Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons for the increasing rates of autism in the United States. “We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” Mr. Kennedy announced at a cabinet […]
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Wall Street’s biggest firms on Friday attempted the tricky two-step of revealing the toll of President Trump’s whiplash tariff policy without outright criticizing a man who has repeatedly tangled with the financial industry for slights both real and imagined. Earlier on Friday, China ratcheted up global trade tensions by raising its own tariffs on U.S. […]
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A shift in the atmosphere Ms. Petrova’s return flight from Paris landed in Boston on the evening of Feb. 16. As the plane sat on the tarmac, she texted back and forth with Dr. Peshkin, trying to confirm how she should handle the package in customs. But by then, the passengers were already filing off […]
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Many Democrats performed better than expected in the 2022 midterm elections, bucking historical trends to hold on to key governor’s offices and House seats and to expand their majority in the Senate. One notable exception was Gov. Steve Sisolak of Nevada, who was weighed down by a backlash to the lockdowns he had ordered during […]
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat, has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether President Trump violated securities laws while reversing course on his global tariffs. Early Wednesday, during a period of intensely volatile trading, Mr. Trump wrote on social media, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” Hours later, he announced a […]
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The waitress was pouring tap water. But Natalie Winters was quick to ask for bottled. “No fluoride for our dear dinner guest!” she said, gesturing to me. “Only filtered water and pesticide-free limes.” We were sitting in the back corner of Butterworth’s, a Capitol Hill bistro that has become a destination for friends and supporters […]
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The trade battle intensifies There’s no letup in sight to the trade war: This morning, China raised its tariffs on U.S. imports yet again. Beijing said it would not make economic sense to raise them further, and called the Trump administration’s dizzying tariffs barrage “a joke.” And this morning, Tesla stopped taking orders in China […]
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When Republican leaders weigh which of their members might defy the party and defect on major legislation, Senator Jerry Moran’s name rarely comes up. So it was all the more remarkable when Mr. Moran, a third-term senator from Kansas, went to the floor last week to issue a stark warning about how the budget blueprint […]
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China on Friday said it was raising its tariffs on American goods to 125 percent, retaliating for the third time in the escalating trade war between the two superpowers. The brinkmanship between President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, threatens to rip apart trade ties between the world’s two largest economies after years of […]
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Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s tariffs, we look at how four specific companies are navigating the new day-to-day reality. Then, the A.I. researcher Daniel Kokotajlo returns to the show to discuss a new set of […]
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