Data released Thursday by the Census Bureau showed the overall trade deficit with the world narrowed, the result of an expanding trade surplus in services. The trade deficit in goods was the highest on record.
U.S. officials are threatening major changes to a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that could upend the way business is done and leave Canada on the outs.
One year in, many producers say tariffs have not helped them, and some countries are rejecting U.S. wine altogether.Jamie Kutch of Kutch Wines in his estate vineyard in Sebastopol, Calif. He said he’s lost 30 percent of his overseas sales because of the tariffs.
Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case.A photo of Jeffrey Epstein with other faces redacted by the Justice Department.
Eight skiers were killed and one other was presumed dead in the deadliest snow disaster in modern California history. Six were found alive.An avalanche beacon checkpoint flashes along a trail to Castle Peak near Donner Pass on Wednesday.
Weather and snow conditions will dictate when the bodies of skiers killed in the avalanche near Lake Tahoe can be retrieved from mountain. More snow is expected.Digging out a friend’s truck at the Castle Peak trailhead. Eight backcountry skiers have been confirmed dead in an avalanche in the Castle
Many of the people on the fatal trek had ties to a ski-focused private school, Sugar Bowl Academy, in the Sierra Nevada.The trail to Castle Peak near Donner Pass. Eight backcountry skiers are confirmed dead from an avalanche in the Castle Peak area at Donner Pass.
Heinz Mueller was buried under 30 feet of snow in the Swiss Alps in 1993 but made it out alive. “It’s panic,” he says.Rescuers probed the snow for missing skiers at the site of a 2019 avalanche in Andermatt, Switzerland.
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed about 600 people since a cease-fire began, according to health officials in the territory. Many displaced Palestinians are still living in tents. And there are some 60 million tons of war debris to be cleared.In Gaza City last week.
President Trump’s new organization was established to oversee a Gaza cease-fire but has expanded its mandate. Critics say it could undermine the United Nations.
President Trump has given no indication that he has made a decision about how to proceed, as diplomatic talks continue.The U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, seen here in the North Sea last year, is making its way toward the Middle East.
President Trump has not authorized military action in Iran, but the United States has built up its presence in the region in recent weeks. Now it’s sending even more firepower.
Iran, Ukraine and Gaza are in play as the Trump envoys conduct talks on all of them. But progress in each conflict is scant.Jared Kushner, right, President Trump’s son-in-law; and Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy, during the World Economic Forum last month.
President Trump has eliminated any pocket of resistance from within his administration to his plans for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.The site of the demolished East Wing of the White House last month. President Trump has taken several steps to eliminate resistance to his ballroom plans.
The East Potomac Golf Links is a municipal course that has been a fixture in Washington for decades. President Trump is turning it into something else.
Since the commercial aired, Jamie Siminoff has been trying to quell an outcry over privacy concerns with his doorbell cameras.Jamie Siminoff, who founded Ring, said he understood the privacy concerns stirred by the commercial. But he also feels that more video in the world is better.
Alan Dershowitz was present at the creation of New York Times v. Sullivan. Now he is asking the Supreme Court to revise or destroy it.Alan Dershowitz during the impeachment trial of President Trump in January 2020.
Last year, the British rocker with the iconic sneer played his biggest tour yet. At 70, he’s revealing how he survived the tough times in a new documentary.
As a judge reprimanded former President Yoon Suk Yeol for amplifying political tribalism, demonstrators from warring camps blared slogans outside the courtroom.Supporters of former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea reacting to his trial in Seoul on Thursday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has now proposed two options that called for raising taxes. Here’s a look at each proposal and the rationale and chances for each.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed raising the property tax rate in New York City as a “last-resort” option in case state officials do not raise taxes
City Hall officials familiar with the plan said the mayor was moving closer to establishing a civilian corps that would respond to mental health emergencies.Mayor Zohran Mamdani in Albany, N.Y., last week. During the mayoral campaign, he proposed the creation of the Department of Community Safety.
There are a lot of potential contestants.
Three writers and an Olympic medalist on the grit and grace of the winter games.
President Trump in Davos last month.
