By Michael Martina, Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard WASHINGTON/TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States plans to ramp up weapons sales to Taipei to a level exceeding President Donald Trump's first term as part of an effort to deter China as it intensifies military pressure on the democratic island,

Federal court determined that President Trump doesn't have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, dealing a sweeping blow to his main weapon in his trade war.

President Donald Trump laid into the conservative Federalist Society and its "sleazebag" chairman of the board Leonard Leo, accusing him of "hating America."

The Federalist Society is a pillar of the conservative legal movement that once advised Trump on judicial picks. Now he's slamming the group.

A White House official stated that the White House's legal team is currently finalizing the details of the gift, working on a memorandum of understanding -- or MOU -- between the United States and Qatar. The Washington Post first reported the news.

Senate Republicans have promised a dramatic rewrite of the massive domestic policy bill, which includes a proposed 10-year ban on state and local government regulation of artificial intelligence, that recently passed the House.

Stocks slipped in Asia on Friday and the U.S. dollar drooped with Treasury yields as investors digested an appeals court kept President Donald Trump's tariffs in effect, a day after markets rallied on a separate ruling blocking most of them.

The president picked Paul Ingrassia, the current White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which examines public corruption.

Some social media speculation is that the president is cutting billions of dollars in funding to the Ivy League institution because it rejected his son as a student.