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Help wanted sign is displayed at a live music and blues club in Chicago, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

US employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda

August 14, 2025 at 3:44 p.m.

U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US and China extend trade truce another 90 days, easing tension between world’s largest economies

August 12, 2025 at 6:33 a.m.

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies.

The President Bush, a container vessel operating under the American President Lines (APL) fleet, is moored at the APL Terminal, also known as Global Gateway South, at the port of Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

From Laos to Brazil, President Trump’s tariffs leave a lot of losers. But even the winners will pay a price.

August 2, 2025 at 10:12 a.m.

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.

FILE – President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation’s Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

President Donald Trump’s tariffs could squeeze US factories and boost costs by up to 4.5%, a new analysis finds

July 29, 2025 at 8:51 a.m.

As President Donald Trump prepares to announce new tariff increases, the costs of his policies are starting to come into focus for a domestic manufacturing sector that depends on global...

FILE – A person uses a smartphone in Chicago, Sept. 16, 2017. (AP Photo, File)

The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then it got hacked.

July 26, 2025 at 2:14 p.m.

In its statement, Tea reported that about 72,000 images were leaked online, including 13,000 images of selfies or photo identification that users submitted during account verification.

Cranes and shipping containers are seen at a port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

President Donald Trump’s trade blitz produces few deals but lots of uncertainty

July 9, 2025 at 8:51 a.m.

President Donald Trump and his advisers promised a lightning round of global trade negotiations with dozens of countries back in April.

A “Help Wanted” sign is displayed at Illinois Air Team Test Station Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Lincolnshire, Ill. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

US employers added a surprising 147,000 jobs last month despite uncertainty over economic policy

July 3, 2025 at 8:19 a.m.

U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continues to show surprising resilience despite uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. The unemployment rate ticked down...

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

President Trump announces trade deal with Vietnam that will let US goods into the country duty-free

July 2, 2025 at 2:02 p.m.

President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam Wednesday that would allow U.S. goods to enter the country duty-free.

Farm workers plow the land for a strawberry field in Oxnard, Calif., on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses

June 19, 2025 at 4:27 p.m.

President Trump’s deportation plans — and the uncertainty around them — are weighing on businesses and the economy.

FILE -The “Cosco Shipping France” container ship is moored at the Long Beach Container Terminal, LBCT, at Middle Harbor in the Port of Long Beach, Calif., , April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

US and Europe trade negotiators say progress but no breakthroughs on tariff talks in Paris

June 4, 2025 at 10:53 a.m.

Europe and the United States say progress has been made but there were no breakthroughs during a meeting in Paris to negotiate a settlement of a tense tariff spat with...

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