Trump latest updates: China warns president to ‘stop whining’ over tariffs after US curbs Nvidia chip sales in trade war

Donald Trump’s administration could be held in criminal contempt after ignoring a federal judge’s court orders to turn planes around carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison under the president’s use of a wartime law.

In a ruling on Wednesday, Judge James Boasberg said the government’s failure to return those flights to the United States demonstrates “a willful disregard” that is “sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”

“The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions,” he wrote. “None of their responses has been satisfactory.”

Alex Woodward has been following the case for The Independent.

One of the world’s most valuable companies by market capitalisation, Nvidia’s share price has suffered a dramatic fall in 2025, touching around $150 in the first week of the year before sinking to below $100 in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s initial tariff announcement.

While the share price has since clawed back some ground, closing above $112 in Tuesday’s market, evening news of the latest hit – and announcing licences being required for some further exports – sent it falling more than five per cent once more in pre-trading, leaving Nvidia approaching 20 per cent down year to date again and wiping $150bn from its market cap.

Yet all this comes after the promise of US-based investment to the tune of half a trillion dollars – and they’re not the only ones to do so. Which prompts the question: is the Trump administration getting what it wanted?

Karl Matchett reports for The Independent.

Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for ignoring his orders to turn planes around in the Alien Enemies Act case that saw Venezuelan deportees flown to El Salvador.

The administration must either fix their mistake by April 23 or submit a filing “identifying the individual(s) who, with knowledge of the Court’s classwide Temporary Restraining Order, made the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. custody on March 15 and 16, 2025.”

Boasberg further writes: “The Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”

Here’s our earlier reporting on the case:

When negotiating a trade deal in normal circumstances, governments tend to concentrate on what might be termed, sometimes literally, “bread and butter issues”.

Tariffs, quotas, regulations… these are the matters that occupy the negotiators for months, if not years – as the Brexit process rather painfully proves. In the case of the current trade talks between the UK and the US, these are not proceeding in the usual manner.

The putative components of an ambitious transatlantic agreement have been kicked around, on and off, for some years, albeit with limited success. Only now, with the second coming of Donald Trump, has Britain been asked to exchange truth for trade. Yet that is, in effect, what the Trump administration will require of Sir Keir Starmer if he is to achieve what has eluded all of his predecessors since the Brexit vote in 2016.

As The Independent exclusively reveals, for the first time in such trade talks, Britain will be asked to adopt a political, indeed “Trumpian” view of the world quite at odds with its traditions and its democratically approved laws.

Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen is now in El Salvador to meet with U.S. embassy officials in the country’s capital to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from the country’s notorious prison.

Van Hollen hopes to meet with Salvadoran officials and Abrego Garcia himself on this trip.

The Trump administration is unamused by the senator’s efforts, maintaining, without evidence, that Abrego Garcia is a gang member and human trafficker.

Bunzl is a distributor business which supplies other companies around the world with essential everyday goods such as food packaging and labels for supermarkets, catering equipment for restaurants, and masks, gloves and gowns for hospitals.

Having held a market capitalisation in excess of £10bn, the share price crash of the FTSE 100 company has seen more than £2bn wiped off that total in hours after CEO Frank van Zanten cited a “challenging trading environment”.

Karl Matchett reports from London.

The World Trade Organization says the volume of trade in goods worldwide is likely to decrease by 0.2% this year due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies and a standoff with China, but it would take a more severe hit if Trump carries through on his toughest “reciprocal” tariffs.

The decline in trade will be particularly steep in North America even without the stiffest tariffs, the global trade forum said Wednesday, with exports there this year expected to fall by 12.6% and imports by 9.6%.

Elon Musk has a plan to populate the world with more babies of “high intelligence” — and it’s all part of his wider mission to one day occupy Mars to save civilization.

That is according to an explosive report by the Wall Street Journal about the world’s richest man and how MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair found herself caught up in his “harem drama.”

St Clair, 26, went public with her claims that she and Musk share a child in February. Now she has claimed that the billionaire offered her a one-time payment of $15 million, plus $100,000 a month until her child turns 21, in exchange for her silence.