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President Trump’s shake-up of the global trade system has sent tremors through the long-held view that the United States is the source of the world’s safest financial assets. That’s created an opportunity for Europe.The market tumult in which investors simultaneously sold off the U.S. dollar, American stocks and U.S. Treasury bonds eased last week as Mr. Trump backed off his threats to fire the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to reassure foreign officials that trade deals would be struck.But many European officials attending the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World…

Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first Black secretary of labor, a position in which she helped settle a crippling strike by United Parcel Service workers, died on Friday in Washington. She was 77.Her death, after a brief illness, was announced by her family. The announcement did not say where in Washington she died.President Bill Clinton was familiar with Ms. Herman when he nominated her as labor secretary in his second term. She had been the chief executive of the 1992 Democratic National Convention; deputy director of…

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At least one person was killed and other people were injured on Sunday night when a boat struck a ferry with dozens of passengers aboard near the Memorial Causeway Bridge in Clearwater, Fla., the authorities said.The driver of the boat that hit the Clearwater Ferry, which was carrying 45 people, fled after the crash, the Clearwater Police Department said on social media. At least two people were taken to local hospitals by helicopter, the police said.It was unclear what had led to the crash, and the police did not say how many people had been injured. There were six people…

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan argued Sunday that “due process” was applied when a two-year-old child who is a U.S. citizen was removed to Honduras along with her mother, who was deported.Louisiana Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty wrote in an order Friday that there was a “strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process,” after the 2-year-old was sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister.But Homan said “the judge was due process,” adding on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the two-year-old’s mother “had due process at great taxpayer…

Donald Trump’s intimidation tactics are not new. At the height of the civil rights movement, segregationists harassed our civil rights lawyers. Ad Policy People take part in a massive anti-Trump “Hands Off” protest and march in New York City, New York, April 5, 2025.(Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu via Getty Images) In our collective imagination, there’s a common nightmare about how democracies fall. Tanks rolling in. War breaking out. Blood spilled. But history tells a different story—less dramatic, but no less devastating. Most democracies don’t die by gunfire. They die gradually. Quietly. Passively. A right revoked. A freedom restricted. A norm…

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois strode into a ballroom filled with top New Hampshire Democrats on Sunday and by the end of his nearly 30-minute speech had them ready to storm the political barricades against President Trump.“It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once,” he told the group of Democratic activists, officials and donors, who jumped to their feet with hoots and applause. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.”“The reckoning is finally here,” he declared.For the Trump administration,…

Police and fire crews were responding to a boat crash that injured several people near Clearwater, Florida. The exact number of injuries was not immediately known, but the fire department declared it a mass casualty incident, the Clearwater Police Department said.Six people were declared “trauma alerts,” the city of Clearwater said, and two of those who were “more seriously injured” were taken away by helicopter, police said. According to police, a Clearwater Ferry carrying more than 40 people was in a collision with another boat, which fled the scene of the crash. All the people who were injured were on board…

Hasan Piker thinks being a man is simple.Like many of the successful internet personalities who appeal to a generation of young men, Mr. Piker, a 33-year-old Twitch and YouTube streamer, is a “bro”: He likes weapons, inhales supplements, uses nicotine pouches and ruminates endlessly on the legacy of LeBron James. But unlike many of his contemporaries, Mr. Piker, an avowed socialist, is just as at ease dressing in French maid drag as he is on a basketball court.In the six years since he started his daily online broadcasts about culture and politics, Mr. Piker has become a streaming star: He…

American forces have hit more than 800 targets in Yemen during an ongoing air campaign that began six weeks ago against the Houthi militia, the U.S. military said on Sunday.The military said the targets of the strikes, called Operation Rough Rider, included “multiple command-and-control facilities, air defense systems, advanced weapons manufacturing facilities and advanced weapons storage locations.”Among the arms and equipment in stockpiles struck by the Americans were antiship ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, the types of weapons that the Houthis have used against ships in the Red Sea, the military said. The details were outlined in an announcement…