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Tribune News Service on Nov 4, 2025

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Supreme Court's conservatives face a test of their own in judging Trump's tariffs

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservatives face a test of their own making this week as they decide whether President Donald Trump had the legal authority to impose tariffs on imports from nations across the globe.

At issue are import taxes that are paid by American businesses and consumers.

Small-business owners had sued, including a maker of "learning toys" in Illinois and a New York importer of wines and spirits. They said Trump's ever-changing tariffs had severely disrupted their businesses, and they won rulings declaring the president had exceeded his authority.

On Wednesday, the justices will hear their first major challenge to Trump's claims of unilateral executive power. And the outcome is likely to turn on three doctrines that have been championed by the court's conservatives.

—Los Angeles Times

CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ second-guessed over Trump interview edits

NEW YORK — CBS News program “60 Minutes” was second-guessed by Monday morning quarterbacks over the heavily edited interview with President Donald Trump the network ran Sunday night.

Journalist Norah O’Donnell sat down with the 47th president for nearly 74 minutes Friday to record an interview that ran for 28 minutes during primetime. Hoping to provide transparency, CBS posted a full transcript of the interview online, where an extended version of the discussion was also made available.

Still there was controversy over edits made by the network, including the decision to leave out the part of the interview the president recommended they cut. That segment dealt with a lawsuit that Paramount, the parent company of CBS, settled with the president after he complained about the way “60 Minutes” edited a 2024 interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran against him in last year’s presidential election.

Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to Trump’s legal team and presidential library to settle the grievance in July. “Actually ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you,” Trump told O’Donnell Sunday.

—New York Daily News

More Americans are moving right on LGBT issues, new poll finds

A growing number of Americans are shifting to the right when it comes to policy on LGBT issues, closing the distance significantly with the Democratic Party, according to a new Pew Research poll.

While Democrats generally enjoy a comfortable lead over Republicans in polling on matters of LBGT policy, the GOP has made substantial gains in a period of just two years, the Oct. 30 poll found.

Support for the Republican Party on “policies related to people who are gay, lesbian or transgender” increased from 29% in 2023 to 35% in 2025, a six-point bump. Support for Democrats, while still ahead of Republicans, stayed put at 37% in both polls, bringing 2023’s eight-point lead down to a difference of only two points in 2025.

The poll is based on responses from 3,445 randomly selected U.S. adults and has a margin of error of 1.9%, researchers said. Researchers didn’t specify what’s behind the rise in support for the right’s LGBT policies. However, polling also found that, within two years, the number of people saying they disagreed with both parties’ policies dropped seven points, from 33% to 26% in 2025.

—Miami Herald

Nigeria rebuffs Trump assertion on killings of Christians

Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar underscored his government’s commitment to religious freedom and the rule of law, pushing back against President Donald Trump’s claim about the alleged killing of Christians in the West African nation.

Asked about the U.S. president’s comments at a news conference Tuesday with his German counterpart in Berlin, Tuggar produced a document that he said articulated what Nigeria’s constitution stipulates about religious freedom.

“This is what guides us and this is what shows it’s impossible for there to be a religious persecution that can be supported in any way, shape or form by the government of Nigeria at any level,” he said, standing alongside German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul.

Trump claimed at the weekend that Christians are being systematically killed in Nigeria “in very large numbers” and pledged the U.S. would intervene to protect them.

—Bloomberg News