US president Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student and exchange visitor visa applicants as the State Department prepares to expand social media vetting of foreign students, according to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Tuesday. US secretary of state Marco Rubio said in the cable … Read more
A Donegal man living in Boston for more than 15 years is facing imminent deportation to Ireland after being detained by US immigration officials for violating his visa waiver. The 40-year-old man, who has two American-born children aged nine and 10 and has built a successful business in the Boston area, was recently arrested and … Read more
The “worst thing” anyone in the film industry can do is panic about US president Donald Trump‘s warning about a 100 per cent tariff on non-US films, award-winning producer David Puttnam has said. “I think the problem is we’re giving an extraordinary amount of credibility to an entirely ignorant tweet,” he told RTÉ radio’s Today … Read more
“It’s not my cello,” Rosie O’Donnell said over a video call, sitting on a grey love seat in a grey hoodie and a pair of chic brown glasses. In Dublin, where the actor, comedian and former talkshow host has been staying since mid-January, afternoon light streamed through a nearby window. The cello came with the … Read more
China has promised to “fight to the end” if Donald Trump follows through on a threat to impose a further 50 per cent tariff on all Chinese imports. The United States president said he would impose the extra levy, on top of a combined 54 per cent in already announced tariffs, if Beijing introduces its … Read more
US president Donald Trump threatened further escalation of tariffs on Monday as global markets again plunged, wiping billions of dollars and euros of the values of companies, savings and pension funds. Mr Trump said he would impose a further 50 per cent tariff if China did not withdraw its retaliation to earlier US tariffs – … Read more
To those of us crammed in the Red Line carriage at Metro Centre, the passing figure was like an apparition. She walked, head bowed and face obscured, in the ankle-length loose red dress and white bonnet made famous by the television series of Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. A thicket of people carrying signs … Read more
The European Union (EU) should not rule out targeting US tech companies in the bloc’s retaliation to sweeping tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump, a senior MEP has said. Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, said tariffs on digital services and tech giants, would be one way to increase the … Read more
A former senior economic adviser to Donald Trump has said that he admired Ireland’s corporate tax rate and that the US might be wiser in reducing its corporation tax, like Ireland. Stephen Moore told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that he would prefer to see the US reduce its corporation tax rather than raise its tariffs. … Read more
US vice-president JD Vance said he is joining his wife on a trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake. “We’re going to check out how things are going there,” Mr Vance said in a video posted to social media. “Speaking for president Trump, we want to reinvigorate the … Read more