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During a meeting with President Donald Trump in China on Thursday, President Xi Jinping warned of the possibility of war over Taiwan. According to a recounting of the meeting between the two leaders, Xi said that if the Taiwan issue is handled correctly, then the relationship between the US and China can be stable. He added, “Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.” Following the meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US position on Taiwan remains unchanged. President Trump traveled to China with several top advisers and American…
The Senate has now confirmed Kevin Warsh’s nomination to lead the Federal Reserve. Warsh will inherit an economy with significant long-term potential, but also a growing challenge on Main Street. In conversations I conducted with small business owners across manufacturing, transportation, construction, equipment, logistics, and services while researching my recent book on economic growth, one theme surfaced repeatedly: uncertainty surrounding borrowing costs and financing conditions is increasingly slowing business expansion. Warsh’s recent testimony offered perhaps the clearest blueprint yet for that transition. His framework is fundamentally different from the activist posture that has increasingly defined modern central banking. His argument…
President Donald Trump on multiple occasions has assured the public that high gasoline prices will “rapidly” or “quickly” decline “as soon as” the war with Iran ends. Energy experts told us that prices will start to fall when the conflict is resolved, but it could take many months before the national average price is back to where it was before the conflict began. “For pre-war prices to show up, it could take beyond a year,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for the fuel-price tracking service GasBuddy, said in an interview. But he told us that there are “a…
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi dive right in to the latest news: A CIA whistleblower is alleging that his agency revised its assessment of COVID-19’s origins under pressure from…Anthony Fauci! Next up, the boys discuss the spread of hantavirus and whether it’s OK to quarantine the cruise ship passengers. Then, they talk about a dubious accusation against Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.). Finally, they wrap up by going over their favorite Frances McDormand movies. 0:31—CIA whistleblower exposes Fauci 15:11 —Quarantining hantavirus victims? 23:29—AI data centers debate 38:39—Miso soup and Dracula 48:36—Was Troy good? 55:43—iPads for prisoners? 1:00:26—Thomas Massie smeared 1:07:09—True crime…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Josh Scheer As Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, the world’s two largest powers attempt to choreograph stability atop a decade of escalating economic warfare, military brinkmanship, and mutual distrust. Xu Qinduo — journalist, analyst, and host of Dialogue on CGTN — cuts through the theatrics to explain what’s actually at stake: the future of global trade, the…
The United States Senate has failed to limit Donald Trump in his bid to attack Cuba. The US president has repeatedly hinted that regime change, using military force, is needed in the island nation. A Democratic-led effort to limit Trump’s authority to use military force against Cuba without congressional authorization has failed in the Senate. The Republican-majority Senate’s vote on the measure on Tuesday narrowly dismissed it as out of order in a 51-47 tally on the grounds that there are no active hostilities with Cuba. Yet. But Trump’s rhetoric has been quite hostile toward Cuba lately, and the country…
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During the first Trump Administration, the federal courts got a crash course in the Emoluments Clauses. Shortly after Trump was sworn in, progressive groups brought suit in New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. They argued that foreign and state governments that patronized Trump properties were giving unconstitutional emoluments to President Trump. Seth Barrett Tillman and I filed a host of amicus briefs at the District Court, Circuit Court, and Supreme Court level. However, the plaintiffs never sought a preliminary injunction or any sort of expedited relief. Indeed, despite the fact that they claimed these cases were urgent and…
The U.N. special rapporteur on Occupied Palestine says the interim decision gives her respite, but that the “battle is not over.” Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on Palestine, April 10, 2024, during an EU Parliament public hearing on Gaza in Brussels. (The Left, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked Trump administration sanctions targeting United Nations Palestine expert Francesca Albanese, ruling that the punitive measures violated her First Amendment rights. “Albanese has done nothing more than speak!” wrote U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, in his 26-page…
President Donald Trump meets with Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and members of his delegation, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Diplomats speaking with the Financial Times said Saudi Arabia has been discussing developing a mutual defense pact among Gulf Arab states and Iran. Two Western diplomats told FT that the framework for the pact would resemble the 1970s Helsinki Process. The 1975 agreement reduced tensions in Europe by increasing trade. The proposal from Riyadh comes as Gulf Arab states…