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Trump says he’ll put tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals

By Gerrit De Vynck, Annabelle Timsit · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump said he would soon impose new tariffs on computer chips, repeating a campaign promise that if enacted could have deep impacts on the global tech industry and the geopolitical battle over AI with China. “In the very near future we’re going to be […]

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Trump says he’ll put tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals

By Gerrit De Vynck, Annabelle Timsit · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump said he would soon impose new tariffs on computer chips, repeating a campaign promise that if enacted could have deep impacts on the global tech industry and the geopolitical battle over AI with China. “In the very near future we’re going to be […]

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Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump’s agenda

By Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 DORAL, Florida – Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown over the debt limit to rein in President Donald Trump’s vast plans to reshape the U.S. economy and remake the federal government. For 30 years, Republicans have used the threat of a national default to make Democrats […]

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Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump’s agenda

By Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 DORAL, Florida – Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown over the debt limit to rein in President Donald Trump’s vast plans to reshape the U.S. economy and remake the federal government. For 30 years, Republicans have used the threat of a national default to make Democrats […]

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Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon ‘disrupter,’ vows swift action

By Missy Ryan, Dan Lamothe · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is already generating turbulence at the Pentagon, where newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got to work Monday on a mission to shake up the U.S. military and align it more closely with the returning president’s “America First” agenda. […]

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Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon ‘disrupter,’ vows swift action

By Missy Ryan, Dan Lamothe · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is already generating turbulence at the Pentagon, where newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got to work Monday on a mission to shake up the U.S. military and align it more closely with the returning president’s “America First” agenda. […]

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The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship

By Petula Dvorak · The Washington Post (c) 2025 When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir. In 1867, more than 3,000 people died of cholera in the Crescent City, as putrefied offal infected […]

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The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship

By Petula Dvorak · The Washington Post (c) 2025 When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir. In 1867, more than 3,000 people died of cholera in the Crescent City, as putrefied offal infected […]

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Trump wants to tackle inflation. Will these top actions bring prices down?

By Abha Bhattarai · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Many Americans say they voted for Donald Trump because he promised to defeat inflation. So it’s no surprise that Trump’s first actions included directives aimed at “emergency price relief” for housing, food, gas and other basics, which remain up by double-digit percentages from 2019. He ordered government officials […]

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Trump wants to tackle inflation. Will these top actions bring prices down?

By Abha Bhattarai · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Many Americans say they voted for Donald Trump because he promised to defeat inflation. So it’s no surprise that Trump’s first actions included directives aimed at “emergency price relief” for housing, food, gas and other basics, which remain up by double-digit percentages from 2019. He ordered government officials […]