An Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community cooks near her baby as wind turbines operate in the distance on the outskirts of Cabo de la Vela, Colombia, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
Bicycles are displayed at a Walmart, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Groton, Conn. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)The Penn-Wharton Budget Model’s April report predicted that the Republican president’s tariffs
by about 6% and wages by 5%.A major caveat of the CBO’s estimates is written into the report — its estimates are “subject to significant uncertainty, in part because the Administration could change how the tariff policies are administered.”Trump has often announced
on his social media platform.In April, he posted that he was backing off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days and jacking up the tax rate on
on steel and aluminum imports to a punishing 50%, a move that’s set to hammer businesses and likely
for consumers even further. The 50% tariffs went into effect Wednesday.Siga a Andrea Rodríguez en X:
BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s president on Wednesday urged Western backers to speed up deliveries of air defense systems to counter Russian missile strikes and to help boost weapons production.The emphasis should be on U.S.-made Patriot systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskky told a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
“These are the most effective way to force Russia to stop its missile strikes and terror,” he said via video link, urging representatives of around 50 countries to make good on past pledges.did not attend, the first time a