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WASHINGTON — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for a tariff exemption for autos and energy ahead of a planned meeting Wednesday with President Donald Trump.

She made the pitch as part of a morning speech on ...Read more

China retaliated against new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump by announcing it would raise duties on U.S. goods, roiling markets and deepening a trade war between the world’s largest economies.

The Chinese ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's ruling allowing the Trump administration to continue deporting immigrants under an 18th century wartime law was hailed as a victory by both the federal government and those challenging ...Read more

When Veronica Sanchez called a Social Security hotline Thursday, she waited two hours before her call was abruptly disconnected.

On Friday, she was on hold for six hours and still did not get through to anyone.

“I’m ...Read more

At what point in a negotiation do you conclude that the other side is deliberately stalling? In business, the answer to this question is the definition of whether a sale goes through or dies on the vine. In war, it’s a ...Read more

Alarmed by President Donald Trump's unprecedented effort to punish law firms he doesn't like, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky emailed nearly 200 fellow law school deans across the country last month, asking ...Read more

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele may have found the best description for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s new approach to dictatorial regimes: a laughing emoji.

After a federal district judge ordered the ...Read more

MIAMI -- The rules have changed abruptly for thousands of Cuban migrants in the United States after the Trump administration canceled the humanitarian parole program launched under President Joe Biden.

More than 100,000 ...Read more

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (...Read more

Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of technical knowledge developed for combat, he asked, spur the peacetime economy ...Read more

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans.

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of ...Read more

Once, the United States was an uncontested superpower capable of fielding a military more powerful and more advanced than any other. No longer. Instead, a rival has emerged that poses a serious and credible threat to ...Read more

A leopard can’t change its spots. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping the public won’t remember that.

Democratic Party leaders are scrambling to chart a path forward after President Donald Trump won the popular ...Read more

Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.”

This message from ...Read more

As a psychological researcher studying the intersection of empathy, ideological extremism and social influence, I have spent years analyzing the mechanisms by which belief systems spread and take hold.

After interviewing...Read more

The seven Colorado River states have only a few weeks left to submit a comprehensive plan for water management going forward. A new study by UCLA researchers should further inform the negotiations as they enter the late ...Read more

As long heard around the world, the (lower-case) voice of America at its best used to sound compelling, authentic, attractive and even stirring, at times vibrating enough soft power to tumble the walls of modern-day ...Read more

In the 1980s, when the late Judge Robert Bork faced Senate scrutiny over his ill-fated nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, a small independent newspaper published a list of his rentals at a local video store.

The ...Read more

President Donald Trump cast his tariffs as a political winner in an attempt to assuage fears from wealthy Republican benefactors about the fallout of his signature trade policy just hours before even more sweeping tariffs ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican bill filed this week that proposes making abortion illegal in North Carolina at any stage of pregnancy won’t move forward, House Speaker Destin Hall said Tuesday.

“I don’t think there�...Read more