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

Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire announced Thursday that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat that fellow Democrat Jeanne Shaheen is vacating at the end of her term.

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.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration's new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary NATO allies of the U.S. commitment to the alliance.

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.

House Republicans on Wednesday bashed the former Biden administration for weaponizing the FBI to enforce its political agenda, while Democrats countered that President Trump is remaking the Justice Department into a protection service for his allies.

Christine Grady, the wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci, was among several top officials who were notified they were being reassigned from the National Institutes of Health to regional offices of the Indian Health Service.

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.