The American government this week placed a 17 percent duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff. Proponents said the import tax will help rebuild the shrinking United States tomato industry and ensure that produce eaten in the U.S. also is grown there. Mexico currently supplies about [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence to China. The news came in a company blog post, and Huang also spoke about the coup on China’s state-run CGTN television network in remarks [...]

The Trump administration is suing the state of California to block animal welfare laws that it says unconstitutionally helped send egg prices soaring. A group that spearheaded the requirements pushed back, however, blaming bird flu for the hit to consumers’ pocketbooks. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, challenges voter initiatives that passed in [...]

HAVANA (AP) — The United States government last week announced it is sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top officials for human rights violations and restricting access to visas on the anniversary of the biggest protests on the island in recent decades. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media platform X [...]

SENECA, S.C. (AP) — The first presidential primary votes won’t be cast for another two and a half years and yet, over the span of 10 days in July, three Democratic presidential prospects are scheduled to campaign in South Carolina. Nearly a half dozen others have made recent pilgrimages to South Carolina, New Hampshire and [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The U.S. State Department fired more than 1,300 employees last week in line with a reorganization plan from the Trump administration. The department sent layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, according to a senior department official who spoke [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said in a letter that he will raise taxes on many imported goods from Canada to 35 percent. The letter sent last week to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is an increase to the top 25 percent tariff rates that Trump first imposed in March after months of threats. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are urging seven American universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government. In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist [...]