By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumers, companies and workers will pay the biggest price for proposed 100% tariffs on French Champagne and other sparkling wines, cheese, porcelain, enamel cookware and handbags, witnesses told the U.S. government on Tuesday. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office last month proposed punitive duties on $2.4 billion in imports […]
From the start, prosecutors overseeing the trial of five Proud Boys charged with sedition in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have faced a conundrum. Scores of members of the far-right group took part in the storming of the Capitol and often played a decisive role in breaching barricades and […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden has ordered government agencies to prepare for climate-related shocks across the economy, as escalating disasters threaten home prices, the value of retirement funds and even the stability of the global financial system. The executive order signed Thursday is the latest indication of how climate change, once dismissed as a distant threat, […]
