Trump News for Friday, April 18, 2025

Gun violence and gun rights have been passionate debates in American society. People have made documentaries, drafted bills, made it their election agenda and learnt to live with both. President Trump sees guns as a means to stop violence

Acosta left CNN in January, less than two weeks after Trump took office.

Trump administration economist Kevin Hassett said Powell's removal is being studied by the president and his team.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The dispute over the wrongful deportation and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “is not only about one man” but about Donald Trump's disregard of the American judicial system as well, Sen.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance chastised European leaders for lacking commitment to free speech during an address in Germany in February 2025.

A federal judge ordered the transfer of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont, as she contests her arrest for pro-Palestinian advocacy. The judge cited constitutional concerns and supported Ozturk's free-speech claims. Her case highlights immigration policy issues under Donald Trump's administration.

Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

Modi is expected to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah. His visit comes ahead of US President Donald Trump’s expected visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-May — Trump’s first foreign trip in his second term at the White House.

The vice president, a Catholic convert, was due to meet on Saturday with the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

RTÉ's Economics and Public Affairs Editor David Murphy examines some of the key issues around how US President Donald Trump's trade policies could play out.

The court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Centre ‘until further order of this court’.

The administration has defined performance to account for job indispensability as Donald Trump seeks to reduce the federal workforce.

The US has suggested it could abandon its efforts to broker a permanent ceasefire within days, having seemingly grown frustrated by a lack of progress. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Vladimir Putin is not serious about ending the war.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

The effort would reflect a fundamental restructuring of how formerly independent agencies implement and enforce federal laws.