Donald Trump's acceptance of the Boeing 747 has triggered a political storm, raising questions over foreign influence, ethical propriety and potential violations of anti-bribery norms

Ruling halts president’s executive order to wind down the department, with the administration pledging to appeal.

On Friday evening, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ overall credit-rating—from the highest level of AAA—to one notch lower, AA1, based on years of rising debt and Donald Trump’s tax cut plan, which the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget has calculated could add $2.5 trillion more in debt.

Lawyers for Oregon and 11 states attorneys general argued no relationship exists between “extraordinary” threats Trump wants to confront and tariffs he’s imposed President Donald Trump is misusing a 1977 law and falsely claiming an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States to justify costly tariffs on nearly all imported goods,