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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was once called the most popular politician on Earth by then-U.S. President Barack Obama. Those times are long gone.

Workforce experts are urging federal workers to acquire skills in artificial intelligence for private sector jobs as the Trump administration implements sweeping personnel cuts.

Stocks on Wall Street plummeted Thursday as investors weighed President Trump's aggressive tariff plan and the potential risk of a global trade war.

Having awoken Thursday to news of a long-awaited and long-feared new U.S. tariff regime, key American allies in East Asia were stunned.

President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday that shuts down a loophole Chinese shippers use to send low-value goods straight to U.S. consumers.

President Trump is raising tariffs to make it harder to ship Americans' jobs overseas, Vice President J.D. Vance said Thursday, arguing the "globalist" economy pushed by former presidents was a failure that awarded elites and other nations.

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

China's global Belt and Road Initiative is under intense scrutiny here after just one structure in the Thai capital collapsed in last week's earthquake: a 30-floor building under construction by China.

President Trump on Wednesday imposed a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports and additional, reciprocal levies on "worst-offender" nations in a bold restructuring of the global trading order he views as fundamentally unfair to the U.S. and calamitous ...

A manufacturing plant in Texas is planning to power its production with an advanced nuclear reactor instead of natural gas, advancing the Trump administration's push to unleash commercial nuclear power in the U.S.