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A housing crisis mixed with a need to house the people working in wartime industries in the early 1940s prompted the creation of Wartime Housing Limited, essentially a federal developer. Some policy proposals during this campaign are taking cues from that wartime effort.
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– Musk geht, Trumps neue Zölle kommen: Chaos-Tage in der US-Administration. Jonathan Martin schätzt die Auswirkungen jenseits des Atlantik ein und Hans von der Burchard diesseits in der Europäischen Union. – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Die geschäftsführende SPD-Bauministerin Klara Geywitz zur Frage, wie es mit dem Wohnungsbau in Deutschland...
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Global car makers are rapidly reorganising in the wake of United States President Donald Trump's tariffs on automotive imports to the United States — and some are weighing pulling models from Australia with a climate impost about to take effect.
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by Andrew MARSZALHollywood studio Universal Pictures on Wednesday teased new movies from Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan, while showcasing footage from its upcoming sequels "Jurassic World Rebirth" and "Wicked: For Good" at the CinemaCon event.Spielberg "is currently shooting a film that promises to be a return to form, in the spirit of his...
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by Max DELANYRattled US allies will press Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday to lay out Washington's plans for NATO and Ukraine, but his first visit to the alliance risks being overshadowed by a growing trade war.President Donald Trump has rocked the foundations of Western security by casting doubt on NATO's collective defence vow, reaching...
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by Daniel AVISPresident Donald Trump's tariff announcement on Wednesday was widely panned by US business lobbying groups, who voiced concern about the impact of the sweeping new duties on their operations.During a speech in the White House's rose garden, Trump unveiled a baseline 10 percent tariff against almost all US trading partners in the world...
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Senate GOP budget resolution sets stage for raising debt limit by as much as $5 trillion by Jennifer Shutt, Daily Montanan April 2, 2025 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans released an updated budget resolution Wednesday that sets a May 9 deadline for more than a dozen committees to approve their slice of the massive package that will...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board hit President Donald Trump on Wednesday over the steep tariffs he enacted across the globe, warning the MAGA leader that "remaking the world economy has large consequences, and they may not all add up to what Mr. Trump advertises as a new 'golden age.'"Trump enacted sweeping tariffs, announced...
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United States President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day” of tariffs on foreign imports has roiled the markets and caused upset across the Atlantic. But is there anything opposition Democrats can do to curtail an all-powerful president? Host Anne McElvoy talks to Sen. Mark Kelly, former NASA astronaut and naval officer, who is one of the few...
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Elon Musk may have dumped $20 million-plus in Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election — and warned the race had implications that could determine "the future of America and Western Civilization" — but his resounding loss late Tuesday hasn't deterred him one bit.Musk donated millions to support conservative candidate Brad Schimel in the race,...
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow treated viewers on Wednesday evening to a world tour of some of the stranger places that President Donald Trump slapped with tariffs.The tariffs, part of Trump's so-called "Liberation Day," tax foreign goods from 10 to 49 percent from just about every other country — but, Maddow noted, they also apply to a few places that...
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Analysts at JPMorgan Chase warned that the impact of President Donald Trump's new set of tariffs could take the economy "perilously close to slipping into recession.”The gloomy economic forecast was released hours after Trump rocked the global financial markets with his announcement of sweeping tariffs in a Rose Garden ceremony on Wednesday –...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) hit back at Pam Bondi on Wednesday over the attorney general's recent attacks on Fox News, which Crockett derided at a House hearing as "Faux News."In recent appearances on Fox News, Bondi criticized Crockett for her remarks about Elon Musk and Tesla, accusing Crockett of using dangerous rhetoric that could incite...
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Less than two weeks ago there was SignalGate, the Trump administration's national security scandal that potentially endangered the lives of U.S. service members, and risked exposing military plans, by using an insecure channel to discuss, map out, and announce progress of an attack in Yemen. Then there was the Trump administration's passwords...
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President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariffs plan was slapped together over a matter of a couple days, CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported on Wednesday evening.The plan, which puts sharp new taxes on imports from around the world, even from remote and uninhabited islands, has prompted a massive plunge in stock futures and even has some...
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During the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump insisted that he knew nothing about Project 2025 —the Heritage Foundation's 920-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency. But now that President Trump is actually serving his second term, a key part of the Project 2025 agenda — a dramatic restructuring of the federal workforce — is being...
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Syria on Thursday condemned deadly Israeli strikes across the country as a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty, after Israel said it struck "military capabilities".Syrian state media said the strikes hit close to a defence research centre in Damascus, among other sites, while a war monitor reported four dead in the latest Israeli attack on...
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by Nina ISENI / Théo MARIE-COURTOISGlobal financial markets were rocked on Wednesday by Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs, targeting China and the European Union in particular, with the risk of undermining the international economy.The US president laid out the new measures after Wall Street stock markets had closed. But his...
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by Beiyi SEOWAfter weeks of anticipation, US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs on trading partners Wednesday, calling it a "declaration of economic independence."A fresh "baseline tariff" of 10 percent will apply to economies around the world, with steeper rates tailored to those that Washington deemed as bad actors.What are the...
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A key figure in the Trump administration is urging other countries to hit the pause button on hitting the United States with tariffs, CNN reported — even though President Donald Trump just went nuclear with tariffs on virtually the entire rest of the world.The tariffs, which are part of an intended global economic realignment Trump calls...
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Tuesday night's election results in Florida and Wisconsin have Republicans on Capitol Hill growing increasingly nervous that the "shock and awe” ushered in by President Donald Trump's second-term administration will hand the GOP a midterm shellacking.That's according to a new report in Politico, which detailed the internal struggle among...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australians have "every right" to view US President Donald Trump's tariffs as undermining the relationship, warning the country has powers to take the United States to court over the trade punishments.
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WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. senators are shrugging off the party's punishing defeat in Wisconsin Tuesday, with some coming to Elon Musk's defense despite the billionaire becoming a lightning rod many credit with tilting the state supreme court race away from the GOP."No. He was helpful,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Raw Story the day after...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political commentator Paul Krugman was completely aghast at President Donald Trump's new round of so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs, which impose new import taxes ranging from 10 to 49 percent on essentially every country's imports — and even a handful of random, remote islands with tiny populations and...
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The mayor of North Dakota's fourth largest city is out of a job after he accidentally texted the female city attorney a video of him performing a sex act on himself – which he intended as a "sexy video” for his girlfriend, the Daily Beast reported Wednesday.Tom Ross, 60, resigned as the mayor of Minot, population 50,000, effective Monday, after...
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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had a broad conversation about the special elections on Tuesday, and the firehose of news is drowning out its importance. "I think it has really been a significant 24 hours," said Whitehouse. He began mentioning the 25-hour filibuster by Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), and the win in the...
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A Republican senator all but begged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to back off his key economic policy — widespread tariffs.President Donald Trump enacted new tariffs Wednesday, announcing at a Rose Garden speech a baseline 10 percent tariff on all imports from every country, effective Saturday. Trump also announced reciprocal tariffs...
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When President Donald Trump announced his "Liberation Day" imposition of "reciprocal tariffs" of 10 to 49 percent on essentially every foreign import in the world, market futures reacted by going into freefall. But Trump also triggered widespread mockery over his extensive list of countries and regions subject to the new tariffs — which included...
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Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) doubled down on his insults of a terminated government employee who went viral after the lawmaker reacted to his termination by telling him he "probably deserved it…because you seem like a clown.” The confrontation unfolded on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Mack Schroeder, a former Department of Health and Human Services worker,...
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President Donald Trump's announcement of new tariffs on what he is calling "Liberation Day" has already sent stock futures into a tumble.The president's new tariffs, which come after aggressive further rounds of trade barriers on a number of other countries including allied nations the U.S. has trade deals with, include 34 percent new tariffs on...
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday over a move by the state of South Carolina to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood because the reproductive health organization provides abortions.South Carolina's Republican governor Henry McMaster issued an executive order in 2018 cutting off reimbursements to the two Planned Parenthood...
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Elon Musk's rise as President Donald Trump's all-powerful wingman was as rapid and unstoppable as one of his SpaceX rockets. But reports Wednesday are fueling speculation that the billionaire's political career may be coming back to Earth.Politico and ABC News quoted unnamed sources saying Musk could step away from an unprecedented role in which he...
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Nervous US allies at NATO are scrambling to keep President Donald Trump engaged by upping defence spending, vowing to take the reins on Ukraine and queueing for face time at the White House.But as his administration savages Europe, undercuts Kyiv and warms to Russia, Western diplomats fret that even if the alliance is salvaged it runs the risk of...
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Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) fought back against a Fox News host on Wednesday when debating the cuts to government funding and staff. Martha MacCallum parroted accusations from tech billionaire Elon Musk that Social Security was riddled with "waste, fraud and abuse," even though the claim that millions of dead people have gotten checks has been debunked...
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President Donald Trump's midnight rant attacking four top Republican Senators appeared to reveal the President's first big tariff test is off course, and may ultimately fail.Democrats have proposed legislation to block Trump's tariffs on Canada, one of America's largest and oldest trading and military partners, by declaring Trump's stated "national...
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President Donald Trump's Rose Garden remarks as he touted his "liberation day” tariffs on Wednesday were littered with falsehoods, according to CNN's in-house fact-checker Daniel Dale, who fired off a stinging fact-check just moments later. "It was not even close to accurate,” Dale said of Trump's comments regarding Canadian dairy...
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Eight-point-seven billion. Four-hundred million. One-hundred-seventy-five million. These are just some examples of the money the federal government has withheld or is threatening to withhold from various colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Harvard University. That $8.7 billion figure was...
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Independent Allegra Spender is pitching a scheme to help "permanently" cut the power bills of owners and renters through zero-interest loans for home batteries and other appliances, saying the major parties are only offering temporary relief that will expire within months.
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