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7/30/2025
US enters 90-day negotiating period with Mexico as 25% tariffs stay in place
Posted 9:29 AM 7/31/2025 by JOSH BOAK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will enter a 90-day negotiating period with Mexico over trade as 25% tariff rates stay in place, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Trump, posting on his Truth Social platform, said a phone conversation he had with Mexican leader Claudia (More)
7/28/2025
Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women from Mar-a-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre
Posted 5:36 PM 7/29/2025 by CHRIS MEGERIAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein "stole" young women who worked for the spa at Mar-a-Lago, the latest evolution in his description of how their highly scrutinized relationship ended years ago.
One of the women, he acknowledged, was Virginia (More)
7/27/2025
How the US-EU trade deal wards off more escalation but will raise prices and slow growth
Posted 9:14 AM 7/28/2025 by DAVID McHUGH, SAM McNEIL and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have announced a sweeping trade deal that imposes 15% tariffs on most European goods, warding off Trump's threat of a 30% rate if no deal had been reached by Aug. 1.
The (More)
7/26/2025
US-EU deal sets a 15% tariff on most goods and averts the threat of a trade war with a global shock
Posted 3:17 PM 7/27/2025 by WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The United States and the European Union agreed on Sunday to a trade framework setting a 15% tariff on most goods, staving off — at least for now — far higher imports on both sides that might have sent shock waves through economies around the (More)