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By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, U.S. President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for business after World War II.
A growing number of companies, including some Canadian, say they’ve been forced to lay off staff, as uncertainty around U.S. trade policy deepens.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Canada is taking advantage of the United States through dairy tariffs. Speaking to reporters in the White House Rose Garden to announce his global tariffs on April 3, Trump said that Canada imposes a 250 to 300 per cent tariff on U.S. dairy products.
The roof of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican capital collapsed early Tuesday during a merengue concert attended by politicians, athletes and others, leaving at least 79 people dead and 160 injured, authorities said.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it has reached a preliminary, staff-level agreement with cash-strapped Argentina on a US$20 billion bailout, providing a welcome reprieve to libertarian President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country’s old economic order.
The U.S. will impose 104 per cent tariffs against China at midnight tonight, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed at a press briefing.
The three Americans convicted on charges of participating in a botched coup attempt in Congo last year have been repatriated to the United States.
A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.
The woman who was removed from a storm drain in Poway has died, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Starting in the 1980s, New York law enforcement and health officials fielded sexual abuse complaints from the young patients of a respected pediatrician who ran his practice out of a basement office in his home on Long Island.
The U.S. stock market is careening through a second straight day of stunning swings Tuesday as uncertainty reigns about what whether President Donald Trump will ease up on his trade war, which is scheduled to kick into a higher gear after midnight.
A U.S. political science scholar accused by the Thai military of insulting the Southeast Asian nation’s monarchy — an offence punishable by up to 15 years in prison — was jailed on Tuesday pending trial.
U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats from China, but that together the U.S. and Panama will keep it secure.
Scientists were bracing for high lava fountains Tuesday during the latest episode of an ongoing eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.
A three-year-old girl has become Mexico’s first human fatality from H5N1 bird flu, health officials said Tuesday.
