Executive Order

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order to emphasize the U.S. efforts on rare earth mining. What Happened: On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order to expand the production of rare earth minerals. Rare earth minerals are vital to many manufacturing sectors, including electric...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Sunday that aims to lower prescription drug prices in the United States for certain drugs by linking them to those paid by other developed countries. What Happened: The executive order mandates that for Medicare Part B and Part D prescription...

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday evening that would effectively ban TikTok and WeChat operations in the United States, if China-based parent companies ByteDance and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (OTC: TCEHY) fail to make sales within 45 days from now. What Happened...

The Federal Trade and Communications Commissions are known buzzkills when it comes to blocking corporate mergers. But sometimes, in the face of extreme consequences, the role falls on a higher power. On recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the U.S. president...

The question of how much power the government should exercise to keep Americans safe is a complicated and controversial issue; one that is the root of much of the conflict arising since President Donald Trump took office two weeks ago. Trump’s travel ban on visitors from seven majority-Muslim...

President Donald Trump is finding himself on a sticky wicket. With several unpopular executive orders, he has promulgated eliciting severe criticism. An order signed last Friday imposed a freeze on refugee admissions from Syria, a 120-day ban on refugee admissions from other locations and a 90-day...

President Donald Trump’s firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates late Monday shares some similarities with the actions of another president who tested executive powers — Richard Nixon. Yates was fired after directing her department not to defend Trump’s executive order on...

Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE: DAL) was caught in the maelstrom of a Trump tweet, which blamed the chaos at airports in the wake of President Donald Trump's travel ban order to the power outage it suffered. Traders promptly sent the shares down over 4 percent on Monday. Delta's Outage Along with...

Lyft, despite its opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration order, should actually thank the president as the order is helping Lyft to beat arch rival Uber, whose PR mishap over the issue is triggering customer migrations to Lyft. Last weekend, Trump signed an executive order...

President Donald Trump is wrecking the airspace after some of his earth-shattering announcements shook the standings of several companies and governments. The Travel Ban Trump issued an Executive Order last Friday imposing a freeze on refuge admissions from Syria, a 120-day ban on refugee...