By Ellen Nakashima, Warren P. Strobel, Aaron Schaffer · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyberespionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, […]
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Trump’s tariffs mark end of globalization era, raise doubts about U.S. role
By David J. Lynch · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The tariff barrage that President Donald Trump unleashed this week on the world economy marks a decisive end to an era of freewheeling globalization that was shaped by American policymakers, business executives and consumers. The United States is now abandoning the system that made it rich and powerful, […]
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Trump’s tariffs mark end of globalization era, raise doubts about U.S. role
By David J. Lynch · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The tariff barrage that President Donald Trump unleashed this week on the world economy marks a decisive end to an era of freewheeling globalization that was shaped by American policymakers, business executives and consumers. The United States is now abandoning the system that made it rich and powerful, […]
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Trump seeks court approval for most aggressive union-busting attempt ever
By Joe Davidson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Now we may know why President Donald Trump has not reissued his three first-term, anti-union directives that sharply reduced the ability of labor leaders to represent employees. Rather than hamstring federal labor organizations, Trump wants to bust the unions. In another move among many to vastly expand the […]
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Trump seeks court approval for most aggressive union-busting attempt ever
By Joe Davidson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Now we may know why President Donald Trump has not reissued his three first-term, anti-union directives that sharply reduced the ability of labor leaders to represent employees. Rather than hamstring federal labor organizations, Trump wants to bust the unions. In another move among many to vastly expand the […]
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After Trump’s broad tariffs, Europe reels from the loss of an old ally
By Anthony Faiola, Steve Hendrix, Ellen Francis · The Washington Post (c) 2025 ROME – In announcing plans to rebuild post-World War II Europe in 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall linked security with economics. Without the United States doing whatever it could to promote “normal economic health in the world,” he said, “there can be no political […]
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After Trump’s broad tariffs, Europe reels from the loss of an old ally
By Anthony Faiola, Steve Hendrix, Ellen Francis · The Washington Post (c) 2025 ROME – In announcing plans to rebuild post-World War II Europe in 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall linked security with economics. Without the United States doing whatever it could to promote “normal economic health in the world,” he said, “there can be no political […]
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Economists say the way Trump calculated tariffs makes no sense
By Andrew Ackerman, Federica Cocco · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Economists say the crude formula the White House used to calculate what it’s calling “reciprocal tariffs” is too simplistic to achieve its goal of wiping out U.S. trade deficits – and, for that matter, they say that goal doesn’t make sense, either. But the administration is defending its […]
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Economists say the way Trump calculated tariffs makes no sense
By Andrew Ackerman, Federica Cocco · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Economists say the crude formula the White House used to calculate what it’s calling “reciprocal tariffs” is too simplistic to achieve its goal of wiping out U.S. trade deficits – and, for that matter, they say that goal doesn’t make sense, either. But the administration is defending its […]
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Stocks plunge and businesses recoil after across-the-board tariffs
By Abha Bhattarai · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s intensifying trade war sent stock markets reeling as investors, companies and Americans fretted about rising costs from an onslaught of new tariffs. U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 4 percent and the Nasdaq down 5 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial […]