China hits back with export controls, Canada and Mexico remain under threat. USPS closes then reopens "de minimis" small package loophole

Intended to protect domestic industries by raising import prices, they can pressure foreign nations accused of unfair trade practices. However, mainstream economists criticize tariffs as inefficient and harmful to consumers, who often bear the cost through higher prices.

Several hundred people with LGBTQ flags rallied at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday, a day after references to transgender Americans disappeared from the U.S. National Park Service website for the New York site commemorating a gay bar where resistance to a 1969 police raid sparked a civil rights movement.