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China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump  The Economist Cars to Fighter Jets: China’s New Export Curbs May Level a Heavy Blow Worldwide  The New York Times Q: Why Is China’s New Rare-Earth Threat Such a Big Deal?  The Wall Street Journal Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.  Politico China ‘not afraid of trade war,’ accuses U.S. of ‘double standard’ …

President Donald Trump is still stewing about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize Trump has long chased to Venezuelan democracy advocate and opposition leader María Corina Machado on Friday. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung quickly lashed out at the announcement, accusing the committee of choosing “politics over peace.” Trump, for …

A renegade member of Donald Trump’s own party has blasted the president’s attempts to pressure the nation’s top universities into conforming to his MAGA agenda. “The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning …

“There’ve been cases when the Nobel committee awarded the prize to people who’ve done nothing for peace,” Putin said, without naming names. “That’s damaged the prize’s prestige.”  While he demurred when asked whether he felt Trump deserved the prize, the Russian president — who is currently waging a bloody, years-long war in Ukraine and is wanted by the International Criminal …

ADVANCING MOST-FAVORED-NATION PRICING: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the second agreement with a major pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, to bring American drug prices in line with the lowest paid by other developed nations (known as the most-favored-nation, or MFN, price). The agreement will provide every State Medicaid program in the country access to MFN drug prices on AstraZeneca products, resulting …

United States President Donald Trump has unveiled a second deal with a major pharmaceutical company to offer lower-cost prescription drugs direct to American consumers. This time, the agreement concerned AstraZeneca, a multinational based in the United Kingdom. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Trump hosted the company’s chief executive, Pascal Soriot, in the Oval Office on Friday to …

The greatest salesman in U.S. history delivers the keynote speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville. Jon Cherry/Getty Images Looking at Donald Trump’s finances, it’s easy to miss one of his most important assets: bitcoin. The cryptocurrency appears nowhere on the financial disclosure the president files with the government. It is not listed among the holdings identified on the …

President Donald Trump is headed to Walter Reed for a ‘semiannual physical’  The Hill Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months  Time Magazine Trump’s second ‘routine’ annual physical raises eyebrows: ‘Why is the White House lying?’  Yahoo President Trump to undergo medical exam at Walter Reed, White House says  USA Today Donald Trump goes for a second health check-up in six months. …

GROWING OUR ARCTIC FLEET: President Donald J. Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum to authorize the construction of up to four Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs) abroad to address urgent national security needs in the Arctic region. The Memorandum invokes the President’s authority under 14 U.S.C. 1151(b) and 10 U.S.C. 8679(b) to permit foreign construction as a national security necessity. It …

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours. We begin with the news that a federal grand jury has indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud, according …