Trump to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada, China
President Trump will enact 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada starting Feb. 1, as well as a 10% tariff on imports from China, according to White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt
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President Trump will enact 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada starting Feb. 1, as well as a 10% tariff on imports from China, according to White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt
President Trump on Friday proposed significant new tariffs on multiple sectors of the economy.
A memo from the Office of Management and Budget ordering a freeze on federal assistance sparked confusion across the country earlier this week.
Less than two weeks into his second term, President Trump is poised to deploy steep tariffs against key U.S. trading partners.
In a letter addressed to director Raven DeVaughn, Pritzker says those who participated in attacks violated the State's Personnel Code.
The question, as Trump signed a new memo, blaming Biden and Obama-era efforts to improve diversity for problems with the FAA.
"One of the things that often happen when there is an aircraft mishap is that the people who are the most clueless, like President Trump, immediately blame the pilots," Duckworth said.
Burke, 81, has filed a petition with the Office of the Pardon Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, seeking to have his two-year prison sentence commuted.
Casten discusses what he knows about the overnight plane crash in D.C. and the impact of Trump's federal funding freeze.
The president mentioned plans for the detention center in Cuba as he signed the first piece of legislation of his second term.
Trump says he's directed his staff to prepare an enormous facility for migrants at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It would house undocumented migrants after being expelled from the U.S., a place to send deportees whose own countries won't accept.
Millions in local funding could be in jeopardy, and many Chicago area nonprofits were anxiously waiting late Wednesday for some clarity on the future of their federal grants.
"Our greatest concern is that people may choose not to come to us for help out of fear," said Northern Illinois Food Bank CEO Julie Yurko.
"Let's be clear, January 20th was an inauguration, not a coronation. Congress is given the power to appropriate the funding. The executive branch cannot unilaterally disregard those appropriations," Raoul said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s cousin urged senators to reject his nomination as health and human services secretary.
The arrests went largely unnoticed in previous years, and while Sunday saw an uptick in the numbers, CBS News Chicago searched for the averages for administrative arrests playing out nationwide.
The orders include policies for transgender servicemembers, a ban on several diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and reinstating service members discharged for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Just one week into his second term, Trump has shut down DEI office programs across the government, removed at least 20 state department officials from leadership roles, and sent 160 staffers with the National Security Council home while the administration reviews staffing.
The White House said Colombia’s government has "agreed to all of President Trump's terms" including the unrestricted acceptance of undocumented migrants from the U.S. "without limitation or delay."
Federal law requires the White House to give Congress a full month of warning and case-specific details before firing a federal inspector general.
Bradley Blackburn explains that he spoke to reporters on Air Force One about a number of topics, including his plan for the Middle East.
Activist groups argued planned immigration raids are retaliatory in nature because of Chicago's sanctuary city status.
He also appeared to support Trump's incorrect claims that he won the 2020 presidential election, saying if that year's vote had not "been stolen" from him, perhaps the war in Ukraine wouldn't have happened.
The U.S. Marine Corps says it has sent around 500 of its members to the southern border as part of the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on immigration. They arrived on Thursday night near the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
As he left for Las Vegas late Friday, President Trump learned that the Senate had confirmed his controversial pick for defense secretary. Former Fox News host and combat veteran Pete Hegseth faced questions about his experience and past behavior.
