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Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced

Fri, 08 May 2026 19:25:30 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

The day after theSupreme Court struck down a set of Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, the president quickly imposed another, using a never-before-invoked provision of a decades-old trade law to order a global 10 percent tariff on most imports.

Now, that second set of tariffs has been deemed illegal, and there are no more emergency levers that Trump can pull to try to replace them any time soon. That leaves Trump without much negotiation leverage a week before he’sset to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping, who already appeared to have the upper hand heading into talks.

How to Choose a Gift for Trump

Fri, 08 May 2026 19:00:36 +0000

Originally published by Foreign Policy

An expert in diplomatic gift-giving describes the use and abuse of official presents.

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Protocol officials in the world’s foreign ministries all have horror stories about diplomatic gifts. Like choosing a present for a particularly hard-to-please relative, they can be difficult to get right, offering opportunities for missteps and misunderstandings. For foreign leaders and their teams preparing for meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump, discussions about what to say are likely to be accompanied by fraught discussions about what to give.