内容摘要：Doris Hensley, center, and Don Allen look over the remains of her home following severe weather in London, Ky., Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Doris Hensley, center, and Don Allen look over the remains of her home following severe weather in London, Ky., Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

to revive the faltering coal industry — vows the president has renewed vigorously in his second term with new orders to deregulate mining. A Republican tax cut bill making its way through Congress contains a special carve-out provision allowing the mine to expand.But Thiele and his neighbors see a glimmer of hope in another Trump initiative, his “America first” approach to global trade. The Signal Peak mine sends 98% of the minerals it unearths to Japan and South Korea. If tariffs spark a trade war, they think it could inadvertently scuttle the mine’s expansion plans — an effort their

have so far only managed to slow.In effect, an escalating trade war could undermine Trump’s goal of saving coal.“As long as they’ve got somebody to buy it, they’ll keep mining,” said Thiele. “But a reaction could conceivably come from Japan and South Korea saying, ‘Well, if you’re going to tariff our shipbuilding or our products, fine, we’re not buying your damn coal.’”

Thiele, 77, assessed the situation as he stood atop a hillside charred by a wildfire. The former Army Ranger who served two combat tours in Vietnam took in a commanding view of the valley below, where his small herd of cattle grazed.He’s a political outlier in rural Musselshell County, Montana, where mining has been a bedrock of the economy for more than a century. It stands to benefit more than most places from Trump’s efforts, which for the most part have only slowed coal’s demise.

Eighty-five percent of Musselshell voters backed Trump in the 2024 presidential election. They viewed his victory as a reprieve from former President Joe Biden’s anti-coal policies, said Musselshell County Commission Chairman Robert Pancratz.

But worries tariffs could undermine coal’s comeback aren’t confined to Trump’s opponents., Madison Keys, Amanda Anisimova and Hailey Baptiste. “It’s exciting to see. Obviously you want to see your fellow countrymen do well on the other side, and I’m always actually keeping up with them quite a lot. So I hope they keep it going.”

Won’t be easy, of course, perhaps especially for the 13th-seeded Shelton, the big-serving lefty who goes up againstof Spain for a berth in the quarterfinals. No. 12 Paul takes on No. 25

of Australia; No. 15 Tiafoe meets unseeded Daniel Altmaier of Germany.Not since Courier and Pete Sampras in 1996 have multiple Americans made it to the quarterfinals in Paris.