Natalie Sherman BBC News Reporting fromNew York, New York BBC Days after Richard Medina went looking for a smartphone to beat new tariffs, the US announced the devices would be exempt from the duties When his camera stopped working on his iPhone recently, New Yorker Richard Medina didn’t waste any time. With the threat of […]
President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — to implement a novel procedure to scrap a wide array of longstanding energy and environmental regulations. He told agencies that oversee everything from gas pipelines to power plants to insert “sunset” provisions […]
On. Off. Maybe? The businesses that sit along the border between the United States and Mexico have gone through a full cycle of will-he-or-won’t-he when it comes to President Trump’s tariffs over the last six weeks. For three chaotic days in early March, manufacturers, distributors and customs agents in a desert industrial park near El […]
The Athletic has live coverage from Round 3 of The Masters. “Tradition” is a word you hear a lot in relation to The Masters. So when someone wears something that breaks from tradition in any sort of way on the grounds of Augusta National during the year’s first major, it’s likely to cause a stir. […]
Last December, I asked my students at Wharton to nominate and vote on topics for our final class. The runaway top choice was leadership lessons from Elon Musk. It’s become a hot topic among the corporate elite, too. At a recent leadership conference, the founder of a lucrative start-up said in passing that Mr. Musk […]
Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent Getty Images US envoy Steve Witkoff (left) and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took part in the talks Iran and the US have concluded a first round of talks in Oman over Tehran’s nuclear programme – the highest-level meeting between the two nations since 2018. Both countries described the meeting […]
Add this to worries about the likely impact of tariffs: costlier car insurance. The new tariffs on imported cars, metals and parts announced by the Trump administration are expected to raise vehicle prices by thousands of dollars if they remain in place. And because parts used in auto repairs will also become more expensive, the […]
US President Donald Trump’s administration has exempted smartphones, computers and some other electronic devices from “reciprocal” tariffs, including the 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports. US Customs and Border Patrol published a notice late on Friday explaining the goods would be excluded from Trump’s 10% global tariff on most countries and the much larger Chinese […]
The US is pushing for a quick end to Russia’s war as Europeans are increasing their military aid to Kyiv. US efforts to secure Russian agreement to a ceasefire in Ukraine appear no closer to yielding results after US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s third visit to Russia. President Donald Trump has told Russia’s Vladimir Putin […]
As the fallout from President Trump’s rewiring of global trade sets in across Europe, governments are putting in place billions of euros’ worth of “tariff shields” to protect their economies, companies and workers from uncertainty and the growing prospect of a recession. Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain announced more than 50 billion euros’ worth of […]