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MASERU, Lesotho. — The southern African nation of Lesotho has had its U.S. export tariff reduced from a threatened 50% to 15% but its crucial textile industry still faces massive factory closures, officials said on Friday. Despite a reduction announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, the country’s textile sector says it remains at a competitive

It’s been almost 100 years since the U.S. had tariffs at the level they could reach next Friday. Once President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs take effect, Americans will see an average tax of 18.3% for imported products, the highest rate since 1934, according to the Budget Lab at Yale, a non-partisan policy research center. Late

Exxon Mobil’s profit dropped in the second quarter to the lowest level in four years as oil prices declined amid an increase in production by OPEC+, but the results still managed to beat Wall Street’s expectations By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP business writer NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil’s second-quarter profit dropped to the lowest level in

If the world has had enough of helping others, then somebody forgot to tell Spain. Yes, Spain. The same country that, a little more than a decade ago, desperately accepted billions in bailout money from its European neighbors to keep its economy afloat. That Spain is now doing something almost unthinkable. It’s ramping up aid

On this week’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Democrats would “absolutely” fight back against Republicans’ redistricting efforts. Martin said, “Absolutely, we are, whether it’s in the courts, whether it’s organizing on the ground, which we’ve been doing.” He continued, “The reality is what we’ve seen already

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief and two-time New York Times bestselling author Alex Marlow’s forthcoming exposé on the lawfare “superstructure” that has been weaponized against Donald Trump is set for release on Tuesday, August 5. Marlow’s investigative book,  Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump,  is thoroughly researched and is based

The Woke Gestapo in the far-left entertainment media are targeting Sydney Sweeney for a career blacklisting. So far, Sweeney’s committed two cardinal sins. The first is daring to be sexy and appealing in an American Eagle blue jeans ad. You see, Sweeney had the temerity to be normal-beautiful, not fat/trans/tattooed “beautiful.” After five years of

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declared Sunday that it had defeated a Hamas battalion in northern Gaza, one of the last regions not yet fully controlled by Israel, and where Israeli hostages are thought to be held. The Times of Israel reported: The Israel Defense Forces defeated Hamas’s Beit Hanoun battalion, the military declared on

President Donald Trump took a hammer to comments from left-wing radio host and podcaster Charlamagne Tha God, and blasted him as a “racist sleazebag” for his comments about the Jeffrey Epstein controversy. The president took to his Truth Social account to take aim at the podcaster’s contention that the Epstein controversy will allow RINO Republicans

Frefighters working at a fuel depot outside Sochi, after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, August 3, 2025 [Handout/ Mayor of Sochi Andrey Proshunin’s Telegram account/AFP] Here is how things stand on Monday, August 4: Fighting A Russian attack killed three people in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region on Sunday, Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. A