"Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation? That's terrorism. We're not going to negotiate with terrorists," Johnson said on Tuesday.

GREENBELT, Maryland — A federal judge ordered an “intense” two-week inquiry into the Trump administration’s refusal to seek the return of a man who was wrongly deported from Maryland to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

A U.S. judge on Tuesday demanded U.S. officials provide documents and answer questions under oath about what it had done to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador, ramping up an inquiry into whether the Trump administration defied a court order.

Tensions are rising across American academia as the Trump administration froze over $2 billion in multi-year grants and contracts at Harvard University after its leaders refused to make key policy changes the White House also is demanding of other elite US colleges.

Harvard University said it will not accept an agreement proposed by the Trump administration for continued federal funding.

The U.K. responded to Trump's tariffs by slashing tariffs on 89 British products in a bid to ease strain on British businesses hit hard by the levied taxes.

The sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump since April 2 and the subsequent pauses on some of them have generated uncertainty for companies worldwide, causing some of them to withdraw or refrain from giving a financial guidance.