Jeanna Smialek

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Jeanna Smialek

European officials call food safety standards a "red line," as Trump administration officials criticize rules that keep American beef and other meats off grocery shelves. Hendrik Dierendonck, right, and one of his chefs, Timon Michiels, at work at his butchery and restaurant in Saint-Idesbald, Belgium, last month. Credit...

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Jeanna Smialek

1 day agoAuthorities arrest over 100 people on Tennessee roads in support of Trump’s deportation planNashville, Tennessee (AP) — More than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried.

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Jeanna Smialek

European leaders struck a slightly more hopeful tone on trade negotiations on Friday, suggesting that talks with the White House continued even as Europe makes preparations to hit back should they fail. "I think I had good conversations with President Trump, on the phone and at the funeral of the pope," Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said at a news conference in Brussels.

6 days ago | sacbee.com | Jeanna Smialek

BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Thursday announced a plan to ramp up the pressure on the United States in hopes of prodding the Trump administration toward serious trade negotiations. The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, announced two major steps that it could take to hit back. Officials laid out 95 billion euros ($107 billion) worth of goods that they could target with higher tariffs in retaliation for the duties the United States has announced or imposed.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Jeanna Smialek

4 hours agoBig US cities are sinking. This map shows where the problem is the worst. The nation's biggest cities are sinking, according to data from a new study. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction," say the study authors, though other forces are at work in some places.