Opinion | I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future
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Opinion | I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines So much crazy happens with the Trump administration every day that some downright weird but incredibly telling stuff gets lost in the noise. A recent example was the scene on April 8 at the White House where, in the middle of his raging…

Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy
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Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The traditional gathering of former Treasury secretaries to welcome a newly minted one into the fold is usually a lighthearted and pleasant affair. But when the group convened this month, on President Trump’s “Liberation Day,” the tone was strikingly serious. The dinner, organized…

Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs: From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’
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Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs: From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For the past week, President Trump has been urging calm in the face of the financial chaos that he created and resisting calls for him to rethink his approach. “I know what the hell I’m doing,” he told Republicans on Tuesday as the…

Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause
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Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Wednesday abruptly reversed course on steep global tariffs that have roiled markets, upset members of his own party and raised fears of a recession. Just hours after he put punishing levies into place on nearly 60 countries, the president said…

Trump Maintains 104% China Tariffs as U.S. Officials Signal Openness to Talks
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Trump Maintains 104% China Tariffs as U.S. Officials Signal Openness to Talks

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s next round of punishing tariffs on some of America’s largest trading partners was set to go into effect just after midnight on Wednesday, including stiff new levies that will increase import taxes on Chinese goods by at least 104 percent. Mr….

Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff ‘Stupidity’
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Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff ‘Stupidity’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Wall Street billionaires are not used to being on the outside looking in. But that is where they find themselves after President Trump ignored their appeals to call off his tariff plans which they fear could endanger the economy. With the backdrop of…

Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
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Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend. There was plenty of anger, anxiety, frustration, and fear. Anger at President Trump for a brash and chaotic rollout of tariffs that erased trillions of dollars in value from the stock market in two…

Trump Aides Defend His Tariffs Amid Global Blowback
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Trump Aides Defend His Tariffs Amid Global Blowback

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s top aides raced to defend his expansive global tariffs on Sunday, downplaying the prospect that his new taxes on imports could cause a significant spike in prices or tip the U.S. economy into a painful recession. As Mr. Trump departed Mar-a-Lago…

Andrew Scott on ‘Vanya’: ‘Who Isn’t Sad?’
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Andrew Scott on ‘Vanya’: ‘Who Isn’t Sad?’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “I really believe that we all do contain multitudes,” Andrew Scott said on a Friday morning in March. Scott may contain more than most. An actor of unusual sensitivity and verve, he is starring, solo, in an Off Broadway production of Chekhov’s melancholy…

Trump’s Big Bet: Americans Will Tolerate Economic Downturn to Restore Manufacturing
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Trump’s Big Bet: Americans Will Tolerate Economic Downturn to Restore Manufacturing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s simultaneous trade wars with Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union amount to a huge economic and political gamble: that Americans will endure months or years of economic pain in return for the distant hope of re-industrializing the American heartland. It…