LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump and a wide range of his administration’s actions, including government downsizing, attacks on the rights of immigrants and transgender people, and tariffs that are roiling economies across the globe.

More than 500,000 ...Read more

Senate Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda and increasing the U.S. debt ceiling, potentially injecting a small degree of certainty into financial markets roiled by the president’s tariff policies.

The Senate early Saturday morning passed the budget resolution by a 51-48 margin after an ...Read more

President Donald Trump has vowed his historic tariff blitz would revive domestic manufacturing, but industry worries about his approach are raising fresh doubts about whether he can deliver on his promise of an economic boom.

In the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump declared “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country” and ...Read more

Senate Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda and increasing the U.S. debt ceiling, potentially injecting a small degree of certainty into financial markets roiled by the president’s tariff policies.

The Senate early Saturday morning passed the budget resolution by a 51-48 margin after an ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The iPhone is a quintessentially 21st century product — Californian in its creation and design and now enmeshed in the global economy.

Apple makes most of its iPhones in China, though in recent years the Cupertino-based company has made more of its products in India, Vietnam and other nations. In all, the tech giant says it...Read more

As President Donald Trump laid out his case for sweeping new tariffs, it sounded reasonable. He was only imposing on other countries the burden they impose on us. Those tariffs, he said, would boost our national revenue and decrease our deficit. He recalled a wealthy America 150 years ago funded entirely by tariffs instead of a pesky income tax,...Read more

As antacid-chugging Americans watched their portfolios and retirement account balances drop Thursday, it was easy to forget another consequence of Donald Trump’s ill-considered splaying the day before of new U.S. tariffs on nations large, small and uninhabited.

The likelihood of this nation losing its role as a global leader, leadership being...Read more

Not yet three months into a second term, President Donald Trump has taken difficult, but necessary, actions to rein in the scope of a federal government on a fiscally unsustainable path. He is also working with Republicans in Congress to extend his 2017 tax cut bill, allowing Americans to keep more of their own money. These are positive steps.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Energy Department is proposing to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and cut roughly $9 billion in awards for programs regarding carbon capture, direct air capture, solar and hydrogen, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

Under the plan, which isn’t final, the $27 billion agency’s staff would ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration on Friday and lifted a judge’s order that had blocked the canceling of $148 million in grants for recruiting and training new teachers nationwide.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted the administration’s appeal and freezes the funding for now.

Chief Justice John G. ...Read more

Bayer AG said it’s seeking a U.S. Supreme Court review of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup, its latest effort to get beyond a mountain of legal woes.

The German conglomerate asked the high court Friday to take its appeal of a 2023 verdict from a St. Louis trial in which a jury ordered Bayer’s Monsanto unit to pay $1.25 million in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A second day of market devastation shook Washington on Friday, vanishing more than $5 trillion in value in one of the largest 48-hour losses on record — an extraordinary rout caused not by pandemic, war, terrorism or bank failure, but by policy set by the American president.

The policy, announced by President Donald Trump on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A second day of market devastation shook Washington on Friday, prompting a small but influential group of Republican senators to partner with Democrats in a nascent effort to wrest back control over tariff policy from President Donald Trump.

The policy, announced by Trump on Wednesday, would levy steep tariffs on nearly every ...Read more

As President Donald Trump launches a global trade war by imposing sweeping double-digit tariffs on major trading partners, Caribbean governments are trying to understand what it means for their already vulnerable economies, while bracing themselves for the ripple effects.

“We need to work these things out,” Trinidad and Tobago Prime ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Attorney General Office’s Bureau of Consumer Protections won’t be taking further action on the complaints made by more than a dozen Pennsylvanians who received unsolicited $100 checks following the 2024 presidential election that appeared to be from billionaire Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump America PAC.

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Congressional Republicans on Friday were negotiating a possible compromise to allow remote voting for new mothers after President Donald Trump urged them to find a solution to the dispute that threatened to derail his broader legislative agenda.

In a major climbdown, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson was haggling over terms of a solution to...Read more

With a deadline to sell itself or be banned in the United States just hours away, TikTok got another last-minute reprieve from President Donald Trump on Friday.

"My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "The Deal requires more work to ensure all ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey made history on April 1, 2025, when he stood on the Senate floor and spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, delivering the longest floor speech in the history of the U.S. Senate.

Booker’s speech detailed his concerns about President Donald Trump’s new executive orders, other policies ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday asked world leaders to spare California from levying retaliatory taxes on goods imported from the Golden State, invoking its economic power as the world’s fifth largest economy.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” Newsom said in a video, referring to the president’s new �...Read more

DETROIT — The aftershocks from President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs have reverberated around the globe as trade partners unveiled retaliatory tariffs, stock market indices plunged and automakers announced plant shutdowns and other production changes.

Tariffs of 25% on vehicles imported into the United States began being collected ...Read more