Congressman Ro Khanna is raising the alarm over mass layoffs in the U.S. economy resulting from the failed economic policies of President Donald Trump, including over 4,000 factory workers who lost their jobs this week due to firings or plant closures. On Thursday, automaker Stellantis, citing conditions created by Trump’s tariffs, announced temporary layoffs for...
The nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs, are wondering how to survive in an uncertain and contentious educational climate as the Trump administration downsizes the scope and purpose of the U.S. Department of Education — while cutting away at federal funding for higher education. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says “the world as we knew it has gone” Read full article at source...
Part of the Series The Public Intellectual On March 26, 2025, Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish citizen and doctoral student at Tufts University, was walking through Somerville, Massachusetts, on her way to join friends and break her Ramadan fast. As shown in a surveillance video, she was suddenly surrounded by five individuals in plain clothes, their...
Getty Images Donald Trump, in announcing his sweeping new tariffs on US imports on Wednesday, promised that the history books would record 2 April as America’s “liberation day”. After two days of stock market turmoil, however, this may also be remembered as the week the president’s second-term agenda ran headfirst into economic – and political...
Simon Jack Business editor Getty Images As stock markets continue to tumble after the US imposition of sweeping and swingeing tariffs, many are asking does this qualify as a stock market “crash” and what that could mean for them. The word crash has been used sparingly over the decades and is usually reserved for a...
Getty Clothing from well-known American brands like the Gap could see a price increase, as they rely heavily on Asian countries for production US President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs – or import taxes – for nearly every country in the world could push prices up on almost all the staples Americans routinely buy,...
Joshua Nevett Political reporter Getty Images Fish is the main good exported by the Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands was surprised to be hit by one of the most punishing tariff rates on US President Donald Trump’s “worst offenders” list, a member of the Falklands parliament has told the BBC. The British overseas territory is...
Getty Images Donald Trump has upended global trade with his tariffs announcement Fundamentally wrong, was how Germany’s outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described the new Trump tariffs. A unilateral attack – that was the view of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. French President Emmanuel Macron called them brutal, unfounded and certain to have a “massive impact”...
Watchdogs and other critics swiftly denounced a budget blueprint unveiled by Senate Republicans on Wednesday that endeavors to get the GOP one step closer to delivering additional spending and trillions in tax cuts desired by U.S. President Donald Trump. Observers are also condemning Republicans’ plans to skirt the Senate parliamentarian and use a controversial gimmick...
One country that did not feature on Donald Trump’s list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia. US outlet Axios quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying this was because existing US sanctions on Russia “preclude any meaningful trade” and noting that Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included. However,...
Ben Chu & Tom Edgington BBC Verify Getty Images US President Donald Trump has imposed a 10% tariff on goods from most countries being imported into the US, with even higher rates for what he calls the “worst offenders”. But how exactly were these tariffs – essentially taxes on imports – worked out? BBC Verify...
Jake Wallace BBC News, South West Reuters US President Donald Trump has imposed new tariffs on all goods entering the US US President Donald Trump’s new 10% tariffs on all imports from the UK to the United States have been described as worrying by one Devon company. Quicke’s Cheeses, based near Exeter, make about 10%...
President Donald Trump has unveiled universal 10% tariffs on all imports into the US effective on 5 April, with certain countries hit with steeper tariffs beginning 9 April. The watershed moment for global trade is already impacting stock markets. The BBC’s Michelle Fleury breaks down what the import taxes mean for the US and countries...
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