Eric Garcia explains how North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has had to appeal to the Trumpian right to avoid a primary challenge, but now Robinson’s departure gives him an opening to pivot to the center and sink some of Trump’s nominees.

The order also gives the administration more power to impose economic penalties and travel restrictions, as well as potentially to even take military action in foreign countries.

Just under two weeks into the Trump administration, government agencies are making major edits to the content shared on their website to fit with the president’s policies.

Several pages were taken down from the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to health disparities among LGBT+ youth.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which manages the U.S. Forest Service, has removed pages related to climate change.

The clip features a portion of President Ronald Reagan’s radio address to the nation on November 26, 1988.

Yet today, protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism, a fig leaf for those unwilling to maintain America’s military strength and who lack the resolve to stand up to real enemies — countries that would use violence against us or our allies. Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends — weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world — all while cynically waving the American flag. The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion; it is an American triumph, one we worked hard to achieve, and something central to our vision of a peaceful and prosperous world of freedom.

President Donald Trump said Friday afternoon that he will impose tariffs on imported goods from Mexico, Canada and China starting Saturday, a move that’s expected to raise the prices Americans pay for goods coming from those countries.

Speaking in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump claimed he was imposing the import taxes — which are paid by American companies and passed on to consumers — because U.S. allies Mexico and Canada were “sending massive amounts of fentanyl” into the country that he claimed had originated in China. He also cited trade deficits as a justification for the import tax increases.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, D.C., and Ariana Baio reports from New York.

In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump‘s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away from a major project off the coast of New Jersey.

Shell told The Associated Press it is writing off the project, citing increased competition, delays and a changing market.

“Naturally we also take regulatory context into consideration,” spokesperson Natalie Gunnell said in an email.

The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, U.S. officials said Friday.

They said roughly 500 more soldiers — largely a headquarters unit from the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in New York — will be sent to the southwest border. And about 500 Marines will go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of the detained migrants will be held.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because announcements have not been made, said there have been ongoing discussions about the deployments and the numbers could increase if additional details are worked out.

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants, loans, and other financial assistance at the urging of Democratic state attorneys general who said it would jeopardize critical government-funded services.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, came at the behest of Democratic attorneys generals from 22 states and the District of Columbia and despite the White House saying it was rescinding Monday’s memo from its budget office detailing the policy.

McConnell said evidence showed the policy remained in effect despite the rescission of the Office of Management and Budget’s “wide-ranging, all-encompassing, and ambiguous” directive, which he said was in “name-only” and possibly done to frustrate a legal challenge.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who helped lead the litigation, hailed the decision, saying it would “block the White House’s chaotic pause on federal funding.”

McConnell issued a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from pausing assistance to the states and barred the Trump administration for reissuing the OMB directive under any other name.

The order, which is in effect pending a further ruling from McConnell, comes after a judge in Washington, D.C., issued a shorter administrative stay pausing the policy in response to a separate legal challenge by several nonprofit groups. A hearing in the Washington case is scheduled for Monday.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

…and concedes, “there could be some temporary short-term disruption, and people will understand that.”