Month: April 2025

Small factories with tiny profit margins have played a central role in China’s international competitiveness. Many could now face disaster.

Economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused President Trump to reverse course on the steep levies.

Was the president manipulating the market with his comments, as his critics say, or reassuring Americans, as the White House maintains?

Plus, the soundtrack of America.

After more than an hour of labored negotiations with conservative holdouts, House G.O.P. leaders yanked their blueprint for the president’s tax and spending package, lacking the votes to pass it.

After halting federal attempts to combat global warming, President Trump is now targeting efforts by states to reduce greenhouse gases, setting up a legal clash.

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants.

For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided…

10 hours ago John Sudworth Senior North America correspondent Suddenly, Donald Trump’s trade war is in much sharper focus. Rather than a fight on all fronts against the world, this…

A Russian-American citizen has been released in a prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington. Amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, had been in prison in Russia for over…