Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Getty Images US President Donald Trump has said he will double the tariffs he previously announced on Canadian steel and aluminium imports into the US, taking the levies to 50% in total. In the latest twist in a deepening trade war, Trump said it was in retaliation for 25% tariffs […]
Mar 11, 2025, 06:17 AM ET Manchester United are still believing that coach Ruben Amorim will replicate the success he had at Sporting CP at Old Trafford, according to club captain Bruno Fernandes. Amorim left Sporting in November to join United having led the Portuguese outfit to two league titles in four and a half […]
Getty Images People who give blood regularly are more likely to have genetic changes in their blood that could cut the risk of cancer developing, a study suggests. The researchers, from the Francis Crick Institute, say the findings are “fascinating” and could help understanding of how and why blood cancers develop. Their study compared the […]
Trump faces an increasingly tough crowd President Trump won over Americans with a promise to return the country to “boom” times of low taxes and deregulation. Fifty days into office, he’s now pitching an economy in “a period of transition” for which he can’t rule out a recession. His stay-patient message may get tested on […]
Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Getty Images US President Donald Trump has said he will “buy a brand new Tesla” after shares in the electric car firm fell more than 15%. Trump blamed “radical left lunatics” boycotting the firm to “attack and do harm” to Tesla owner Elon Musk. However, stock analysts said the main […]
Trump stays the course Even President Trump has acknowledged that his pugnacious economic agenda is looking increasingly risky. Asked on Fox News this weekend if he expected a recession this year, he allowed only, “I hate to predict things like that.” That dodge comes as his trade war continues to escalate and companies warn that […]
Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context. What, they are asking, should this ongoing viral threat be compared with? Is Covid like the 1918 flu, terrifying when it was raging but soon relegated to the status of a long-ago nightmare? Is […]
Ask any prominent podcast host for a list of dream interview guests, and it is quite likely that Michelle Obama’s name would be on it. That is why the former first lady shouldn’t have much trouble booking whomever she likes on her new show, “IMO,” short for “in my opinion,” which she will host with […]
As President Trump addressed Congress last week, he veered off script to attack a sensitive topic, the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law aimed at making the United States less reliant on Asia for semiconductors. Republican lawmakers had sought and received reassurances over the past few months that the Trump administration would support the program Congress […]
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced massive outages throughout Monday morning that impacted thousands of users in the US and UK. The outage came as platform monitor Downdetector said it had seen tens of thousands of reports from US users of technical issues affecting the platform. There were more than […]