Trump orders consumer protection agency to stop work

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.

China lashes out at US 'coercion' of Panama

BEIJING (AP) - China on Friday lashed out at what it called U.S. "coercion" after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington's threat to take back the Panama Canal.

Editorials from Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

What did US get to pause tariffs? Not much

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.

Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes.

Trump tariffs carry higher economic risks

WASHINGTON (AP) - When Donald Trump started the biggest trade war since the 1930s in his first term, his impulsive combination of threats and import taxes on U.S. trading partners created chaos, generated drama — and drew criticism from mainstream economists who favor free trade.

Trump tariff threats hang over Italian fashion industry

MILAN (AP) - The head of Italy’s fashion chamber said he has appealed to its government to protect the country’s second-largest industry from possible tariffs from the Trump administration.

Trump says US Steel will get investment from Nippon Steel

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Nippon Steel would no longer buy U.S. Steel as planned, but the Japanese company would instead invest in the symbolically important American business.