Trump Shifted on Tariffs After Bond Holders Got Jittery. He Held Millions Himself.

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Par :Ben Protess · Andrea Fuller and Joe Rennison

18 avril 2025 à 18:57

As of August, the president’s investment portfolio showed significantly more in bonds than in stocks. It is unclear if his personal holdings had any bearing on his decisions regarding tariffs.

While there is no indication that President Trump did anything improper, he had a financial incentive to change course on tariffs.

Who Is J. Harvie Wilkinson, the Judge Behind a Scathing Rebuke of the White House?

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Par :Alan Feuer and Adam Liptak

18 avril 2025 à 18:53

The judge, a conservative Reagan appointee, wrote a blistering opinion accusing the administration of failing to give a man wrongly deported to El Salvador any semblance of due process.

In recent weeks Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has voiced his outrage at the White House’s mistake and refusal to do much to get Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from a notoriously dangerous Salvadoran prison.

Trump’s Trade War With China Puts Bromance With Xi Beyond Reach

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Par :Edward Wong

18 avril 2025 à 18:52

President Trump says he wants Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to call him to talk tariffs. Mr. Xi is ghosting Mr. Trump, and markets are plummeting.

President Donald Trump with President Xi Jinping of China at the G20 Summit in Japan in 2019. “He’s been a friend of mine for a long period of time,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Xi last week.

RFK Jr. Claimed Autism ‘Destroys’ Lives. Autistic People Disagree.

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Par :Maggie Astor · Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum

18 avril 2025 à 18:42

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks in a news conference Wednesday have sparked an outraged reaction among many autistic people and their families.

Trump’s Attack of Powell Tempered by Risk of Market Panic

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Par :Colby Smith · Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman

18 avril 2025 à 18:33

President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could stoke extreme financial volatility again.

The president’s advisers have repeatedly told him that firing Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is both legally and financially fraught.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Governor’s 400-Year Edit Was Within Veto Authority

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Par :Mitch Smith

18 avril 2025 à 18:27

Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, used his veto power to increase school funding limits for four centuries longer than Republican lawmakers in the state had intended.

Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin spoke in Madison earlier this year.

The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies

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Par :Emma Goldberg

18 avril 2025 à 18:20

At a convention of the pronatalist movement, the relatively few women in attendance agreed: Motherhood needs a rebrand.

Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept.

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Par :Glenn Thrush

18 avril 2025 à 18:02

The Elon Musk operatives were abruptly shifted to the department’s immigration enforcement unit as part of an expanding effort to use personal data in deportation cases, one official said.

The Justice Department has been given a vastly expanded role in immigration enforcement under President Trump.

Head of I.R.S. Being Ousted Amid Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk

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Par :Jonathan Swan · Andrew Duehren · Alan Rappeport and Maggie Haberman

18 avril 2025 à 18:01

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.

Gary Shapley, a longtime I.R.S. agent, was lauded by conservatives after he publicly argued that the Justice Department had slow-walked its investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes.

Google Makes History With Rapid-Fire Antitrust Losses

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Par :Steve Lohr

18 avril 2025 à 17:32

Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.

The Google antitrust lawsuits are “important affirmations of the ability of the government to pursue major monopolization cases and prevail,” said Nancy Rose, an M.I.T. economist.

Battling ‘Eat and Flee’ Tourists, Venice Brings Its Entrance Fee Back

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Par :Elisabetta Povoledo

18 avril 2025 à 16:49

A measure to limit day tourism on peak days began for the second year on Friday, charging day trippers five euros (or 10 for the spontaneous traveler).

Tourists at the Rialto Bridge in Venice. The city has recently banned cruise ships from its lagoon and taken other measures to counteract crowding.

‘Psychological Torture’: London Bans Busking in a Famed Tourist Hub

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Par :Jonathan Wolfe

18 avril 2025 à 12:08

Noise complaints led the authorities to halt street performances in Leicester Square. Some miss the music. Others found the noise “bloody annoying.”

Street performers have been a fixture in Leicester Square for generations, but they were barred from the tourist hub this week.

Trump’s Least Favorite Judge Has Friends in High Places

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Par :Mattathias Schwartz and Alan Feuer

7 avril 2025 à 19:19

To President Trump, Judge James E. Boasberg is “a troublemaker” and a “Radical Left Lunatic.” But his record and biography, including a friendship with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, say otherwise.

Friends and colleagues describe Judge James E. Boasberg as a moderate, known for his calm temperament and thoughtful jurisprudence.

Are Easter Baskets Getting Out of Hand?

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Par :Claire Fahy

18 avril 2025 à 17:00

Social media feeds are awash in images of lavish baskets overflowing with expensive gifts. Some parents are giving their children bikes. Others are pushing back.

Under Trump, National Security Guardrails Vanish

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Par :Helene Cooper and Julian E. Barnes

18 avril 2025 à 16:56

America’s adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say.

F.B.I. headquarters. In the past, the bureau would counter foreign disinformation campaigns by calling them out, but it has instead shut down its foreign influence task force.

What We Know About the FSU Shooting

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Par :Patricia Mazzei · Andrew Pantazi and Kate Selig

18 avril 2025 à 19:06

Two people were killed and six others were injured when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire near the student union building, the police said.

The scene on campus at Florida State University after a shooting that left two dead and six injured on Thursday.

Trump Administration Blames Boasberg for Escalating Tensions Between Courts and White House

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Par :Alan Feuer

18 avril 2025 à 16:02

The administration cast the threat by the judge, James E. Boasberg, to open criminal contempt proceedings as another salvo in an increasingly bitter battle between the White House and the courts.

James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in Washington earlier this month.

U.S. Strikes on Yemeni Port Kill Dozens, Houthis Say

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Par :Aaron Boxerman · Vivian Nereim and Shuaib Almosawa

18 avril 2025 à 19:03

President Trump has vowed that the Iran-backed Houthi militia will be “completely annihilated.” But forceful American strikes do not seem to have deterred the Yemeni fighters.

A still image from a video released on Friday by Al-Masirah, a Houthi-run channel, said to show destruction at the site of American strikes on the port of Ras Isa, Yemen.

U.S. Gas Exports to China Stopped After Beijing Imposed Tariffs

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Par :Keith Bradsher

18 avril 2025 à 12:48

The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up entirely in the trade war.

A liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas. Chinese energy firms have been big buyers of L.N.G. in the United States, but have been selling its purchases to Europe.

Christianity in the White House

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Par :Ruth Graham

18 avril 2025 à 12:40

President Trump has significantly expanded the power and influence of conservative Christians in government.

China-Built Airport in Nepal Was Littered With Corruption, Inquiry Finds

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Par :Bhadra Sharma and Daisuke Wakabayashi

18 avril 2025 à 12:35

A Nepali investigation blamed lawmakers and officials for looking the other way. The $216 million airport receives only one international flight a week.

Crowds welcomed passengers from the first international flight to arrive at Pokhara International Airport in 2023. Nepal is saddled with a Chinese loan it cannot afford to repay.

Trump Calls FSU Shooting a ‘Shame,’ but Signals No Shift in Gun Laws

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Par :Jonathan Wolfe

18 avril 2025 à 12:33

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president said he would “always protect the Second Amendment.”

The site of a shooting that left two dead at the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee on Thursday.

Syrians Recount Gas Attack Under Assad as They Seek Justice

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Par :Carlotta Gall · Saad Alnassife and Kiana Hayeri

18 avril 2025 à 11:01

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.

The basement of an underground medical center in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, where victims of a chemical attack were taken in 2013.

Stephen Colbert Translates Trump’s Italian Tariff Talk

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Par :Trish Bendix

18 avril 2025 à 08:44

“The Late Show” host said Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is “seen as something of a Trump whisperer” after she visited the White House on Thursday.

Senator Visits Wrongly Deported Man, and Trump’s ‘Kill List’ for Regulations

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Par :Will Jarvis · Ian Stewart · Jessica Metzger and Coral Davenport

18 avril 2025 à 12:00

Plus, meat is making a comeback.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland who was wrongly deported, in a handout photo from the senator’s office on Thursday.

If You Care About Your Savings, Pay Attention to Trump’s Attack on The Fed

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Par :Chris Hughes

18 avril 2025 à 15:29

The president’s threat to fire Jerome Powell is more than a personal spat. It’s a direct challenge to the economic foundation that has helped America prosper.

With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will

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Par :Andrew Duehren · Alan Rappeport and Russ Buettner

18 avril 2025 à 11:02

Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.

President Trump has moved swiftly to suppress the independence of the I.R.S. in the first few months of his second term.

John Cena Confronts His Final WrestleMania

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Par :Timothy Bella

18 avril 2025 à 11:01

As his in-ring career draws to a close, the most popular star in W.W.E. is trying out a new role: the bad guy.

John Cena has gone from a professional wrestling headliner to an actor seen in many blockbuster films and a star-vehicle TV show.

Long-Term Investing Has Gotten Riskier as Trump’s Tariffs Shake the Markets

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Par :Jeff Sommer

18 avril 2025 à 11:01

President Trump’s policies have shaken the markets. Protect yourself first, and, only then, take advantage of investment bargains, our columnist says.

How QVC’s CEO Is Dealing With the Threat of Tariffs and TikTok

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Par :Jordyn Holman

18 avril 2025 à 16:30

The chief executive of QVC Group, David Rawlinson II, on tariffs, TikTok, and other threats to the company’s future.

David Rawlinson II is the chief executive of QVC Group, which stands for Quality, Value and Convenience.

Milwaukee’s Lead Crisis: Flaky Paint, Closed Schools and a C.D.C. in Retreat

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Par :Julie Bosman and Jamie Kelter Davis

18 avril 2025 à 11:01

Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected to help guide the response, have lost their jobs.

Fernwood Montessori students have been temporarily bused to another school while their building remains closed for lead removal.

Syrians Recount Gas Attack: Choking, Shaking, Foaming at the Mouth

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Par :Carlotta Gall · Saad Alnassife and Kiana Hayeri

18 avril 2025 à 11:01

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.

Cambodia and China Strengthen Ties as US Imposes Tariffs

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Par :Hannah Beech and Sun Narin

18 avril 2025 à 09:32

China is the biggest foreign patron of Cambodia, where Mr. Xi concluded a tour of Southeast Asia. But the region also needs to curry favor with President Trump.

Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, and King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia walking past the honor guards upon arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport on Thursday.

An ‘Army of Child Laborers’ Enriches Shen Yun, Ex-Dancers Say in Suit

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Par :Michael Rothfeld

18 avril 2025 à 09:00

The group performing traditional Chinese dance has been under scrutiny for its treatment of performers and financial practices.

Sun Zan and Cheng Qingling married after they left Shen Yun Performing Arts. They sued the dance company together.

Our Best Easter Recipes

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Par :Margaux Laskey

16 avril 2025 à 17:14

Here’s what to cook when you’ve had your fill of chocolate bunnies.

The Easiest Salmon Recipe Is Also a Perfect Easter Main

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Par :Genevieve Ko

15 avril 2025 à 17:19

A whole fillet of salmon looks and tastes impressive while leaving you time to enjoy the day.

In this simple but showstopping recipe, a honey-lemon sauce glosses a leaner cut of salmon with richness.

Easter Desserts to Make Right Now

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Par :Nicola Lamb

14 avril 2025 à 22:48

Mix up chocolate treats in minutes or build a cake over a few hours with these smart tips.

Rubio Says Trump to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Talks if No Progress Soon

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Par :Roger Cohen

18 avril 2025 à 16:51

“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris.

High-level talks on Thursday in Paris between American, European and Ukrainian officials.

5 Takeaways From Canada’s Election Debate

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Par :Ian Austen

18 avril 2025 à 07:41

Prime Minister Mark Carney was repeatedly the target of his opponents. President Trump’s threats on Canada loomed over the debate.

Canada’s political leaders at the election debate in Montreal on Thursday.

FSU Shooting: Son of Sheriff’s Deputy in Custody After Killing 2 and Injuring 6

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Par :Adeel Hassan · Valerie Crowder and Thomas Fuller

18 avril 2025 à 09:14

The police identified the gunman as a 20-year-old student who is the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy. Neither of the slain victims was a student at the university.

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