The Trump administration’s tariff policies — and the market fallout — have overshadowed one of the president’s most prominent successes: The chaos at the border created by his doddering successor has ceased.

Homeland Security officials report that illegal crossings at the southern border have fallen to their lowest level in decades. The...Read more

When Le Ngoc Tham became sales manager for a new industrial park in northern Vietnam, the goal was to turn it into an easy alternative for manufacturers leaving China to avoid the tariffs of the first U.S.-Sino trade war.

Three years later, with less than half of the 1,716-acre project completed, dozens of companies interested in leasing the ...Read more

One small step for the AP was a giant leap for the free press.

Last week, a federal court ruled in favor of the Associated Press, ordering the Trump administration to restore the organization’s access to the White House press pool. But the decision was an even more significant victory for American media.

In February, the Trump administration...Read more

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”

That personalized message went out from President Donald J. Trump’s Truth Social account at 9:37 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

For those of us who saw it on X or elsewhere, the missive did not at first seem anything out of the ordinary.

Presidents named other than Trump have talked up U.S. markets. ...Read more

Intelligence chiefs testified recently on Capitol Hill about the U.S. intelligence community’s newly published annual threat assessment. In a stark departure from previous reports, this year’s assessment began with an overview of the threats posed by criminal organizations, including drug cartels and transnational gangs, before moving on to ...Read more

Apple Inc. has managed to dodge its biggest crisis since the pandemic — for the moment, at least.

Donald Trump’s 125% tariffs on goods produced in China threatened to upend its supply chain as seriously as the Covid snarls did five years ago. On Friday night, the U.S. president handed Apple a major victory, exempting many popular consumer ...Read more

President Donald Trump has lost about 20 pounds since his last official weigh-in and he can thank his golf game, at least in part, according to his doctor.

The 47th U.S. President, at 78 the oldest ever inaugurated, still stands 6-feet-3-inches tall — just as he did during his first term — but the scale now shows his weight at 224 pounds, ...Read more

At 72, Clay Lory was enjoying his retirement. He enjoyed working on hobbies, traveling and spending time with family.

But over the past couple of months, the former Norfolk, Virginia, businessman has been devoted to a new passion — opposing the actions and policies of President Donald Trump’s administration. His days are now filled with ...Read more

President Donald Trump pledged he will still apply tariffs to phones, computers and popular consumer electronics, downplaying a weekend exemption as a procedural step in his overall push to remake U.S. trade.

The late Friday reprieve — exempting a range of popular electronics from 125% tariffs on China and a 10% flat rate around the globe —...Read more

Most Americans say they expect President Donald Trump’s tariffs will increase prices in the short term and worsen the U.S. economy, though misgivings focus more on his approach than his goals, such as boosting domestic manufacturing, according to a CBS News poll.

Those who say Trump’s policies are making them financially worse off increased...Read more

President Donald Trump made a dramatic entrance Saturday night ahead of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s featherweight title bout in Miami, receiving a rousing ovation from the crowd.

Surrounded by members of his family and Cabinet, the Republican president was showered with cheers and chants of “USA” by the UFC 314 fans as he strode ...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday used his first-ever appearance on Fox News to take his criticisms of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs to the network’s conservative-leaning audience, labeling the Republican administration’s levies on imports “taxes on working families.”

Pritzker, who has made frequent national media ...Read more

The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party promised to introduce legislation that he says would limit politicians’ financial and lobbying-related conflicts of interest if he wins the country’s April 28 election.

Pierre Poilievre said he would ban unregistered lobbying, require politicians to disclose where they paid taxes in the last seven...Read more

Smartphones, computers and other electronic devices that won exemptions from some U.S. tariffs will be part of a forthcoming levy on semiconductors, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, dampening what China had called a “small step” toward easing the trade fight between the world’s two biggest economies.

Lutnick, speaking Sunday ...Read more

China’s government said the U.S. decision to exempt certain consumer electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs is a small step toward rectifying its wrongdoings and urged Washington to do more to revoke the levies.

President Donald Trump’s administration excluded smartphones, computers and other electronics from the increased import...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Channeling the rage and frustration of progressive Californians, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told tens of thousands of people in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday that the country is in a moment of “extraordinary danger.”

Clad in a blue button-down shirt and a Dodgers baseball cap, Sanders, 83, said President Donald Trump is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Weeks after Donald Trump won reelection, Keith Ives held an all-staff meeting at his Denver-based company to reassure his 30 employees that their work evaluating the success of U.S. aid projects overseas wasn’t under threat.

“I enthusiastically told them, ‘I’m not worried at all — the work we do isn’t political,’”...Read more

A Wisconsin teenager is accused of killing his parents as part of an extremist plot to assassinate President Donald Trump and start a revolution to “save the white race,” newly unsealed federal court documents show.

Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested last month after his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, 51-year-old Donald ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bay Area advocates for foreign citizens living in the U.S. without authorization or with temporary legal status are decrying the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive tactics against migrants.

“It has a huge impact in our region,” said San Francisco-based immigration lawyer Erin Quinn of the Immigrant Legal ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, representing a major reprieve for global technology manufacturers including Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp. even if it proves a temporary one.

The exclusions, published late Friday by U.S. Customs and Border ...Read more