1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1037+ words) With the St. Paul Police Department about 50 officers below its budgeted strength, the department says it has continued to have to backfill with overtime. The department’s authorized strength is 616 officers this year, but for at least five years it has…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (576+ words) Bessent said that getting even 19 countries to agree to take on the problem was “incredible” and shows “the sheer the enormity of the problem.” Bessent spoke after a two-day meeting of the 20 countries in Asheville, N.C. Bessent said earlier…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (801+ words) By PAUL WISEMAN and ROB GILLIES The prospects for compromise looked bleak Tuesday, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney reacting to new 50% U.S. tariffs on certain Canadian goods by responding in kind on about $20 billion worth of American imports, including steel,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1020+ words) By PAUL WISEMAN and ROB GILLIES Each side blamed the other for the collapse of negotiations in Washington late Friday, leading the U.S. to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods and Canada setting Sept. 8 as the start of its…...

3+ week, 50+ min ago   (878+ words) By JOHN HANNA and SARAH RAZA The U.S. plans to reopen a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico on Monday as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce record-high beef prices, though economists doubt the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (891+ words) From the week Donald Trump was inaugurated, tariffs – taxes on imports – have been the center of his economic program and the subject of much reporting and controversy, with Trump touting the enhanced revenue and incentives to onshoring industrial production. And…...