A current official at the Department of Defense told The Intercept that President Donald Trump’s decision to blow up a speedboat with 11 passengers allegedly trafficking drugs into the U.S. was a criminal attack on civilians and broke international law.
The U.S. State Department approved the sale of roughly $825 million in missiles for Ukraine to be purchased by European allies under a new deal that the Trump administration says makes other countries carry their weight as the war approaches its fourth year with no end in sight.
U.S. billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than other taxpayers in the country from 2018 to 2020, according to a newly released research paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Economists surveyed by the Financial Times said the financial markets have not “fully priced in” the issues that could arise from U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats against the central bank, which may result in the bank becoming a “puppet of the government.”
President Donald Trump billed himself as the country’s first pro-crypto leader, and his sons are reaping the benefits—this time with a bitcoin mining company that was just listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market last week that saw its shares pop by about 17 percent—after jumping by as high as 110 percent on the day.
U.S. President Donald Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the lack of progress in a ceasefire in Ukraine even after last month’s summit in Alaska.
U.S. President Donald Trump has positioned naval assets in international waters off the coast of Venezuela to ostensibly prevent the flow of drugs from the South American country into America, but the move was seen as more of an effort to create instability in Caracas in hopes of destabilizing Nicolás Maduro’s grip on the country.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the bombing of a speedboat with 11 passengers that was suspected of delivering drugs from Venezuela to the U.S., and said the strike should be seen as a warning for future drug smugglers that they will be met with lethal force by federal forces.
U.S. President Donald Trump gave an interview earlier this month where he repeated his previous claim that no president in history has done more for Israel, while warning that the influence of the pro-Israel lobby is waning in Washington, D.C.