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Day: February 4, 2025
OPINION: If Donald Trump is proving anything to American allies in the first days of his presidency, it’s that he can’t be trusted. https://t.co/naorVcmP89
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 4, 2025
Казимир Малевич. «Точильщик». 1912 г. Холст,масло. 79×79 см. Художественная галерея Йельского университета. Нью-Хейвен. pic.twitter.com/AHtg7UaQg0
— Художники и Поэты (@Xudozhnikipoeti) February 4, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any convicted criminal deported by the United States.
The billionaire’s budget-razing lackeys are said to have embedded themselves inside the department’s D.C. headquarters
China Announces Measures Against Google, Other US Firms, as Trade Tensions Escalate U.S. News & World Report
El Salvador’s strongman President Nayib Bukele announced his country has offered the U.S. the opportunity to “outsource part of its prison system.”
Beijing announced tariffs of 10% to 15% on U.S. coal, liquefied natural gas, crude oil, pickup trucks and other products shortly after the U.S. tariff took effect.
As Rubio visits, president says country could take American citizens as well as ‘violent’ immigrants
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Deals to avert a North American trade war.