The U.S. will put in place a 25% tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting on Aug. 1, according to letters posted by President Donald Trump on his social media platform on Monday. Trump wrote to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung to inform them of the news, citing unfair trade balances.

President Donald Trump has announced 25% tariffs on goods from Japan and South Korea beginning Aug. 1 President Donald Trump announces 25% tariffs on goods from Japan and South Korea beginning Aug. 1.

The first day of an expected two-week bench trial challenging the Trump administration's efforts to deport international students and scholars who express pro-Palestinian views began Monday in Boston with the question of noncitizens' First Amendment rights.

BOSTON (Reuters) -Groups representing U.S. university professors seeking to protect international students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy from being deported are set to do what no other litigants challenging the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda have done so far: Take it to trial.