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President Donald Trump has launched a global tariff campaign. Will it continue and where is it headed?As the Trump administration seeks to renegotiate trade deals with the rest of the world, the stock market has experienced increased volatility, causing panic among some investors. What should people do?

The funeral mass for Pope Francis will take place on Saturday. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Argentinian President Javier Milei, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, and other world leaders are heading to Rome for the funeral.U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met President Vladimir Putin for three hours in Moscow on Friday to discuss the U.S. plan to end the Ukraine war, and the Kremlin said the two sides' positions had moved closer.The FBI arrested a Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, circuit judge for allegedly assisting an illegal immigrant in evading arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on obstruction charges, Patel confirmed in a post on X.

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere at the White House on April 24. Accompanied by his finance minister, Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian leader's visit underscores the delicate balance of transatlantic relations amid rising trade disputes and shared security imperatives. Topics of discussion will include trade and regional security, among other issues, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a briefing on April 22.Russia attacked Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 70, according to Ukrainian officials. It appears to have been Russia's biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital in nine months. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told investors on Tuesday that the time he is spending with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will “drop significantly” as he moves to spend more time on his auto company. The remarks came as Tesla announced on April 22 that both revenue and profits fell significantly in the first quarter of 2025, with the company struggling to deal with competitive pressure and negative political sentiment against Musk.Fire officials said Wednesday that the wildfire in southern New Jersey has been contained. Since Tuesday, the blaze has burned more than 11,500 acres and caused the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.At least 26 people were killed and 17 others wounded after assailants opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the worst assault targeting civilians in years. Tuesday’s attack took place in the picturesque town of Pahalgam in the Himalayan mountains, a popular vacation place for Indian visitors. Police accused rebels of masterminding the attack, which sparked outrage and drew international condemnation, including from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Pope Francis will be laid to rest on Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica, where the Catholic faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects. The funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square. President Donald Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump plan to attend, while Argentine President Javier Milei is also expected to be present.The United States is looking to sell more energy and defense equipment to India, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday during a visit to the country, adding that ties between the two nations will shape the century. "If India and the United States work together successfully, we're going to see a 21st century that is prosperous and peaceful," he said in a speech in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur. "But I also believe that if we fail to work together successfully, the 21st century could be a very dark time for all of humanity." 

World leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, have reacted to the death of Pope Francis. The pope died early on Monday morning after being hospitalized with double pneumonia earlier this year. "Rest in Peace Pope Francis! May God Bless him and all who loved him!", Trump wrote on social media platform Truth Social.Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which gathers the world's business and political elite in the Swiss mountain village of Davos each year, has resigned as chair of its board of trustees, the WEF said on Monday. "Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect," Schwab wrote in a statement released by the WEF.Trump stands behind U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, after reports that he shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

New Yorkers flock to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral to show off their best Easter bonnets in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade. NTD’s Stefania Cox takes us there—live.Ukraine's military says Russia is violating the Easter cease-fire announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday. A military spokesperson added there wasn’t much hope for a cease-fire to hold.The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily pausing the Trump administration’s effort to deport illegal immigrants who are also members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Two justices dissented.

The United States is optimistic it can put an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, Vice President JD Vance said on Friday as he met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the second time in 24 hours. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia–Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days. “It’s not our war,” Rubio said. “We have other priorities to focus on.” He said the U.S. government will decide its course “in a matter of days.”More than 10,000 pages of previously classified government records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released by the Trump administration on Friday.

President Donald Trump on Thursday at the White House greeted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a close ally who wants to act as a power broker between Washington and Europe amid tensions over U.S tariffs.Alphabet's Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday.European and Ukrainian officials held talks in Paris to plead Kyiv's case to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff.

The United States is set to begin negotiations with Japan in Washington on Wednesday on tariffs and the cost of U.S. military support. "I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries," President Donald Trump wrote in a post on social media platform Truth Social.A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he the administration must try to “purge” itself of a contempt finding or he will launch hearings and potentially refer the matter for prosecution.The Department of Justice is seeking a federal court injunction requiring Pine Tree State schools to immediately stop transgender boys from competing in girls’ sports and return all athletic records and titles to their rightful female owners.

Wall Street rose on Tuesday, boosted by the possibility of tariff relief for the auto sector and gains in financial stocks after Citigroup and Bank of America's results. President Donald Trump on Monday hinted at potential exemptions for the 25% tariffs imposed on imports of autos and auto parts. Meanwhile, the administration is proceeding with probes into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on grounds that extensive reliance on foreign production of medicine and chips is a national security threat, Federal Register filings on Monday showed.Former President Joe Biden is expected to make an early evening speech to the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago. The 82-year-old Democrat has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, which is typically the tradition for immediate past presidents.If you haven't completed your 2024 tax return, today is April 15, also known as “Tax Day,” the deadline for filing your federal income tax return with the IRS. While most U.S. taxpayers have already done so with their tax preparers, about 101 million have yet to do so.

President Donald Trump met on Monday with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. Trump 's top advisers and Bukele said they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. “The question is preposterous,” Bukele said. “I don't have the power to return him to the United States.”Global technology stocks rose on Monday after the United States exempted electronics such as smartphones and computer hardware from its steep reciprocal tariffs on China, offering relief to a sector battered by supply-chain uncertainty. Apple shares were up 5.5 percent in U.S. premarket trading. Other consumer product companies, including computer hardware makers HP and Dell Technologies, surged 6 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively, while chip giant Nvidia was up 1.8 percent as part of a broad-based recovery in semiconductor stocks.

A high-stakes showdown over trade is taking shape between the world’s two largest economies. China is ratcheting up duties on American imports to 125 percent. The move comes in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest reciprocal tariffs of 145 percent on Chinese imports.How will this impact the economy in the United States and around the world? U.S. tariffs are also being imposed on other countries, though at much lower rates. Where is all this leading?

Beijing announced on Friday that it is increasing tariffs on U.S. imports from 84 percent to 125 percent in retaliation against the U.S. decision to hike duties on Chinese goods to a total of 145 percent. The new tariff rate will come into force on Saturday, China’s finance ministry announced.A small airplane crashed after leaving the Boca Raton, Florida airport in the morning. All three people on board were killed and one was injured on the ground. The NTSB and FAA will provide further updates on the investigation in the coming hours.President Donald Trump will undergo his first physical examination of his second term at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. Trump, who turns 79 in June, is the oldest person to assume the presidency.

The House on Thursday passed a budget plan that lays the groundwork for extending President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, despite opposition from all Democrats and two Republicans who worried that it does not cut spending sufficiently. The 216-214 House vote is a preliminary - but required - step that would enable Republicans to bypass Democratic opposition and pass tax cut legislation along party lines later this year.The European Union will pause its first countermeasures against U.S. tariffs after Trump temporarily lowered the hefty duties he recently imposed on dozens of countries, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. The bloc was due to launch counter-tariffs on about 21 billion euros ($23.25 billion) of U.S. imports from next Tuesday in response to Trump's 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum. The EU is still assessing how to respond to U.S. car tariffs and the broader 10 percent levies still in place.Military officials are testifying on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the national security challenges and the military posture of U.S. armed forces in the Indo-Pacific region. 

Beijing announced a tariff hike on U.S. imports to 84% from 34%, shortly after America's 104% tariffs on Chinese imports kicked in on Wednesday. The EU said it would impose 25% tariffs on a range of U.S. imports in a first round of countermeasures. The 27-member bloc faces U.S. tariffs of 20% on most products and higher duties on autos and steel. Countermeasures in Canada, a close U.S. ally and major trading partner, also took effect on Wednesday.U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testified on Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee on President Donald Trump's 2025 trade policy agenda.

Wall Street's main indexes on Tuesday recouped some of the heavy losses clocked since last week as technology and financials led the gains on expectations that the U.S. would open up for negotiations on tariffs. Meanwhile, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies before the Senate Finance Committee regarding President Trump's 2025 trade policy.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort in the three-year-old war.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he may impose an additional 50 percent tariff on Chinese imports if Beijing does not withdraw its retaliatory levies on U.S. goods. And the three major U.S. stock markets opened lower but saw gains later in the morning amid uncertainty over recent tariff announcements.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Trump on Monday. Netanyahu said on April 6 that he hopes the president will ease the tariffs he imposed on Israel. Netanyahu said in a statement that the talks will also cover the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza some 18 months after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, and how Israel proposes to achieve victory in Gaza

China announced a raft of additional tariffs and restrictions on U.S. goods on Friday in retaliation against the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Beijing said that, starting on April 10, it would impose additional tariffs of 34 percent on all U.S. products. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also unveiled controls on exports of rare-earth elements to the United States, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium, effective from Friday.Trump said on April 3 that he would potentially consider an agreement where China agrees to approve the sale of social media platform TikTok from its parent company, ByteDance, in return for relief from the tariffs he recently imposed on the nation’s imports. He said the TikTok sale is an example of how he could use tariffs as negotiation tactics with other nations.

U.S. and global markets plunged after Trump’s announcement the US will impose 10 percent universal tariffs, higher rates for countries with more trade barriers. Meanwhile, Canada will impose a 25% tariff on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, Prime Minister Mark Carney told a press conference on Thursday.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to examine the nomination of David Perdue to be the U.S. ambassador to China.New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would run for reelection as an independent, not as a Democrat as he did in his first, successful mayoral bid.

President Donald Trump is expected to impose sweeping reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday. Styled by Trump as America’s “Liberation Day,” details of the tariff plans were still being formulated ahead of a White House Rose Garden announcement ceremony scheduled for 4 p.m. ET. The new duties will take effect immediately after Trump announces them, while a separate 25 percent global tariff on auto imports will take effect on April 3.The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday to question Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg on the planemaker’s recent safety issues and other hot-button topics. The hearing will examine the steps Boeing has taken to address production deficiencies and safety issues identified after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 lost a door plug mid-flight last year.

Wisconsinites are voting in a highly contested race to become the state's Supreme Court justice. The race has become a proxy battle for both liberal and conservative donors who have spent more than $81 million in a contest both sides say will shape the future of the state—and the nation. Meanwhile, special elections are underway for two major congressional districts in Florida.U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division Brian Thompson in New York last year.The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, and the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, held a joint hearing on Tuesday to examine the constitutional limits of federal courts, with a focus on recent temporary judgements and injunctions against President Donald Trump's executive orders. 

President Donald Trump said that reciprocal tariffs he is set to announce this week will include all nations, not just a smaller group of 10 to 15 countries with the biggest trade imbalances. "You'd start with all countries," he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. "Essentially all of the countries that we're talking about."Three of the four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog have been found dead at the site, while the search for the remaining soldier continues, the Lithuanian president said on Monday.The Thai government announced a probe on March 29 of a 33-story building that collapsed during the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake in neighboring Burma, with nine construction workers confirmed dead and around 100 still missing. The building was a joint Thai–Chinese construction project. Located some 800 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, the building was the only high-rise in Thailand to collapse during the March 28 quake.

Is the United States headed for a recession, or is the risk of recession overplayed? Christian Briggs, economist and CEO of Hard Asset Management, and Daniel LaCalle, chief economist at Tressis, will analyze economic indicators. This panel will explore inflation, job markets, and interest rates, offering insights on potential risks and solutions.

Burma's ruling military regime declared a state of emergency in multiple regions on March 28 after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country. The quake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing more than 140 people and causing extensive damage, with rescuers in Bangkok searching for 81 people in the rubble of a collapsed building.President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in his legal battle regarding the Alien Enemies Act. The emergency appeal calls for the nation’s highest court to overturn a previous order from a U.S. district judge that blocked additional deportations related to the Act.