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A view of the Federal Reserve building in Washington in 2018. Photo: Reuters

Banking & finance

Opinion | How Trump is chipping away at the US’ safe-haven status

Trump’s erratic policymaking is a risk typically associated with economically vulnerable autocracies in the developing world.

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Trump slams US Fed chair Powell, urges ‘termination’ for slowness

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Trump threatens to ban ‘joke’ Harvard from accepting foreign students

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Judge finds cause to hold Trump admin in contempt for El Salvador deportations

The administration did not turn around planes carrying deportees to a notorious prison despite an order from the court.

17 Apr 2025 - 2:10AM

Salvadoran police officers escort an alleged member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March. Photo: Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia via Reuters

Trump administration reduces Ukraine aid estimate in minerals deal: report

The US looks to have softened its aid payback demands in talks over a deal for Ukrainian investment projects.

16 Apr 2025 - 5:22PMvideocam

Trump White House restricts wire service access in latest media crackdown

The move raises concerns about press freedom and follows the Trump administration’s legal loss to another wire service over its exclusion.

16 Apr 2025 - 4:34PM

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Trump administration faces court inquiry over El Salvador deportation case

A judge demanded US officials provide documents and answer questions under oath about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation to El Salvador.

16 Apr 2025 - 10:00AM

Demonstrators rally during a status hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly was deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador. Photo: EPA-EFE

Biden re-emerges to slam Trump for taking ‘a hatchet’ to Social Security

In his first major speech since leaving office, Biden, criticised Trump’s Social Security changes and accused Republicans of targeting essential benefits for Americans.

16 Apr 2025 - 11:29AMvideocam

Trump says he wants to give money, plane tickets to migrants who ‘self-deport’

The US president also said he wants to work to get ‘good’ immigrants back in the United States.

16 Apr 2025 - 6:32AM

Canada universities see jump in US applicants as Trump cuts funding at home

UBC Vancouver even briefly reopened admissions to US citizens for some graduate programmes in response to the spike in demand.

16 Apr 2025 - 4:48AM

Family members take photographs at the entrance of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Trump wants Harvard to ‘apologise’, threatens school’s tax-exempt status

The US president’s new threat came after the Ivy League university defied demands to change its policies in exchange for billions in funding.

16 Apr 2025 - 4:43AM

US President Donald Trump gestures during an event on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. Photo: AFP

Nianli Ma, wife of cyber expert Xiaofeng Wang, speaks out over FBI raids

Ma says lack of due process by Indiana University is devastating after she and Wang were dismissed within days of each other.

15 Apr 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

Palestinian activist expecting US citizenship interview is arrested by ICE

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent US resident and a critic of the war in Gaza, was arrested in Vermont on Monday.

15 Apr 2025 - 1:28PM

Harvard hit with US$2 billion funding freeze after rejecting Trump’s demands

The White House said its demands were intended to crack down on antisemitism following student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

15 Apr 2025 - 10:55PM

Demonstrators rally at a protest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday calling on Harvard to resist interference by the federal government. Photo: Reuters

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark US antitrust trial

Meta is accused by Federal Trade Commission of abusing its market power to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp before they could become competitors.

15 Apr 2025 - 8:50AM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen at the luncheon on the inauguration day of US President Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington on January 20. Photo: Reuters

El Salvador’s Bukele says he will not return wrongly deported migrant to US

Trump administration has been ordered by a court to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was deported without due process.

15 Apr 2025 - 9:27AM

Arson attack on top US Democrat’s home sparks calls to end political violence

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home was targeted in an arson attack on Sunday; suspect Cody Balmer faces multiple charges, including attempted murder.

15 Apr 2025 - 7:06AM

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US deports another 10 gang members to El Salvador, Marco Rubio says

US secretary of state hailed alliance between Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele a day before Bukele’s White House visit.

14 Apr 2025 - 9:01AM

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in El Congo municipality, El Salvador in February. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

US State Department investigates ‘anti-Christian bias’ under Biden

Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked that reports also include actions taken due to opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice.

14 Apr 2025 - 1:38PM

Millionaires and billionaires

Meet Jeffrey Sprecher, Trump appointee Kelly Loeffler’s billionaire husband

With a net worth of US$1.3 billion, Sprecher has been able to support his Trump-loving wife’s political career; she’s now America’s head of small business administration.

14 Apr 2025 - 4:00AMvideocam

Sanders surprises Coachella, tells fans not to ignore ‘dangerously wrong’ Trump

‘You can turn away and you can ignore what goes on but if you do that, you do it at your own peril,’ the senator warned in his speech.

13 Apr 2025 - 3:43PM

US Senator Bernie Sanders at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 12. Photo: Invision/AP

Opinion | Decoding Trump’s tariffs and the world’s multipolar future

The US president’s trade wars, while ostensibly about economic fairness, are part of a larger narrative of a hegemon’s diminishing dominance.

13 Apr 2025 - 10:18AM

US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on tariffs at the White House on April 2. Photo: AFP

Harvard professors sue Trump over threat to US$9 billion in funding

The US president’s administration is reviewing grants and contracts as it cracks down on diversity programmes and Gaza protests on campuses.

13 Apr 2025 - 5:07AM

Israel-Gaza war

Judge rules US can deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil

The pro-Palestinian activist was the first person arrested under Trump’s crackdown on students taking part in campus protests over Gaza.

12 Apr 2025 - 3:59PM

Trump has his annual check-up, but will he finally share health details?

The oldest US president to be sworn into office has long kept basic facts about his health shrouded in secrecy.

12 Apr 2025 - 7:51AMvideocam

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday. Photo: AFP

American in Thailand pleads guilty to threatening to kill US Senator Tillis

Eric Charles Welton, who was angry over too many unsolicited political emails, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

11 Apr 2025 - 11:50AM

US Senator Thom Tillis. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

Supreme Court says Trump admin must help bring back man sent to El Salvador

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported and put in a notorious prison in his native country despite being in the US legally.

11 Apr 2025 - 7:42AM

Flip-flopper in chief? Trump’s biggest U-turns

The US president, who sent markets reeling with his on-again off-again tariffs, has changed his tune on issues from TikTok to abortion.

11 Apr 2025 - 7:03AMvideocam

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