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President Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners, a move that risks unleashing a damaging trade war.Trade wars were a feature of Mr. Trump’s first term in the White House, too. But his latest tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, which are set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, significantly broaden the scale of disruptions. More than a third of the goods and services imported to or bought from the United States are linked to the three countries, supporting tens of millions of American jobs.Here’s what to…

The Food and Drug Administration has upgraded its December recall of some chocolate- and yogurt-covered products made by Cal Yee Farm to its highest level of severity.The agency warned this week of potentially serious, or even deadly, consequences from eating the products for those who have an allergy or sensitivity to almonds, milk, sesame, soy, wheat and the synthetic dye FD&C No. 6.Cal Yee Farm of Suisun Valley, Calif., began voluntarily recalling some of its products on Dec. 12 because they were mislabeled, and contained ingredients that were not listed on their packages.No illnesses have been reported. The recall began…

In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me:Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings.Booked a Valentine’s Day date for me and my wife.Scheduled a haircut.It did these tasks mostly autonomously, although I did have to nudge it along from time to time and occasionally rescue it from a loop of failed attempts.If you’re just catching up — or if you’ve been distracted by the DeepSeek news this week, which has overshadowed all other A.I. news — Operator is a new so-called A.I. agent released…

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, was fired on Saturday, prematurely ending a five-year term that was scheduled to run through late 2026.“With so much power concentrated in the hands of a few, agencies like the C.F.P.B. have never been more critical,” Mr. Chopra wrote in a letter he posted on social media announcing his departure.Mr. Chopra expected to be fired immediately after President Trump took office, but he improbably hung on for nearly two weeks, even as the president ousted scores of other agency leaders. He used that time to impose a $2 million fine…

The flight path that an Army Black Hawk helicopter took before its fatal collision with an American Airlines regional jet, long a concern to aviation officials, was closed to most helicopters after the deadliest aviation accident in the United States in nearly a quarter of a century.The Federal Aviation Administration restricted two commonly used helicopter routes that run north and south along Washington’s Potomac River, both of which were traveled by the Black Hawk that smashed into the jet on Wednesday night, to all but the most essential flights.On Friday, Sean Duffy, the new U.S. transportation secretary, who oversees the…

I spoke to Marc Rowan, the C.E.O. of Apollo Global Management, about a provocative plan he believes could fundamentally reshape our economy and finally fix the federal budget. Whether it has a chance of being implemented is an open question, but Rowan’s ties to President Trump and the chatter the plan is generating means it could factor into budget talks later this year. Several weeks after President Trump won the election, he invited Marc Rowan, the co-founder and chief executive of Apollo Group, the giant private equity and credit firm, to Mar-a-Lago for a job interview to become the Treasury…

When Dennis Nixon started working at a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there was just a trickle of trade across the border with Mexico. Now, nearly a billion dollars of commerce and more than 15,000 trucks roll over the line every day just a quarter mile from his office, binding the economies of the United States and Mexico together.Laredo is America’s busiest port, and a conduit for car parts, gasoline, avocados and computers. “You cannot pick it apart anymore,” Mr. Nixon said of the U.S. and Mexican economies. Thirty years of economic integration under a free trade deal…

A Canadian man says his wife and 8-year-old son died because of food poisoning at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic, according to the civil suit filed at the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario on Monday.Stephen Gougeon, 38, a lawyer from Toronto, is seeking nearly $7 million in damages from the Viva Dominicus Beach by Wyndham resort, as well as a tour operator and other companies.Mr. Gougeon said his family vacation in December 2023 turned into a nightmare after he, his wife, April Gougeon, and their two young sons ate at the buffet on the first night of…

Airline pilots have warned of the potential dangers that helicopters posed in the Washington area before the fatal crash at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night.A database of aviation safety issues maintained by NASA details two startling incidents in recent years that involved passenger jets nearly colliding with helicopters near the airport. The database contains confidential, anonymized safety reports filed by pilots, air traffic controllers and others in aviation.In April 2024, an airline captain reported nearly crashing into a helicopter while approaching Reagan National. Just as the jet was configured to land, the plane’s anti-collision technology alerted its pilots that…

Companies in the United States do not appear to be making a concerted effort to rush in shipments from Mexico and Canada ahead of the high tariffs that President Trump has threatened to impose on Saturday.Mr. Trump said after taking office that the United States would apply tariffs of 25 percent on imports from Canada and Mexico, contending that they were allowing “mass numbers of people to come in and fentanyl to come in.”The tariffs would raise the cost of imports significantly, especially since tariffs are not applied to most goods under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade deal that Mr.…