President Donald Trump is preparing a major aid package to help American soybean farmers struggling under China’s ongoing boycott of US beans, even as he continues efforts to secure a trade deal with Beijing. US soybean growers, who once relied on China as their biggest customer, fear that t
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to be jailed, accusing the two Democrats of failing to protect federal immigration officers without offering any evidence. Trump's comments, posted to his social media platform, come a
Former FBI Director James Comey will appear in federal court on Wednesday to face criminal charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation, in what marks the first prosecution by the Justice Department against one of President Donald Trump's political enemies. Come
US Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city's southwest side. No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group th
Elon Musk on Wednesday became the first person to surpass $500 billion in net worth, powered by a rebound in Tesla's share price this year and swelling valuations of his other tech ventures. The milestone comes just under a year after Musk's net worth crossed $400 billion and underscores his lead
The 20 points that US President Donald Trump announced as part of his Gaza plan this week were not in line with the draft proposed by a group of Muslim-majority countries, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday. Changes were made in the plan, Dar told Pakistani lawmakers in parliament
Plunged into a government shutdown, the US is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programmes and services running by Wednesday’s deadline. Roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furlou
The United States is deporting around 100 Iranians back to Iran, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a US official with knowledge of the plans. A US-chartered flight took off from Louisiana on Monday and was scheduled to arri
The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million federal court records found. So far this year, about 10 p
After some six months as Canada's Prime Minister, former banker Mark Carney faces a tepid economy and mounting obstacles as he attempts to forge a new path for the country amid tariff disputes with its two largest trading partners. Carney has not sealed a new economic relationship with the United
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was directing the US military to deploy to Portland, Oregon and to protect federal immigration facilities against "domestic terrorists", saying he was authorising them to use "full force, if necessary." Ordering the latest crackdown on a Democrat-led c
Family and friends gathered in a small Mexican town on Friday to mourn and demand justice for a 38-year-old father of two who was killed by an immigration agent during an arrest attempt in a Chicago suburb earlier this month. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez left Irimbo, in Mexico's Michoacan state, for
Canada Post workers went on a nationwide strike on Thursday after the Canadian government called for the postal company to undergo a widespread transformation to bolster its finances and modernize operations, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said. "In response to the Government's attack on our
