Friday, April 25th, 2025
Trump signs executive order to speed up deepsea mining permits
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deepsea mining industry, marking his latest attempt to boost U.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy. The order, which Trump signed in private, seeks to jumpstart the mining of both U.S. and international waters as part of a push to offset China’s sweeping control of the critical minerals industry. Reuters first reported last month that the order was under deliberation. Parts of the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere are estimatedRead more
See the Ukraine war ceasefire proposals put forth by the Trump administration
Reuters has seen the text of a set of proposals to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that were presented to European officials by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff at talks in Paris on April 17. Witkoff was in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, just over a day after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly implored Putin to stop bombing Ukraine after several civilians were killed in Kyiv airstrikes. But at other points early in his second term as president, Trump has directed his ire at Ukrainian President VolodomyrRead more
Trump blows up the notion his Canada talk was just a fleeting fancy
There’s been no shortage of speculation about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about Canada might impact the federal election. It’s now time to start asking a new, longer-term question: About how his attitude will impact Canada beyond Monday’s election. It now seems increasingly obvious that Trump’s expansionist aspirations are no fleeting fancy. He kept quiet for a while, leading some to wonder whether he’d gotten it out of his system — that maybe he was just simply trolling our former prime minister, Justin Trudeau. But in recent days, theRead more