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FILE – Vice President JD Vance leaves after speaking at the Congressional Cities Conference of the National League of Cities on Monday, March 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)

JD Vance will join wife’s Greenland trip while island government says it has ‘not extended any invitations for any visits, neither private nor official’

By Josh Boak, David Keyton, and others

U.S. President Donald Trump

Trump says he’ll slap a 25% tariff on countries that buy oil from ‘very hostile’ Venezuela

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives at the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump says tariffs will bring back ‘stolen’ wealth and companies—and higher ones will work even better—as trade war fears stoke business anxiety

By Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman, and others

A participant holds an “Elbows Up Canada” sign during rally in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

American steel knife company hit by Canadian customer anger as Trump tariffs arrive: ‘Thank you. We love your product. We are not buying’

By Paul Wiseman, Josh Boak, and others

Trump speaks from the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office

Trump says he will double his planned tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%, reiterating that Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state would make all tariffs ‘totally disappear’

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP) (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump grants automakers one-month exemption from tariffs after speaking with Ford, GM, and Stellantis leaders

By The Associated Press, Josh Boak, and others

Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick surrounded by reporters

Howard Lutnick says Trump may give Canada and Mexico some wiggle room for his tariffs just one day after rolling them out

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

This combination of file photos shows, from left, U.S. President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 7, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 10, 2023, China’s President Xi Jinping in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 20, 2024, and Mexico’s President in Mexico City, June 27, 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum (AP Photo)

Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico go into effect as China hits back at U.S. farm exports and Canada prepares to roll out its own

By Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman, and others

Trump looks confused

Trump says 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are happening with no chance of a last-minute deal—and his comments are throttling the stock market

By Zeke Miller, Josh Boak, and others

Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington

Government spending could be separated from GDP reports—doing so could distort a fundamental measure of the U.S. economy’s health

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick speaks in the Oval Office of the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

The executive order would streamline the permitting process for obtaining wood products.

Trump takes actions to increase lumber supplies and curb wood imports

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

Dozens of eggs roll along a conveyor belt

The USDA says egg prices could jump another 41% this year. Just last month, the increase was predicted to be 20%

By Josh Funk, Josh Boak, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Trump executive order directs government to consider copper tariffs—’It will have a big impact’

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

Trump executive order aims to seize control from independent watchdogs — SEC, FTC, and FCC

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press