Trump pauses some Mexico, Canada tariffs: What’s exempt, and what’s next?

Coco Gauff has extended her unblemished start to the season with a straight-sets win over Leylah Fernandez on Friday to roll into the second week of the Australian Open. The American world number three, one of the favourites for the Melbourne title, eased to a 6-4, 6-2 third-round win on Rod Laver Arena against the…

United States President Joe Biden has blocked the $14.9bn sale of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel. The move on Friday deals a potentially fatal blow to the merger plan, which had been under review by the US government for a year. Top Republicans and Democrats had been broadly opposed to the…

The United States’ stock market has taken another tumble following US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on wine and other alcoholic products from the European Union. The benchmark S&P 500 fell 1.39 percent on Thursday, dragging the index into a correction – Wall Street lingo for a decline of 10 percent or…

Security personnel investigate after a vehicle intentionally drove into a crowd on New Orleans’s Canal and Bourbon streets on January 1 [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]

NewsFeed Mexico’s president details call with Trump that paused tariffs Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum explained what happened in her call with US President Donald Trump that resulted in a one-month pause on tariffs. She says they discussed the movement of people and drugs into the United States and weapons flowing into Mexico. Published On 3…

Washington, DC – When Ruqia Balkhi arrived in the United States in September 2023, she was greeted by a federally funded resettlement agency that helped her launch a new life. Balkhi, a 55-year-old engineer, was one of the thousands of Afghans who worked alongside the US military during its two-decade-long intervention in her home country….