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President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for interim U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in Washington.

Trump wins emergency stay in high-stakes tariff battle

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to depart Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump touts ‘planned partnership’ between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel, signaling potential approval of Japanese company’s buyout bid

By Marc Levy, Paul Wiseman, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 05: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Oval Office at the White House on May 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed new proclamations and executive orders, including one that ends federal funding for so-called “gain-of-function” studies, which explores the use of microorganisms to alter biological functions in the aid of gene products. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

US-China tariff talks to continue Sunday as Trump touts ‘great progress made’ on first day

By Paul Wiseman, Didi Tang, and others

A close-up of Donald Trump's face

How much deterioration in the world’s largest economy could be traced to Trump’s policies? ‘All of it,’ one economist says

By Paul Wiseman, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump began to overturn the global economic order at a moment when the U.S. was dominating it

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

US President Donald Trump, left, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during an investment announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025.

Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are ‘ripping up trade’ after decades of precedent. Here’s how tariffs got so lopsided in the first place

By Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber, and others

Two people shop at a Toyota dealership in El Monte, Calif., Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Your new car could cost thousands more thanks to Trump’s auto tariffs—and GM and Ford could lose billions, analyst warns

By The Associated Press, Alexa St. John, and others

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

FILE – Workers sort avocados at a packing plant in Uruapan, Mexico, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Solis, File)

Business owners say Trump’s erratic trade policies are threatening investment and economic growth

By Paul Wiseman, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others

An employee works at the Aztek Technologies plant in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico on April 30, 2024. Sparks fly as a laser slices through metal in a factory in Mexico, which is preparing for a new wave of foreign investment thanks to heightened tensions between the United States and China. Geopolitical frictions and supply chain gridlock during the Covid pandemic have prompted a growing number of companies to move manufacturing operations to the doorstep of the world’s biggest economy. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Tariffs are a ‘grenade’ lobbed into American auto production, libertarian think tank analyst says

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

FILE – Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Tariffs 101: Here’s what they are, how they work—and who pays them

By Paul Wiseman 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

FILE – Dockworkers return to work at Port Miami, Oct. 4, 2024, in Miami, after the union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

U.S. dockworkers approve a 6-year contract that will avoid a strike that could have crippled the economy

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Users on Musk’s X want to use DOGE savings to send $5,000 checks to Americans. Trump ‘loves’ the idea, but can he do that?

By Christopher Rugaber, Paul Wiseman, and others