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Feeling queasy about the stock market? Think twice before selling, financial advisers say
The huge swingsrocking Wall Streetandthe global economymay feel far from normal. But, for investing at least, drops of this size have happened throughout history. Here's what experts advise investors young and old to consider.
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TikTok deal pulled after Trump tariff announcement
A finalized TikTok deal was pulled Thursday after President Trump announced massive new tariffs against China, a source familiar with the negotiations told The Hill. Trump was poised to sign an executive order approving a deal that would have seen TikTok’s U.S. operations spun off into a new company, allowing the popular social media...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Fencer explains why she refused to compete against transgender opponent
Speaking to NewsNation on Thursday, Stephanie Turner said she didn’t take a knee as an “individual attack” against Sullivan.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Trump, Powell at odds over tariff fallout
Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} Trump pressures Powell; Dow drops 2k points President Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell shared vastly different views Friday on the economic impact of Trump's sweeping tariff hikes that have sent stocks into a tailspin and sparked global economic concern. Powell warned of "higher inflation and...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:'Tariff the seagulls?' These are the remote islands on Trump's tariff list, and what they export
To many observers,the most puzzling aspect of Donald Trump's tariffs was that his list included some of the most remote and smallest territories and islands in the world. Places that, in some cases, have more penguins than people.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Four space tourists return to Earth after private SpaceX flight over the poles
Bitcoin investor Chun Wang chartered aSpaceXflight for himself and three others in a Dragon capsule that was outfitted with a domed window that provided 360-degreeviews of the polar capsand everything in between.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Nearly half of National Weather Service offices are critically understaffed, experts warn
After Trump administrationjob cuts, nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20 percent vacancy rates — twice that of just a decade ago — as severe weather chugs across the nation's heartland, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Judge orders return of Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador mega-prison
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expelled Kilmar Abrego Garcia last month despite an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling that shielded him from deportation to his native El Salvador, where he faced likely persecution by local gangs.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Deadline for TikTok sale extended by 75 days, as Trump vows to work with China
U.S. President Donald Trumpextended a deadline by 75 days for Chinese technologycompany ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of popular short video appTikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed tohave taken effect in January under a 2024 law.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Comedian Russell Brand charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault
British police on Friday chargedRussell Brandwith rape and sexual assault following an 18-month investigation sparked when four women alleged they had been assaulted by the controversial comedian.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Russian strike in central Ukraine kills 14 people and injures 50, officials say
Six children were among those killed in the strike on the Dnipropetrovsk region city — the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — in what the region’s leader Serhii Lysak described as an “assault against civilians.”
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Trump extends TikTok deadline another 75 days as search for a deal continues
President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:WATCH LIVE: Senate convenes as Republicans push for Trump’s budget bill with tax and spending cuts
The Senate dived into contentious debate Friday on a budget plan critical to Republican efforts to pass trillions of dollars in tax cuts and boost border security and defense spending through what President Donald Trump calls “one big beautiful bill.”
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Focus turns to a growing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, week after catastrophic earthquake
The quake worsened an already dire crisis with more than 3 million people displaced from their homes and nearly 20 million in need even before it hit.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:It's clear who sees tariffs as a political winner in Washington. It isn't Trump's side
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Markets plunge worldwide for a second day straight following China's tariff retaliation
The worldwide sell-off for financial marketsslammedinto an even higher, scarier gear on Fridayafter China matched U.S. President Donald Trump's big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war, with markets facing their worst crisis since the COVID crash.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Sean (Diddy) Combs faces 5 criminal counts in new indictment
Sean (Diddy)Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts, including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal counts. He has pleaded not guilty.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Lesotho puzzled by whopping U.S. tariff rate, which could decimate its economy
Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Actor-comedian Russell Brand charged with rape in the U.K.
British police chargedactor-comedianRussellBrandwith rapeand multiple counts of assault connected to a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005,a police statement on Friday said.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:China slaps 34% retaliatory tariff on the U.S., says Trump's levy 'seriously violates' world trade rules
China announced Friday that it will impose a 34 per cent tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" slate of double-digit tariffs.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Panama Papers leak has led to nearly $2B in recouped taxes for governments
Almost exactly nine years after the Panama Papers were revealed, two dozen countries' tax agencies say they've recovered nearly $2 billion combined in tax arrears thanks to information in the leak about hidden bank accounts and offshore shell companies.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:South Korea's constitutional court upholds president's impeachment over martial law order
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South Korean court to rule on political fate of impeached president over martial law order
South Korea's Constitutional Court is set to rule on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after the conservative leader threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Trump sued over China tariffs
President Trump was sued Thursday over the 20 percent tariffs he imposed on Chinese goods in the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s broader announcement. It marks the first known legal challenge against Trump’s tariffs, which have fulfilled a campaign promise and rattled financial markets. The lawsuit contests Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Kennedy suggests 20 percent of HHS cuts may be reversed
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he expects about 20 percent of fired employees to be reinstated as the agency backtracks after making cuts directed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Some programs that were cut, they’re being reinstated,” Kennedy told reporters Thursday. “Personnel that should...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Senate advances blueprint for Trump tax cuts, other top priorities
The Senate on Thursday advanced its budget resolution, teeing up a weekend vote on a blueprint for President Trump's tax agenda and other top priorities. Senators voted 52-48 to kick off consideration of the measure. A simple majority was needed. The resolution sets out instructions that both chambers will eventually use to craft a bill they...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Democratic attorneys general join legal fight over Trump’s election order
Nineteen Democratic attorneys general sued Thursday over President Trump’s executive order that aims to strengthen proof of citizenship requirements in voting and prevent states from tabulating mail-in ballots received after Election Day. The new lawsuit adds to three existing cases filed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and separate coalitions of private groups, who accuse Trump...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Leavitt: Trump tariffs won’t lead to 'pain' for American-owned businesses or US workers
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump’s tariffs won’t lead to “pain” for U.S. workers or American-owned businesses amid concern after “Liberation Day.” Leavitt joined NewsNation’s “Morning in America” on Thursday morning, just a day after Trump announced a 10 percent general tariff on all imports to the U.S. and targeted tariffs on...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Markets plunge in wake of Trump’s new tariffs and fears of global trade war
U.S. markets plunged in the wake of President Trump's announcement of new tariffs. Many stocks had their worst single day since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Leaders around the world denounced the tariffs and experts warned the president's action could risk more inflation, stall growth and even trigger a recession. Lisa Desjardins reports and Geoff Bennett discusses more with Ron Insana.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Officials in 19 states sue to block Trump’s election order, saying it’s unconstitutional
Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump's attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states' clear authority to run their own elections.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:GOP Sen. Johnson says Wisconsin bracing to see ‘how painful’ tariff fallout will be
Financial markets sank in the wake of President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on practically all goods being imported to the U.S. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is a member of the Senate budget and finance committees. His state of Wisconsin exports more than $27 billion in goods to international markets and he joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the tariffs.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:NSC staff ousted
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story National Security Council staff ousted at White House Multiple staff members on the White House National Security Council were fired Thursday following a meeting President Trump had this week with far-right activist Laura Loomer. AP...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Trump fires several National Security Council members
In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump will fire several members of his National Security Council after he met in the Oval Office with conservative activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, the Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a string of violent storms across the Midwest and South killed at least six people.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Senators introduce bipartisan bill to expand congressional authority over tariffs
Legislation pushed by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Washington Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell would require presidents to justify new tariffs and secure congressional approval within 60 days, otherwise they would expire.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Mehdi Hasan on talks of Booker's rise in Democratic Party: 'Let's calm down'
Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said it’s premature for Democrats to talk about Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) potentially running for president in 2028, saying news cycles pass quickly in President Trump’s Washington. In an interview on NewsNation’s “On Balance,” host Leland Vittert asked Hasan, a left-leaning commentator, whether he thinks “everybody [is] getting a little...
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