President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday placing tariffs on many U.S. trade partners — the next step in his trade agenda that will test the global economy and alliances.
They are set to go into effect in seven days, and not the Friday deadline that the president initially set. The extension reflects the government’s need for more time to harmonize the tariff rates, according to a senior official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.
The and the 27-member European Union. Nations not listed in the order would face a baseline 10% tariff.
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A green card holder was held at an airport for over a week. Now he faces deportation
The man, a legal permanent resident who flew back to the U.S. after visiting family in South Korea, was detained by immigration authorities and held for more than a week at San Francisco International Airport. While there he slept in a chair and lived off concession food.
Attorneys for Tae Heung “Will†Kim, a researcher at Texas A&M University, said Thursday they still don’t know why he was detained. Kim, 40, has lived in the U.S most of his life after arriving at age 5. He is now being held at an Arizona immigration detention facility, according to his lawyer.
Customs and Border Protection said any green card holder who has a drug offense can be detained. His attorneys say Kim was charged in 2011 with misdemeanor marijuana possession in Texas and fulfilled a community service requirement.
Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has of executive power.
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US and Ecuador sign agreement to strengthen cooperation in fighting transnational crime
The agreement was signed Thursday during a visit by U.S. Homeland Security to the South American country.
It facilitates the exchange of information on suspected criminal offenders and risk assessments of cargo and travelers. Noem told reporters that the efforts are “crucial steps to improve security and ensure that migration is carried out within the framework of the law.â€
The agreement comes as the Trump administration seeks to bolster regional cooperation in its groups.
Noem signed a similar agreement with Chile the previous day.
All but 250 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Guard troops are being pulled from Los Angeles
The Pentagon said Thursday that it is ending the deployment of all but 250 Guard members who were sent over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered 1,350 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Guard members to leave this week. The rest will remain to protect federal personnel and property, according to a statement.
Roughly 4,000 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Guard soldiers and 700 Marines were deployed to Los Angeles in early June. Half the Guard members roughly two weeks ago, and the Marines a few days later.
State and local officials objected to the presence of federal troops, saying they were unnecessary and inflamed tensions.
The presence of Guard troops in the city was mostly at federal buildings, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and detention facility downtown. Some soldiers protected federal agents during immigration raids.
A few notable tariff rates that were outlined in Trump’s executive order
After initially threatening the with a 50% tariff, the country’s goods will now be taxed at 15%.
Taiwan will be tariffed at 20%, Pakistan at 19% and Israel, Iceland, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana and Ecuador among the countries with imported goods taxed at 15%.
Judge extends TPS expiration dates for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal
The judge’s order affects about 7,000 people from Nepal along with 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans. The protections were set to expire Tuesday for the Nepalese people, and Sept. 8 for the Central Americans.
The Trump administration had moved to remove their temporary protected status, with Homeland Security Secretary saying the government had determined that conditions in their home countries no longer warranted protections.
Temporary Protected Status prevents beneficiaries from being deported and allows them to work. The Trump administration has aggressively been seeking to end the protections and make more people eligible for removal.
U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco said plaintiffs had provided evidence that the government’s decision to end protections was racially motivated. She granted the request for an extension made by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø TPS Alliance, an advocacy group that says the terminations were unlawful.
What to know about Trump’s new tariffs
First of all they start on Aug. 7, not the Friday deadline that the president had set. The reason for this is the government needs time to harmonize the tariff rates, according to a senior official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.
The order applies to 68 countries and the 27-member European Union. Countries not listed in the order signed Thursday by Trump would face a baseline 10% tariff.
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Trump signs order for new tariffs to go into effect in 7 days
The president has signed an executive order that would have new tariffs on a wide swath of U.S. trading partners to go into effect in seven days — the next step in his trade agenda that will test the global economy and alliances.
The order was issued shortly after 7 p.m. It came after a flurry of tariff-related activity in recent days, as the White House announced agreements with various nations and blocs ahead of Trump’s self-imposed Aug. 1 deadline.
Oregon attorney g
eneral sounds confident after hearing in lawsuit over tariffs
Dan Rayfield of Oregon, one of the states that filed suit, asserted that the judges “didn’t buy’’ the Trump administration’s arguments.
“You would definitely rather be in our shoes going forward,†Rayfield said.
He said Trump’s tariffs — which are paid by importers in the United States who often try to pass along the higher costs to their customers — amount to one of the largest tax increases in American history.
“This was done all by one human being sitting in the Oval Office,’’ Rayfield said.
Trump says he has been planning ballroom construction for some time
“They’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years, but there’s never been a president that was good at ballrooms,†the president told reporters. “I’m good at building things, and we’re going to build quickly and on time. It’ll be beautiful, top, top of the line.â€
He said the ballroom would not interfere with the mansion itself.
“It’ll be near it but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,†he said. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.â€
Trump said the ballroom will serve administrations to come: “I think it will be really beautiful.â€
A look at colleges with federal money targeted by the Trump administration
Several elite colleges have made deals with the administration, offering concessions to the president's political agenda and financial payments to restore federal money that had been withheld.
Ivy League schools Columbia, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania reached agreements to resolve federal investigations. The Republican administration is pressing for more, citing the deal it negotiated with Columbia as a .
There is a freeze on billions of dollars of research money for other colleges including Harvard, which has been negotiating with the White House even as it fights in court over the lost grants.
Like no other president, Trump has used the government’s to push for changes in higher education, decrying elite colleges as places of extreme liberal ideology and antisemitism.
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Hawley says he had ‘good chat’ with Trump after dustup over stock trading bill
is brushing off the president’s quip that he’s a “second-tier†senator after the Missouri Republican’s proposal to by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — won bipartisan approval to advance in a committee vote.
Hawley told Fox News late Wednesday that it’s “not the worst thing†he’s ever been called and that he and the president â€had a good chat,†clearing up confusion over the bill.
The misunderstanding, Hawley said, was that Trump would have to sell his Mar-a-Lago private club and other assets.
“Not the case at all,†Hawley said on “Jesse Watters Primetime.â€
ICE says it has made over 1,000 tentative job offers
The agency responsible for carrying out Trump’s agenda of mass deportations announced that Thursday as it following the passage of legislation giving ICE a massive infusion of cash.
Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the job offers were made after July 4, when when Trump signed into law and spending cuts that also included about $170 billion for border security and immigration enforcement over five years.
“Many of these offers were to ICE officers who retired under President Biden because they were frustrated that they were not allowed to do their jobs,†McLaughlin said.
The administration has been ramping up across the country, including in immigration courts, worksites, neighborhoods and elsewhere.
Trump ally Jeffrey Clark should be disbarred over 2020 election effort, disciplinary panel says
The former Justice Department official should be stripped of his law license, the D.C. Board of Professional Responsibility ruled Thursday. Its recommendation now goes to the D.C. Court of Appeals for a final decision.
Clark Trump’s efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election and clashed with Justice Department superiors who refused to back his false claims of fraud.
In the second Trump administration, he has been serving as acting head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a part of the Office of Management and Budget that is responsible for reviewing executive branch regulations.
OMB spokesperson Rachel Cauley said in a post on the social platform X that “this latest injustice is just another chapter in the Deep State’s ongoing assault on President Trump and those who stood beside him in defense of the truth.â€
Trump denounces Russia’s latest missile and drone attack on Kyiv
“Russia, I think it’s disgusting what they’re doing,†the president said as he took questions after an executive order signing at the White House. “I think what Russia’s doing is very sad. A lot of Russians are dying.â€
Trump said the U.S. plans to impose sanctions on Moscow but added, “I don’t know that sanctions bother him,†referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to travel to Russia after his current stop in Israel, Trump said.
Trump disses Harris as she returns to spotlight
The president jabbed at his 2024 opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, after she announced this week that she would not run for governor of California.
“Well, she can’t speak. She can’t talk. She can’t do an interview,†Trump said when asked about Harris’s political future during an executive order signing at the White House.
“I wouldn’t call her a skilled politician.â€
Trump also said Harris should have done more interviews during the campaign.
Harris is set to sit down with late-show host Stephen Colbert on Thursday night.
Trump pledges ‘no government dollars’ for ballroom renovation
The president said he and other private donors will pay for the ballroom renovations at the White House that his administration announced Thursday.
“No government dollars, no,†Trump said during an executive order signing at the White House.
He spoke of the benefits of adding a permanent, larger ballroom at the White House and added: “It’ll be a great legacy project.â€
Federal judges detail rise in threats, ‘pizza doxings,’ as Trump ramps up criticism
In 2020, a disgruntled litigant posing as a deliveryman opened fire at the New Jersey home of District Judge Esther Salas, killing her 20-year-old son Daniel Anderl. Five years later, as President Donald Trump who have blocked some of his agenda, dozens of judges have had unsolicited pizzas delivered to their homes, often in Daniel Anderl’s name.
District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of Rhode Island, who stalled Trump’s initial round of across-the-board spending cuts, is among those who received pizzas in Anderl’s name. His courtroom also has been flooded by threatening calls, including one profanity-laced one that called for his assassination.
McConnell, Jr. played a recording of the call during an unusual discussion Thursday where multiple federal judges discussed threats they have received — a notable conversation because judges usually only speak publicly from the bench and through their rulings, and rarely if ever, about personal threats and attacks. Salas and others said the number of attacks has escalated in recent months.
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Senate Republicans rally around former RNC chair’s bid for North Carolina Senate seat
“Michael Whatley has done an exceptional job leading the Republican ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Committee through historic campaign successes, and I’m excited to endorse him in his bid to become North Carolina’s next U.S. Senator,†Senate Majority Leader John Thune wrote on social media.
Whatley previously served as chair of the Republican ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Committee and North Carolina Republican Party. He received warm endorsements from his would-be GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill, and promises of support from the party’s main Super PAC.
Cory Gardner, a former senator and chair of the Republican-aligned Senate Leadership Fund, a Super PAC, said Whatley “was instrumental to re-electing President Trump†and that he thought Whatley was “will be an outstanding senator for North Carolina.â€
Whatley faces what will likely be an intense and pricey Senate race against Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s former two-term Democratic governor. Democrats were blunt in response to news of Whatley’s announcement.
“Welcome to the race. You’re going to lose,†said Lauren French, a spokesperson for Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic-aligned Super PAC.
Trump kicks off sports event
The president on Thursday lauded several athletes as he launched a new sports council aimed at improving America’s fitness.
Trump is signing an order to reestablish the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. He will also reinstate the fitness test that was commonplace for decades for schoolchildren.
Among the athletes at the Roosevelt Room of the White House include pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau and Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam.
“This is an important step in our mission to make America healthy again,†Trump said.
Watchdog finds Trump administration illegally delayed school funds
The Trump administration delayed funding for energy efficiency improvements at public schools in violation of federal law, according to a legal opinion Thursday from the Government Accountability Office.
Democrats seized on the finding as another sign the administration is illegally withholding billions of dollars previously approved by Congress.
It’s the fourth time in recent weeks the watchdog has found that the Trump administration was in violation of a 1974 law that lays out the procedures presidents must follow to reduce, delay, or eliminate funding approved by Congress.
Congress approved $500 million for the energy efficiency program, with $100 million to be made available from 2022 through 2026. The legal opinion finds that DOE has been fulfilling obligations made in previous years. But that was not the case for 2025 funds.
“Denying schools funding for energy efficiency upgrades that save them money isn’t just illegal, it’s stupid and harmful,†Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a press release. “And it’s time President Trump stop blocking this funding alongside all the other key investments he’s holding up.â€