China, Trump and tariffs
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China raised its total retaliatory tariff on U.S. imports to 125% today after the Trump administration clarified yesterday that U.S. duties on Beijing are actually 145% because of earlier fentanyl-re...
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China will impose 125% tariffs on U.S. goods from Saturday, up from the 84% previously announced, the finance ministry said on Friday.
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U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday after China increased its tariffs on U.S. imports to 125%, escalating a trade war that could disrupt global trade and trigger an economic downturn.
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Trump, Undergo and Annual Physical
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President Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, will visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a physical on Friday, the first of his new administration.
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The physical could offer the first clear look at Trump's condition since his ear was grazed by a bullet in an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.
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Trump, Elon Musk
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After attacking Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Elon Musk was silent when Trump paused some tariffs.
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And it will actually result in better services for the American people, and that we're going to be spending their tax dollars in a way that is sensible and fair and good.
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The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis.
President Donald Trump's firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for health programs such as Medicaid,
Fiona Hill, the president's former adviser on Russia affairs, recently warned that World War III was "structurally" already in effect.
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President Donald Trump bragged that many foreign leaders were “kissing his ass” to avoid the steep tariffs he’d imposed on their countries. But China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was not one of them. “We are waiting for their call,
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that several law firms had agreed to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in pro bono legal work on certain causes they and the administration support.
China is facing the highest rate - with a 125% duty levied on Chinese goods imported to the US. The White House has said that tariffs on China would reach 145% for some products due to a pre-existing 20% levy imposed on those producing the drug fentanyl
President Donald Trump floated the idea of deporting U.S. citizens with criminal records "if there is a legal pathway," the White House said on Tuesday.