As he had previous indicated, President Trump as ordered tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, but has exempted two countries therefrom. Many congresspeople, including Republicans, have expressed disagreement. Some related stories:
From Townhall, "Trump signs off on tariffs".
From AOL, Trump orders the tariffs.
From Breitbart's Big Government, the tariffs are exactly what Trump promised.
From National Review, according to George Will, Trump is doing this for swagger, not national security.
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In other stories (with some commentary):
From Variety, the entertainment industry honors International Women's Day. (Insert Harvey Weinstein joke.)
From Twitchy, CNN observes International Women's Day by interviewing a men's Olympic champ.
From the New York Post, at a charter school in Florida, a gun falls out of a kindergarten student's backpack.
From The Sydney Morning Herald, a "technical issue" leaves thousands stranded at the Sydney airport. (H/T OBFSU for the Tweet)
From Fox News, a Mississippi man is indicted for the shooting deaths of eight people.
From PoliZette, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) declines to repeat her previous call for Rueben Kihuen (D-NV) to step down amid sexual harassment allegations. (I almost typed "PolioZette", a title that would not have gone over well.)
From The Hill, a GOP state legislator in Minnesota has drawn up a bill to ban this year's male star of The Bachelor from his state. (via The Blaze)
From Philly(dot)com, why some people don't want Temple University to have a new football stadium. (Full disclosure: Back when Temple and Virginia Tech were both in the Big East conference, I attended two football games in Philadelphia between those teams.)
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an Uzbek imam has figured out the cause of homosexuality.
From The Telegraph, former London Mayor Boris Johnson has said that a "no-deal" Brexit should not cause the British to fear anything.
From the Express, JPMorgan Chase co-president Daniel Pinto thinks that stocks could fall up to 40% during the next two or three years.
From The Sun, an Algerian asylum seeker in the U.K. thinks that her life has gotten worse.
From The Old Continent, the Dutch government refuses to protect a visiting French-Moroccan feminist.
From Voice Of Europe, three Afghani refugees in the Netherlands claim to be "too westernized" to return home.
From ANSA, Italy observes International Women's Day.
From Palestinian Media Watch, female Arab MPs call on the Palestinian Authority to repeal the law allowing rapists to marry their victims.
From The Jakarta Post, in the Indonesian province of Aceh, a teenage couple found alone in a house are doused with sewage.
From Gatestone Institute, a "massive charity scam" in Britain.
From Sp!ked, is it now a thought-crime to be hostile to Islam?
From The Daily Signal, when did Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel know that his deputy did not enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School?
From CNN, Russians created an anti-Hillary video game. (Does that qualify as collusion?)
And from the Babylon Bee, multiple people claim to have seen Joel Osteen's Bible shivering under a freeway overpass.
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