The Westerly Sun

2 days ago | thewesterlysun.com | Jamey Keaten |David McHugh |Elaine Kurtenbach |Ken Moritsugu

GENEVA (AP) - The United States and China agreed Monday to slash their massive recent tariffs, restarting stalled trade between the world's two biggest economies and setting off a rally in global financial markets. But the de-escalation in President Donald Trump's trade wars did nothing to resolve underlying differences between Beijing and Washington. The deal lasts 90 days, creating time for U.S. and Chinese negotiators to reach a more substantive agreement.

3 days ago | thewesterlysun.com | Jamey Keaten |Will Weissert |Christopher Bodeen

GENEVA (AP) - The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered "a great deal of productivity" in resolving differences between the world's two leading economic powers, after officials wrapped two days of bargaining in Switzerland following President Donald Trump imposing steep tariffs and Beijing retaliating. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday there was "substantial progress" in the weekend sessions but offered scant information on exactly what negotiations entailed.

3 days ago | thewesterlysun.com | Patrick Whittle |Robert F. Bukaty

STONINGTON, Maine (AP) - Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine's chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state's lifeblood industry mount. Trade imbalances with Canada, tight regulations on fisheries and offshore wind farms towering like skyscrapers on open water pose three of those threats, said Olsen, part of the fifth generation in her family to make a living in the lobster trade.

5 days ago | thewesterlysun.com | Mark Sherman

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a favorite of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

5 days ago | thewesterlysun.com | Kathy McCormack

By KATHY McCORMACK - Associated Press A Tufts University student from Turkey was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center Friday, more than six weeks after she was arrested walking on the street of a Boston suburb. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.