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Markets slide after Chinese tariffs, Trump’s demand that firms exit 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.
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 of the couple’s captivity that amends and sometimes contradicts her earlier statements.
Justice Ginsburg underwent radiation treatment for tumor on pancreas
In a statement, the Supreme Court said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated this month for “a localized malignant tumor” and that there’s no evidence of disease elsewhere in her body.
How drug dealers exploited the U.S. Postal Service to ship in fentanyl as crisis grew
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.
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Illinois health officials said that a person who used an e-cigarette recently and was hospitalized with severe lung illness has died.
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?
Music Review
On Swift’s latest album, “Lover,” spontaneity and ambiguity remain her mortal enemies, and across 18 tracks, she vanquishes them 18 different ways. You know what you’re in for, which seems to be the entire point.
Chat Transcript
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax fielded readers’ questions about the strange train we call life.
Campaign 2020At least nine Democratic presidential hopefuls will probably miss the September debate stage — and will see their profiles sharply downgraded within days.
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