US Will Drop Ukraine Peace Efforts If No Progress in Coming Days: Rubio; Meloni Meets Vance in Rome
The United States is optimistic it can put an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, Vice President JD Vance said on Friday as he met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the second time in 24 hours. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia–Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days. “It’s not our war,” Rubio said. “We have other priorities to focus on.” He said the U.S. government will decide its course “in a matter of days.”More than 10,000 pages of previously classified government records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released by the Trump administration on Friday.
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Italian PM Meets Trump Amid Tariff Tensions; Google Holds Illegal Monopolies in Ad Tech, Judge Finds
President Donald Trump on Thursday at the White House greeted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a close ally who wants to act as a power broker between Washington and Europe amid tensions over U.S tariffs.Alphabet's Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday.European and Ukrainian officials held talks in Paris to plead Kyiv's case to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff.
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Trump Holding Trade Talks With Japan; Judge Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Admin. In Contempt
The United States is set to begin negotiations with Japan in Washington on Wednesday on tariffs and the cost of U.S. military support. "I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries," President Donald Trump wrote in a post on social media platform Truth Social.A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he the administration must try to “purge” itself of a contempt finding or he will launch hearings and potentially refer the matter for prosecution.The Department of Justice is seeking a federal court injunction requiring Pine Tree State schools to immediately stop transgender boys from competing in girls’ sports and return all athletic records and titles to their rightful female owners.
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Global Shares Rise as Trump Signals Auto Tariffs Break; Tax Day 2025: Today is the Deadline
Wall Street rose on Tuesday, boosted by the possibility of tariff relief for the auto sector and gains in financial stocks after Citigroup and Bank of America's results. President Donald Trump on Monday hinted at potential exemptions for the 25% tariffs imposed on imports of autos and auto parts. Meanwhile, the administration is proceeding with probes into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on grounds that extensive reliance on foreign production of medicine and chips is a national security threat, Federal Register filings on Monday showed.Former President Joe Biden is expected to make an early evening speech to the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago. The 82-year-old Democrat has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, which is typically the tradition for immediate past presidents.If you haven't completed your 2024 tax return, today is April 15, also known as “Tax Day,” the deadline for filing your federal income tax return with the IRS. While most U.S. taxpayers have already done so with their tax preparers, about 101 million have yet to do so.
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El Salvador's Bukele: Can't Return Man Mistakenly Deported; Global Tech Shares Gain on US Tariff Exemptions
President Donald Trump met on Monday with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. Trump 's top advisers and Bukele said they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. “The question is preposterous,” Bukele said. “I don't have the power to return him to the United States.”Global technology stocks rose on Monday after the United States exempted electronics such as smartphones and computer hardware from its steep reciprocal tariffs on China, offering relief to a sector battered by supply-chain uncertainty. Apple shares were up 5.5 percent in U.S. premarket trading. Other consumer product companies, including computer hardware makers HP and Dell Technologies, surged 6 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively, while chip giant Nvidia was up 1.8 percent as part of a broad-based recovery in semiconductor stocks.
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