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President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10.Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images file

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Trump's economy at 100 days: Unprecedented uncertainty reigns

By Rob Wile

Voters returned Donald Trump to the White House in November believing he would be better for the economy than his opponent, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Yet 100 days into Trump’s second presidential term, voters now face an economic landscape rife with uncertainty.

Among its attributes: recession odds of as high as 60%, inflation rates that have barely budged and a stock market that, until recently, was beset by volatility.

At issue is Trump’s tariffs strategy.

Though he said throughout his campaign that he planned to impose tariffs on goods brought into the United States, consumers and businesses alike have reacted with shock at what Trump has implemented and the speed with which he has done it: a 10%-across-the-board tariff, 25% duties on autos and auto parts and steel and aluminum products, and duties of as high as 145% on goods from China, the third-largest source of imports into the United States behind the European Union and Mexico.

“A lot of economic policy has been made in these first 100 days — more than any other administration I can think of,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. ...

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U.S. and Ukraine sign minerals deal, Treasury Department announces

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Ukrainian and U.S. officials have signed a joint economic investment deal that includes granting the U.S. access to Ukrainian rare earths minerals, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday.

A Treasury Department press release said the two countries have agreed to establish a "United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund," referring to it as an "economic partnership." The statement did not include more detail about the agreement.

President Trump had pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about an economic deal that would include...
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White House touts corporate promises to invest big bucks in the U.S.

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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As concerns mount about the economic fallout from steep U.S. tariffs on key trade partners, President Trump is highlighting what he says is a major benefit of stepped-up import duties: corporate investment in the U.S.

The White House on Wednesday unveiled a website to track U.S. and foreign companies that have announced investments in U.S. manufacturing and other projects since the beginning of Mr. Trump's second term. The so-called investment tracker currently lists 47 projects involving 50 companies based on the size of their financial...
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Ukraine signs deal to give US access to rare minerals

  • News source: FOX News
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Ukraine has signed a deal with the United States, giving the U.S. access to Ukraine's rare minerals as it continues to work with the Trump administration in an effort to end its three-year war with Russia.

Ukrainian Economy Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko flew to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to help finalize the deal.

"On behalf of the Government of Ukraine, I signed the Agreement on the Establishment of a United States–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. Together with the United States, we are creating the Fund that will attract global investment into our country," she wrote on X.

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Jeffries distances himself from Democrat trips to El Salvador as border security debate splits party: report

  • News source: FOX News
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is privately signaling to fellow Democrats that it’s time to hit pause on trips to El Salvador aimed at spotlighting the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a move reflecting growing internal tensions over how the party is handling border security and immigration enforcement optics in the 2026 cycle.

Though Jeffries has publicly said Democrats are committed to securing Abrego Garcia’s return from a notorious Salvadoran prison, sources told The Bulwark that the New York Democrat has discouraged more lawmakers...
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Rubio reveals obscure Biden administration office kept 'disinformation' dossier on Trump official

  • News source: FOX News
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed in a Cabinet meeting that the Biden administration's State Department kept dossiers on Americans accused of serving as "vectors of disinformation," including a file on an unidentified Trump administration official.

"We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans," Rubio said during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting with Donald Trump. "And, by the way, I'm not going to say who it is. I'll leave it up to them. There's at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that...
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David Hogg faces challenge to DNC role as party tensions escalate

  • News source: FOX News
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A Native American attorney is challenging David Hogg's vice chair position at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) amid intra-party tensions ignited by the 25-year-old activist's $20 million investment through his political action group to primary older incumbent Democrats.

"While we are confident that the DNC Officer election was conducted fairly, transparently, and in alignment with the rules that were approved by the DNC Membership in advance of the election, the Party provides an opportunity for any candidate or member to raise concerns for...
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The 'F-word': Schumer says Trump's first 100 days can be distilled to single utterance

  • News source: FOX News
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and dozens of his bicameral colleagues addressed reporters on the Capitol steps Wednesday, blasting President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.

Schumer, flanked by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and others, said Trump failed the nation predominantly via his tariff agenda and purportedly cozying up with "dictators."

"Donald Trump's first 100 days can be defined by one big F-word: failure," Schumer said.

"Failure on the economy, failure on...
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US and Ukraine inch towards critical minerals deal

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ukraine's deputy leader is heading to Washington to sign an agreement the White House has been pushing for.
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Food authors say Australian influencer copied their recipes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Brooke Bellamy, who owns the popular Brooki Bakehouse, has rejected the allegations.
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Chaos on roads as residents flee rampant Israel wildfires

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Buildings burn and land is scorched as wildfires spread outside of Jerusalem.
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Trump claims he ‘could' have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the US. His administration has said otherwise.

  • News source: Dareh Gregorian, Gary Grumbach and Didi Martinez
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President Donald Trump said in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday that he "could" have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. with one phone call, even though the administration has argued in court that the government has no ability to get him back.

“If he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that. But he is not,” Trump told ABC News' Terry Moran when asked if he couldn’t simply call El Salvador’s president and ask for his return. Trump and his allies have contended that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang in justifying...
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EXCLUSIVE: Mom's fight with school over teen daughter's gender transition gets boost from parents group

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: The American Parents Coalition (APC) is weighing in on a lawsuit against a Florida middle school accused of secretly socially transitioning a 13-year-old girl behind her family’s back.

The group, which advocates for the rights of parents and families across the country, filed a brief in support of the Littlejohn family with the 11th Circuit Court on Wednesday. APC is arguing that so-called social transitioning is a type of medical treatment and that "parents have a substantive due process right to be informed about the treatments a school...
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Republican lawmakers seek to strip District of Columbia of its sanctuary city policies

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Republican lawmakers are launching an effort that would require the nation’s capital to abandon its sanctuary city policies.

Sanctuary cities are local jurisdictions that restrict cooperation with federal immigration authorities, including refusing to comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests.

As a result, the District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act would eliminate sanctuary city laws in the District of Columbia and bar Washington, D.C., from implementing any policy that allows it...
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Supreme Court weighs religious liberty dispute over public funding for Catholic charter school

  • News source: FOX News
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The Supreme Court offered clear divisions Wednesday in a religious liberty case involving public education and whether religious charter schools can receive taxpayer funding.

At issue is whether providing public money to a faith-based educational institution violates the First Amendment's separation of church and state mandate.

In more than two hours of wide-ranging oral arguments, the high court appeared divided along ideological lines, with a majority prepared to allow St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma City to become the...
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The little-known database at the heart of Kennedy's vaccine conspiracy theory

  • News source: Brandy Zadrozny | NBC News
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For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm — from autism to sudden death — he has pointed to the one source he says could immediately prove it.

In speeches, interviews and writings, Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the evidence of a massive public health cover-up lies buried in a little-known database of medical records of some 12 million Americans: the Vaccine Safety Datalink, or VSD.

“For decades, the CDC has kept a tight grip on the Vaccine Safety Datalink, concealing vital vaccine safety...
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