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Trump says things are 'going very well' after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs
President Donald Trump is sounding an upbeat note about his tariffs even as the stock market reacted by falling more than 1,600 points
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Apr 4, 2025
Sri Lanka's target to be free of land mines by 2028 is under threat as US reviews aid
Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decades-long separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines on the same battle lines
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Apr 4, 2025
The Latest: Trump’s tariffs slam world markets in the biggest blow since the pandemic hit in 2020.
Asian shares slid further Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs sent shudders through Wall Street at a level of shock unseen since the COVID-19 pandemic pummeled world markets in 2020
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Apr 4, 2025
Asian stocks slide after Wall Street surrenders to a hit by Trump's tariffs
Asian markets have fallen further after Wall Street led the biggest loss among world's markets following U.S. President Donald Trump's “Liberation Day” tariffs
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Apr 4, 2025
Unemployment benefits for striking workers being considered in Oregon, Washington
Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington are considering whether striking workers should receive unemployment benefits
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Apr 4, 2025
Mexico celebrates dodging latest US tariffs but feels the effects of global economic uncertainty
Mexico is celebrating having dodged the latest round of tariffs from the White House taking aim at dozens of U.S. trading partners around the world
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Apr 4, 2025
Trump’s tariff push is a race against time, and potential voter backlash
President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariff regime reverses a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers that will likely raise prices for U.S. consumers and threatens to sharply slow the economy this year
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Apr 4, 2025
Republicans moving ahead with Trump's 'big' bill of tax breaks and spending cuts amid tariff uproar
After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trump’s ”“big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts
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Apr 4, 2025
The US is negotiating a minerals deal with conflict-hit Congo, a Trump official says
A Trump administration official says the United States is talking with conflict-plagued Congo about developing its mineral resources under a deal that the Congolese president has said could help make his country safer
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Apr 4, 2025
Once called the world's most popular politician, Brazil’s Lula faces plummeting approval
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was once called the most popular politician on Earth by then-U.S. President Barack Obama
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Apr 4, 2025
The Latest: Trump’s new tariffs lead to the biggest Dow wipeout since 2020
Financial markets around the world are reeling following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs
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Apr 3, 2025
Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology
Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology
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Apr 3, 2025
Businessman who scammed ex-NBA star Dwight Howard in fake bid for WNBA team gets 12 years in prison
A Georgia businessman who scammed former NBA star Dwight Howard out of millions of dollars in a bogus scheme to buy the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison
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Apr 3, 2025
Dow drops 1,600 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariffs cause a COVID-like shock
Financial markets around the world reeled following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe set of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market took the worst of it
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Apr 3, 2025
Trump's tariffs aren't strictly reciprocal. Here's how he calculated them
President Donald Trump promised tariffs that would raise U.S. import taxes high enough to mirror what others assess as trade penalties on American goods
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Apr 3, 2025
