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Nikita YadavBBC News, Delhi@MEAIndia/XVance (left) and Modi discussed matters related to trade, defence and bilateral cooperationIndia and the US are making progress in negotiating a bilateral trade deal, the countries said after a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice-President JD Vance in Delhi.Vance is currently on a four-day visit to India with his wife and three children.”We are committed to mutually beneficial cooperation, including in trade, technology, defence, energy and people-to-people exchanges,” Modi wrote on X after the meeting on Monday night. He also hosted a dinner for Vance and his family at his residence.India is among a…

Wall Street weakened Monday as investors worldwide became more skeptical about American investments, something many economists suggest is due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and his ongoing criticism of the Federal Reserve.The S&P 500 sank 2.4 per cent in another wipeout. That yanked the index 16 per cent below its record set two months ago.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 971 points, or 2.5 per cent, while losses for Tesla and Nvidia helped drag the Nasdaq composite down 2.6 per cent.In Canada, the main S&P/TSX composite index fell 0.76 per cent today. Perhaps more worryingly, U.S. government bonds and the value of the…

ARGUMENT ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Apr 21, 2025 at 8:37 pm A decision in Monday’s case will likely come in June. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to side with the federal government in a dispute over the constitutionality of the structure of a task force within the Department of Health and Human Services. The case came to court as a dispute over a 2019 decision by the group, known as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, to recommend PrEP, the HIV-preventative medications, for coverage as a “preventative health service” at no cost to patients. The challengers…

Fourteen years ago, I wrote an article for a business journal that summarized a dinner conversation I had with my 4-year-old daughter. She asked me to explain “What is a re-sezz-ee-un?” By the end of our conversation, her greatest concern shining through her little green eyes was whether Santa Claus himself would be experiencing any effects of that “re-sez-ee-un.” Much has changed since that conversation. That particular recession eventually ended, only later to be replaced by what some economists called a second one. The Cubs finally won a World Series. We sent an unmanned spacecraft to Pluto. An unprecedented world…

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Getty ImagesUS stocks and the dollar plunged again as President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on US central bank boss calling him “a major loser” for not lowering interest rates.In a social media post, Trump called on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates “pre-emptively” to help boost the economy, saying Powell had been consistently too slow to respond to economic developments. “There can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW,” he wrote.Trump’s criticism of Powell’s handling of the US economy comes as his own plans for tariffs…

U.S. President Donald Trump stands behind Pete Hegseth, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Monday, after reports the defence secretary shared details of a March attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.”The president absolutely has confidence in Secretary Hegseth. I spoke to him [Trump] about it this morning, and he stands behind him,” Leavitt told reporters.Revelations Hegseth used the unclassified messaging system Signal to share highly sensitive security details for the second time come at a delicate moment for him, as senior officials were ousted from the Pentagon last week as part of…

WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Apr 21, 2025 at 11:22 am The Supreme Court kicks off the final argument of the 2024-25 term today with arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management and Parrish v. U.S. Read Amy Howe on Braidwood, a dispute over a group’s objection to the HHS task force that determines which preventive services, such as the HIV prevention drugs known as PrEP, must be covered by the Affordable Care Act. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine,…

Home Daily News Judge finds probable cause to hold US in… Constitutional Law Judge finds probable cause to hold US in contempt; is Trump administration ‘at the cusp of outright defiance’? By Debra Cassens Weiss April 16, 2025, 3:53 pm CDT Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2023. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images) A federal judge who banned the Trump administration from removing Venezuelan immigrants from the United States ruled Wednesday that there…