news2shortsSetback for Republican governor as economists also dismiss proposal to abolish property taxes as ‘misguided’ Radical plans by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to overhaul the state’s financial machinery have hit turbulent waters, with party leaders pushing back on his Doge-style efficiency taskforce, and economists dismissing a proposal to abolish property taxes as essentially unworkable. … Read more
151,000 jobs added to economy in February, up from January as unemployment unchanged from last month The US labor market continued to grow in February even as threats of mass layoffs in the federal government and uncertainty around Donald Trump’s tariff policies rattle the US economy. In February, 151,000 jobs were added to the economy, … Read more
As President Donald Trump advocates the idea of passing a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C. — a member of the House Freedom Caucus who is pushing a Constitutional amendment to term limit federal lawmakers — told Fox News Digital during an interview on Thursday that while he’s not usually … Read more
Trump, Musk and Doge are making cuts – here’s what we know about the current government size and demographics Tens of thousands of US federal employees could lose their jobs after the Trump administration moves to reduce the size of the federal workforce dramatically. With Elon Musk at the helm of the so-called “department of … Read more
After a week of back-and-forth with the United States’ largest trading partners that sent markets tumbling, President Donald Trump declares that more goods from Canada and Mexico won’t be included in the latest tariffs. This includes a wide range of products from avocados to auto parts. NBC’s Christine Romans reports for TODAY.
An engineering firm working on the Obama Presidential Center says that claims it racially discriminated against a Black-owned subcontractor on the project are baseless and amount to smears – and that simply criticizing the subcontractors’ work does not amount to racism. Thornton Tomasetti, a New York-City-based structural engineering firm, was responding to an explosive $40.75 … Read more
A South Carolina death row inmate who gruesomely killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Friday – the first execution of its kind in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, who admitted to the killings because his ex-girlfriend refused to get … Read more
Two weeks after Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw boasting about his efforts to slash the federal workforce, President Donald Trump urges the DOGE team to use a more targeted tool moving forward. “They can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go. We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet,’” Trump … Read more
Angry, rude and addicted to web troll-ery, the vice-president has the Make America Awful Again portfolio. Seems a perfect fit You may well be aware that Backpfeifengesicht is the German word for a face that is worthy of being slapped. Even so, how has this not been internationalised? Or at the very least Americanised, where … Read more
FTSE 100 drops and is on track for its worst week in a year, as Germany’s Dax index slides Business live – latest updates European stock markets have slumped after Donald Trump’s second reversal on tariffs caused deep uncertainty among investors, while the euro was on track for its biggest weekly rise since the financial … Read more
