President Donald Trump ordered a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports, escalating his efforts to protect politically important U.S. industries with levies hitting some of the country’s closest allies. The tariffs will apply widely to all U.S. imports of steel and aluminum, including from Canada and Mexico, the country’s top two foreign suppliers of the metals. The levies, which also include finished metal…
John Lithgow could very well play the new Albus Dumbledore as the Oscar nominee reportedly circles HBO’s hotly anticipated “Harry Potter” series. The 79-year-old “Conclave” star, who is also a six-time Emmy winner, is in final talks to play the Hogwarts headmaster in what HBO promises will be “a faithful adaptation” of J.K. Rowling’s fantasy…
Facebook owner Meta Platforms confirmed that its previously announced worldwide job cuts of “low performers” began to take effect on Monday, a move that impacts thousands of positions. “These are performance terminations which were already announced in mid-January,” a Meta spokesperson stated in an email to this news organization on Monday after the company previously…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. The transit through the Taiwan Strait by two U.S. naval vessels, the first such voyage under the new Trump administration, was a threat to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, China said. U.S. and Taiwan officials confirmed that the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile…
Right-wing pundit Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to a fraud charge Tuesday in his Manhattan case, admitting he scammed supporters of Donald Trump’s immigration policies during his first term— and dodging prison for it a second time. Bannon, 71, entered a guilty plea to first-degree scheme to defraud at a brief hearing before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice April Newbauer, around a month before he…
In October 2021, a grand jury indicted 24 people for orchestrating a human trafficking scheme that federal prosecutors said trapped Georgia farmworkers in brutal conditions akin to “modern-day slavery.” Dubbed Operation Blooming Onion, the scheme yielded one of the country’s largest human trafficking and visa fraud investigations, according to the Department of Justice. On Monday, the central figure in…
