Jeff Mason, Reuters, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:37:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Jeff Mason, Reuters, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 China’s ByteDance will get 1 of 7 board seats for TikTok’s US operations, official says https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2025/09/21/chinas-bytedance-will-get-1-of-7-board-seats-for-tiktoks-us-operations-official-says/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:31:55 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= A composite photo of TikTok's logo and the US flag. (Reuters)

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]]> Trump says he plans to double steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2025/05/31/trump-says-he-plans-to-double-steel-aluminum-tariffs-to-50/ Sat, 31 May 2025 09:12:20 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Friday said he planned to increase tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum to 50% from 25%, ratcheting up pressure on global steel producers and deepening his trade war. We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50%

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]]> Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks might be going ok https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2025/04/13/trump-says-ukraine-russia-talks-might-be-going-ok/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:26:07 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= (Reuters) – Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks might be going ok, adding there’s a time when you have to put up or shut up. At a meeting between U.S. and Russian envoys earlier this week, it was said that the fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine was to support a strategy that would give

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]]> Trump to announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs in latest trade escalation https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2025/02/10/trump-to-announce-25-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-in-latest-trade-escalation/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:33:50 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a proclamation renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, while flying over the gulf aboard Air Force One en route to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 9. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

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]]> Biden says he has pardoned his son, Hunter https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2024/12/02/biden-says-he-has-pardoned-his-son-hunter/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:13:02 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= U.S. President Joe Biden stands with his son Hunter Biden, who earlier in the day was found guilty on all three counts in his criminal gun charges trial, after President Biden arrived at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, U.S., June 11. (Anna Rose Layden/File Photo/Reuters)

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]]> Biden urges Americans to ‘bring down the temperature’ after Trump’s US election win https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2024/11/08/biden-urges-americans-to-bring-down-the-temperature-after-trumps-us-election-win/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:30:17 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= US President Joe Biden gestures on the day he delivers remarks on the 2024 election results and the upcoming presidential transition of power, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, US, on Thursday, Nov. 7. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

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