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‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows…
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Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders
A senior Justice Department immigration lawyer was put on indefinite leave Saturday after questioning the Trump administration’s decision…
Business
He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.
Last March, when Rob Bresnahan, Jr., a wealthy Republican business executive, was running to represent a competitive House district in…
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A Tariffs Cheat Sheet
It was much worse than expected. President Trump’s attempt to reverse the rules of global trade through sweeping tariffs against dozens of…
Politics
Trump Is Defiant as Tariff Moves Roil Markets a Second Day
Two days after President Trump announced his expansive global tariffs, the United States confronted wide-ranging and painful blowback, as…
Politics
Ted Cruz and Other Senate Republicans Question Trump’s Tariffs
Some Republican senators on Capitol Hill, including one of President Trump’s most ardent supporters, have signaled their uneasiness to the…
Politics
Republican Plan to Kill California’s E.V. Policies Hits Senate Snag
Republicans in Congress cannot use an obscure legislative maneuver to stop California’s ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by…
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Investors Recoil From Trump’s Pledge to Remake the Global Economy
Investors around the globe this week sent President Trump a clear message about his new tariff policy, announced triumphantly as a…
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Swiss Indignant to Make the Top 10 of Trump’s Tariffs List
Of all the countries that expected to be immune to President Trump’s tariffs, Switzerland was at the top of the list. The tiny Alpine…
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Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risk stoking even higher inflation and slower…
Business
Trump Officials Warn of Tariff Pain as Price Increases Loom and Stocks Tumble
In the weeks leading up to his expansive global tariffs, President Trump and his top aides tried to prime the public for economic pain.…
Business
FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wide-ranging cutbacks at federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug…
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E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, for breaking a landmark law to…
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Trump Is Promising a Manufacturing Renaissance. Is That Even Possible?
President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on a scale unseen in nearly a century is more than a shot across the bow at U.S. trading partners.…
Politics
With TikTok Deadline Looming, Details of a Potential Deal Emerge
Two days before a deadline for TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese company or otherwise face a ban in the United States, a deal has not yet…
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Trump Imposes Tariffs on Remote Islands
President Trump’s tariffs have spared almost no corner of the Earth. Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing.…
Politics
Canada’s Carney Puts Tariffs on U.S.-Made Cars as Stellantis Plant Pauses Production
Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada had introduced a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks made in the United States in retaliation…
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Trump’s De Minimis Order Could Raise Costs on Clothes and Goods From China
President Trump on Wednesday ordered the closure of a loophole that allows retailers to directly send clothes and other goods from China…
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim About Egg Prices
President Trump, as he announced sweeping tariffs, batted away “very tired predictions” from critics of his economic agenda by citing a…
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Oil and metals prices fall on concerns about the global economy.
Oil prices plunged Thursday on fears that President Trump’s latest round of tariffs would slow economic growth around the world, curbing…
Politics
Auto Tariffs Take Effect, Putting Pressure on New Car Prices
Tariffs on imported vehicles took effect Wednesday, a policy that President Trump said would spur investments and jobs in the United…
Politics
China Will Face at Least 54 Percent Tariffs With Trump’s New Order
With the new tariffs announced on Wednesday in Washington, President Trump has now imposed additional tariffs on Chinese goods of 54…
Politics
How Are Trump’s Tariff Rates Calculated?
As he unfurled his list of tariffs targeting most of America’s trading partners, President Trump repeatedly stressed that each nation’s…
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Americans’ Reaction to Trump’s Tariffs Range From Worried to Enthusiastic
President Trump’s announcement of sweeping universal and so-called reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world drew a swift rebuke on…