Grimm who represented Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn in Congress from 2011 to 2015, pleaded guilty in December 2014 to tax fraud, stemming from a restaurant he owned in Manhattan. He had won reelection the previous month despite facing charges including perjury and allegedly purposely hiring undocumented immigrants.

A US court invalidated Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff scheme, in a blow to the White House that could throw the president’s global trade policy into disarray. The

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre reposted messages on X that his support for President Donald Trump has made him a target.

President Trump's latest moves appear to have eased some of the uncertainty clouding the economic outlook among consumers.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk haven't always gotten along, but now the two powerful men are close political allies — yet cracks are beginning to show.

In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting “excessive barriers to American commerce”. Though Mr Trump loves economic coercion, his special envoy, Ric Grenell, has claimed that his boss frets that “sanctions penalise American companies”.

In his first term as president, Donald Trump banned China’s Huawei from using American EDA tools. Huawei is seen as an emerging competitor to Nvidia with its “Ascend” AI chips. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang recently warned that successive attempts by American administrations to hamstring China’s AI ecosystem with export controls had failed.

The president was asked about the current status of his administration's legal feud with the Ivy League university.