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President Trump signaled Friday that the U.S. may be open to lowering tariffs on China.

"80% Tariff on China seems right!" he wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. "Up to Scott B."

The conciliatory tone of Mr. Trump's post comes as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are scheduled to meet with Chinese negotiators this weekend in Switzerland.

The U.S. has imposed tariffs of 145% on imports from China, which retaliated with a 125% levy on American goods.

Mr. Trump on Thursday announced a trade...

Chicago-born Robert Prevost, 69, is the first North American to be elected pontiff.

President Donald Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.

Hayden was notified in an email late Thursday from the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Confirmed by the Senate to the job in 2016, Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to be librarian of Congress.

“Carla," the email began. "On behalf of President Donald J...

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Amid firings and government shake-ups, the Trump administration has repeatedly been assigning additional job roles to Cabinet members and other officials, Fox News Digital found.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was charged on May 1 with serving as Trump's national security advisor after the president announced he had nominated former National Security Council chief Mike Waltz to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Rubio's roles in the administration now include leading the State Department; serving as acting archivist of the United...

Washington — A group of House and Senate Democrats is urging top Trump administration officials to use the recent designation of Latin American cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations to take action to curtail the flow of American-made guns across the southern border.

The 14 Democratic lawmakers said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi that the designation unlocks additional legal tools that would allow the administration to disrupt the cartels' financial...

Cardinals joined the newly appointed pope in the Sistine Chapel, in a service that began with a prayer.

Washington — A federal judge is holding a bail hearing Friday for Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts doctoral candidate who was detained by immigration authorities after the Trump administration revoked her student visa.

Ozturk is currently detained at an immigration facility in Basile, Louisiana, where she was transferred after she was taken into custody in Massachusetts in March. The bail hearing in her challenge to her confinement comes after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration had until May 14 to comply with a district...

The Russian president welcomed 27 world leaders to the event in Red Square.

Democratic leaders erupted late Thursday after it was reported that President Trump had abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

Hayden was notified of her firing in an email late Thursday from the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, according to an email seen by The Associated Press.

"Carla," the email reportedly began. "On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service."

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The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans' ability to access and afford mental health and addiction care.

The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce mental health parity — the idea that insurers must cover mental illness and addiction treatment comparably to physical treatments for ailments such as cancer or high blood pressure.

Although a federal parity law has been on the books since 2008, the regulations in question were...

Ukraine's security service says the state-backed spy network sought to obtain information about air defences.

Experts say the tit-for-tat attacks mark a dangerous new phase in the decades-old rivalry. What next?

Ex-banker Innes Tang has established a hotline for reporting behaviours deemed disloyal to Beijing.

Household brands including Pandora, Puma and Hugo Boss all said this week that they are evaluating their pricing strategies in the U.S. and beyond in the event that President Donald Trump's most punitive levies come into effect.

Some others, meanwhile, said that they are altering their supply chains and potentially revising their sales forecasts amid U.S. trade policy uncertainty.

Trump last month announced sweeping so-called reciprocal import duties on all U.S. trading partners. The charges were later paused for 90 days and reduced to 10% for most...