In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.

"If the stock market goes down and down and down and down, that means there's nowhere to go but up. Or perhaps further down," he says

Live" wondered aloud, as some economists have, whether President Donald Trump's unprecedented world tariffs will plunge the nation into economic despair.

Congress could stop the tariffs at any time. The Constitution gives Congress the power to control tariffs, but lawmakers have over the decades ceded their power to the White House with laws expanding the president’s trade powers,

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he won't back down on his sweeping tariffs on imports from most of the world unless countries even out their trade with the U.S.

President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers brushed off recession fears Sunday and said dozens of countries are looking to negotiate for better deals, after stocks tumbled last week following the announcement of stiff tariffs against nearly all of America’s trading partners.

The higher rates are set to be collected beginning Wednesday, ushering in a new era of economic uncertainty with no clear end in sight.

Trump has insisted his tariffs are necessary to rebalance global trade and rebuild domestic manufacturing. He's singled out China as “the biggest abuser of them all” and criticized Beijing for increasing its own tariffs in retaliation.

Just hours after Trump's comments, stock markets plunged in Asia early on Monday, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng losing 9.8%.

President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. officials will meet directly with Iranian leaders Saturday amid tension over the country's nuclear ambitions, and threatened that if talks don't go well, "Iran is going to be in great danger.

I think if the talks aren’t successful with Iran, I think Iran is going to be in great danger,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And I hate to say it, great dang

While sitting next to Netanyahu during a news conference, President Donald Trump doubled down on tariffs and spoke about Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Donald Trump in Washington, becoming the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he unleashed tariffs on countries around the world

President Donald Trump plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in what would be their second White House sit-down since Trump's return to office. The visit, confirmed by a White House official and Netanyahu's office Saturday,

The pair are expected to discuss the war in Gaza and the return of hostages, following the breakdown of a fragile ceasefire with Hamas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since the tariffs announcement last week.

The Supreme Court said the administration must give Venezuelans who it claims are gang members "reasonable time" to go to court.

The US Supreme Court has lifted a freeze on deportations under a centuries-old law, allowing Donald Trump’s administration to remove alleged members of a Venezuelan gang using wartime powers. The top court on Monday voted 5-4 to remove a temporary order blocking a White House directive that last month invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove the alleged gang members.

In a 5-4 decision, the court granted Trump's emergency request and overturned a ruling that had temporarily halted deportations.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory on Monday by letting him use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president's hardline approach to immigration.

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an order blocking President Donald Trump ’s administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th-century wartime law.

The Supreme Court handed Trump a significant legal victory, allowing him to resume deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.