If the on-again, off-again tariff announcements by President Trump have struck you as unusual, that’s for good reason. Nothing like this has ever happened before. That’s the estimation of Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth economic historian whose 2017 book, “Clashing Over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy,” is the leading work on the subject. I […]
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Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle to make new products was leading some people inside its lavish Silicon Valley headquarters to wonder whether the company had somehow lost its magic. The tariffs, which were introduced April 2, caused Apple to lose $773 billion in market […]
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The House on Thursday passed legislation that would require people to prove that they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote, the latest effort in a Republican-led push to tighten voting laws that is tied to President Trump’s debunked claims of widespread election fraud. Voting by noncitizens happens rarely, and it is already illegal […]
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The Bank of England ditched its plan to sell some of its holdings of long-term bonds next week, after U.S. Treasuries led a rout in the global government bond market. Stock markets have taken a hit since President Trump announced steep tariffs on dozens of countries, but the turmoil also swept into the bond market […]
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The Senate confirmed early Friday Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, the former National Guardsman and fighter pilot, to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Caine is replacing another Air Force fighter pilot, Gen. Charles Brown, known as C.Q., whom President Trump abruptly fired in February. The Senate’s lopsided approval of General Caine, who […]
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A Delaware judge has ruled that the right-wing cable channel Newsmax made defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems when it falsely claimed that the company rigged votes in the 2020 presidential election. Judge Eric M. Davis of the Delaware Superior Court said on Wednesday that the case would now proceed to a trial by jury, […]
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No details about the garden or its potential location have been released. But last month, Larry Rhoden, the governor of South Dakota, sent a letter to Mr. Trump suggesting that it be built in the Black Hills, near Mount Rushmore. The White House and Mr. McDonald, the agency chair, did not immediately respond to requests […]
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Every waiter knows the type: the volatile diner who barges in with a list of demands, orders an off-the-menu item that sends the kitchen into a panic and then at the last minute changes his mind and decides he’ll just have the steak. So if anybody knows how to handle President Trump’s stunning reversal on […]
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The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is leaving her post, the State Department announced Thursday, a move that may complicate the already delicate relationship between Washington and Kyiv, which has been strained by President Trump’s efforts to end the war. “Ambassador Brink is stepping down,” a State Department spokesperson said in an email, referring to the […]
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The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in China, about 700 million use the domestic version, Douyin, and 300 million scroll the headlines on Toutiao, a news app. Every video that […]
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