• Trump signals he may lower tariffs on China

    Trump signals he may lower tariffs on China

    May 09, 2025 03:05 PM EDT

    ... U.S. tariff includes a 20% rate tied to Trump's claim that Beijing has failed to stem the flow of chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, and this portion of the tariff is unlikely to be brought up in this weekend's talks. While an 80% tariff level on Chinese ...

  • WATCH: Trump welcomes Canada's new prime minister to Oval Office amid tensions

    WATCH: Trump welcomes Canada's new prime minister to Oval Office amid tensions

    May 06, 2025 01:29 PM EDT

    ... steel and aluminum and tariffs on other products outside the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, in some cases ostensibly to address relatively low volumes of fentanyl intercepted at the border between the two countries.“Carney wants to show that he’s doing everything he can, including taking political risks to ...

  • New York Times, New Yorker and Washington Post among Pulitzer journalism winners

    New York Times, New Yorker and Washington Post among Pulitzer journalism winners

    May 05, 2025 10:04 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump's plan to send U.S. troops across the border to Mexico

    Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump's plan to send U.S. troops across the border to Mexico

    May 04, 2025 03:29 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • GOP Rep. Salazar calls for pathway to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants

    GOP Rep. Salazar calls for pathway to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants

    Apr 29, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Examining Trump's progress on his promises, 100 days in

    Examining Trump's progress on his promises, 100 days in

    Apr 28, 2025 03:46 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Journalists gather to honor First Amendment at 2025 White House Correspondents' Dinner

    Journalists gather to honor First Amendment at 2025 White House Correspondents' Dinner

    Apr 27, 2025 06:26 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Trump is ending this tariff loophole for low-cost packages. Here's what that could mean for consumers

    Trump is ending this tariff loophole for low-cost packages. Here's what that could mean for consumers

    Apr 23, 2025 04:18 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • California will sue to stop Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs

    California will sue to stop Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs

    Apr 16, 2025 03:27 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • What we know now that Trump has paused tariffs on electronics

    What we know now that Trump has paused tariffs on electronics

    Apr 14, 2025 07:50 PM EDT

    ... 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.