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US President Donald Trump.

Trump changes course again, delays tariffs on some Mexican, Canadian imports

The taxes proposed by the US president have caused a gaping wound in the decades-old North American trade partnership.

  • Christopher Rugaber

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Donald Trump’s escalating trade war has set off a market sell-down on Wall Street and on stock exchanges around the world.

Has the market’s Trump bet been wiped out? Maybe – or maybe not

Investors are confused whether the market sell-down in response to Donald Trump’s punitive trade policies will prompt him to limit them after all, after his Commerce secretary flagged a potential tariff compromise.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Billy McFarland, who was handed a six-year prison term for criminal conduct associated with the 2017 Fyre Festival, has launched Fyre 2.

‘Crazy not to do it again’: Fraudster returns with Fyre Festival 2

After eight years, a prison sentence and a scathing documentary, Billy McFarland is back with a sequel, with tickets priced up to $1.7 million and no acts yet confirmed.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
President Donald Trump.

Trump bans major US news agency for refusing to rename Gulf of Mexico

The US president has been accused of violating the First Amendment after indefinitely barring The Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

  • Michael Koziol
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are at the opposite ends of the fentanyl crisis in the US.

How drug labs in China fuel Trump’s global trade war

The Wuhan company didn’t bother with the dark web. It spruiked its goods right in the open, showing mounds of white powder that were available in a “Mexico hot sale″⁣.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Trump may have to rethink his belief that trade wars are “easy to win”.

Dumb and dumber: Trump’s war on the world is not going to plan

Donald Trump just aimed his most powerful weapon at his closest trade allies and has gained nothing substantial.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump signs executive order as Rupert Murdoch looks on in White House.

Rupert Murdoch in Oval Office as Trump shakes up trade ties with Mexico, Canada

The US president paused tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports and praised the “legendary” media mogul even as he lashed Murdoch’s newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese goods.

‘We have to stand up to him’: Trump tariffs could hit Australia

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been warned Australia may be unable to again escape crushing tariffs on Australian exports.

  • Matthew Knott, Simon Johanson and David Swan
Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is positioned as anti-drugs. It’s really about something else.

Trump has lobbed a trade bomb at Canada. It may just blow up in his face

Canadians are naturally wondering why their long-standing status as close neighbours, friends, allies and partners seems to count for nothing.

  • Michael Koziol

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