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The tariffs between the U.S., China, Canada, and Mexico has helped to extend a recent slump for U.S. stocks that was prompted by signs of weakness in the economy.

Tariffs are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller.

President Donald Trump has directed a “pause” to U.S. assistance to Ukraine after a disastrous Oval Office meeting as he seeks to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war with Russia.

The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief.

Trump has said the tariffs are to force the two U.S. neighbors to step up their fight against fentanyl trafficking and stop illegal immigration.

Dr. Francis Collins came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed mapping the human DNA instruction book.

Nathan Chen, Nancy Kerrigan and Peggy Fleming are among a bevy of figure skaters added to the cast of the "Legacy on Ice" benefit event on Sunday in Washington, D.C.

Pope Francis had coffee and was reading newspapers Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia.

While immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia have expressed anxiety, fear and uncertainty — regardless of citizenship, white immigrants say their experience has been very different during the current Donald Trump administration.

Legendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife tested negative for carbon monoxide, but what caused their deaths remains unknown, the sheriff leading the investigation said Friday.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including at the Department of Defense.

A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance.”

Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and one of their dogs were apparently dead for some time before a maintenance worker discovered their bodies at the couple’s Santa Fe home, according to investigators.

The Justice Department is abandoning Biden administration cases that sought to force police and fire departments to end alleged discriminatory hiring practices, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday.

The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that its Pending Home Sales Index declined 4.6%.

Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in two buzzy millennial-era TV shows — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” — has died.

The White House posted a picture of her on its X account in February as an example of alleged crimes committed by immigrants.

The Trump administration is creating a registry for all people who are in the United States illegally, and those who don’t self-report could face fines or prosecution, immigration officials announced Tuesday.

The Trump administration’s targeting of DEI initiatives has resulted in consultants losing clients and needing to pivot.