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General Motors is abandoning a previous forecast for solid profit growth this year as a result of the uncertainty created by President Trump’s trade policies, the automaker said on Tuesday.The Trump administration imposed a 25 percent tariffs on imported cars this month and has said it will impose a 25 percent duty on imported parts on Saturday. About half the cars that G.M. sells in the United States in a typical year are made abroad, mostly in Canada and Mexico.“We are not going to give any more forward guidance on tariffs until we have more clarity,” the company’s chief financial…

It was May 1996, and David Kaczynski, a counselor for troubled youth in upstate New York, sat down to write a letter to his brother Ted. A month earlier, his brother had been shockingly unmasked as the shadowy Unabomber, responsible for a 17-year campaign of bombings that had killed and maimed people across the country.Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history. He was now…

President Trump is marking the first 100 days in office of his second term on Tuesday evening with a speech in Macomb County, Michigan, outside Detroit. He’s expected to hit the highlights of his second term so far, including mass deportation operations, efforts to shrink the size and scope of government and the changes he’s making to the global trade landscape. Those endeavors have not gone unopposed, prompting scores of lawsuits filed by ousted government employees, migrants fighting their deportation and business owners who argue the president’s tariffs are unlawful.Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, is hosting the president for his remarks. “[I]nflation…

Signs direct traffic to the immigration court parking lot in Chicago, Ill., in August 2024. Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images President Trump is chipping away at the right to due process within the immigration court system, immigration lawyers and former judges say, in an effort to fast-track deportations. Over the course of his first few months in office, the administration has removed some protections from deportation, cancelled grants that provided legal representation to children, fired dozens of the judges responsible for hearing cases, and moved individuals to far-flung locations — including…

During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump pledged to quickly bring down prices for American households, including making housing more affordable.“We’re going to open up tracts of federal land for housing construction,” Mr. Trump said in August. “We desperately need housing for people who can’t afford what’s going on now.”The Trump administration is now trying to follow through on that promise. Last month, federal officials created a task force that would identify and release federal land that could be used for housing development.The announcement is the first major initiative the Trump administration has rolled out to address the nation’s affordable…

Nearly 100 former employees and prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., have signed a memo opposing President Trump’s nominee to lead the office.  The memo is the latest effort by critics of acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to stop his Senate confirmation for the permanent role, which is among the most powerful federal prosecutor positions in the country. The letter was signed by a group of former prosecutors who served in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office across seven decades, under administrations from Lyndon B. Johnson’s through Joe Biden’s. The memo, a copy of which was shared with…

The chaos and cruelty of the Trump administration reaches new lows each week. Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” has wreaked havoc on the world economy and set up yet another constitutional crisis at home. Plainclothes officers continue to abduct university students off the streets. So-called “enemy aliens” are flown abroad to a mega prison against the orders of the courts. And Signalgate promises to be the first of many incompetence scandals that expose the brutal violence at the core of the American empire. At a time when elite universities, powerful law firms, and influential media outlets are capitulating to Trump’s intimidation,…

The Trump administration said it plans to announce measures as early as Tuesday to ease the impact of tariffs on imported cars and car parts to give automakers more time to relocate production to the United States.Tariffs of 25 percent on imported vehicles and on auto parts will remain in place. But the tariffs will be modified so that they are not “stacked” with other tariffs, for example on steel and aluminum, a White House spokesman said. Automakers will not have to pay tariffs on those metals, widely used in automobiles, on top of the tariffs on cars and parts.In…

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The head of a Peace Corps alumni group said on Monday he had been informed that the agency was planning to reduce the number of full-time staff who support volunteers overseas.The official, Dan Baker, president and chief executive of the National Peace Corps Association, said he had heard the news the same day from Cheryl Faye, who is the Peace Corps’ acting deputy chief executive. He said he was told that the cuts were planned at the behest of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and other…