6 d. ago Furious Kremlin orders Donald Trump to 'wash his hands of Ukraine'

It comes just a day after Donald Trump threatened to 'take a pass' on brokering further Russia-Ukraine talks if Moscow or Kyiv were to 'make it very difficult' to arrive at a peace deal

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7 d. ago Donald Trump threatens to withdraw US from Ukraine peace talks if deal proves difficult

President Trump warned the US could 'pass' on Ukraine peace talks if the talks prove to be 'very difficult', as the previous 30-day deal to protect energy infrastructure from Russian attack ends

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7 d. ago Donald Trump threatens to walk away from peace talks if deal isn't struck, but says 'we have a good chance of solving the problem'

The US President claimed America would walk away unless there were clear signs a truce can be reached.

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7 d. ago The Latest: Trump administration takes aim at Harvard international students and tax

President Donald Trump’s administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to block the university from enrolling international students as the president called for withdrawing Harvard’s tax-exempt status

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8 d. ago Trump administration takes aim at Harvard's international students and tax

President Donald Trump's administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to revoke the university’s ability to host international students, who make up 27% of the campus

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8 d. ago IMF chief cuts growth forecast over ‘off the charts’ trade uncertainty

Kristalina Georgieva warns that Donald Trump’s tariff ‘reboot’ threatens to raise prices and play havoc with markets

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8 d. ago AP PHOTOS: 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 Germany company producing painstakingly hand-crafted nutcrackers that are snapped up by American collectors.

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9 d. 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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9 d. ago UK scrambling to get Donald Trump to slash tariffs to zero, says minister as US threatens medicines levies

Tariffs on Britain’s pharmaceutical industry could deal a severe blow, potentially costing firms billions of pounds

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1 week ago Joe Biden skewers Donald Trump with scathing takedown about 'hatchet job'

Joe Biden has elevated concerns Donald Trump’s agenda is threatening the health of Social Security - and it is the first time he has explicitly attacked the President

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1 week ago Donald Trump threatens to remove Harvard’s tax exempt status

Warning comes as the university rejects the administration’s demands to overhaul its governance

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2 w. ago Donald Trump insists 'China wants deal badly and it will happen' in social media rant

Donald Trump has posted about China after Beijing threatened to fight the president's recent Liberation Day tariffs of 34% against the nation with reciprocal measures

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2 w. ago As Trump ignites tariff war, a US city is embracing Canadians with all its heart

An estimated 300,000 Canadians visit Palm Springs each year and Trump’s levies threaten tourism in the regionWorried that Donald Trump’s policies are scaring away Canadians, a key segment of their tourist industry, a California resort city has put up “Palm Springs Loves Canada” signs across its downtown.“It was a gesture to let our Canadian visitors know that what happens in Washington DC, is not the way that Palm Springs is looking at Canada,” Ron deHarte, the city’s mayor, said of the signs, which were installed on Friday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump to sign executive orders aimed at boosting the coal industry – US politics live

President speaks in White House framed by coal minersThe European Union still wants to avoid a trade war with the United States despite Donald Trump’s administration’s rejection of the “zero for zero” offer on all industrial goods put forward by Brussels, an EU spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday.White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Monday that the European Union needed to lower its non-tariff barriers, including those created by value-added taxes and food safety regulations, if it wanted to reach a deal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump ‘waiting for China to call’ as deadline to avoid 50% extra tariff passes – US politics live

US president had threatened to impose extra levies unless China withdrew its 34% retaliatory tariffs todayThe European Union still wants to avoid a trade war with the United States despite Donald Trump’s administration’s rejection of the “zero for zero” offer on all industrial goods put forward by Brussels, an EU spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday.White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Monday that the European Union needed to lower its non-tariff barriers, including those created by value-added taxes and food safety regulations, if it wanted to reach a deal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago China vows to ‘fight to the end’ against latest Trump tariff threat

Beijing accuses US of blackmail and adding a ‘mistake on top of a mistake’ as Wednesday deadline for latest levies loomsTariff market reaction –live updatesChina’s government says it will “fight to the end” if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs in response to China’s retaliatory measures.On Tuesday, China’s commerce ministry accused the US of “blackmail” and said the US president’s threats of additional 50% tariffs if Beijing did not reverse its own 34% reciprocal tariff were a “mistake on top of a mistake”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump threatens China with '104% tariffs' with global markets in Black Monday meltdown

The White House confirmed that with previous hikes in tariffs on China, the total Beijing was now being threatened with would be 104%.

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2 w. ago Donald Trump threatens China with 50% extra tariffs with global markets in Black Monday meltdown

Economic experts are already comparing Trump’s tariffs to Liz Truss’ disastrous economic policy which saw her swiftly forced to resign as Prime Minister

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2 w. ago Donald Trump threatens China with even more tariffs sparking fresh trade war fears

Donald Trump has sent stock markets around the world tumbling as his sweeping - and bizarre - tariffs continue to wipe out confidence in the American economy

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2 w. ago Artist of ‘truly the worst’ Trump portrait says her career is threatened

British-born painter Sarah A Boardman disputes US president’s claim that she ‘purposefully distorted’ his imageThe British artist called “truly the worst” by the US president, Donald Trump, after he derided a portrait she created of him, has said the criticism called her “integrity into question” and is threatening her career.The British-born artist Sarah A Boardman painted Trump’s official portrait for the Colorado state capitol building in Denver, where it hung for six years from 2019. Continue reading...

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