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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | S.V. Date |Kevin Robillard |Jennifer Bendery
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump backed down from his trade war against the rest of the world Wednesday, at least temporarily, after his April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement tanked financial markets across the globe. Trump announced on his social media platform that he is reducing tariffs on all countries to 10% for 90 days, rather than the higher rates he had misleadingly described as “reciprocal” tariffs last week. However, he said, China’s exports to the U.S. would now see a 125% tariff.
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4 weeks ago | 
huffpost.com | S.V. Date |Jennifer Bendery
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s CIA director, facing heat for participating in a discussion of an impending military strike on Yemen on a publicly available messaging app, on Tuesday blamed President Joe Biden’s administration for allowing the practice — an assertion that Biden White House officials denied.
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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | S.V. Date |Jennifer Bendery
15 hours agoMichael Waltz renamed the conversation “Greenland PC small group SECRET.” National security adviser Michael Waltz opened a conversation. Michael Waltz invited Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, Director of …
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | S.V. Date
Trump also won consent for his trade wars from House Republicans, who approved language to make it much harder for Congress to block the tariffs.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
msn.com | S.V. Date |Alexander C. Kaufman
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
msn.com | S.V. Date |Alexander C. Kaufman
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
huffpost.com | S.V. Date |Alexander C. Kaufman
WASHINGTON — American energy production hit all-time maximums under just-departed President Joe Biden, but that is not stopping his successor from declaring an “energy emergency” to increase oil drilling. “We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump said in his inaugural speech in the U.S. Capitol. “We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth, and we are going to use it ― we’ll use it.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden never mentioned his successor by name in his goodbye speech to the nation Wednesday, but nevertheless made it clear he believes that American democracy is at risk. “I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern,” Biden said in a 16-minute address from the Oval Office. He then ticked off allusions to Trump and his wealthy advisers as threats to Americans’ freedom.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
huffpost.com | S.V. Date
WASHINGTON ― Former and soon-to-be President Donald Trump on Tuesday signaled yet again that he is serious about imposing a new regressive tax on Americans by increasing tariffs on imported goods ― this time even suggesting a new government agency to collect the money. “For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | S.V. Date
WASHINGTON ― The current and former living U.S. presidents said goodbye to Jimmy Carter on Thursday, and in the process once again highlighted the contrast between former and soon-to-be President Donald Trump and all the others.
