Trump news at a glance: tariffs reinstated, for now, after rollercoaster of court decisions
President Trump's tariffs remain in place, at least for now, after an appeals court ruled that his administration can continue to collect import fees.
The latest ruling came just a day after a separate court ruled that Trump had overstepped his power, a judgment that his administration has pushed back against.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that America cannot function when diplomatic or trade negotiations are 'railroaded by activist judges'.
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The Trump administration is racing to halt a major blow to the president's sweeping tariffs after a US court ruled they 'exceed any authority granted to the president.'
A US trade court ruled the US president's tariffs regime was illegal on Wednesday in a dramatic twist that could block Trump's controversial global trade policy.
On Thursday, an appeals court agreed to a temporary pause in the decision pending an appeal hearing. The Trump administration is expected to take the case to the supreme court if it loses.
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Republicans and close allies of Donald Trump are railing against a federal judicial panel that blocked a wide swath of the US president's tariffs Wednesday night, including those against China.
Some attempted to frame the decision as part of a broader fight between the Trump administration and US justice system. Trump has frequently complained about legal decisions that don't go his way, attacking judges on social media in ways that have alarmed civic society experts.
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Donald Trump's tariff policy was derailed by a libertarian public interest law firm that has received money from some of his richest backers.
The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the US president's 'reciprocal' tariffs on behalf of five small businesses, which it said were harmed by the policy.
Previous backers of the firm include billionaires Robert Mercer and Richard Uihlein, who were also financial backers of Trump's presidential campaigns.
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China has lodged a formal protest over the US declaration that it will 'aggressively' revoke the visas of Chinese students, with the foreign ministry saying it had objected to the announcement made a day earlier by Marco Rubio.
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The Federal Reserve issued a rare, strongly worded statement on Thursday after chair Jerome Powell spoke with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday morning, holding firm on the central bank's independence amid pressure from Trump to lower interest rates.
The three-paragraph statement emphasized the Fed's independent, non-partisan role in setting monetary policy based on economic data.
'Chair Powell did not discuss his expectations for monetary policy, except to stress that the path of policy will depend entirely on incoming economic information and what that means for the outlook,' the statement read.
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Twenty two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.
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The Trump administration has set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year.
The new target, tripling arrest figures from earlier this year, was delivered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, and Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, in a strained meeting last week.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr's flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.
Top House Democrat Jamie Raskin has demanded Donald Trump reveal a list of who attended his private dinner last week for major investors in his meme coin, as questions swirl about the deep and secretive connections between the Trump administration and the cryptocurrency industry.
Catching up? Here's what happened on 28 May 2025.
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