Trump live news: White House slams Amazon plan to show tariff price hikes

Al Jazeera

29-04-2025

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Date: 10m ago (16:20 GMT)
Title: Republicans to advance additional military spending
Content: The Republican-controlled House Armed Services Committee is expected to advance $150bn in additional funding for the US military later today.
If passed, the bill – which needs to be approved by the full House and the Senate – would take the Pentagon budget to nearly $1 trillion.
The additional funds include $25bn for a 'Golden Dome for America', a Trump-proposed missile defence system, inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, which is partly paid-for by the US.
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Date: 20m ago (16:10 GMT)
Title: Trump actions have faced at least 210 legal challenges
Content: Many analysts have argued the Trump administration has sought to test the limits of presidential power through a barrage of executive orders.
Many of those orders cut to the heart of which rights are guaranteed in the US, and were likely issued with the expectation they would be challenged in court and would eventually reach the US Supreme Court.
To date, there have been at least 210 cases challenging Trump's orders, ranging from his initial effort to end birthright citizenship, his widespread firing of federal employees, and his attempts to deport green card holders for taking part in pro-Palestine advocacy, to name a few.
All told, just four cases have been closed, according to a tracker on the Just Security website.
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Date: 30m ago (16:00 GMT)
Title: House Speaker Johnson calls Trump 'most consequential' US leader of century
Content: Mike Johnson has heaped praise on Trump, calling him 'the most consequential American leader of the 21st Century'.
Johnson enumerated what he described as achievements by the Trump administration over the past 100 days, including removing 'men from women's sports' and ending diversity programmes.
He also praised Trump's trade policies, which have rocked the stock market, and lauded the US president for combatting what he called 'virulent anti-Semitism on college campuses'.
The Trump administration has been sending immigration agents to detain foreign students, including legal permanent residents, for criticising Israel's policies.
Free speech advocates have warned that the campaign violates the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression.
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Date: 40m ago (15:50 GMT)
Title: What has Trump done in 100 days? Here's his scorecard
Content: At the 100-day mark, Trump has:
For more on the numbers that have defined Trump's second term so far, check out our scorecard here.
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Date: 50m ago (15:40 GMT)
Title: Trump talks up his frequent media interactions
Content: The US president has shared a screengrab from Fox News saying he has had 71 interactions with the media in his first 100 days while Biden had 21 over the same period.
The former Democratic president did not make himself frequently available to direct questions from the news media while Trump often chats to reporters.
However, the White House has offered media credentials to right-wing internet personalities who often kick-start briefings with statements framed as questions that emphasise Trump's talking points and rebuke the president's critics.
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Date: 55m ago (15:35 GMT)
Title: Amazon denies it plans to list tariff prices on site
Content: Amazon says the team that runs its low-cost platform, Amazon Haul, had 'considered listing import charges on certain products'.
However, 'this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties,' it said in a statement.
Punchbowl News quoted an unnamed source in a report on the alleged plan, which was published as Trump's tariffs are expected to raise prices for US consumers.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt decried the reported plan as a 'hostile and political act'.
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Date: 1h ago (15:30 GMT)
Title: US consumer confidence hits five-year low
Content: New data from The Conference Board, an organisation that tracks views on the US economy, indicates consumer confidence has plummeted.
Confidence fell 7.9 points to 86 in April as Trump's tariff rollout caused widespread economic uncertainty. The score is the lowest since May 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
'Consumer confidence declined for a fifth consecutive month in April,' Conference Board senior economist Stephanie Guichard said in a statement.
'The three expectation components – business conditions, employment prospects, and future income – all deteriorated sharply, reflecting pervasive pessimism about the future.'
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Date: 1h ago (15:20 GMT)
Title: What did Carney say about US-Canada relations after election win?
Content: The Liberal party yesterday secured more votes than any other party in Canada, assuring leader Mark Carney would remain prime minister for the foreseeable future.
Carney's victory, which followed a massive polling boost amid Trump's trade war, was largely buoyed by unease over relations with Canada's southern neighbour.
The former head of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada vowed resolve when dealing with Trump, while also seeking to position himself as a global leader seeking to fill the void left by the US.
'We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,' Carney said. 'As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.'
'These are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us,' he said in his victory speech. 'That will never … ever happen. But we also must recognise the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.'
Read more about Carney's win, here.
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Date: 1h ago (15:10 GMT)
Title: Top Democrat calls Trump's first 100 days 'unmitigated disaster'
Content: As Donald Trump celebrates perceived achievements in the first 100 days of his second presidency, Democrats are painting a different picture of his tenure so far.
'The Trump administration has been an unmitigated disaster over the first 100 days,' House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote in a social media post.
'These extremists are not fit to govern and we will hold them accountable.'
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Date: 1h ago (15:00 GMT)
Title: How falsehoods drove Trump's immigration crackdown in his first 100 days
Content: In his first 100 days in office, Trump invoked archaic immigration laws, questioned judges' power to rule against his decisions and attempted to end several legal immigration pathways.
Trump began laying the groundwork for his immigration plans long before his January 20 inauguration.
For years, Trump and his allies have said falsely or without evidence that the US is being invaded by immigrants who are driving up crime rates and that foreign countries are sending their prisoners and mentally ill people to the US.
Several Trump administration officials also said courts cannot and should not rule on Trump's immigration actions because they deal with national security and foreign policy issues. In doing so, Trump 'is seeking a lack of accountability to do things that the law otherwise prohibits', said Matthew Lindsay, a University of Baltimore law professor.
Read more about Trump's approach to immigration here.