WASHINGTON, USA – Under president Donald Trump, the Department of State is using commonsense tools to support American families and strengthen compliance with US laws. This includes preventing those who owe substantial amounts of court-ordered child support from neglecting their legal and moral obligations to their children. US law requires Americans to comply with child support obligations in order to receive…
he cost of food in the US increased significantly amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the steep inflation that followed. While prices have stabilized more recently, avian flu drove up the cost of eggs earlier this year, and the price of coffee has continued an upward trajectory for several months now, because of extreme weather. The cost of steak is also on the rise…
President Donald Trump is imposing a new 100% tariff on certain pharmaceutical companies that have not struck deals to sell their drugs directly to consumers as part of his “Most Favored Nation” pricing initiative, the White House announced on Thursday. The forthcoming tariff will apply to imports of patented drugs and their active ingredients, in an effort to pressure foreign…
Britain accused Iran on Thursday of holding the world’s economy hostage as diplomats from more than 40 countries held talks on ways to press Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil route that has been choked off by the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. The U.S. didn’t attend the virtual meeting, which came after U.S. President Donald Trump made clear…
Oil prices plunged on Tuesday afternoon on signals that Iranian leadership may be open to negotiations to end the war — the first such move from the regime since the start of the conflict. In comments first reported by state media, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told EU Council president António Costa that Iran has “the necessary will to end this…
The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for the arguments. The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the…
Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn’t been weakened enough by the monthlong U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials. After private grumbling at the start of the war that they were not given adequate advance notice of the U.S.-Israeli attack and…
Israeli special forces troops only needed two and a half hours to infiltrate an Iranian-funded underground missile factory, rig it with explosives and blow it up. Flying low by helicopter into Syria in the last months of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2024, the commandos conducting Operation Many Ways destroyed an underground complex that had been considered impervious to air strikes. Last year,…
Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Iran are gathering pace, even though Tehran continues to insist talks with the United States are not happening. Here is what we know about the behind-the-scenes mediation efforts: – What is on the table? – After announcing “very good” talks with an unnamed “top person” in Iran on Monday, Trump said Tuesday that…
Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including an assault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait International Airport. Iran’s defiance came as Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran and as the United States deployed paratroopers and more Marines to the region. Iranian state television’s English-language broadcaster…