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…

U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump’s Tariffs and Spending Cuts
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U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump’s Tariffs and Spending Cuts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The United States economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Trump’s abrupt moves to shrink federal spending, lay off government workers and impose tariffs on America’s largest trading partners rattle businesses and reverberate across states and cities. Funding freezes and…

Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama
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Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The drama going on between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine raises one of the most disturbing questions I’ve ever had to ask about my own country: Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready…

Markets and Corporate America Are Unfazed by Washington Chaos, for Now
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Markets and Corporate America Are Unfazed by Washington Chaos, for Now

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Even by Washington standards, the second Trump presidency has begun in frenetic fashion: mass firings at federal agencies, tariff threats against allies and foes alike, and haggling over how to get a Republican budget through a narrowly divided Congress. Business leaders and corporate…

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems
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Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lawyers for the Trump administration argued late Sunday that a court order blocking Elon Musk’s aides from entering the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems impinged on the president’s absolute powers over the executive branch, which they argued the courts could not usurp….

Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste
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Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since taking office, President Trump has set his sights on big targets, like Greenland. But he has also taken aim at small ones, like paper straws. And pennies. On Sunday night, Mr. Trump said he had ordered the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, to…

Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt
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Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the Treasury Department’s payment systems raises a far larger question: whether what Elon Musk has labeled the Department of Government Efficiency is creating a major cyber and national security vulnerability. The…