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Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump plans to scale back some tariffs on steel and aluminum goods, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Officials in the Commerce Department and U.

Donald Trump has dispatched one of his veteran fundraisers in a frantic attempt to stop the Kennedy Center from bleeding donations. Meredith O’Rourke has spearheaded drumming up financial support for the president’s controversial White House ballroom project and Rose Garden refurbishment.

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health and welfare. This so-called endangerment finding became the legal foundation for a host of rules combating planet-warming pollution — and a perennial target of conservative efforts to reverse them.

Trump’s approval on immigration among independents has fallen from 37 percent in March 2025 to 23 percent in the new survey. About six in 10 independents now say he has gone “too far” in deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally, up from 46 percent in an AP-NORC poll conducted last April, per the AP.

Top Trump administration officials had decided to terminate Abigail Slater as the Justice Department's antitrust chief just before she announced her departure on social media.

The Trump administration is working to narrow its broad tariffs on steel and aluminum products that companies find difficult to calculate and the European Union wants reined in as part of its pending trade deal with the US,

President Donald Trump has nominated hospitality executive Scott Socha to be director of the National Park Service, sparking public backlash.