Economy

The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday announced the appointment of Julia Pollak, a Harvard University graduate and former Navy reservist, as chief economist.

Canada slapped 25 percent tariffs on about 1,800 American products in March, and will implement 4,400 more on April 2, the day President Donald Trump plans to announce higher tariffs against every country that taxes U.S. imports.

President Donald Trump will announce his reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, or “Liberation Day,” in his administration’s first Rose Garden event of his second term.

President Donald Trump says a deal  for the sale of the U.S. division of China’s TikTok app to a non-Chinese buyer will arrive before Saturday’s deadline.

Apple is preparing its most significant health care push to date with a revamped app and AI doctor service.

A wave of “Tesla Takedown” protests targeting Elon Musk’s company swept the nation this weekend, all part of a purportedly grassroots campaign against Musk, DOGE, and the Trump administration. Now, Elon Musk and others claim the protests are the result of an astroturf campaign funded and organized by wealthy enemies of Donald Trump.

A very lucky person won the California Powerball lottery on Saturday evening, and workers at the store where the ticket was sold are excited about the news.

Media attacks on the Trump administration due to the Atlantic’s leak of Signal messages do “not seem tied to evaluations of Mr. Trump overall,” according to a CBS News poll that found the president’s approval rating to be 50 percent.

Mississippi is bringing back a “competitive” edge with Gov. Tate Reeves’ (R) signing of legislation to phase out the state income tax.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s live-action remake of Snow White was again humiliated at the box office this weekend.

The Trump agenda is ushering in a “rebirth of American success,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) told Breitbart News Saturday’s Matt Boyle.

The price of eggs has taken a sharp plunge as Americans have watched the cost of the grocery staple shift downward since mid-February, per a report.

Yahoo, one of the most well-known companies in America during the original internet boom, is  plotting a turnaround focused on leveraging AI across key products like Yahoo Finance and Sports.

Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump.

We’re seeing is a bizarre and persistent gap between what Americans are doing — spending more, earning more, feeling good about the country’s direction — and what consumer sentiment surveys claim they are feeling.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has spoken with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) about making interest payments on loans for American-made cars tax deductible.

The Department of State will move to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), cut thousands of jobs, and absorb the remaining job functions of USAID, according to several reports.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has entered week two of his apology tour, after caving and backing the Republican spending bill to fund the government until September, telling CBS’s left-wing late-night host Stephen Colbert even though he caved once, it won’t happen again because “we are going after Trump in every way.” 

President Joe Biden’s mass migration policies helped drive 1.6 million new migrant subscribers to wireless companies, Wall Street analysts say in documents exclusively reviewed by Breitbart News.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) updated its leaderboard this week showcasing the latest amount of taxpayer savings.

The U.S. Department of Labor canceled $577 million of “America last” contracts including $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace.”

Leading American robotics firms, including Tesla and Boston Dynamics, are calling on the U.S. government to implement a national strategy to bolster the country’s competitiveness in the global robotics and AI race.

The persistence of inflation above the Fed’s 2 percent target underscores that price pressures are building before the newly announced tariffs on imports have taken effect.

A California judge has ruled that a jury should decide whether Tesla and Elon Musk’s alleged misrepresentations about its self-driving features contributed to a deadly crash that killed a teenager in 2019.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has canceled nearly $600 million in grants to foreign countries in another round of major funding cuts, including $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace.”

Elon Musk is reportedly planning to open a 24-hour Tesla diner in Hollywood, which will include a drive-in theater charging station. Leftists are having a meltdown in response, including turning their ire on a prominent restaurant owner who said Musk’s plan is “exciting.”

U.S. personal income and consumer spending both rose in February, suggesting that the economy remains resilient despite surveys showing gloomy consumer confidence.

President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration policy is “a crusade which comes from the darkest parts of our American psyche and soul and history,” according to Pope Francis’s new Archbishop of Washington, DC.

As long as our trading partners continue to use Value-Added Taxes (VATs) to their advantage, the United States must be willing to respond in kind with tariffs.

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Sec. Scott Turner has announced the end of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured mortgages for any “non-permanent residents,” effectively eliminating illegal aliens’ access to the taxpayer-funded program.

A former technology employee of Freddie Mac was arrested this week after allegedly making bomb threats targeting the mortgage finance giant’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire leftist Bill Gates predicts that within the next 10 years, artificial intelligence will advance to the point where human specialists like doctors and teachers will no longer be needed for most tasks.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) is praising Trump’s auto tariffs, thanking him for “stepping up to end the free trade disaster.”