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

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A week into his second term, United States President Donald Trump has intensified his crackdown on immigration, building on his campaign promise of carrying out “the largest deportation in American history”. Since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 3,500 unauthorised immigrants across the US. The Trump administration…

The FBI has announced the discovery of thousands of records related to the assassination of John F Kennedy following searches undertaken to comply with an executive order by United States President Donald Trump. The FBI said on Tuesday that searches had turned up about 2,400 “newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as…

Patience is a virtue ill-used by most columnists. Too often, writers are consumed by the urgent here and now. As a result, they fail to look back and devote time and space to important topics that once caught their critical eye. The other, broader, and much more important failing of journalists and the news organisations…

Happiness, it has long been believed, follows a curve: It’s high when one is young, dips in midlife, and then rises again as one gets older. Scratch that – it may no longer be true. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Trump slams Zelenskyy for saying end of Ukraine war could…

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has again blocked The Associated Press from attending a White House event amid a dispute over the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, the news organisation has said. The AP said on Thursday that the White House prevented one of its reporters from attending Trump’s news conference with visiting…