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Exports on the docks at Port of Baltimore.

Trump’s massive shipping fees threaten US trade

The president’s plan to slap huge fees on China-linked ships is starting to choke trade as US exporters struggle to find vessels to send goods abroad.

Europe is cementing its leadership as the most assertive regulator of tech companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft.

EU’s Apple and Google ruling risks Trump’s ire

The search giant has been told to stop forcing users on to its apps, while the phone maker must make it easier for rivals’ headsets and smartwatches to sync with its devices.

Donald Trump is pushing his tariff plans forward.

Trump targets trillions of imports for ‘Liberation Day’

The internal preparations suggest the US president remains unbowed in his push to upend the global trade order.

Yesterday

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for more than two hours.

Russia attacks Ukraine hours after Putin, Trump reach deal

During a 90-minute phone call with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin agreed to limit attacking Ukrainian energy assets, but declined to agree to a broader ceasefire.

The Chinese flotilla was first detected by a commercial airline pilot.

Three questions about higher defence spending

If the Defence Department is to receive more taxpayer money, it should not be treated as a sacred cow.

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US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for nearly two hours.

Trump’s MAGA dreams conjure a world nightmare

Donald Trump values his relationship with dictators far more than that with democratic allies, making the global economic and national security interests a combustible mix.

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White misled board; Trump’s terrifying deal; Last night’s market shock

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

US President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Trump’s big trade shock is coming for Australia

A private talk by the US commerce secretary to Australian executives in Washington was a jaw-dropper and a wake-up call about the next steps in the upheaval.

Trump’s deal with Putin will terrify the West

If Russian president Vladimir Putin can get his US counterpart, Donald Trump, dancing to his tune, eight decades of trans-Atlantic solidarity could be ruptured.

Investors had piled in to Tesla shares on hopes the stock would benefit from Elon Musk’s proximity to Donald Trump.

Short sellers book $25b profit from Tesla’s share price plunge

The recent profits mark a partial reversal of what has been a painful trade in recent years, with many hedge funds forced to give up on their negative bets as losses mounted.

The only certainty is that the dismal pattern whereby Vladimir Putin concedes nothing and offers nothing, while Donald Trump declines to respond with any hint of steel, remains the order of the day.

Putin has defied Trump once again – and paid no price

Two presidents do not need to talk for 90 minutes to serve up the thin gruel in the public account of their call. What else did the two leaders discuss?

This Month

Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn argued Australia was insulated from US tariffs, but could be hurt by the flow on effect.

CBA, NAB chief executives prepare for long-term Trump disruptions

Matt Comyn and Andrew Irvine offer a view of an uncertain environment where upheaval could create big productivity gains – or cause serious harm.

Donald Trump supporters Gina Rinehart and Elon Musk at a meeting in Florida earlier this year.

What (wagyu exporter) Gina Rinehart thinks of Trump’s tariff war

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart says Donald Trump’s tariff agenda should prompt Australian governments to cut taxes for Australian farmers and small businesses.

Houthi supporters chant slogans and hold pictures of Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi movement, during an anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen.

Pentagon says operation targeting Yemen’s Houthis is open-ended

The Pentagon said US forces had struck more than 30 Houthi targets since Saturday, including command-and-control and training sites and drone infrastructure.

USS Halsey, JS Sazanami and HMAS Warramunga on a “regional presence deployment”.

Australia’s allies must step up in the Indo-Pacific

Readers’ letters on dealing with Donald Trump’s isolationism, looking to Congress for tariff relief, Rio’s clean energy move, Peter Dutton’s track record, and a CANZUK alliance.

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Why CBA and NAB chiefs fear a double Trump hit

Australia has plenty of productivity challenges of its own, but Matt Comyn and Andrew Irvine see the US president’s policy chaos lingering for some time to come.  

The impact of Trump’s tariff push has only just started showing up in credit markets.

The market ‘fracture’ the professionals are all watching

Wall Street had another good night, but there’s a part of financial markets that investors are getting increasingly worried about.

Russia spy story

How Russia uses sex to ensnare Western diplomats

Even in our age of high-tech cyberespionage, the oldest tricks can be the most effective.

A prison guard transfers deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

Trump expels hundreds under Enemies Act as court rebukes law

The US is paying El Salvador to hold the Venezuelans under an agreement Secretary of State Marco Rubio brokered with the Central American country’s president.

A house still smouldering after fires swept through parts of Oklahoma at the weekend.

At least 39 dead in US as tornadoes, wildfires and dust wreak havoc

President Donald Trump said in a post on his social media network that his administration was ready to assist affected communities.

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