President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, as Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listen. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump...
The Capitol, Monday, March 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will stand before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to give an accounting of his turbulent first weeks in office as a divided nation struggles to keep...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes....
Carrying out a "symbolic partial repatriation" of illegal Filipino residents in the United States, replicating the move of the Indian government, might preemptively appease the looming immigration issues Filipinos might face under the Trump administration. Manila Bulletin File Photo Asian Center of...
President Donald Trump said Monday evening that Microsoft is among the U.S. companies looking to take control of TikTok to help the popular app avert an effective ban that could kick-in in April. “I would say yes,” Trump told reporters when asked if Microsoft was one of the companies interested...
Economies across the Asia-Pacific region can withstand headwinds from the policies of the Trump 2.0 administration that are deemed detrimental to global free trade and climate financing, according to a top Asian Development Bank (ADB) official. Once the United States imposes tariffs, "China, of...
WASHINGTON — The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry bets he’ll take action son after returning to the White House. Once a skeptic who said a few years ago that bitcoin...
Trump’s return to power carries a high risk of imposing 20 percent tariffs on non-China countries, which could negatively impact the Philippine economy, a Cabinet official said. Imposing tariffs of 20 percent on non-China countries and 60 percent on China could affect the global economy, “and...
Think tank Capital Economics has flagged potential risks to Asian currencies, including the Philippine peso, should Donald Trump secure victory in the upcoming US presidential election. In a report, Capital Economics said that Trump's protectionist policies could exert depreciation pressures...
More and more businesses across the globe are worried about a possible second coming of Republican candidate Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, according to Oxford Economics. "Fears over the potential fall-out from a Trump presidency have increased for the third consecutive survey,"...
An international public health expert has urged Filipino voters to remember in next year's national elections the positive improvements in the United States government's handling of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis after last year’s presidential elections. Public health and...
