China countered President Donald Trump'sacross-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports. It will also launch an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures. The U.S., Canada and Mexico have all agreed to pause planned tariffs for at least a month as negotiations over border security continue.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him. "If they did that they would be obliterated," Trump said in an exchange with reporters while signing an executive order calling for the U.S. government to impose maximum pressure on Tehran.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico - now on hold for a month - risked blowing up North America's economy. What did the United States get out of his deals to pause the import taxes against the two nations? Not all that much, according to people outside the administration looking at the agreements.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls’ sporting events.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran’s government seems to be welcoming some recent decisions by the United States - even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - With an open presidential primary coming in 2028, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is launching an offensive to win back supporters of the Republican leader whom he dared to challenge in the last election. And he’s doing so by latching onto President Donald Trump’s most prominent issue - immigration.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing and abducting people, sparking a crushing Israeli military operation there that’s only recently reached an uneasy ceasefire.