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China announced a raft of additional tariffs and restrictions on U.S. goods on Friday in retaliation against the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Beijing said that, starting on April 10, it would impose additional tariffs of 34 percent on all U.S. products. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also unveiled controls on exports of rare-earth elements to the United States, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium, effective from Friday.

Trump said on April 3 that he would potentially consider an agreement where China agrees to approve the sale of social media platform TikTok from its parent company, ByteDance, in return for relief from the tariffs he recently imposed on the nation’s imports. He said the TikTok sale is an example of how he could use tariffs as negotiation tactics with other nations.

U.S. and global markets plunged after Trump’s announcement the US will impose 10 percent universal tariffs, higher rates for countries with more trade barriers. Meanwhile, Canada will impose a 25% tariff on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, Prime Minister Mark Carney told a press conference on Thursday.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to examine the nomination of David Perdue to be the U.S. ambassador to China.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would run for reelection as an independent, not as a Democrat as he did in his first, successful mayoral bid.

President Donald Trump is expected to impose sweeping reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday. Styled by Trump as America’s “Liberation Day,” details of the tariff plans were still being formulated ahead of a White House Rose Garden announcement ceremony scheduled for 4 p.m. ET. The new duties will take effect immediately after Trump announces them, while a separate 25 percent global tariff on auto imports will take effect on April 3.

The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday to question Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg on the planemaker’s recent safety issues and other hot-button topics. The hearing will examine the steps Boeing has taken to address production deficiencies and safety issues identified after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 lost a door plug mid-flight last year.

Wisconsinites are voting in a highly contested race to become the state's Supreme Court justice. The race has become a proxy battle for both liberal and conservative donors who have spent more than $81 million in a contest both sides say will shape the future of the state—and the nation. Meanwhile, special elections are underway for two major congressional districts in Florida.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division Brian Thompson in New York last year.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, and the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, held a joint hearing on Tuesday to examine the constitutional limits of federal courts, with a focus on recent temporary judgements and injunctions against President Donald Trump's executive orders.

President Donald Trump said that reciprocal tariffs he is set to announce this week will include all nations, not just a smaller group of 10 to 15 countries with the biggest trade imbalances. "You'd start with all countries," he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. "Essentially all of the countries that we're talking about."

Three of the four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog have been found dead at the site, while the search for the remaining soldier continues, the Lithuanian president said on Monday.

The Thai government announced a probe on March 29 of a 33-story building that collapsed during the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake in neighboring Burma, with nine construction workers confirmed dead and around 100 still missing. The building was a joint Thai–Chinese construction project. Located some 800 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, the building was the only high-rise in Thailand to collapse during the March 28 quake.

Is the United States headed for a recession, or is the risk of recession overplayed? Christian Briggs, economist and CEO of Hard Asset Management, and Daniel LaCalle, chief economist at Tressis, will analyze economic indicators. This panel will explore inflation, job markets, and interest rates, offering insights on potential risks and solutions.

Burma's ruling military regime declared a state of emergency in multiple regions on March 28 after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country. The quake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing more than 140 people and causing extensive damage, with rescuers in Bangkok searching for 81 people in the rubble of a collapsed building.

President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in his legal battle regarding the Alien Enemies Act. The emergency appeal calls for the nation’s highest court to overturn a previous order from a U.S. district judge that blocked additional deportations related to the Act.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will eliminate about 10,000 full-time jobs in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and close regional offices. The latest job cuts and about 10,000 recent voluntary redundancies will reduce the number of full-time employees at the department from 82,000 to 62,000, the HHS said.

Canada and Europe are considering retaliatory measures after the White House announced 25 percent U.S. tariffs on imported cars and car parts, starting next month. The European Union said today the block is preparing robust and calibrated response to the new U-S tariffs.

The Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation held a hearing on Thursday to examine preliminary findings from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the deadly crash involving American Airlines 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January. Officials from the NTSB, Federal Aviation Administration, and U.S. Army testified.

The Atlantic on Wednesday published more messages from the Signal group that included top U.S. officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on social media platform X that “The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans.’”

Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund public media? That’s the heart of the question of a hearing on Capitol Hill today. The Oversight committee's DOGE panel is probing the CEO’s of NPR and PBS. Republicans accuse the outlets of reporting bias in favor of Democrats, while democrats say there are bigger issues at hand that should take priority.

The Supreme Court upheld a regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns" imposed by the previous administration in a crackdown on firearms whose use has proliferated in crimes nationwide, finding the measure to be consistent with a 1968 federal law.

The United States said it has made separate agreements with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea.

The Trump administration sought on Tuesday to contain the fallout after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief at The Atlantic, alleged that he had been accidentally added to a group chat with several top U.S. officials discussing the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes against Houthi terrorists in Yemen last week. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, both of whom were in the chat, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that no classified material was shared in the Signal group chat.