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Abdul El-Sayed wants to remake the Democratic Party and Mike Rogers says he just wants to fix Michigan, as polls open Tuesday in the race that could decide the chamber.
Trump campaigned on sub-$2 gasoline and 2% mortgages. A new CBS News analysis finds many essentials costing more, and economists say tariffs and the Iran war are part of the reason.
The ban covers about $967 million in annual imports, and nearly nine of every ten dollars is alcohol. It escalates a trade war that Canada's provinces helped feed.
H.R. 5334 passed the Senate 86-11 and the House 262-159 in honor of the senator who died in July. It bars new U.S. investment in Russia until Ukraine accepts a peace deal and extends Iran sanctions to 2031. A former State Department sanctions chief says Trump 'missed a chance to send a message to Putin.'
Trump will meet Xi at the airport himself. The summit is the two leaders' second face-to-face of the year after May's meeting in Beijing, and it lands as an existing trade truce nears expiry and as the administration weighs what, if anything, to ask Beijing on AI safety.
Canada sends 70% of its exports to the U.S. Carney told lawmakers in Strasbourg that when countries negotiate alone with a dominant power, 'we negotiate from weakness.'
WatchFifty-eight Democrats crossed over and seven Republicans defected. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump 'cannot be entrusted' with new tariff power. The bill now goes to a president who has spent months saying he wanted it.
Seventy percent of Canadian exports still go to the United States. Ottawa is exploring visa-free living and working rights in Europe and an 'Alliance for the Future' covering defense, minerals, AI and the Arctic.
With the United States still taking about 72% of Canadian exports and 50% Trump tariffs in place, Ottawa is exploring a status that does not yet exist. Germany's Friedrich Merz floated the same 'associate member' idea for Ukraine earlier this year.
'Everybody's been bugging me,' the president said at his Doonbeg course. Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles are barred from U.S. import starting Sept. 29, though Crown Royal found a four-liter loophole in the fine print.
'Japan does it, but they hire our people,' the president told Fox News on Friday. Detroit's trade group wants Congress to lock Chinese vehicles out permanently by the end of December.
WatchThe pledge came an hour into his speech at the RNC's first midterm convention in Dallas. Paying it would cost more than $1 trillion, and Congress would have to approve it.
The Tata-owned carmaker is chasing £1.7 billion in savings over two years and says it can break even at 300,000 vehicles. Britain's business minister has already ruled out a bailout.
The supervisory board signed off unanimously on another 50,000 cuts on top of the 50,000 already agreed. Four German plants sit on the list, and no full-scale German factory has ever been closed.
Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation doubling the price of large or thermal-imaging drones and their components. Smaller civilian models get 25%.
The 90-day proclamation takes effect Sept. 1, right as ranchers head into their peak selling season. 'Most of whom are MAGA Republicans,' one GOP senator wrote.
The executive order directs the Interior Department to change the federal name database. Canada's prime minister noted the existing name is older than the Declaration of Independence.
The act lets the president impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas. The House is on recess and will not vote before September.
A court filing shows the Treasury has refunded about 60% of the duties the Supreme Court struck down in February — almost all of it to corporate importers, not households.
The Section 232 proclamation sets minimum import prices of $21 a kilogram for raw polysilicon and 38 cents a watt for solar modules, and takes effect December 4.
The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, argues the administration stretched Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act past its breaking point to impose duties on 60 economies.
The White House has prepared duties of 10% to 12.5% on dozens of trading partners over forced-labor concerns, replacing a temporary blanket tariff that lapses this week after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier trade agenda.
Invoking Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 for the first time in its history, Trump gave Canada 30 days to drop what the White House called 'discriminatory' trade barriers or face duties on nearly $20 billion in imports.
The duties, taking effect July 22 under Section 301, follow a yearlong probe into Brazil's digital-trade, ethanol and deforestation policies, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio blaming President Lula for refusing to 'negotiate in good faith.'
The revised measure would let President Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas — including China and India — and slap mandatory sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
Citing a Section 301 investigation into goods made with forced labor, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer proposed duties spanning Canada to China — months after the Supreme Court struck down the president's earlier tariff regime.
The U.S. Trade Representative proposed new duties on 60 economies, reviving Trump's trade war months after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier tariffs.
As the term winds down at the end of June, the justices still must decide cases on birthright citizenship, transgender athletes and the Second Amendment after striking down Trump's global tariffs earlier this year.
Canada allowing 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles annually at 6.1% tariff rate as dealers express enthusiasm.
The first wave of refunds are flowing to businesses after the Supreme Court ruled some of President Trump's tariffs unconstitutional.
President has repeatedly modified tariff structure after court rulings declared some measures illegal, with additional updates still planned.
A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade said Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act does not authorize indefinite, across-the-board duties — the second courtroom defeat for the administration's tariff regime this year.
The Court of International Trade held that Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act does not authorize sweeping import duties absent a real balance-of-payments emergency, leaving the White House racing to find another legal hook before the Federal Circuit.
Panel of federal judges rules president lacks authority to impose sweeping tariffs on most imports without congressional approval.
The president's decision to raise EU auto tariffs comes despite Supreme Court ruling against reciprocal tariff policies and European warnings about trade deals.
President moves to raise auto import duties despite Supreme Court ruling striking down previous 'reciprocal' tariff system.
President says the European Union is not upholding its part of a trade deal and plans to increase tariffs next week.
The third pause this year reflects a central bank squeezed between Trump's tariffs, $4.23-a-gallon gas, and political pressure from a successor headed for confirmation. Powell exits May 15.
Following court decision striking down Trump-era tariffs, companies apply for massive refunds but remain silent on whether savings will reach families who paid the higher costs.
American households are losing up to $780 a year as courts battle over who controls trade policy, leaving businesses unable to plan supply chains.
A federal refund portal opens April 20 following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that the emergency tariffs were unconstitutional — and businesses that paid billions in duties want their money back.
Intelligence reports suggesting China may transfer military equipment to Tehran prompted a White House warning of "severe consequences" at a moment when US-China trade tensions are already near a breaking point.
In a Fox News interview, Trump explicitly named China for the first time, warning Beijing would face crippling new tariffs if found to be delivering shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the power to impose tariffs belongs to Congress, not the executive, leaving the administration scrambling for alternative legal authorities.
Yale Budget Lab analysis shows U.S. customs revenue up 272% year-over-year as average households absorb an estimated ,800 in lost purchasing power.
A 5-4 ruling found the administration exceeded its emergency economic powers, but the baseline 10% universal tariff survives and inflation from trade barriers remains embedded in consumer prices.
Minutes from the Federal Reserve March meeting reveal that multiple officials raised the possibility of raising interest rates rather than cutting them, as tariffs and Middle East energy prices push inflation higher.
The executive order, the most sweeping ever against foreign drug manufacturers, gives companies 120 days to either strike pricing deals with HHS or face the full tariff.
WatchA year after "Liberation Day," the largest US tariff regime since 1993 has raised costs for ordinary Americans, shed factory employment, and failed to shrink the trade deficit — with more increases looming.
U.S. imports from China have shrunk dramatically, but billions appear to be the result of accounting gimmicks rather than genuine trade reduction.
The EU finalized free trade agreements with both Mercosur and India while Canada reached a landmark deal with China, accelerating a structural realignment of global commerce that analysts say will take decades to reverse.
A new White House proclamation eliminates hundreds of product exemptions and raises metals tariffs to their highest levels in modern American history, prompting new investment pledges and fresh warnings about consumer prices.
Industries continue grappling with lasting effects as companies permanently reshape economic and policy risk models
The effective tariff rate stands at 11% — last seen in 1943 — as Section 232 steel, aluminum, and auto tariffs survive the February ruling that struck down IEEPA-based measures and eliminated $1.4 trillion in projected revenue.
After 25 years of negotiation, the EU's landmark deal with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay enters force next month as global trade increasingly realigns around American absence.
The Supreme Court struck down the original tariff authority in February, but a new 10% global levy remains — and the EU, India, and Pacific nations have moved on to build a trading world that doesn't include Washington.
The executive action marks the most sweeping pharmaceutical trade measure in US history, giving drugmakers 120 days to comply or sign pricing agreements with the administration.
The president previously mused about making an unprecedented visit to the nation's highest court but ultimately stayed away from oral arguments.
WatchThe Court ruled the president lacked authority under IEEPA to impose sweeping import levies, sending markets surging and forcing the White House to scramble for alternative legal strategies.
The Dow dropped 793 points and the S&P 500 hit its fifth straight weekly decline as oil surged above $110 a barrel — while promised tariff rebate checks have never materialized.
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