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Trump tariffs bring India’s massive garment industry to its knees

By Supriya Kumar
Oct 21, 2025 2:48 pm - Seven weeks after the Trump administration imposed a 50% tariff on Indian exports, many of Tiruppur’s garment factories have ground to a halt. The slowdown has rippled through a vast network of hulking plants and small workshops, which employ more than 600,000 people. Thousands of fabric cutters, thread trimmers and sewing machine operators are suddenly out of work.
In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in White House immigration crackdown

By TIM SULLIVAN
Oct 21, 2025 9:45 am - The music begins low and ominous, with the video showing searchlights skimming along a Chicago apartment building and heavily armed immigration agents storming inside. Guns are drawn. Unmarked cars fill the streets. Agents rappel from a Black Hawk helicopter.
Vance optimistic about Gaza ceasefire but not ‘very hard’ work to come

By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY
Oct 21, 2025 8:10 am - U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday to shore up the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that has teetered over the past few days following a burst of deadly violence and questions over how to move forward with the plan for cementing a long-term peace.
Trump doesn’t want ‘wasted meeting’ with Putin as he confirms talks on Ukraine war off for now.

By The Associated Press
Oct 21, 2025 7:40 am - President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold, the latest twist in his stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine.
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Oct 21, 2025 7:32 am - WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing, the traditional base of operations for the first lady, to build President Donald Trump'...
Most Americans are concerned about higher health care costs next year, an AP-NORC poll finds

By ALI SWENSON and LINLEY SANDERS
Oct 21, 2025 7:28 am - Most U.S. adults are worried about health care becoming more expensive, according to a new AP-NORC poll, as they make decisions about next year’s health coverage and a government shutdown keeps future health costs in limbo for millions.
Trump hosts Senate Republicans as shutdown drags into fourth week

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Oct 21, 2025 7:24 am - As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands.
White House hits road block in effort to get top colleges to sign deal

Susan Svrluga, Emily Davies
Oct 21, 2025 7:20 am - Despite strong pressure from the Trump administration, including a call with the White House on Friday, colleges and universities are largely rejecting the president’s of...
Trump gets command of Oregon troops but barred from using them

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON
Oct 21, 2025 7:19 am - An appeals court on Monday put on hold a lower-court ruling that kept President Donald Trump from taking command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops. However, Trump is st...
Rodrigo Paz wins presidential runoff, becoming Bolivia's first conservative leader in decades

By ISABEL DEBRE and PAOLA FLORES
Oct 20, 2025 9:20 pm - Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, will be Bolivia’s next president, preliminary results showed on Monday, paving the way for a major political transformation after almost ...

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