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Today — 13 April 2025Main stream

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson
13 April 2025 at 07:24
A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.

© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

The threat of higher iPhone prices caused some Americans to rush to Apple stores to buy new phones.
Yesterday — 12 April 2025Main stream

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

✇NYT | China
By: James C. McKinley Jr.
12 April 2025 at 22:27
Products including smartphones and computers appeared to be getting a reprieve from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a big toll on tech companies like Apple.

Luigi Mangione Says Bondi’s Death Penalty Bid Is an Instagram Stunt

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Benjamin Weiser and Hurubie Meko
12 April 2025 at 07:50
Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting “partisan politics over justice.”

© Pool photo by Steven Hirsch

Luigi Mangione has yet to be indicted in federal court, but prosecutors have already said they will seek capital punishment.

China Raises Tariffs on U.S. Imports to 125%, Calling Trump’s Policies a ‘Joke’

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alexandra Stevenson
11 April 2025 at 19:39
Beijing’s retaliation came after the White House ratcheted up its tariff on Chinese goods to 125 percent, on top of an existing 20 percent tax.

© Jon Cherry for The New York Times

A worker at Vendome Copper & Brass Works in Louisville, Ky., last month.

U.S. and Ukraine Reopen Talks on Contentious Minerals Deal

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Constant Méheut
11 April 2025 at 23:26
Kyiv and Washington have been haggling over a deal for resource rights that President Trump sees as a way to “recoup” past U.S. aid to Ukraine.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a contentious White House meeting with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Tesla U.S. Sales Plunge as G.M. and Others Make Gains

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Jack Ewing
11 April 2025 at 21:53
Overall sales of electric vehicles rose almost 11 percent in the first three months of the year as traditional carmakers offered new models.

© Rachel Bujalski for The New York Times

Protests against Tesla have been growing since its chief executive, Elon Musk, took a prominent role in the Trump administration.

Steeling China for a Tariff Fight, Xi Faces His Biggest Test Since Covid

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: David Pierson
11 April 2025 at 17:31
Xi Jinping has refused to back down in China’s tariff confrontation with President Trump. But he’ll have to persuade his people that the pain is worth it.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Xi Jinping in 2019, waiting for President Trump to arrive for bilateral talks in Osaka, Japan.

Stock Markets Rattled by Latest Escalation in U.S.-China Trade War

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Eshe Nelson
11 April 2025 at 19:16
Beijing retaliated with higher tariffs on U.S. goods, a tit-for-tat move that intensified investors’ anxiety and rattled already shaky markets.

© Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

U.S. Military Removes Commander of Greenland Base

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Qasim Nauman
11 April 2025 at 13:44
Although the military did not say why the colonel had been dismissed, it said it would not tolerate any subversion of President Trump’s agenda.

© Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Col. Susan Meyers, left, has been removed from her post as the commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Pituffik base in Greenland.

Trump Threatens More Tariffs and Sanctions on Mexico Over Long-Running Water Dispute

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Chris Cameron and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
11 April 2025 at 09:45
President Trump on Thursday cited the growing water debt that Mexico owes the United States under a treaty governing the use of the countries’ shared rivers.

© Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

Las Vírgenes dam in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico.

U.S. and China Headed for ‘Monumental’ Split, Putting World Economy on Edge

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Daisuke Wakabayashi， Alexandra Stevenson， Patricia Cohen and Keith Bradsher
10 April 2025 at 19:10
A deepening trade war could further weaken ties between the superpowers. The effects will reverberate everywhere.

© Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

A cargo ship at the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in China’s Zhejiang province last month.
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