When Republicans cut taxes in the past, they did so only temporarily, bowing to Washington’s arcane budget rules that limited how much they could add to the federal deficit. They gambled — mostly successfully — that the tax cuts would not actually end because Democrats would eventually vote to continue them. With this year’s tax […]
Helicopter dumps water on Galloway forest wildfire People and properties have been evacuated as a wildfire has spread over a large area of forest in Galloway, in the south west of Scotland. Emergency services were initially called to Glen Trool at about 23:50 on Friday, with police urging people to avoid the area. The Scottish […]
President Trump’s self-proclaimed “liberation day,” in which he announced across-the-board tariffs on the United States’ trading partners, carries an echo of another moment when an advanced Western economy threw up walls around itself. Like Brexit, Britain’s fateful vote nearly nine years ago to leave the European Union, Mr. Trump’s tariffs struck a hammer blow at […]
It was a bad week for Ben Coryell, who runs a wilderness guiding company in Golden, Colo. He got several calls from customers who wanted to cancel their climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions over the summer, often citing second thoughts about big purchases as the Trump administration has thrown the economy into turmoil with eye-watering […]
A striking and headline-making fraud case resulted in a conviction last Friday, when Charlie Javice was found guilty in federal court of conning JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million. The bank has also sued Ms. Javice, a 32-year-old entrepreneur who once made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, for elaborately falsifying her student-finance start-up’s customer […]
London Borough of Sutton Parents, like Zana, are taught how to cook low-cost, healthy meals Residents in south London have been learning how to use a slow cooker to dish up healthy meals on a budget for their families. Sutton Council has been providing free lessons at “Slow Cooker Club” in an effort to tackle […]
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans. The letter’s signatories, all of them elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, […]
President Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that buy oil from Venezuela are another example of how his trade moves could hit China the hardest even when China is not named as the target. Mr. Trump announced the 25 percent “secondary tariffs” last week, portraying them as aimed at the authoritarian government of Nicolás Maduro in […]
Here is how some of the United States’ key trading partners responded on Thursday to President Trump’s stiff new tariffs: China: The Commerce Ministry in Beijing vowed countermeasures against the sweeping new tariffs, which it described as “unilateral bullying.” The Trump administration hit Beijing with a new 34 percent duty that will be added to […]
When Daniel Cox was growing up in Rochester, N.Y., he spent every Saturday night at Pizza Hut with his father and two brothers. The server got to know the family so well that when she saw their blue Dodge Caravan roll up, she would put their order in: two cheese pan pizzas and two pitchers […]