situation 'a double waste' due to time spent needlessly

(Newser) - Part of the Trump administration's purge of the federal government included the removal of thousands of web pages . Now, some of them might be coming back. A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration to put some websites...

Musk Joins Trump for Signing of DOGE Order

Executive order calls for 'large-scale reductions' in federal workforce

(Newser) - President Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce. The AP reviewed a White House fact sheet on the order, which is intended to advance Musk's work slashing...

Trump Praises 'Beautiful Gesture' From Jordan's King

Country will take in 2K sick kids from Gaza

(Newser) - President Trump praised what he called a "beautiful gesture" from Jordan's King Abdullah II after their meeting at the White House Tuesday. The king said Jordan would take in around 2,000 sick Palestinian children from Gaza, including many with cancer, though he declined to say whether his...

Russia Releases American Held Since 2021

Kremlin frees Marc Fogel on deal struck by Trump envoy

(Newser) - Russia on Tuesday freed an American teacher detained there since 2021, reports the New York Times . The deal to free Marc Fogel was struck by President Trump's special envoy to the Mideast, Steve Witkoff. In August 2021, the Pennsylvania resident was charged after bringing less than an ounce of...

Steve Bannon Pleads Guilty, Dodges Jail in Fraud Case

Trump ally says he's feeling 'like a million bucks' after deal

(Newser) - Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the US southern border—a case the conservative strategist has decried as a "political persecution." Bannon, a longtime ally of President Trump,...

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