23 h. ago Trump Targets African Kingdom With Highest Tariff in the World

US President Donald Trump imposed a 50% reciprocal tariff on the tiny southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, the highest levy for any sovereign nation.

Economics

23 h. ago Samsung, Nike Among Collateral Damage as Trump Targets China+1

Companies globally have been quietly shifting production to avoid the tariffs President Donald Trump slapped on China during Trade War 1.0. Now, the president’s “Liberation Day” levies are skewering that strategy.

Events

31 h. ago Canada and Mexico, Early Trump Targets, Dodge The Worst of New Tariff Salvo

Canada and Mexico escaped President Donald Trump’s new round of tariff announcements, a relief for businesses and investors in the two biggest US trading partners.

Economics

53 h. ago Suspected U.S. airstrikes in Yemen kill at least 4 people, Houthi rebels say

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Suspected U.S. airstrikes battered rebel-controlled areas of Yemen into Wednesday, with the Houthis saying one strike killed at least four people near the Red Sea port city of Hodeida. The intense campaign of airstrikes under President Donald Trump, targeting the rebels over their attacks on shipping in Mideast waters stemming […]

Events

58 h. ago Alberta Premier Smith expects key industries to escape imposition of new U.S. tariffs

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she expects some major industries, including those in her province, won’t face new tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. Smith told reporters Tuesday that things could change, but she thinks food production and oil and gas won’t be targeted under Trump’s new tariff plan, which is set to be announced […]

Economics

61 h. ago Democrats push vote on tariffs targeting Canada as Trump calls for Republican support

WASHINGTON — Democrats in the U.S. Senate are moving forward on a resolution to block sweeping tariffs targeting Canada as President Donald Trump presses Republican lawmakers to continue backing his trade agenda. Sen. Tim Kaine plans to force a vote on Trump’s use of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, also called IEEPA, to declare […]

Economics

6 d. ago Law firm Jenner & Block sues over Trump executive order, becoming second firm to do so

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent law firm targeted by President Donald Trump sued on Friday to block an executive order that threatens its federal contracts and the security clearances of its employees. Jenner & Block says the executive order, one in a series of White House decrees over the last month meant to punish the […]

Economics

8 d. ago Jagmeet Singh targets Trump at London campaign stop: 'Attacking workers'

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh followed Liberal Leader Mark Carney on the campaign trail to London on Wednesday. And like the Liberal leader, Singh did not take any questions from reporters at an evening event at the campaign office of Dirka Prout, the party’s candidate in London Centre. But Singh did comment on the executive […]

Society

1 week ago Columbia student protester who’s lived in the US since age 7 sues to stop deportation order

NEW YORK (AP) — Another Columbia University student said Monday that the Trump administration has targeted her for deportation over her pro-Palestinian views, accusing immigration officials in a lawsuit of employing the same tactics used on Mahmoud Khalil and other college activists. Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old lawful permanent resident who came to the U.S. as […]

Other

1 week ago Trump Plans His Tariff ‘Liberation Day’ With More Targeted Push

President Donald Trump’s coming wave of tariffs is poised to be more targeted than the barrage he has occasionally threatened, aides and allies say, a potential relief for markets gripped by anxiety about an all-out tariff war.

Economics

1 week ago States push to shift road funds to transit and bike projects as Trump threatens cuts

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of bicycle advocates were at an annual summit this month in Washington, D.C., when their cellphones lit up over breakfast with an urgent email warning that President Donald Trump’s transportation department had just halted federal grant funding for bike lanes. As the administration targets green energy projects championed by former President […]

Transport

2 w. ago US Sanctions First Chinese ‘Teapot’ Refinery Over Iran Links

The US is sanctioning a Chinese oil refinery and a terminal operator over links to Iranian crude imports, in the first measures to directly target China’s refining system as President Donald Trump seeks to press Tehran into a fresh nuclear deal.

Events

2 w. ago Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, completing its dismantling is most likely […]

Culture

2 w. ago 67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s refugee status offer

South African government says Trump's allegations that it's targeting Afrikaners through land expropriation are driven by misinformation

Other

2 w. ago Controversial boxer Khelif not intimidated by Trump, targets second Olympic gold in L.A.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says that President Donald Trump’s stance on gender in sports “does not intimidate” her and plans to defend her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics. Khelif, who found herself in the middle of a bitter divide about gender eligibility during the Paris Olympics, was asked about Trump’s policies during an […]

Other

2 w. ago CHARLEBOIS: Farmers pay the price for Ottawa’s electric vehicle obsession

Betting billions on a speculative EV industry while leaving Canadian farmers and seafood harvesters to pay the price is proof that in this trade war, agriculture is just collateral damage

Economics

2 w. ago Trump says Iran will ‘suffer the consequences’ for further Houthi attacks

The comments by Trump escalate his administration’s new campaign of airstrikes targeting the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which killed at least 53 people this weekend alone.

Events

2 w. ago Carney meets with European allies as Trump targets Canadian sovereignty

During his swearing-in, Carney noted Canada was built on the bedrock of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous

Economics

2 w. ago Bourbon blues: Trump’s tariffs are forging bipartisan alliance in Kentucky

Bourbon distillers who invested time and money cultivating markets in Europe and Canada are now worried about becoming “collateral damage” in escalating tit-for-tat disputes.

Economics

2 w. ago Trump’s tariffs on goods may be a prelude to tariffs on money

Capital inflows could be the Trump administration's next target

Economics