President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with his tariffs on U.S. allies and adversaries alike as the stock market plummets amid growing fears that a recession may be on the horizon.
The S&P 500 is set to have its worst day of the year, decreasing by more than three percent by Monday afternoon. This comes just one day after Trump refused to rule out the possibility that his trade war could lead to a recession later this year.
“I hate to predict things like that,” the president told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures when pressed about the possibility. “There is a period of transition.”
Meanwhile, Ontario has put in place retaliatory tariffs on energy that it sends to New York, Minnesota, and Michigan. Trump’s trade war with China also heated up as the Chinese started enacting retaliatory tariffs on U.S. farm products.
This comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Ukraine will have to give up some of the territory occupied by Russia in an agreement to end the war, which began with Russia’s invasion of their neighboring country in February 2022.
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Key Points
- Elon Musk blames cyberattack on X on Ukraine
- ‘If Donald Trump can do it, why not us?’ How scandal-plagued politicians are mounting comebacks
- Man called a ‘predator’ during Nancy Mace’s ‘scorched earth’ House speech hits back at allegations
- JD Vance’s cousin - who volunteered in Ukraine - brands VP and Trump ‘useful idiots’ to Putin
Asian shares dip in an echo of Wall Street's sell-off amid alarm over Trump's tariffs
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Sonal Hayat
Asian benchmarks dove Tuesday, as worries grew about the ripple effects from President Donald Trump's tariffs on regional economies and companies.
The stock fall in Asia echoed the sell-off on Wall Street, where investors are raising questions on how much pain Trump will let the economy endure through tariffs and other policies in order to get what he wants.
Homeland Security overhauls asylum phone app — now it's for 'self-deportation'
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AP
The Trump administration has unveiled an overhauled cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum, turning it into a system that allows people living illegally in the U.S. to say they want to leave the country voluntarily.
The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is part of the administration’s campaign to encourage “self-deportations, " touted as an easy and cost-effective way to nudge along President Donald Trump’s push to deport millions of immigrants without legal status.
“The app provides illegal aliens in the United States with a straightforward way to declare their intent to voluntarily depart, offering them the chance to leave before facing harsher consequences,” Pete Flores, the acting commissioner for U.S Customs and Border Protection, said in a statement.
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Lauren Boebert slammed over ‘pimp cane’ insult directed at censured Democrat Al Green
04:00
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Mike Bedigan
GOP firebrand Lauren Boebert has been accused of “effortless racism” over a perceived dig at Democrat Al Green, who was ejected from Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week.
In an interview with right-wing outlet Real America’s Voice, the Colorado congresswoman accused Green, who is Black, of shaking “his pimp cane” at the president, after he stood to give a vocal protest.
The Texas rep, 77, was escorted from the chamber by the Sergeant at Arms after repeatedly shouting “you have no mandate” at Trump. Green later told reporters: “It's worth it to let people know that there are some people who are going to stand up" to Trump.
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NASA lays off top scientist and deputies as it implements DOGE’s job cuts that will see hundreds leave space agency
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Julia Musto
NASA has begun to conduct layoffs at the behest of the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
In an email sent out on Monday and shared on social media, Acting Administrator Janet Petro said the agency’s reductions were phased and occur in advance of a reorganization plan.
“We will close NASA's Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with reducing their workforce,” said Petro.
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Greenland faces key election after Trump’s attempts to gain control
02:15
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Steffie Banatvala
Greenlanders are set to face a crucial general election with a push for independence a key issue after US President Donald Trump reiterated his interest in taking control.
The Inatsisartut parliament consists of 31 MPs to be chosen from six political parties – two of which are in the governing coalition, Inuit Ataqatigiit and the Simiut parties.
The leader of the party that wins the most seats in parliament in the March 11 vote becomes prime minister - currently Mute Egede of the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party.
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EPA froze 'green bank' funds worth billions, climate group suit says
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Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly
A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly freezing a legally awarded grant.
Climate United Fund, a coalition of three nonprofit groups, demanded access to a Citibank account it received through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a program created in 2022 by the bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act and more commonly known as the green bank. The freeze threatens its ability to issue loans and even pay employees, he group said.
“The combined actions of Citibank and EPA effectively nullify a congressionally mandated and funded program," Climate United wrote in a Monday court filing.
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Leader of student protests at Columbia facing deportation after arrest by immigration officials
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Jake Offenhartz, Cedar Attanasio, Philip Marcelo
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University is facing deportation following his arrest by federal immigration agents over the weekend.
Mahmoud Khalil, who graduated from the university in December, was arrested Saturday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest, saying it was a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders prohibiting antisemitism. He has not been formally charged with a crime.
Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer, said the agents who took him into custody at his university-owned home near Columbia initially claimed to be acting on a State Department order to revoke his student visa. But when Greer informed them that Khalil was a permanent resident with a green card, they said they would revoke that documentation instead.
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Do US F-35 jets have a ‘kill switch’? European countries forced to deny claims Trump could cripple air force
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Tom Watling
Donald Trump’s sudden suspension of military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine has reignited fears the US could have a “kill switch” installed on some of its fighter jet exports, aircraft that are vital to European security.
The claim relates to the US F-35 fighter jets, purchased by 13 European countries, including the UK.
Though there is no evidence to suggest such a ‘switch’ exists, Joachim Schranzhofer, head of communications at the German arms company Hensoldt, told Bild last week that it is “more than just a rumour”. He did not expand on what he meant by this, though he added that it would be much easier for the US to ground aircraft by blocking access to key software, which remains under American control.
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DHS launches new app where migrants can say they have deported themselves - so one day they can return
Monday 10 March 2025 23:15
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Rhian Lubin
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new app where migrants can declare they have deported themselves so that one day they can return.
Under the Biden administration, migrants could make appointments on the CBP One app at a port of entry to seek asylum. DHS revoked that scheduler after President Donald Trump took office and the administration began its sweeping immigration crackdown, intending to remove anyone living in the U.S. without legal permission.
The department had previously announced its plan to roll out the app that has a “submit intent to depart” feature for migrants.
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Starmer tells Trump he hopes US-Ukraine talks allow support for Kyiv to resume
Monday 10 March 2025 22:30
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David Hughes
Sir Keir Starmer has told Donald Trump he wants US-Ukraine talks to have a “positive outcome” that will result in the resumption of military aid and intelligence-sharing.
The US President paused the supply of weapons and crucial intelligence for Kyiv’s war effort following his public spat with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Prime Minister, who spoke to Mr Trump on Monday, said he hoped peace talks in Saudi Arabia would allow the US President to restore support to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
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JFK, RFK and MLK: The conspiracies behind each assassination that continue to enthrall amateur sleuths
Monday 10 March 2025 21:45
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Rhian Lubin
Mobsters, a mysterious man with an umbrella, Ted Cruz’s dad — and aliens.
Conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F Kennedy on that fateful day on November 22, 1963, have swirled for decades. But experts agree that the imminent release of the long-awaited JFK files, along with unreleased documents about the killings of Robert F Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr, is unlikely to quell the paranoia surrounding any of their murders.
President Donald Trump’s deadline for officials to submit a plan for the release of the files is this weekend, according to the executive order he issued 43 days ago.
“That's a big one, huh?” Trump said as he signed the order in January. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades.”
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Melania Trump ditched dresses for tuxedos: A bold fashion shift or political statement?
Monday 10 March 2025 21:00
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Kaleigh Werner
Earlier this week, First Lady Melania Trump strode into the U.S. Capitol on a mission. She was there to lobby for a new online safety bill aimed at protecting children from revenge porn. It was her first solo public appearance since she resumed the role of first lady on January 20, and she made sure to arrive in style. The 54-year-old opted against a skirt and blouse, instead donning a camel-colored Ralph Lauren suit with a black ribbon tie, pointed lapels, collared shirt, and a matching vest.
Over the past few months, Melania has been power-dressing to the max, styling menswear designs with feminine touches. It’s been a far cry from the wardrobe we saw in her first stint as FLOTUS when she wore a powder blue wrap coat dress to the 2016 inauguration, tucked skinny-leg khakis into knee-high boots at the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Campaign, and teamed hot pink pumps with a banana yellow cape for the NATO Leaders Summit in 2019.
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WATCH: Elon Musk blames cyberattack on X on Ukraine
Monday 10 March 2025 20:37
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Gustaf Kilander
‘If Donald Trump can do it, why not us?’ How scandal-plagued politicians are mounting comebacks
Monday 10 March 2025 20:30
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Kelly Rissman
“Our country is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world has never witnessed, and perhaps will never witness again.”
That is how President Donald Trump described the American dream and the current landscape for the country. But he could have been referring to himself.
America’s momentum, spirit and pride have returned, the president told a joint session of Congress last week before touting his own re-election victory.
In the eight years since he was first elected and then re-elected, Trump was impeached twice, determined to be the “central cause” of the January 6 Capitol attack, convicted of 34 crimes in New York and held civilly liable for sexual abuse. Not to mention that he also faced criminal charges at state and federal levels, was accused repeatedly of past sexual misconduct and promoted baseless claims about Covid-19 treatments as thousands of Americans died on his watch.
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Trump, Fort Knox and the curious case of billions of dollars worth of ‘missing’ gold
Monday 10 March 2025 20:00
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Guy Walters
They call it Bullion Boulevard for good reason, for there are very few roads in the world where you can drive past £330bn worth of gold. The boulevard is of course next to Fort Knox in Kentucky, a base of the United States Army that also happens to double up as the home of America’s central bullion depository, holding well over half of the country’s gold reserves. So well protected is the facility that the expression “as safe as Fort Knox” has long been an epithet for security in the United States and beyond.
The only person who has come close to stealing the bullion was a certain Latvian called Auric Goldfinger in 1959, but then he was the figment of the imagination of one Ian Fleming, whose novel Goldfinger would be turned into the third James Bond film.
Little wonder then, that during the Second World War, Fort Knox was used to store the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, as well as a Gutenberg Bible, a copy of the Magna Carta, and the crown jewels of Hungary.
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Man called a ‘predator’ during Nancy Mace’s ‘scorched earth’ House speech hits back at allegations
Monday 10 March 2025 19:30
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Gustaf Kilander
Brian Musgrave has hit back at GOP firebrand Nancy Mace after she called him and three others ‘predators’ during a speech House floor last month.
During the speech, Mace, a congresswoman from South Carolina, accused her former fiancé Patrick Bryant of rape and claimed that he and three other men, including Musgrave, recorded sex acts without her consent.
She displayed their names, hometowns and photos on a placard alongside the words ‘predators’ and ‘stay away from.’
Shortly before the speech, Musgrave said he got a text from an unknown person stating that he was about to be mentioned in the House by Mace.
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JD Vance’s cousin - who volunteered in Ukraine - brands VP and Trump ‘useful idiots’ to Putin
Monday 10 March 2025 19:00
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Gustaf Kilander
The cousin of Vice President JD Vance, who volunteered in Ukraine, has said that the Trump administration is acting like “useful idiots” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nate Vance is reported to have spent three years fighting in Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Now, in an interview with French outlet Le Figaro, he accused his cousin and President Donald Trump of ambushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the now infamous Oval Office blow-up.
During the meeting, the VP harshly criticised Zelensky in front of the TV cameras, calling him ungrateful and disrespectful.
Trump’s bizarre 28-word explanation for surge in plane crashes during his administration
Monday 10 March 2025 18:30
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James Liddell
Donald Trump gave a meandering response when probed about the surge in plane crashes on U.S. soil since his return to office while flying aboard Air Force One.
The president answered a question about the recent spate of air accidents while returning to Washington, DC on Sunday evening just hours after a small aircraft went down near a retirement village in Manheim Township in Pennslyvania, resulting in five people on board being hospitalized.
Asked by one reporter whether his Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had “legitimate concern” after his department had been “gutted” – including 400 Federal Aviation Administration workers being laid off last month – the president claimed the recent crashes have “nothing to do with the department.”
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Karoline Leavitt calls reporters ‘a**holes’ on podcast, revealing her disdain for journalists
Monday 10 March 2025 18:00
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Mike Bedigan
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to mock journalists and inquiries that cited “experts” in a recent interview, referring to some “liberal” reporters as “a**holes.”
During an appearance on the Ruthless podcast, Leavitt described how she and White House communications director Steven Cheung approach email requests from journalists.
“It’s my favorite thing,” she said. “They email: ‘Caroline, ethical experts, yes…’ We write back ‘which experts?’ And then they send the names, and we Google them, and they're like Democrat donors funded by George Soros.
“So you're like, we copy and paste their Wikipedia like ‘these experts, a**hole?’ This is not a real story. These are not real stories.”
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Analysis: Why Trump’s federal cuts are hitting veterans especially hard
Monday 10 March 2025 17:30
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Joe Sommerlad
The impact goes well beyond job losses, writes Jamie Rowen.
Trump takes credit for arrest of Columbia University student
Monday 10 March 2025 17:12
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Gustaf Kilander
Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to take credit for the arrest of a student at Columbia University.
“Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University,” said Trump. “This is the first arrest of many to come.”
“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” he added. “Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”
“If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply,” the president concluded.
New York Attorney General Letitia James responded on X, writing: “I am extremely concerned about the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, an advocate and legal permanent resident of Palestinian descent. My office is monitoring the situation, and we are in contact with his attorney.”
Voices: Trump saying ‘Ukraine may not survive’ is a dire warning – and threat
Monday 10 March 2025 17:00
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Joe Sommerlad
Ukraine could be reduced to a buffer zone – rather than a real country – under Trump’s plan for “peace”, writes Mark Almond.
There are now serious questions over the U.S. president’s approach to diplomacy.
Will there be a government shutdown? Trump says it’s possible
Monday 10 March 2025 16:40
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Joe Sommerlad
The president did not rule out the possibility of a government shutdown occurring this week should the Republican majority House of Representatives fail to get enough votes to pass a temporary funding bill and avoid an impasse.
The president admitted on Sunday that a shutdown “could happen” when asked by a reporter if the government would run out of funding without a measure in place by March 14. However, he expressed optimism that his party would find enough votes to keep the federal bureaucracy running.
“It could happen,” Trump said of the looming shutdown.
“It shouldn’t have happened, and it probably won’t. I think the [continuing resolution] is going to get passed. We’ll see.”
The House has until Friday to pass a temporary funding bill, called a continuing resolution or CR, that would keep the government running through September.
Without a CR, the federal government would effectively close without funding.
Essential personnel and services would remain but many would be out of work and offices shuttered until funding could be agreed.
Ariana Baio has the latest.
DOGE is ‘urgently’ looking for wins to show public following PR ‘mess’
Monday 10 March 2025 16:25
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Joe Sommerlad
Speaking of Musk’s cost-cutting outfit, its staff are currently searching for ways to promote the department’ accomplishments, all too aware that it has suffered weeks of negative media coverage over its very public mistakes.
Kelly Rissman reports.
DOGE’s haphazard takeover of Social Security risked data of millions of Americans ‘leaking into the wrong hands’
Monday 10 March 2025 16:10
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Joe Sommerlad
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)’s haphazard takeover of the Social Security Administration risked data of millions of Americans “leaking into the wrong hands,” the department’s ousted acting chief of staff has warned.
Tiffany Flick, a civil servant of 30 years standing who was forced out last month, says she is “seriously concerned” that Social Security programs might not be able to run amid such disruption and did not rule out the possibility that benefits could be delayed or not paid out at all as a result of DOGE’s takeover.
Rhian Lubin reports.
Canadian province slaps 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity in response to Trump’s tariff war
Monday 10 March 2025 15:50
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Joe Sommerlad
Ontario is going ahead with its plan to introduce a 25 percent charge on electricity supplied to 1.5 million Americans today in response to Trump’s tariff hike, as first announced by its premier Doug Ford last week.
The province provides power to Minnesota, New York and Michigan.
“You touch the stove once, you get burned, you don’t touch that stove again,” Ford explained.
“We’re going to make sure that we follow through with what we said we were going to do.”
Headded that he felt bad about slapping on the surcharge, commenting: “I feel terrible for the three governors, I have a phenomenal relationship [with them].”
Lara Trump declares Trump doesn’t take days off – as he spends yet another weekend golfing
Monday 10 March 2025 15:35
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Joe Sommerlad
The president’ daughter-in-law, now a Fox News host, interviewed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Sunday where the duo discussed their lack of time off, agreeing that they liked to follow Trump’s “workaholic” example.
But, in point of fact, the commander-in-chief has played golf on six out of the seven weekends that have passed since he returned to the Oval Office, not exactly straining himself.
Rhian Lubin and Oliver O’Connell have more.