WASHINGTON — From Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, Topeka, Kansas to Chicago and several of its suburbs, in all 50 states and in many cities worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people assembled to protest against Donald Trump and his billionaire financier and adviser Elon Musk on Saturday. The “Hands Off” …
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Republicans aren’t typically big fans of taking deliberate action to crash the stock market — but that’s what Donald Trump did on Wednesday, putting lawmakers who have fashioned their careers around fluffing the president in a tough spot. There are, of course, plenty of Republicans who have given their full-throated …
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Financial markets are taking a nosedive for the second straight day amid global panic and investor anxiety over Donald Trump’s implementation of broad tariffs on foreign imports.Economists are warning that the president’s actions are putting not just the United States but the world at risk of a global recession, and …
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This article is being published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly …
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Lithuanian President President Gitanas Nausėda, government dignitaries, religious leaders, military personnel, and thousands of spectators gathered on Thursday to send the remains of four American soldiers killed during a training exercise back to the U.S. for burial. They are arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday, and …
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On the eve of the expiration of the extension Donald Trump granted ByteDance on its deadline to sell TikTok to a U.S. entity, or be banned again, the president has announced plans to issue another executive order extending the deadline by 75 additional days. In a Truth Social post, he …
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Donald Trump upended the global economy on Wednesday by announcing a sweeping package of tariffs on goods imported into the United States. The move is expected to significantly increase the price of foreign-produced goods — from produce, to alcohol, to cars, and beyond. The White House seemed to be well …
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W aving red-and-white flags and blasting an independence song from a speaker box, a parade of about 40 Siumut faithful, long the dominant political party, is on the march in Nuuk, Greenland’s frozen capital. Cloaked in parkas, they pass a cluster of wooden homes built by the first Danish settlers …
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President Trump has fired six National Security Council staffers a day after meeting withfar-right troll and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. Loomer — a 9/11 conspiracy theorist known for chaining herself to the doors of Twitter after losing her account — met with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, where …
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Donald Trump’s new tariff regime is going to cost you a bundle. Tariffs can be confusing financial weapons. They are often framed as being slapped on exporting countries — e.g., a 25 percent tariff on Canadian auto parts. But the tax itself is actually paid by the American importer, and …
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