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Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has sparked a legal standoff and renewed concerns over the Fed’s independence. Update (Aug. 26, 2025, 2 PM UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by crypto lawyer Aaron Brogan. US President Donald Trump announced the dismissal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, raising questions about the reliability of the US dollar. In a Tuesday post, the White House Rapid Response X profile published a letter signed by Trump removing Cook from her role at the Federal Reserve. He accused her of having made false statements on one or more mortgage agreements and, addressing her directly, wrote: Read more

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft Lisa Cook maandag ontslagen uit haar functie in de raad van bestuur van de Federale Reserve, het Amerikaanse stelsel van centrale banken. Trump deed de aankondiging in een brief aan Cook die hij op sociale media plaatste.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he hoped to meet again with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, possibly this year, as he held White House talks with South Korea’s dovish new leader that got off awkwardly. Hours before President Lee Jae Myung arrived for his long-planned first visit to the White House, Trump took to […]

United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that he expects to visit China this year or shortly afterwards, noting that economic ties between the two countries have improved — even as he kept the door open to steeper tariffs. Speaking to reporters as he met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Washington, Trump pointed to recent talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping: “At some point, probably during this year or shortly thereafter, we’ll go to China. “We’re going to have a great relationship with China,” Trump vowed. The US leader added: “They have some cards. We have incredible cards, but I don’t want to play those cards. If I played those cards, that would destroy China.” Tensions between the world’s two biggest economies have been simmering this year, but have significantly cooled since April, when both countries slapped escalating tariffs on each other’s exports. At one point, the tit-for-tat duties reached triple digits on both sides, snarling supply chains as many importers halted shipment...

President Trump wil na Washington ook ingrijpen in Chicago. Volgens The Washington Post werkt het Pentagon aan plannen om duizenden militairen in te zetten in de stad. De operatie past in de harde lijn van Trump tegen misdaad, dakloosheid en illegale immigratie en zou volgens de krant ook als blauwdruk kunnen dienen voor andere grote Amerikaanse steden. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in ons liveblog.

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will be held in Washington on December 5 — and then jokingly asked if he could keep the golden trophy for himself. The draw for the 48-team football championship will be held at the Kennedy Center in the US capital, where Trump recently installed himself as chairman in what he called a war on “woke” culture. “It’s the biggest, probably the biggest event in sports,” Trump, flanked by FIFA chief Gianni Infantino, said as he made the announcement in the Oval Office of the White House. The 2026 World Cup is being hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico next year, and Trump has made a big deal about it happening during his presidency. Infantino, who has fostered close ties with the billionaire US president, brought the World Cup with him for the announcement and even let Trump get his hands on it. “Only the FIFA president, presidents of countries, and then those who win can touch it, because it’s for winners only. And since you ...

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was dismissed after a report found that U.S. strikes only modestly set back Iran's nuclear program – contradicting Trump and Netanyahu's claim it was 'completely and fully obliterated'

President Donald Trump wil na Washington ook ingrijpen in Chicago en New York. Volgens hem moet de criminaliteit daar aangepakt worden. Trump kondigde vorige week aan dat hij de Nationale Garde zou inzetten in Washington tegen de criminaliteit en dakloosheid. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in ons liveblog.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has been scooping up stock in companies that could benefit from tariffs, as well as investing in Bitcoin funds. As US President Donald Trump’s tariffs create an unpredictable trade environment, some members of his administration have been investing in sectors influenced by his policies, including Bitcoin (BTC).  On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced it would extend the tariff delay on China. At the same time, the United States Commerce Department will introduce aluminum tariffs on over 400 different products, including wind turbines, mobile cranes, railcars, motorcycles and construction equipment. The unpredictability of Trump’s trade tariffs has raised concerns among national trade groups like the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), which said they are “delaying growth, disrupting operations, and raising legal concerns among companies.” Read more

Fed-bestuurder Lisa Cook is niet van plan om op te stappen, ofschoon de Amerikaanse president Trump haar beschuldigt van hypotheekfraude.

U.S. President Donald Trump once again came to Netanyahu's defense, calling him a 'good man' but saying that, ultimately, the hostage releases were thanks to Trump himself. On the Gaza war, the president said Israel is 'gonna have to fight like hell' against Hamas

Trump is now offering assurances that U.S. troops won’t be sent to help defend Ukraine against Russia after seeming to leave open the possibility Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he hoped Russia’s Vladimir Putin would move forward on ending the war in Ukraine but conceded that the Kremlin leader may not want to make a deal at all, adding this would create a “rough situation” for Putin. In an interview with the Fox News “Fox & Friends” programme, Trump […]

Trump legt Poetin in de watten: een deal die Oekraïne duur komt te staan en Europa terug in zijn hok duwt.

WASHINGTON: The administration of President Donald Trump has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for overstays and breaking the law, including a small minority for “support for terrorism,” a State Department official said on Monday. The move, first reported by Fox Digital, comes as the Trump administration has adopted a particularly hard-line approach toward student […]

Europese leiders hebben op een persmoment met de Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky en Donald Trump het belang van veiligheidsgaranties onderstreept. Trump is optimistisch dat hierover overeenstemming kan worden bereikt. Hij denkt dat ook Rusland instemt met westerse veiligheidsgaranties voor Oekraïne.

United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that if his meeting with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky went well, he expected to hold a trilateral meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin with the goal of ending the Ukraine-Russia war. Trump is pushing Ukraine to make major concessions following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week, saying Kyiv must give up Crimea and abandon its Nato ambitions. Those are two of Moscow’s top demands. But Zelensky, who huddled with the Europeans before they all went to the White House to meet Trump, urged Trump to bring “peace through strength” against Russia and stressed the need for United States security guarantees. “We’re going to have a meeting. I think if everything works out well today, we’ll have a trilat (trilateral summit) and I think there will be a reasonable chance of ending the war when we do that,” said Trump, sitting alongside Zelensky at the White House. “I just spoke to President Putin indirectly and we’re goin...

Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House to discuss how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

United States President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a move likely to spark legal challenges by the states. “I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, and also, while we’re at it, highly ‘inaccurate’, very expensive and seriously controversial voting machines,” he wrote in a social media post. Trump, who has promoted the false narrative that he, not Democrat Joe Biden, won the 2020 election, has long cast doubt on the security of mail-in ballots and urged his fellow Republicans to try harder to overhaul the US voting system. Some Republican states, such as Florida, however, have embraced mail-in voting as a safe, convenient way to expand voter participation. Trump voted by mail in some previous elections and urged his supporters to do so for the 2024 presidential election. Mail-in ballots hit record highs in the US in 2020 amid the pandemic as states expanded options for ...

Trump said the return of hostages depends on confronting Hamas and warned, 'The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success.' Families of 50 hostages urged him to act swiftly, warning, 'Every day this war continues puts the living hostages at imminent risk of execution'