Dealmakers are not waiting for Donald Trump’s policies of tax cuts and relaxed regulation to come into effect.
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
U.S. president Donald Trump has announced a 10-percent tariff on all goods entering the country and has custom-tailored higher rates on about 60 countries Trump sees as putting “unfair” tariffs, taxes, or regulatory restrictions on U.S. imports.
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SPOTLIGHT: TRUMP’S TRADE WAR
The European Union (EU) is preparing a list of concessions to offer Donald Trump in exchange for easing or lifting tariffs on vehicles and other items that are already in effect and scheduled to rise on 2 April.
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SOME NEW TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE
The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Google is paying $32 billion in cash to buy Wiz, a noted cybersecurity startup. The purchase not only improves Google’s cloud services’ security but also leads the company beyond its search engine and Internet services businesses.
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BEYOND THE LAW: WHAT IT MEANS TO WEAPONIZE THE GOVERNMENT
“This is war.”—President Trump
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
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SPOTLIGHT: TRADE WAR FALLOUT
Donald Trump’s abrupt and aggressive tariff policies have swerved the global economy onto a trajectory of slowed growth and rising costs that will worsen the longer and more acrimonious the trade war becomes, a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned.
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FREE-SPEECH TRUMP CELEBRATES THE ICE ARREST OF ANTI-GENOCIDE PROTESTER, PROMISES MORE
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated the ICE arrest of a green card holder who led anti-genocide protesters at Columbia last year and vowed that Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest will be the first of many.
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TRUMP’S USAID CUTS PREVENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM REACHING AID GROUPS WORKING IN GAZA
Despite approving $383 million for humanitarian aid for Gaza after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced, the Trump administration has yet to cut any checks so aid groups working in the region have been forced to foot the bill, according to a report.
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFF GUESS
The Trump administration put a one-month pause on the blanket 25-percent import duties on goods entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.