Author: Mabinty Quarshie

A set of stiff tariffs against nearly 70 countries went into effect Thursday just after midnight, bringing the Trump administration one step closer to finalizing its “Liberation Day” agenda. United States trading partners will face duties ranging from 10% to 41%, part of a recalculation of the rates Trump laid down in his original April…

President Donald Trump was spotted Tuesday morning on the White House roof for a roughly 20-minute walking tour. Trump and a small group of men, including architect James McCrery, walked around the briefing room’s roof and looked down at the Rose Garden and across the South Lawn, which is the planned site of a new ballroom…

Democrats called former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper‘s entrance into the Senate race to succeed retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) a “game-changer” in their hopes to flip the upper chamber from Republican control. Party members have begun to clear the field for Cooper, a popular figure in the Tarheel State, in the Democratic primary ahead of…

President Donald Trump made an open-ended call to rebrand artificial intelligence on Wednesday evening as he signed three executive orders related to the technology. “We’re still in the earliest days of one of the most important technological revolutions in the history of the world,” Trump said while speaking at the Winning the AI Race summit at…

Former President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election on July 21, 2024, sending shockwaves through a race already upended by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in, only to be beaten by Trump. As Democrats try to recover, Biden, suffering from cancer, aims to protect what remains of…

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday a new trade deal with Vietnam ahead of the July 9 expiration of the pause on his “reciprocal tariffs.” “It is my Great Honor to announce that I have just made a Trade Deal with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after speaking with To Lam, the Highly Respected General…

As President Donald Trump pushes for Congress to pass his major domestic policy bill by the Fourth of July, he also conceded that lawmakers may need to extend the negotiation process beyond the self-imposed deadline. “We want to keep it to the July Fourth,” Trump told reporters Tuesday morning as he headed to the Florida…

One year ago, Joe Biden made the riskiest bet of his reelection campaign: He agreed to debate Donald Trump. It was a catastrophic error on Biden’s part and marked the end of his bid for a second term. Less than one month later, he suspended his campaign and quickly endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris.…

FAIRFAX, Virginia — Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, pushed back against attacks from the state GOP linking her to Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s probable Democratic candidate for mayor. “That’s a pretty ridiculous linkage, but I’ll say that I don’t begin to pretend like I know anything about New York politics,”…