A White House official said President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum to impose tariffs on countries that levy digital service taxes on U.S. tech companies.

Details of the order were earlier provided to Reuters by an official, saying Trump was directing his administration to consider responsive actions like tariffs “to combat the digital service taxes (DSTs), fines, practices, and policies that foreign governments levy on American companies.”

“President Trump will not allow foreign governments to appropriate America's tax base for their own benefit,” the official said.

The memo directs the U.S. Trade Representative's office to renew investigations into digital service taxes initiated during Trump's first term and investigate any additional countries that use a digital tax “to discriminate against U.S. companies,” the official said.

When asked at the White House if he would sign a tariff order on digital taxes, Trump told reporters: “We are going to be doing that, digital. What they're doing to us in other countries is terrible with digital, so we're going to be announcing that, maybe today.”

Trump announced last week that he would impose tariffs on Canada and France for their digital services taxe which the administration complains raised $500 million from U.S. companies. At the time, a White House fact sheet said that “only America should be allowed to tax American firms.”

“Overall, these non-reciprocal taxes cost America's firms over $2 billion per year. Reciprocal tariffs will bring back fairness and prosperity to the distorted international trade system and stop Americans from being taken advantage of,” said the fact sheet, giving no further details.

The U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, India, Austria, and Canada have imposed taxes on revenues earned from digital services sold within their borders.

With reporting from Reuters

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A U.S. judge on Friday extended a block on Elon Musk's government cost-cutting team known as DOGE from accessing Treasury Department systems responsible for trillions of dollars in payments.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan granted a request from 19 Democratic state attorneys general for a preliminary injunction on DOGE's access to the systems, pending the outcome of their lawsuit.

The states cited a risk that sensitive information could be improperly disclosed and said DOGE had no legal authority to access the systems.

As Elon Musk strutted around the CPAC stage on Thursday in a pair of garish sunglasses, waving a chainsaw and cracking cringe-worthy jokes, the mother of his children was publicly pleading with him to stop ignoring her requests for help with their kid’s health emergency.

Grimes, a Canadian singer who shares three children with Musk, directed a series of messages to the world’s wealthiest man on X, the website he owns, urging him to respond to her requests for help.

Richard Hall has the story.

The Supreme Court has declined to let Donald Trump immediately fire the head of a federal watchdog agency after a judge's order had temporarily blocked him from ousting the official.

The court ruled in abeyance — or postponed action, for now — on the Justice Department's request to lift a judge's February 12 order temporarily blocking Trump's removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel while litigation continues in the dispute.

The independent agency protects government whistleblowers.

Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch would have let the president fire him. Justices Kentaji Brown Jackson and Sonya Sotomayor would not.

The lower court’s temporary restraining order expires on Wednesday, February 26.

Here’s more information on the case from Alex Woodward:

New York City sued the Trump administration on Friday after the Federal Emergency Management Agency revoked $80.5 million of grants because of the city's handling of migrants.

The complaint over the February 11 clawback was filed in Manhattan federal court.

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Julia Musto explains.

Poland's president will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Saturday, state news agency PAP reported, after he urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy to maintain calm and constructive cooperation with the U.S. leader.

Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit comes amid a widening rift between Trump and Zelenskiy that has alarmed Kyiv's European allies.

"I suggested to President Zelenskiy to remain committed to the course of calm and constructive cooperation with Donald Trump," Duda wrote on the X social media platform.

"I have no doubt that President Trump is guided by a deep sense of responsibility for global stability and peace," he added.

Duda, whose term in office expires in 2025, was one of Trump's preferred international partners during his 2017-2021 presidency and they have described themselves as friends.

Rhian Lubin explains why that is.