How Trump’s China Tariffs Are Jeopardizing America’s Fireworks Extravaganzas

The pyrotechnics industry relies heavily on Chinese fireworks imports and warns that this could be the last big bang Fourth of July.

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Solid Jobs Report Keeps Fed Rate Cuts at Bay

The latest labor market data released on Thursday reinforces the central bank’s wait-and-see approach to lowering borrowing costs, despite pressure from President Trump.

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How Will Trump Sell His Big Policy Bill to the American Public?

President Trump has spent days cajoling Republicans to support his spending bill. He will also have to sell it to the public as Democrats focus on all the ways it helps the wealthy.

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Hakeem Jeffries Delays House Vote With Marathon Speech Opposing Trump’s Policy Bill

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech, saying he would take his “sweet time” assailing the measure.

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cases Involving Transgender Athletes

The court announced it would hear challenges to state laws barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

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Trump Wants the World to Squeeze Out China. He’s Starting With Vietnam.

An initial trade deal with Vietnam offers a glimpse of how President Trump is pushing countries to cut back on trade with China.

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E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats

The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes.

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Sandy Gall, War Correspondent Without Swagger, Dies at 97

For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

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What to Know About the Heat Wave in Europe

Some parts of Western Europe were starting to cool off as the extreme heat that has gripped the continent moved east.

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​North Korea Beach Resort Opens With Fanfare but No Foreigners

The Kalma Beach resort town, one of Kim Jong-un’s most ambitious projects aimed at attracting foreign tourists, may not draw the waves of visitors he wants.

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