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The Times was also part of a collaboration with The Baltimore Banner, whose reporters Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher won in local reporting for stories on that city's fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate affect on Black men. The Banner was created three years ago, with several staffers ...
... in stemming the flow of migrants.The U.S. Northern Command has surged troops and equipment to the border, increased manned surveillance flights to monitor fentanyl trafficking along the border and sought expanded authority for U.S. Special Forces to work closely with Mexican forces conducting operations against cartels. Trump ...
... It was just a new sheriff in town. So the border is sealed. We don't have any more illegals or any more -- that much fentanyl or arms crossing our border in this disarray that we had four years ago. So now that the border is sealed, we are going ...
He’s followed through, big time, though with frequently changing caveats. WATCH: How U.S. business leaders are shifting plans amid tariffs and uncertainty Trump began by escalating tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, ostensibly as punishment for allowing fentanyl into the U.S. Then he announced even more widespread ...
... painting of Abraham Lincoln. The Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability: Reuters, for its series on the production and smuggling of the deadly narcotic fentanyl. Collier Prize for State Government Accountability: AP for its series, “Prison to Plate: Profiting off America’s Captive Workforce.” Center for News Integrity Award ...
... hurt union workers and local retailers, and expose American consumers to great risk by flooding the market with fake and sometimes dangerous imported goods, including fentanyl and precursor chemicals from China.” The Biden-Harris administration proposed new rules for the de minimis exemption in 2024, citing some of these concerns ...
... issues Trump has offered many justifications for increasing tariffs, including that they are designed to spur U.S. manufacturing and stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into the country. California's move follows rapidly changing tariff plans by the Trump administration. Newsom says the tariffs in effect have resulted in ...
... that there was no "exception" at all, adding to confusion. Trump instead argued that these goods are "just moving to a different" bucket. He also said that China will still face a 20 percent levy on electronics imports as part of his administration's prior move related to fentanyl trafficking.
... Trump announced on Wednesday that China would face 125% tariffs, but he did not include a 20% tariff on China tied to its role in fentanyl production. White House officials hope the import taxes will create more manufacturing jobs by bringing production back to the United States — a politically risky ...
... a 125 percent tariff would remain on all imports from China, later clarifying that the tariff is 145 percent when a 20 percent hike for fentanyl tariffs are included. And 25 percent duties on steel, aluminum, imported cars, and many goods from China and Mexico also remain in place. The ...
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