APRIL 13, 2025
Millions of people visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture every year. - Jasper Colt/USA TODAY
WASHINGTON, D.C. ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few years ago.
“Everyone understood why he had tears in his...
APRIL 13, 2025
Donald Trump has created a hair trigger in US Treasury markets that threatens to again let loose at any moment - Sean Thew/Shutterstock
Well done, President Donald Trump. Though he doesn’t seem to realize it, he has just given a textbook lesson on how to spark a financial crisis.
By partially retreating from the imposition of retaliatory tariffs, Mr Trump...
APRIL 13, 2025
Ray Dalio, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, warned Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press" about other economic concerns in addition to Trump's tariffs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ray Dalio, the founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said he is "worried about something worse than a recession" if President Donald Trump does not properly handle tariffs and...
APRIL 13, 2025
President Trump speaks about his tariffs at the White House on 2 April. - Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
Last week, Mao Ning, head of China’s foreign ministry information department, posted a blurry black -and -white clip of a moment in history. In 1953, the late Chairman Mao, in his heavily accented, high-pitched voice, made a defiant speech of resistance to what he called...
APRIL 12, 2025
Rick (left) covered up the US flag logo on his baseball cap before venturing out in Paris.
Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris's Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise. But earlier that morning, on their very first trip to France, Rick, 74, had taken an...
APRIL 12, 2025
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal flamed Donald Trump in yet another critical editorial, this time accusing him of “making it up as he goes,” with his tariff decisions hurting the United States and its allies.
“You almost have to smile” when the president claims the shuddering economy is “all going according to plan,” scoffed the editorial Thursday.
The “reality is that...
APRIL 12, 2025
A British backpacker. A Harvard researcher. A Canadian actress. An Australian mixed martial arts coach. Dozens of international college students.
The Trump administration's sweeping immigration-and-visa crackdown has begun ensnaring a class of people long-accustomed to being welcomed with open arms into the United States.
And those uncommon detainees are bringing new attention to the often-harsh U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention...
APRIL 11, 2025
In a tough job market, skills can help you differentiate yourself among candidates.
"Skills are increasingly becoming the driving force behind hiring decisions," says Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn news editor at large for jobs and career development, adding that "50% of hirers on LinkedIn are explicitly using skills data to fill their roles."
The site recently released its Skills on the Rise...
APRIL 11, 2025
A liquefied natural gas export facility in Louisiana last month. - Kathleen Flynn/Bloomberg
PARIS, FRANCE — President Trump made an offer to Europe this week. Buy our energy—a lot of our energy—and we can call off the trade war.
In reality, it isn’t so simple. The proposal would require a wholesale reorientation in the way Europe buys energy. And it would...
APRIL 11, 2025
Democratic U.S. Sens. Adam Schiff of California and Ruben Gallego of Arizona walk at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2024. - Hannah McKay / Reuters
Suggestions of insider trading and market manipulation have been levied against Trump administration officials and members of Congress as markets whipsawed following the changing tariff policy of President Donald Trump.
Trump announced his sweeping...
