U.S. job growth surged past expectations in March and the unemployment rate dropped, giving President Donald Trump some breathing room as the economy comes under increasing pressure over the war in Iran and rising oil prices. Companies added a net 178,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, a huge swing from February, when […]
Continue ReadingDeutschland sehnt sich nach einem Comeback, doch der versprochene Aufschwung der schwarz-roten Koalition lässt auf sich warten. Während traditionsreiche Parteien wie die SPD und die FDP schwächeln und die Union als Kanzlerpartei nach Orientierung sucht, regieren im Land eher Zweifel statt Tatendrang. In diesem Spezial analysiert Rixa Fürsen den Status Quo mit Ulf Poschardt, dem […]
Continue ReadingNo final decisions have been made on Chavez-DeRemer and Lutnick — and Trump has contemplated firing people and then backed off before. Should Trump proceed with a larger set of Cabinet changes, it could represent a major attempted reset for an administration confronting an ominous political landscape. The potential high-level shuffling, a second, senior official […]
Continue ReadingNATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, setting up a potentially heated dialogue after Trump’s frequent attacks on NATO allies’ lukewarm support for the war in Iran. Rutte will travel to Washington to meet with Trump on Wednesday, Rutte’s office announced in a social media post. He’ll also […]
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Continue ReadingThe U.S. military is scrambling to find the pilots of an F-15 fighter jet downed over Iran on Friday, in a possible blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to quickly wrap up the weekslong conflict. A U.S. official confirmed Iranian state media reports about the incident and said efforts were underway to secure their rescue. The whereabouts […]
Continue ReadingDespite the war in Iran and its economic consequences preoccupying London and Brussels, much work is going on behind the scenes to strike a closer relationship between the U.K. and the European Union. Nearly a decade after Britain voted to leave the bloc, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has tasked his ministers with negotiating a post-Brexit […]
Continue ReadingThe reactions to the political deadlock have been furious: European home affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner said it was “hard to understand,” and child rights group the Internet Watch Foundation called it an “abject political failure.” Despite the lack of a legal fix, tech firms could very well continue to scan for child sexual abuse. Google, […]
Continue ReadingShe was again questioned by the police on Friday morning as part of an investigation into a social media post she wrote last week expressing solidarity with Japanese terrorist Kōzō Okamoto. Okamoto was convicted of a terrorist attack that killed 26 people at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972. In her post on Friday, Hassan, […]
Continue ReadingEuropean lawmaker Bernd Lange, responsible for the European Parliament’s negotiations on the EU-U.S. trade deal, told POLITICO he believed the Trump administration’s announcement made a final deal more likely. Lange noted that the U.S. administration had scrapped 50 percent tariffs on many steel derived items, bringing some, like motorcycles, to the agreed 15 percent levels. […]
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