FROM BBC NEWS
US President Donald Trump has shaken the foundations of global trade, slapping steep tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of goods from the EU, Canada, Mexico and China.
All these countries are responding in kind, retaliating with levies on thousands of US products.
This puts the world’s largest economies at each other’s throats.
But what is a trade war? How does protectionism work? And how will it all affect you?
The president and top administration officials say U.S. laws or court rulings are forcing them to separate families that are caught trying to cross the southern border.
These claims are false. Immigrant families are being separated primarily because the Trump administration in April began to prosecute as many border-crossing offenses as possible. This “zero-tolerance policy” applies to all adults, regardless of whether they cross alone or with their children.
Administration officials have pointed to “the law” as the reason why undocumented children are being separated from their parents. But there’s no such law. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
from The New York Times by Mikayla Bouchard The special counsel is investigating events that span years and cross international borders. The basics Russia carried out a campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 American presidential election, denigrating Hillary Clinton and boosting Donald J. Trump, according to American intelligence …
This is worth following – Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street expert, has been chronicling the administration’s actions every week – she’s now on week 32.
Click here to read her weekly summary.
