The president has ratcheted up the rate on foreign metals to 50 percent, double the previous rate, saying the levies weren’t high enough to help the U.S. industry.
Companies that import steel for their products will now pay higher costs as a result of President Trump’s latest increase of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.
Even before the U.S. threatened to bar international students and besieged universities, China’s huge spending campaign on the sciences was bearing fruit.
Activists have regularly disrupted council meetings to demand that the city call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The unusual tension suggests a changing Boulder.
Experts said the move, which did not offer explicit guidance to hospitals, could discourage doctors from performing emergency abortions in states that ban or restrict them.
Speaker Mike Johnson and President Trump at the Capitol last month. Mr. Johnson said the funding cuts the president wants would help restore “fiscal sanity.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a review of ship names honoring Mr. Milk, a gay rights pioneer, and other leaders. In Mr. Milk’s case, the move is intended as a rebuke of Pride Month.
The emergency department of the University of Wisconsin hospital in Madison. The Trump administration did not explicitly tell hospitals they were free to turn away women seeking abortions in medical emergencies.
Kristi Noem said a Mexican immigrant wrote a letter saying that he wanted to assassinate the president. Another man has now been charged with setting him up.
Part of Minnesota’s famed unit the Purple People Eaters, he started a record 270 consecutive games. Also famously, he once scooped up a fumble and ran to the wrong end zone.
Jim Marshall, No. 70, was carried off the field on Dec. 9, 1979, after the Vikings defeated the Buffalo Bills, 10-3. It was Marshall’s last home game in Minnesota.
Instead of battling over tariffs, Washington and Beijing have turned to a potentially far more harmful strategy: flexing their control over global supply chains.
The jet engine technology that powers airplanes comes mostly from U.S. companies, but the engines can’t function without rare earth minerals that are manufactured largely in China.
Republican factions united to pass most but not all of their conservative priorities in this year’s legislative session, illustrating the limits of right-wing governance.
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.
Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is part of a group of Republican senators agitating for deeper spending cuts in a bill carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda, noting that it is projected to balloon federal deficits.
In a divisive and far-reaching election pushed by the governing Morena party, Mexicans voted for thousands of judges at every level on Sunday, remaking the courts.
The chamber of the Supreme Court in Mexico City. After the court blocked some of the plans of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he pushed to change the system to one in which voters elect judges at every level.
In response to a federal lawsuit, the Agriculture Department said it would refrain, for now, from demanding that states turn over the personal information of people receiving assistance.
With high casualty figures and the slow pace of Russia’s territorial gains, President Vladimir V. Putin could face years more of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.
Ukrainian volunteers identifying the remains of Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine in February. Nearly one million Russian troops have been killed or wounded in the country’s war against Ukraine, according to a new study.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the agency would be investigating whether Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s family had information about his alleged plot.
The bodies of the girls, ages 5, 8 and 9, were found near a campground in Washington State on Monday. They had apparently been asphyxiated, and each was found with a plastic bag over her head, the police said.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Nebraska and Michigan were under air quality alerts on Tuesday, with advisories for more vulnerable groups to stay indoors or limit outdoor activity.
A customs agent at Detroit Metropolitan Airport found the baggies of fungus last summer. The Justice Department has accused Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, both Chinese students, of trying to smuggle the fungus into the United States.
After months of political turmoil in South Korea, Lee Jae-myung has won the presidential election by a wide margin. Mr. Lee’s campaign has ridden a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he tried to impose martial law in December.
An outline by the Trump administration would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while a broader arrangement is worked out that would block the country’s path to a nuclear weapon.
The proposal is the first concrete indication since President Trump took office that the United States and Iran might be able to find a path to compromise.
Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”
Keeling flasks used to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in a research laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California in April.
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