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Trump news at a glance: court ruling threatens to upend Trump’s tariffs; Kamala’s security detail revoked

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday,   22Aug., 2025.
If allowed to stand, the federal court’s tariff ruling would ‘literally destroy the United States of America’, Donald Trump has said. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

A US federal appeals court has ruled that most of president Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, describing the levies as “unbounded in scope, amount and duration”.

The ruling, which will take effect on 14 October, is the biggest blow yet to Trump’s tariff policy and will likely mean the supreme court will have to rule on whether Trump has the legal right as president to upend US trade policy.

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