Adam Laver BBC News, Yorkshire BBC Naveed Amini gets a chippy with his mum Sultana every week Fish and chips is renowned as one of the nation’s favourite dishes but in recent years spiralling costs have pushed up the price of the traditional fare. A chip shop in Bradford sold portions of the dish at […]
Share prices fell sharply for a second day on Friday in Asia, and futures market trading indicated that American share prices might soon tumble further as well, as worries spread about the economic effect of President Trump’s broad tariffs. The Nikkei 225 Index in Japan was down 3.8 percent. That followed a 2.8 percent drop […]
Ottilie Mitchell and Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Annelise Rees The remote Heard and McDonald Islands haven’t been visited by humans in almost a decade Two tiny, remote Antarctic outposts populated by penguins and seals are among the obscure places targeted by the Trump administration’s new tariffs. Heard and McDonald Islands – a territory which […]
United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement on most trading partners, including several in Africa, will affect businesses and people across the continent and likely force more producers to trade with China, experts have warned. Trump’s “Liberation Day” declaration on Wednesday threw markets into chaos, as the US took its strongest turn to protectionist policies […]
David Silverberg Technology Reporter Kelsey Krakora Kelsey Krakora made a career shift into live shopping After graduating college Kelsey Krakora worked full time in a steakhouse, bartending and serving meals. She had dabbled with selling clothes online, but only part-time. But in 2021 that all changed for Cleveland-based Ms Krakora. She switched to selling clothes […]
Grocery shoppers are likely to feel the impact of the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariffs before April is over. And the first place they’ll feel it is in parts of the store where the inventory has to move fast. In the produce aisle, food analysts said Thursday, expect small price increases on everyday purchases like […]
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity TV doctor, 53-45 and mostly along party lines to lead Medicare and Medicaid, which insure nearly half of all Americans. The future of both programs is the subject of fierce debate: Republicans are contemplating significant cuts to Medicaid, which provides health care to low-income Americans. […]
People fill out their ballots in voting booths at the Green Street Community Center in Concord, N.H., on Nov. 5, 2024. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images Nineteen states are suing over President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on voting that he signed last week, saying it […]
Ben Chu & Tom Edgington BBC Verify EPA 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 has […]
President Trump announced what could be one of the most drastic economic policy changes in decades on Wednesday, when he substituted America’s longstanding system of taxing imports with a new tariff system of his own devising. The president said the tariffs would reverse decades of what he called unfair treatment by the rest of the […]