The US Justice Department said it will file a lawsuit against Maine over a state anti-discrimination law that allows transgender athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.

The move is part of a broad attack President Donald Trump’s government is waging against transgender women competing in female sports — which is rare but, has become a lightning rod for conservatives.

“Today’s civil lawsuit against Maine is in direct response to the state’s failure to comply with federal law,” according to a Justice Department statement Wednesday. “The department will continue to use every legal tool available to remedy these violations and protect women’s civil rights.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the department intends to file the suit in federal court in Maine Wednesday.

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President Donald Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — US citizens included.

Seated next to President Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the US could help the Central American nation add more prisons, praising them as “great facilities.”

Bukele has one of the highest domestic approval ratings among world leaders thanks to his aggressive policing and mass incarceration efforts. He routinely shares videos on social media from the nation’s mega-prison Cecot, which has the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates.

“They don’t play games,” Trump said.

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President Donald Trump called on China to reach out to him in order to kick off negotiations aimed at resolving the escalating trade fight between the world’s two largest economies.

“The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, reading what she said was a statement Trump dictated.

“There’s no difference between China and any other country except they are much larger, and China wants what we have, what every country wants, what we have — the American consumer — or to put another way, they need our money,” the statement continued.

The comments are a fresh sign the US and China continue to dig in their heels, indicating there is no end in sight to fight that has seen both sides raise trade barriers to staggering levels.

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A Malaysian-backed developer set out to build Australia’s tallest tower.

Five years on, the project still doesn’t have a builder. It’s one of the most prominent examples yet of Australia’s building crunch: bloom.bg/4jbk6ng

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Agritech venture eFishery was one of Asia’s brightest startups with money from SoftBank and Temasek. Then it all came crashing down.

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President Donald Trump’s special envoy described his talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin last week as “compelling,” saying they discussed steps that could end the war in Ukraine and perhaps lead to business opportunities.

At the end of a nearly five-hour meeting, the envoy, Steve Witkoff, told Fox News in an interview on Monday, Putin made his request to secure “a permanent peace,” a development Witkoff said “took a while for us to get to.”

The key to an overall agreement revolves around “five territories,” Witkoff said, without providing more details. Russia insists that its military seizure of parts of Ukraine since 2014, including Crimea and large areas of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, must be recognized in any accord.

The renewed diplomatic push came after Trump expressed frustration at the pace of negotiations with Russia, which has so far declined to accept his proposal for a truce in Ukraine as a starting-point for broader peace talks. The president wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform last Friday that “Russia has to get moving” to help bring about a ceasefire.

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The Canadian government said it will allow automakers to import a number of US-made cars and trucks without tariffs, as long as the companies keep manufacturing vehicles in Canada.

The move will provide some relief to companies including General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV that have assembly plants in Ontario but still bring large quantities of vehicles into Canada from the US. Last week, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney put retaliatory tariffs on vehicles made in the US.

The government also said it will provide a reprieve for six months on imports from the US that are used in Canadian manufacturing, processing and food and beverage packaging, as well as for certain items related to public health and national security objectives.

Canada currently has 25% counter-tariffs on about C$60 billion ($43.3 billion) worth of US products, plus a further set of tariffs on some US-manufactured autos.

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A US judge admonished a Trump administration lawyer for failing to say how the government is facilitating the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador, a day after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said he’s not sending him back.

US District Judge Paula Xinis said she would order depositions of administration officials as she questioned a Justice Department lawyer Tuesday about the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He was deported March 15 despite a 2019 court order saying he couldn’t be sent to his native country.

“There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding,” Xinis said in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland. “To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing.”

On April 10, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration, which admitted that Abrego Garcia was deported through an administrative error, must take steps to “facilitate” his release from Salvadoran custody and return to the US. The high court largely upheld Xinis’s earlier order.

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The conclusion of the tax filing season Tuesday is about to provide early clues toward resolving a nagging question hanging over the US Treasury: How honest will Americans be about their income when there are suddenly fewer auditors to check them?

The answer has ramifications extending from Treasury debt markets already embroiled in tariff-related turmoil to legislative struggles in Washington over the debt ceiling and a proposed new round of tax cuts.

A drop in tax collections would likely move forward a debt ceiling deadline from the August to September timeline forecast by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. A sharp falloff also could ratchet up concerns about the fiscal burden of a proposed Republican tax package that matches giant tax cuts with much smaller spending reductions.

President Donald Trump’s administration this year terminated more than 7,000 Internal Revenue Service employees, mostly involved in tax enforcement, and ultimately may cut the agency’s workforce by 25%.

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