11 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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18 h. 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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22 h. ago Tech moguls who invested in Greenland mining have also given Trump’s campaign $243m: report

Troubling links tie tech money to both Greenland and Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to take over the island

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22 h. ago Tech moguls who invested in Greenland mining also gave Trump campaign $243m: report

Troubling links tie tech money to both Greenland and Trump. The tech industry desperately needs the rare earth minerals on the island, while Trump repeatedly threatens to take over the territory

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26 h. 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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29 h. ago Nancy Mace, who challenged a lawmaker to ‘take it outside,’ says that political violence is getting out of control

A man who allegedly threatened Trump is also accused of writing that he wanted to shoot the congresswoman from South Carolina

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31 h. 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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33 h. ago Trump live updates: President threatens Harvard tax status after Obama calls funding freeze ‘ham

White House freezes more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts for Ivy League school after it refuses to comply with long list of ideological demands

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47 h. ago How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown and multi

Harvard is the first of six Ivy League schools threatened with funding cuts to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands, a key early battle as 60 universities face investigation

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63 h. ago Trump threatens CBS with ‘substantial punishment’ over latest 60 Minutes broadcast

President Donald Trump railed against the newsmagazine for running segments on his annexation threats against Greenland and the Trump administration’s involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war

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4 d. ago Tariffs live: US central bank threatens to step in as Trump still defends levies

President insists policy ‘doing really well’ despite China hiking tariffs on American goods to 125 per cent

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5 d. ago European travellers cancel US visits as Trump’s policies threaten tourism

International visitors stay away as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border rise

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5 d. ago Weight loss jab supply risk as Trump's trade war threatens drug industry

British industry leaders fear tariffs imposed by President Trump could disrupt the supply and even the price of drugs including slimming jabs Mounjaro and Ozempic.

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6 d. ago Trump claims TikTok deal still on the table as China tariffs threaten to derail agreement

Trump announced a 90-day pause on all reciprocal tariffs this week, except for those placed on China

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6 d. ago House passes Republican budget framework paving way for Trump’s agenda

Multitrillion-dollar resolution unlocks path to deliver Trump’s sweeping tax cut and immigration planUS politics live – latest updatesThe House Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, muscled through a multitrillion-dollar budget framework that paves the way for Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, one day after a rightwing rebellion threatened to sink it.The resolution passed in a 216-214 vote, with just two Republicans – fiscal conservatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana – joining all Democrats in opposition. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago London shares soar after Trump puts most threatened tariffs on pause

However tariffs on China were raised again to an unprecedented 125%

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6 d. ago Asian markets rocket after Trump puts most threatened tariffs on pause

However tariffs on China were raised again to an unprecedented 125%

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6 d. ago Trump’s tariffs may be reduced but their impact will be felt in the UK and beyond

We examine potential consequences of US president’s market chaos, which could reach every corner of global finance and economyDonald Trump may have stepped back from his huge tariff rises on every country, except China, which now faces 125%, but the impact of the market chaos is likely to continue in the UK and beyond. The rest of the world still faces a blanket 10% tariff on all US exports.While much of the focus has been the direct impact of the tariffs on physical goods, Trump’s actions threaten to reach every corner of global finance and the economy. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago China retaliates with 84% tariffs as Trump says ‘great time to move companies to the US’ – business live

Stock markets down in UK and across Europe after steep declines in Asia, while turmoil spreads to bond market China announces 84% tariffs on all US goods in response to Trump’s 104%Bank of England warns Trump tariffs threaten global growth and raise risk of ‘severe shocks’Today’s tariffs follow Trump’s 10% tariff on all imports from many countries, including Australia, which came into effect at the weekend.US customs agents began collecting the unilateral tariff at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses on Saturday. Today’s measures are higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago EU drug firms warn of exodus to US as Trump threatens import tariffs

Von der Leyen urged to take ‘rapid and radical action’ as president says tariffs on pharmaceuticals coming ‘shortly’The Irish villages under threat from Trump’s tariffsPharmaceutical companies in the EU have warned of a “risk of exodus” to the US as stocks in the sector slid around the world on the back of Donald Trump’s renewed threat to impose tariffs on US drugs imports.Drugmakers’ shares across Europe and India, another foreign drugs hub, slipped on Wednesday after Trump indicated further carnage was on the way in addition to the 20% “reciprocal tariffs” on imports that kicked in overnight. Continue reading...

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