The president said he would raise tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports to 30 percent and would start the next $300 billion at a rate of 15 percent. Mr. Trump’s wild pronouncements on Friday renewed questions about his stewardship of the world’s largest economy even as he escalated a trade war with China before heading to France for the G7 summit. America’s closest allies meet this weekend and have all but given up on producing the kind of consensus about global issues that has been the summit’s hallmark for decades. After days of downplaying the fires raging across the Amazon, President Bolsonaro orders the military to step in. But it’s not clear that will be enough. NASA is examining a claim that an astronaut improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the Space Station. An Illinois patient has died following a respiratory illness linked to vaping. Health officials offered few details about the circumstances. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one. Also this week, how an economic downturn could affect climate change. A new TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu. How a playboy billionaire built a political army to defend his fossil fuel empire. But where are the solutions? The question of how to work out the relationship between them is fundamental to understanding American history. Our origin story provides the mechanism of self-reproach by which progress is made. Very rarely do the misguided beliefs of famous people deserve headlines. Democrats say they care about global warming. Why couldn’t Mr. Inslee get more traction on it? I fell off a bike into an outpouring of charity. But Americans shouldn’t have to seek out strangers to pay health bills. The U.S. doesn’t need to buy countries to rule the world. The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear a case next week that’s a matter of life or death for some inmates. Are Democrats hexing the Trump boom with bad thoughts? The singer and songwriter’s seventh album is a recalibration, playing to her old strengths while hinting at new paths forward. The employee, Simon Cheng, was missing for days before the Chinese government confirmed his detention. North Korea’s latest test-firing came two days after South Korea decided to pull out of a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan. The authorities said the inquiry would aim to uncover any crimes committed on French territory or against French citizens. The tech company, telling its employees to “stop disrupting the workday,” issued new workplace rules designed to rein in its freewheeling culture. “We recognize that tensions are high, and we don’t want to go to war,” said Capt. William Reed, a fighter pilot who commands the ship’s air wing. The attorney general has been unusually personally involved in the investigations into the jailhouse suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, the high-profile financier accused of sex trafficking. With the state gripped by the possibility of another Kennedy campaigning for Senate, the incumbent is not backing down: “Oh, I’m running.” The president reasserted his wish to do away with automatic citizenship for anyone born in the United States. Here is what he, legal experts and the Constitution have to say on the subject. Do personality tests like the Myers-Briggs help managers learn their team’s working styles, or just encourage them to hire and promote people like them? Even if you’re already a Google pro, these tricks will get you to your desired results even faster. Assess the harm. Don’t “catastrophize.” Take responsibility. In this jolt of a movie, a driver and a passenger hurtle through Milwaukee together, finding each other as they open up a world. Tumblr has a new owner who wants it to remain a happy home for weirdos. The influential design school never had a proper music department. But musical thinking permeated the lives of its students and faculty. Turbulence is a natural occurrence and should be expected — not dreaded. The trick is to learn to go with the flow. The weariest warblers are more likely to sleep with their heads tucked in — saving energy, but making them more vulnerable to predators. A paper in the journal Science makes a case that, sometimes, retreating from nature instead of fighting it can open up new opportunities for communities. On Facebook and Reddit, retail-focused groups remember the heyday of malls and share stories of shuttered department stores. More Recent Articles |
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