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President Donald Trump took off for Scotland on Friday for his latest presidential trip mixing business and golf.
Trump is among other prominent figures named in the previously unsealed documents. He was mentioned in a 2016 deposition from Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s victims, who said the disgraced financier’s plane made an impromptu stop in Atlantic City in the 2000s. Sjoberg said “no” when asked if she’d given Trump a massage.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said it hasn't yet received any information about the plan from the administration.
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A State Department official who was fired during Trump’s first term and has a history of racially charged statements is picked to lead the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States
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The Trump Organization said its $47.45 monthly service will includes unlimited calls, text and data. It's also rolling out a $499 mobile phone.
NPR is losing one of its top editors, Edith Chapin, after 13 years amid the recent Trump administration rescissions package that cut over $1 billion in federal broadcast funding.
Despite the name of the new cellular company and its association with the President’s family, the Trump Organization will not be directly involved in making Trump Mobile’s products or providing the phone service to customers. Instead, the company is using Trump’s name under a licensing deal.
The possibility of a 30% tariff this week “is a game changer,” said Dante Galeazzi, CEO and president of the Texas International Produce
Columbia University and the Trump administration reached a deal that restores federal funding and research grant money to the university. As part of the agreement, Columbia will pay $200 million to the federal government.
The 15% tariff would be lower than previously threatened but remains a high duty on America’s largest trading partner.