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Today — 15 April 2025Main stream

Trump’s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks

15 April 2025 at 22:33
Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.

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Most medications consumed in the United States are produced at least partly overseas. China and India do most of the production of cheaper generic drugs, while expensive patented medications are more often made in Europe or the United States.

Harvard vs. Trump, and Your (Shrinking) Chance of Being Audited

Plus, black market Lego.

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Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and to report international students who broke rules.

Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’

15 April 2025 at 13:40
But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

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Harvard’s response was a significant shift in tone for the nation’s most influential university.

Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants

The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.

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Nathali Sánchez, the wife of Arturo Suárez, a migrant sent to prison in El Salvador, with her daughter in Santiago, Chile.

In Canada’s Fight With Trump, Danielle Smith Is Playing Good Cop

Danielle Smith, the premier of the oil-rich province of Alberta, takes pride in her MAGA ties. As her country faces existential threats from President Trump, she thinks her party and her province stand to gain.

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a provincial government office building in Calgary, Alberta, in February.

Trump’s Trade War With China Could Be Good for India. But Is It Ready?

While India dreams of becoming a new factory to the world, its manufacturers are struggling to find skilled workers, secure components and overcome red tape.

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India, with its enormous work force, has been trying to elbow into China’s manufacturing business for a long time, yet its factories are not ready.

Court Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Shuttering of Migrant Entry Program

15 April 2025 at 09:14
The Biden-era program has allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to enter the United States and work legally.

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The Trump administration moved in late March to shut down the migrant program, which offered temporary legal status in the United States.

Suspect Arrested in Arson Attacks on New Mexico G.O.P. Office and a Tesla Dealer

15 April 2025 at 08:40
Jamison Wagner, 40, of Albuquerque, faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted, the authorities said.

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A Tesla showroom near Albuquerque was targeted in an arson attack in February, court documents said. Two vehicles were affected, one of which was significantly damaged.

Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China

15 April 2025 at 08:21
President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.

© Tom Brenner for The New York Times

President Trump may be entering any eventual negotiations alone because he has alienated the allies who in recent years had come to a common approach to countering Chinese power.

Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China

15 April 2025 at 08:21
President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.

China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs

15 April 2025 at 06:45
The Pentagon and defense contractors are heavily reliant on magnets and rare earth minerals mined or processed in China, which has suspended exports of the materials in an escalating trade war.

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Rare earth minerals are present in almost every form of American defense technology. They can form very powerful magnets, for use in fighter jets, warships, missiles, tanks and lasers.

In Trump’s Meeting With El Salvador’s President Bukele, Oval Office Becomes Set Piece

15 April 2025 at 08:19
Once again, the president used the gilded room as a place to flex his executive muscle while recasting the narrative around a consequential policy.

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President Trump with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on Monday.

Trump Orders Biden-Era CBP One Migrants to Leave U.S. Immediately

The Biden administration allowed 900,000 people to use an app to schedule appointments to cross the border. Emails over the last few days told them to leave or face deportation.

© Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

Migrants rushed to book asylum appointments on the CBP One app in Matamoros, Mexico, in 2023.
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