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Today — 7 April 2025Main stream

Trump Aides Defend His Tariffs Amid Global Blowback

By: Tony Romm
6 April 2025 at 23:47
The president’s top advisers acknowledged President Trump’s sweeping tariffs could raise prices but said an economic adjustment that would ultimately benefit American workers was overdue.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent waits in the Rose Garden before President Trump makes remarks and signs tariffs at the White House, on Wednesday.
Yesterday — 6 April 2025Main stream

Small Businesses Face a ‘Tornado’ of Challenges: Cuts, Freezes and Now Tariffs

6 April 2025 at 17:01
President Trump vowed to aid entrepreneurs by reducing taxes and slicing red tape. But some owners say other policies have put them at a disadvantage.

© Rachel Woolf for The New York Times

Ben Coryell, owner of Golden Mountain Guides in Colorado, is concerned about how long his business can continue to offer climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

© M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times

A Biden proposal to expand coverage of the popular weight-loss drugs would have cost billions of dollars under Medicare and Medicaid.

Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth

4 April 2025 at 23:25
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank’s “obligation” is to ensure that a “one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem.”

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Federal Reserve officials, led by Jerome H. Powell, are confronting a thorny set of issues that have upended expectations about when they may be able to lower interest rates again after pausing cuts in January.

E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X

4 April 2025 at 20:50
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

European authorities have been weighing how big a fine to issue X as they consider the risks of further antagonizing President Trump amid wider trans-Atlantic disputes over trade, tariffs and the war in Ukraine.

Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights to Be Restored by Justice Dept.

4 April 2025 at 05:32
People familiar with the decision said Mr. Gibson, a supporter of President Trump, would be among 10 people with convictions to get back their gun rights.

© Chris Pizzello/Associated Press

Mel Gibson in Los Angeles last year. The actor pleaded no contest in 2011 to a battery charge involving his former girlfriend.

FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety

4 April 2025 at 03:11
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

© Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

Heirloom tomatoes imported from Canada, left, and avocados imported from Mexico in a Pittsburgh market last month. Inspections and testing of imported foods could be affected by the F.D.A. layoffs.
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