Nation and World
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Trump’s trade policies are baffling businesses, threatening investment and economic growth
Mar 06, 2025 12:27 pm - President Donald Trump’s ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America’s three biggest trading partners – Mexico, Canada and China — is baffling businesses and causing them to delay or cancel the investments that help drive economic growth. Trade wars complicate the decisions businesses have to make – which suppliers to use, where to locate factories, what prices to charge.
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Commerce Secretary Lutnick says most tariffs on Canada, Mexico likely to be delayed a month
Mar 06, 2025 10:44 am - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday in a television interview that President Donald Trump will “likely” suspend 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for most products and services for a month, broadening an exemption that was granted on Wednesday only to autos.
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The House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's joint address to Congress
Mar 06, 2025 10:29 am - The House on Thursday voted to censure an unrepentant Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump's address to Congress.
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Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza
Mar 05, 2025 7:41 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued what he called a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza, directing a sharply worde...
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US charges Chinese hackers, government officials in broad cybercrime campaign
Mar 05, 2025 7:37 pm - WASHINGTON — Twelve Chinese nationals, including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company, have been charged in connection w...
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Powerful US storms create blizzard conditions and threaten to spawn more tornadoes
Mar 05, 2025 7:20 pm - ATLANTA — Powerful storms that killed three people in Mississippi and ripped roofs from buildings in a small Oklahoma town charged eastward Wednesday, spawning tornado wa...
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US pauses sharing intelligence Ukraine uses for strikes on Russia
Mar 05, 2025 4:29 pm - The United States has paused major portions of its intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, squeezing the flow of vital information that Kyiv has used to repel invading Russian...
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Mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York defend ‘sanctuary’ policies in congressional hearing
Mar 05, 2025 4:28 pm - Democratic mayors of major U.S. cities said Wednesday that Congress and the Trump administration are exaggerating crime committed by immigrants and attacking so-called sa...
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South Carolina Supreme Court rejects man’s final appeal, clearing way for firing squad execution
Mar 05, 2025 3:58 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for Friday's firing squad ex...
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Trump grants 1 month exemption for US automakers from new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada
Mar 05, 2025 12:59 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers, as worries persist t...