8+ hour, 38+ min ago   (642+ words) By DAVID E. SANGER They were brief but unmistakable allusions in President Donald Trump’s uncharacteristically disciplined speech at the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. At moments in his remarks at the Pentagon on Friday morning, Trump justified his decision to attack…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (966+ words) Iran has signaled that it is willing to escalate its fight with the United States, with senior leaders issuing increasingly sharp warnings in recent days after attacking U.S. warships for the first time. The U.S. military said Tuesday that it had destroyed…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (880+ words) By ANUPREETA DAS, SAJAL PRADHAN and BINOD GHIMIRE Two days after a catastrophic earthquake shook Nepal in April 2015, the United States Agency for International Development deployed a 128-member disaster response team to assess how it could help and pledged $10 million…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (985+ words) Peru’s ambassador in Washington, Luis Miguel Castilla, received a stern phone call in 2015 from the State Department, after U.S. officials learned that a Chinese firm would finance a sprawling new Pacific Coast port project. Why, they asked, was Peru handing…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (820+ words) New Canadian tariffs targeting roughly $20 billion in U.S. imports officially snapped into place on Tuesday, the latest escalation in an increasingly costly trade war that has ensnarled two longtime allies. The duties apply to a variety of U.S. goods, including clothing, cheese,…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (655+ words) After more than two weeks of finger-pointing, threats and patronizing insults between longtime trading partners, Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs against the United States are set to take effect just after midnight Eastern time Tuesday. Polls show that Canadians strongly back…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (290+ words) Puerto Rico absorbed one of its steepest tariff shocks in more than a decade last year, as federal trade policies under President Donald Trump dramatically reshaped the cost of importing goods into the island, according to a report from Estudios…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (880+ words) Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Central Asia this week with a message for a world increasingly unsettled by President Donald Trump: China has friends and influence, and is prepared to help shape what comes next. The scene unfolded at…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (850+ words) The 50% tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on Canada over the weekend could be devastating for many Canadian companies and their employees. It could price them out of the United States and lead to the loss in tens of thousands…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (593+ words) The Trump administration on Monday announced what it called its most comprehensive assault to date on Iran’s economy, unveiling a package of measures that are intended to isolate Iran from the rest of the world. The move is a shift…...