Pete Kasperowicz

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The White House schedule for Thursday made no mention of Trump signing an order to impose the tariffs, and NBC reported that nothing might happen today because the details of the order were still being worked out. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump promises ‘great flexibility’ to trade allies with steel tariffs

Pete Kasperowicz · March 8, 2018 12:39 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, an Obama appointee, has been the first or second most likely Cabinet official to be fired according to PredictIt.org, a online predicting market. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

VA Secretary David Shulkin’s job at risk after scandals, and more are coming

Pete Kasperowicz · March 8, 2018 5:01 am

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Inspector General released a report saying that David Shulkin and other VA leaders did nothing to fix up the VA hospital in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House stands behind VA Secretary David Shulkin after latest scandal

Pete Kasperowicz · March 7, 2018 8:17 pm

"The president indicated that if we can work something out with Canada and Mexico, they will be exempted," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Wilbur Ross: Trump could exempt some countries from steel tariffs

Pete Kasperowicz · March 7, 2018 2:20 pm

"He's going after the bad actors, the people who cheat on steel and aluminum and cost us American jobs. We're all with him on that," Rep. Kevin Brady said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Kevin Brady: Trump needs to focus on the ‘bad actors’ on steel

Pete Kasperowicz · March 7, 2018 1:07 pm

"Certain types of bourbon are on the list, as are other items such as peanut butter, cranberries, orange juice, etc.," European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom said. (iStock photo)

Europe threatens tariffs on US peanut butter to retaliate on steel

Pete Kasperowicz · March 7, 2018 12:31 pm

The portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama were unveiled in a ceremony last month. Those paintings were commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, but were funded through private donations. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House votes to stop blowing money on oil paintings of federal officials

Pete Kasperowicz · March 6, 2018 8:52 pm

In the wake of President Trump's announcement that tariffs would be imposed on steel and aluminum imports, several World Trade Organization members have already signaled they are getting countermeasures ready.

How Trump’s steel tariffs could break the WTO

Pete Kasperowicz · March 6, 2018 2:00 pm

The European Union is getting ready to hit goods like jeans, bourbon, motorcycles, and a range of agricultural goods, in case the Trump administration goes forward with hits plan to impose its steel tariff, according to Bloomberg. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)

Europe to retaliate against US steel tariffs by hitting US jeans, bourbon, motorcycles: Report

Pete Kasperowicz · March 6, 2018 12:23 pm

"The official said that he was merely relaying talk circulating in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but what he'd heard was astonishing: people were saying that the Kremlin had intervened to block Trump's initial choice for Secretary of State, Mitt Romney," the New Yorker reported (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Russia takes credit for getting Trump to reject Mitt Romney as secretary of state: Report

Pete Kasperowicz · March 5, 2018 1:34 pm

The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 bans weapons in and around all public and private K-12 schools, with limited exceptions. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rand Paul wants to repeal federal gun-free school zones

Pete Kasperowicz · March 2, 2018 5:00 pm

"Earlier, literally several decades ago, people with different skin color were not allowed to ride on the same bus in the United States," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. "It is necessary to overcome that instead of returning to the flawed practice of the early 19th century, dividing journalists into countries and nationalities," she said. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Moscow lectures US on race after State ignores questions from Russian reporter

Pete Kasperowicz · March 2, 2018 3:22 pm