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New cars will probably become much more expensive in the United States when President Trump imposes new tariffs on foreign-made cars and auto parts. Barring exceptions, tariffs of, say, 25 percent on cars and parts made in Mexico and Canada would add $3,000 even to the cost of cars assembled in the United States, said … Read more
Last Friday’s power outage in Heathrow Airport disrupted vacations across the world, causing countless thousands of travelers to miss prepaid reservations and forgo long-anticipated adventures. Among them were Sheila Addison, a therapist from Seattle, who missed out on a four-day whisky-tasting in the Scottish Highlands, forfeiting a $500 nonrefundable hotel room and a rare break … Read more
Congressional Republicans laced into PBS and NPR on Wednesday, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery hearing that represented the latest salvo against the American press by close allies of the Trump administration. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who organized the hearing — which she called “Anti-American … Read more
In her opening remarks at Wednesday’s hearing on public media, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused PBS of using “taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical left positions like featuring a drag queen on the show.” The Republican from Georgia pointed at a photo of Lil Miss Hot Mess, a drag queen, calling her … Read more
President Trump will announce auto tariffs during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said during a briefing with reporters at the White House. Details of the tariffs remain unclear, including whether they will apply broadly to all imports of cars and car parts, or be more narrowly tailored. … Read more
President Trump will announce auto tariffs during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said during a briefing with reporters at the White House. Details of the tariffs remain unclear, including whether they will apply broadly to all imports of cars and car parts, or be more narrowly tailored. … Read more
President Trump will announce auto tariffs during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said during a briefing with reporters at the White House. Details of the tariffs remain unclear, including whether they will apply broadly to all imports of cars and car parts, or be more narrowly tailored. … Read more
The director of Voice of America, along with journalists at the government-funded international broadcaster, sued Trump administration officials on Wednesday over the government’s attempt to shut down the network. The lawsuit, filed by Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America’s director, marks the latest legal challenge to the administration’s push to shrink the government. President Trump signed … Read more
One is a veteran TV executive. The other emerged from the world of digital media. Both are now chief executives of major public media organizations appearing before Congress on Wednesday, where they will face tough questioning from lawmakers. Here’s a look at their backgrounds. Katherine Maher C.E.O., NPR Ms. Maher, 41, has spent much of … Read more
“No Other Land” has racked up festival awards, critical acclaim and the Oscar for best documentary feature. Yet the film, a narrative exposé about Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes directed by two Palestinians and two Israelis, has not been acquired by a traditional North American distributor. This is partly a reflection of the collapse of … Read more