President Trump’s announcement last week that he will impose a 20 percent tariff on goods coming from the European Union sent shock waves across the 27-nation bloc, the latest move in an unfolding trade war that is tearing the close partners apart. This week, Europe will push ahead with its first countermaneuver — one of […]
China’s leaders have sent a clear message about the effects of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs: Things will be painful, but it is nothing that the country cannot handle. A commentary on Sunday in the Communist Party mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, said Beijing had prepared for a trade war with the United States and that […]
Who are the crunchy conservatives? Getty Images / pixabay hide caption toggle caption Getty Images / pixabay Who are the crunchy conservatives? Getty Images / pixabay Have you or someone you love been confused by the push to ‘Make America Healthy Again’? Side effects may include: – Being inundated by uncredentialed wellness influencers and crunchy […]
Asian stock markets are slumping as the shockwaves from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs continue to reverberate around the world. Major indexes from Shanghai to Tokyo and Sydney to Hong Kong plunged when they opened on Monday. “It’s a bloodbath,” one analyst told the BBC. As a region that manufactures so many of the goods […]
The UK treasury plans to water down rules for private equity and hedge funds by introducing softer regulations for smaller groups to incentivise investment, the Financial Times reports. And US President Donald Trump’s officials show no sign of halting the “bruising tariffs” on imports from around the world and are rejecting “fears of a looming […]
Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou was left fuming despite their 3-1 Premier League win over Southampton on Sunday after the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) took nearly five minutes to chalk off a Spurs goal for offside. Lucas Bergvall thought he had made it 2-0 from a set-piece in the 33rd minute when he found the […]
Kanda, a small town encircled by mountains on Japan’s southeast coast, is hundreds of miles from any major centers of business or politics. But recently, the only thing on its residents’ minds is President Trump. In restaurants and bars and around Kanda’s small city office, people chatter nervously about the 25 percent tariffs he declared […]
Virtually everyone in the cryptocurrency world celebrated the second election of President Trump, an enthusiastic booster of the industry who promised to turn the United States into the “crypto capital of the planet.” But now the man nicknamed “the first Bitcoin president” is presiding over a Bitcoin crash. Since Mr. Trump announced his global tariffs […]
SAN ANTONIO — From their seats seven rows behind Duke’s bench, Ralph and Kelly Flagg had the perfect vantage point of the moment everything turned to dust. With eight seconds left in Saturday’s national semifinal against No. 1 Houston, their son Cooper rose up for the turnaround jumper that legacies are made of. Sink it, […]
A second child has died from measles as an outbreak of the highly contagious virus continues to grow in western Texas. The school-aged child was not vaccinated, had no underlying health conditions and was in hospital suffering complications from measles, Aaron Davis, the vice-president of UMC Health System, told the BBC. US Health Secretary Robert […]