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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump's biggest and boldest tariffs. But the justices left a $133 billion question unanswered: What's going to happen to the money the government has already collected in import taxes now declared unlawful?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump still has options to keep taxing imports aggressively even after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs he imposed last year on nearly every country on earth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Federal Reserve, his Justice Department investigating and threatening a criminal indictment of the independent central bank and serving it with subpoenas.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market is sluggish and confusing this fall.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Costco is joining other companies that aren't waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's most sweeping import taxes. They're going to court to demand refunds on the tariffs they've paid.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. trade deficit fell by nearly 24% in August as President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs pushed imports lower.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will be rendered "defenseless'' and possibly "reduced to almost Third World status'' if Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs he imposed this year on nearly every country on earth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump pulled out of trade talks with Canada Thursday night, furious over what he called a "fake'' television ad from Ontario's provincial government that quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- Trump's favorite economic tool.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is ending the federal government's annual report on hunger in America, stating that it had become "overly politicized" and "rife with inaccuracies."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump likes to boast about how much money the U.S. Treasury is raking in from the massive taxes - tariffs -- he's slapped this year on imports from almost every country in the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's tariff onslaught this week left a lot of losers - from small, poor countries like Laos and Algeria to wealthy U.S. trading partners like Canada and Switzerland. They're now facing especially hefty taxes - tariffs - on the products they export to the United States starting Aug. 7.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump's legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has been getting his way on trade, strong-arming the European Union, Japan and other partners to accept once unthinkably high taxes on their exports to the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much, but they share a conviction that the government should help American manufacturers, one way or another.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the past week, President Donald Trump has managed to make his erratic trade policies even more baffling to countries desperate to negotiate an escape from his wrath.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump and his advisers promised a lightning round of global trade negotiations with dozens of countries back in April.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law for now, as his administration appeals an order striking down the bulk of his signature set of economic policies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court in New York handed President Donald Trump a big setback Wednesday, blocking his audacious plan to impose massive taxes on imports from almost every country in the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court in New York handed President Donald Trump a big setback Wednesday, blocking his audacious plan to impose massive taxes on imports from almost every country in the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court in New York handed President Donald Trump a big setback Wednesday, blocking his audacious plan to impose massive taxes on imports from almost every country in the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for business after World War II.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added solid 151,000 jobs last month, but the outlook is cloudy as President Donald threatens a trade war, purges the federal workforce and promises to deport millions of immigrants.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. labor market likely kept on churning out jobs last month, economists say, but the outlook is cloudy and getting cloudier as the Trump administration wages trade wars, purges federal employees and seeks to deport millions of immigrants.
A Minnesota farmer worries about the price of fertilizer. A San Diego entrepreneur deals with an unexpected cost increase of remodeling a restaurant. A Midwestern sheet metal fabricator bemoans the prospect of higher aluminum prices.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here's what they are and what you need to know about them:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Finance Committee approved President Donald Trump's choice to be America's top trade negotiator Wednesday, largely along party lines.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump's choice to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, promised to pursue the president's hardline trade policies in testimony Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee. But he faced pushback from senators unsettled by Trump's unpredictable actions on trade.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump's choice to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, promised to pursue the president's hardline trade policies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From an ice cream parlor in California to a medical supply business in North Carolina to a T-shirt vendor outside Detroit, U.S. businesses are bracing to take a hit from the taxes President Donald Trump imposed Saturday on imports from Canada, Mexico and China -- America's three biggest trading partners.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire financier Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Commerce Department, said Wednesday that he would sell all of his business holdings within 90 days.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here's what they are and what you need to know about them:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's threat to impose a 25% tax on imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time: The wrangling over the South American country's willingness to accept flights carrying deported immigrants is flaring up just three weeks before Valentine's Day, and Colombia is America's No. 1 foreign source of cut flowers.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce the country's reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will "sharply increase production'' of semiconductors in the United States. But it will do so at a high cost and might not deliver the best bang for the buck, concludes...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fed up with high prices and unimpressed with an economy that by just about any measure is a healthy one, Americans demanded change when they voted for president.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls. The report provided a somewhat blurry view of the job market at the end of a presidential race that has pivoted heavily on voters' feelings about the economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans on Friday will get their last major look at the state of the U.S. economy -- the October jobs report -- just four days before Election Day. The view, though, is likely to be obscured by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's employers added a surprisingly strong 254,000 jobs in September, the latest evidence that the U.S. labor market is still solid enough to support steady hiring and a growing economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. labor market is still reliably cranking out jobs each month, enough to give Americans the confidence and paychecks to keep spending and sustaining the economy. Yet the pace of hiring has lost momentum over the past several months, evidence that employers have become more cautious.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a scenario that terrifies America's auto industry.
