Ask any prominent podcast host for a list of dream interview guests, and it is quite likely that Michelle Obama’s name would be on it. That is why the former first lady shouldn’t have much trouble booking whomever she likes on her new show, “IMO,” short for “in my opinion,” which she will host with … Read more
Japanese officials are visiting Washington this week to negotiate with the Trump administration ahead of sweeping U.S. tariffs that are set to affect exports, including metals and cars, from Japan and a number of other countries. Japan’s trade minister, Yoji Muto, is scheduled to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday, according to a … Read more
Trump stays the course Even President Trump has acknowledged that his pugnacious economic agenda is looking increasingly risky. Asked on Fox News this weekend if he expected a recession this year, he allowed only, “I hate to predict things like that.” That dodge comes as his trade war continues to escalate and companies warn that … Read more
The United States buys more steel from Canada than from any other country, and those imports will become much more expensive under tariffs President Trump intends to impose this week. That’s good news to Stephen Capone, president of Capone Iron Corporation of Rowley, Mass., which makes steel stairs, handrails, gratings and other products and has … Read more
More than 100,000 Americans are on waiting lists for donor organs, most needing a kidney. Only 25,000 human donor kidneys become available each year. Twelve Americans on the kidney list die every day on average. Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into other animals and then to brain-dead human patients. In 2022, researchers received … Read more
Beth Crowell was proud to work for the Internal Revenue Service. She had spent much of her career as an accountant for large corporations, gaining intimate knowledge about how they do — and sometimes don’t — pay the taxes they owe. Working for the I.R.S. in Colorado, she hoped to put her skills to a … Read more
Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the latest escalation of a trade fight between the world’s two-largest economies. The Chinese government announced the tariffs last week, shortly after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products for the … Read more
The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men — day laborers, almost all from Latin America and undocumented — would be scooped up by local contractors in pickup trucks for jobs painting, landscaping, removing debris. In recent weeks, the … Read more
After a few years of writing what she called a “niche newsletter for Washington insiders,” the political journalist Tara Palmeri decided she wanted to reach a wider audience. A much wider audience. She’s taking her reporting to YouTube. Ms. Palmeri said she is leaving the start-up Puck to strike out on her own, focusing much … Read more
Soon after the recent contentious Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Senator Adam Schiff went on camera to offer his assessment. “I was horrified and sickened,” Mr. Schiff, a California Democrat, said. “This is Donald Trump caring about nothing of American values,” he later added. More than 2.2 million … Read more