Author name: Claire Salas

Among the many ripples that President Trump’s tariff announcements have sent through the U.S. economy, the movie industry is emerging as an unexpected casualty. That’s partly because China is responding by further reducing the quota of American movies allowed into that country. These tariffs, aimed at reducing reliance on foreign goods, have inadvertently hit Hollywood’s […]

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday he does not think the law would allow President Trump to send United States citizens convicted of violent crimes to Salvadoran prisons, despite the president’s suggestion that he might be open to that possibility. “No, ma’am. Nor should it be considered appropriate or moral,” Kennedy told NBC News’s

News from the World Health Organization’s February board meeting, just released, indicates that the U.N. affiliate is facing a budget crisis.  It is $1.9 billion short of its anticipated budget of $4.2 billion, not to mention a carried-over deficit of $600 million. This situation has nothing to do with President Trump’s recent decision to quit the WHO

The fight over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has consumed Washington and ignited a debate over immigration policy and due process. In March, Abrego Garcia, who lived with his wife in Maryland, was sent to El Salvador’s notorious terrorist confinement center (CECOT). On Thursday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) visited Abrego Garcia at the CECOT prison in El Salvador. Van Hollen is

Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) disagreed with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the recently deported Maryland man, was given due process. Emmer joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where host Dana Bash asked him to weigh in on Van Hollen’s earlier accusation that the Trump administration deported

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday defended his efforts to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s rights, even as President Trump and his allies levy serious allegations against the deported Maryland man and highlight his mixed court record. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” host Jonathan Karl asked Van Hollen about “some pretty serious

Jared Isaacman is a man of great accomplishment, having founded his first multibillion dollar company at the tender age of 16. He has embarked on two private spaceflights, including Inspiration4, which raised hundreds of billions for St. Jude’s Children’s Cancer Research Hospital. Polaris Dawn featured the first private spacewalk and ventured farther from Earth than any human has

It has long been an article of faith among conservatives that the private sector, through competition and market discipline, delivers better, cheaper and more efficient products and services than government can. In the second Trump administration, this neoliberal economic and political philosophy is a lodestar. Project 2025, a blueprint crafted for the administration by the

Russia has attacked Ukraine despite the ongoing and agreed-upon “Easter truce,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. “As of Easter morning, we can state that the Russian army is attempting to create the general impression of a ceasefire, while in some areas still continuing isolated attempts to advance and inflict losses on Ukraine,” Zelensky said