U.S., China dig in over trade; Trump calls on firms to leave China
After Beijing said it would impose new tariffs on U.S. goods, President Trump said on Twitter that “American companies are hereby ordered" to seek an alternative to China. The White House doesn’t have the authority to enforce such directives.
Trump calls the Fed chair an ‘enemy’ after Powell said trade war is ‘turbulent’
The president’s latest attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell triggered a stock market slide.
How fentanyl flowed through the U.S. Postal Service and across the southern border
Vulnerabilities that allowed vast quantities of the drug into the United States went unaddressed for years as tens of thousands of Americans died from overdoses.
Caitlan Coleman with children Dhakwoen and Ma'idah at a park. (Mary F. Calvert for The Post)
Coleman, her husband, Joshua Boyle, and their two children in a video released by the Taliban in December 2016. (AP)
Joshua Boyle, left, and his father, Patrick Boyle, arrive at court March 25 in Ottawa. Joshua Boyle is being tried on 19 counts of abuse. (AP)
An American woman who gave birth as a Taliban hostage says she faced second ‘imprisonment’ from husband
In interviews with The Post, Caitlan Coleman described years of subjugation at the hands of militants and, she alleges, her husband — an account that appears to fill in gaps in what had been a perplexing public narrative of the couple’s captivity.
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2020 Power Ranking
Attorneys for Capital One and Deutsche Bank refused to say whether President Trump's tax returns are among the documents that House committees are seeking in the case.
David Koch
1940–2019 Through a network of well-financed advocacy groups, David Koch and his brother, Charles, achieved their greatest distinction, spreading an uncompromising anti-government gospel that moved the Republican Party steadily to the right.
Analysis
A comically short field, an injured star and weather issues. Does anyone still think the preseason needs to be so long?
France wants to minimize the chances that President Trump will blow up the Group of Seven summit. Subjects on which to tread lightly include some of the biggest problems facing the world.
The hospitals he visited in El Paso and Dayton said that isn’t what happened — and that doctors would never pause surgery to greet the president.
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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax fielded readers’ questions about the strange train we call life.
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