4 h. ago Trump's tariffs could be tough to crack for a German nutcracker maker focused on the US

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to become a tough nut to crack in an unlikely place — a small company whose factory nestled deep in the hills of eastern Germany produces painstakingly hand-crafted nutcrackers that are snapped up by American collectors

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8 h. ago Trump 'reduces amount he wants Ukraine to repay America from $300bn to $100bn' after latest round of negotiations over rare minerals deal

Trump was insistent in the early days of his administration that his opposite number in Kyiv would have to repay America for all of the aid it had supplied to support Ukraine

Economics

10 h. ago Trump’s tariff chaos has left America’s maple syrup makers in a sticky mess

Much of the equipment comes from Canada, the world's maple syrup powerhouse

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19 h. ago Harvard draws a line against Donald Trump while Democrats figure out Resistance 2.0

ANALYSIS: America’s oldest university stands up to Donald Trump while Democrats figure out how they can too, writes John Bowden

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26 h. ago Alison Hammond exposes huge Great British Bake Off secret she 'shouldn't really tell'

Alison Hammond has shared a huge secret about The Great British Bake Off that viewers are unlikely to be aware of, as she was joined by her podcast co-host Matthew Crosby

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27 h. ago CBB house turns on JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes as secret hand message exposed

Tensions in the Celebrity Big Brother house are rising ahead of the next eviction, and it seems that Chris Hughes and JoJo Siwa could face the wrath of their fellow housemates

Society

27 h. ago Fox News host teaches Donald Trump how to say ‘Make America Great Again’ in Spanish

During a friendly interview that will air on Fox News’ Spanish-language channel, the president also doubled down on his proposal to send American citizens to El Salvador prisons for unspecified crimes.

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29 h. ago Donald Trump's trade war tariffs slammed by France for unleashing 'tsunami of destabilisation'

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou hit out at Trump’s America for going ‘over to the side of the aggressors’

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50 h. ago Goldman Sachs’ chief hopeful Trump will listen to corporate America

David Solomon warned of risk of uncertainty, even after bank reported first-quarter results boosted by market volatility

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54 h. ago Plans to celebrate America's 250th anniversary were underway. Then came the federal funding cuts

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's administration will force them to scale back or eliminate celebrations next year commemorating the nation's 250th anniversary

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3 d. ago ‘I'm a Celebrity Big Brother star and tracked down my real dad after exposing huge family secret’

Reality TV star Danielle Meagher Collins left Ireland for LA and a career in stand-up comedy, only to discover she was halfway home already after she turned detective to find her missing family

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4 d. ago Chris Riddell on Donald ‘Captain America’ Trump wielding his tariff shield – cartoon

Is the president really ready to do battle with China after causing global chaos and undermining the US economy?You can buy a copy of this cartoon Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Make America make again? Trump’s tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams | John Naughton

The president’s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexitiesDonald Trump’s tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it “passeth all understanding” (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to “reshore” the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who’s the big boss around here – or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it, that he “expects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified shopkeepers pleading for mercy from a mafia don”.Cue the UK’s very own Trump whisperer, Keir Starmer, who, according to Politico, plans “to put a review of online safety rules on the table in trade talks” with the US. Which, translated, means that things such as the Online Safety Act and ...

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5 d. ago Trump was playing chicken with tariffs. Then he chickened out | Steven Greenhouse

In a second term of fiat, flubbing and flip–flopping, Trump pursued his desire to wield a club over everyone and everythingBy imposing punitively high tariffs, Donald Trump was playing a high-stakes game of chicken with America’s trading partners – but it was Trump who chickened out and suspended his tariffs just hours after they took effect. The president couldn’t ignore the worldwide economic havoc that he had caused singled-handedly – stock markets were plunging, business executives were panicking and consumers were seething.Eager to persuade manufacturers to build new plants in the US, Trump said on Monday that many of his tariffs would be permanent. But for Trump, permanent evidently meant two days. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Was King Charles' old friend the man who finally changed Donald Trump's mind? TOM LEONARD writes

TOM LEONARD: The imposition of penalties on exporters to America appeared to be the one policy that Donald Trump would never be prepared to reverse.

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5 d. ago Donald Trump has done more to help China 'than any other living human being', Professor Steve Tsang tells the Mail's 'Apocalypse Now?' podcast after tariff pullback

Trump's trade war with China escalated on Wednesday, with America's effective tariff rate against the nation now standing at a record 125%.

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6 d. ago Investors in Trump’s America can no longer see around corners

Regular guidance from executives on the near-term path of profit just got more elusive

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6 d. ago Trump plans to fix showerheads and dishwashers so everything gets more clean — including his ‘beautiful hair’

President Donald Trump is trying to make America’s showers ‘great again’

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6 d. ago Trump brags to NASCAR drivers that friend Charles Schwab made $2bn from stock market chaos

Video captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos.

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6 d. ago This federal rule helped clear air over America's most beloved parks. Trump's EPA wants to kill it

Outdoor enthusiasts are worried about the loss of their favorite vistas as President Donald Trump's administration considers weakening a 26-year-old rule designed to improve visibility over national parks and wilderness areas

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