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 […]
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, […]
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent BBC Stephanie Swann works and cares for her son Carers can now work for longer without losing a key payment – as the state pension and benefits rise for millions of people. While pensioners are receiving a bigger increase than the current rate of price rises, benefits are going […]
Reuters US President Donald Trump’s advisers have defended sweeping tariffs on imports and vowed to stay the course, despite market turmoil and calls to avoid a trade war. In a series of television interviews, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent played down recent stock market falls and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, insisted reciprocal tariffs “are coming”. […]
Just when you think you’ve seen everything that football has to offer, along come Ipswich Town. Amid another morale-sapping defeat that all but sealed their relegation from the Premier League, Ipswich, with a little help from their opponents, Wolverhampton Wanderers, served up the maddest two minutes of Premier League action you are likely to see […]
President Trump on Wednesday ordered the closure of a loophole that allows retailers to send clothes and other goods from China directly to American shoppers without paying tariffs. But the order could raise prices for consumers and create delays as delivery companies and the United States Postal Service are forced to verify the value of […]
I’ve been thinking about writing a will. I didn’t expect to feel death so close to me. I used to say death comes suddenly, we don’t feel it, but during this war, they made us feel everything … slowly. We suffer before it happens, like expecting your house to be bombed. It may still be […]
Two days before a deadline for TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese company or otherwise face a ban in the United States, a deal has not yet been cemented but the contours of one are starting to take shape. Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the administration would announce a plan for […]
Dear readers, I have a confession: I am suffering from an ailment that the younger ones call “brain rot,” the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on my phone. These days, it’s tough to even finish a book. Plenty of people have this problem. So many, it has birthed a category of minimalist […]