The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The topic of immigration has grown in prominence in Germany since the arrival of a large influx of immigrants in 2015, buoying the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party, […]

The White House says it plans to fight a ruling by a federal judge ordering the administration to immediately reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers fired amid President Donald Trump‘s efforts to shrink the government’s workforce and budget. William Alsup, the Senior U.S. District Judge of the Northern District of California, ruled Thursday that the […]

President Donald Trump‘s administration asked the Supreme Court in three emergency petitions to allow him to press forward with ending birthright citizenship, elevating the dispute over one of his most controversial executive orders to the nine justices. In the trio of appeals, the Justice Department stated that lower courts mishandled their rulings to issue nationwide […]

President Donald Trump insisted he won’t back off an April 2 deadline to impose sweeping global tariffs after a series of delays and exceptions for Canada and Mexico. “We’ve been ripped off for years, and we’re not going to be ripped off anymore,” Trump told reporters in the White House‘s Oval Office on Thursday. “No, […]