Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any convicted criminal deported by the United States.
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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.
Levy on all goods exported from China to US comes into effect as deadline passes, despite warning of threat to growth
The world’s two biggest economies did not strike a deal before a deadline. President Trump halted tariffs on Mexico and Canada but did not do so for China.
A 10 percent tariff on Chinese products took effect just after midnight Tuesday, and it remains to be seen if Mr. Trump will strike a deal to remove them.