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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

PAUL WISEMAN

A woman walks by the Chinese and US national flags on display outside a souvenir shop in Beijing on January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
March 4, 2025, 10:07 am
US tariffs on Canada and Mexico take effect, as China takes aim at US farm exports
Beijing also blacklists 10 more American firms that now can’t do business in country, adds 15 to export control list, meaning they can’t get dual-use Chinese exports
By Josh Boak, PAUL WISEMAN and Rob Gillies
An empty space on a liquor shelf where Russian vodka used to be located at The Sidetrack, a gay bar on the north side of Chicago, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)
February 27, 2022, 1:20 pm
In North America, bar owners replace Russian vodka with Ukrainian
Purveyors of liquor in the US and Canada drop popular Soviet brands like Stolichnaya in favor of Ukrainian ones; ‘I thought I would put on sanctions as well,’ one bar owner says
By PAUL WISEMAN
A man watches a screen showing a news item featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, February 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
February 24, 2022, 3:28 pm
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to cause havoc for global economy
Stocks worldwide tumble after news of Russian invasion of Ukraine; attack could slow Europe’s economic recovery by sending already elevated energy prices ever higher
By PAUL WISEMAN and David McHugh
A man wearing a protective mask looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm, on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)
January 25, 2022, 7:35 pm
IMF cuts world growth forecasts as Omicron, inflation take an economic toll
The 190-country lending agency predicts the global economy will expand 4.4% in 2022, down from the 4.9% it was forecasting just a few months ago
By PAUL WISEMAN
A man walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index in Hong Kong, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
November 26, 2021, 8:00 pm
US stocks sink on new COVID variant; Dow loses 950 points
Airlines, travel stocks and major indexes plunge amid investor uncertainty over potential reversal of progress at getting pandemic under control
By Ken Sweet and PAUL WISEMAN
President-elect Donald Trump waves to members of the media after a meeting with admirals and generals from the Pentagon at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
September 28, 2020, 7:09 pm
Many of his best-known businesses are losers, and 4 more NYT Trump tax takeaways
President initially paid $95 million in taxes over the 18 years reviewed, but he got most of that back with a stunning $72.9 million federal tax refund
By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
A worker wears a mask as he cleans up an area outside an entrance to Boeing Coroporation's airplane assembly facility north of Seattle, April 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
April 15, 2020, 6:54 pm
US factory shutdowns near levels of post-WWII demobilization
Declines in manufacturing output and industrial production are far worse than what was expected by economists
By PAUL WISEMAN and AP
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, right, waves goodbye to visitors at her home in Vancouver on December 12, 2018. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
December 13, 2018, 5:24 am
Second Canadian feared detained in China amid rising tensions
Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur, is missing in what appears to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of top executive of telecom giant Huawei for breaching Iran sanctions
By Rob Gillies and PAUL WISEMAN
Ada Yu, left, of Vancouver and a man who wished to remain unidentified, hold a sign in favor of the release of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou outside her bail hearing at British Columbia Superior Courts following her December 1 arrest in Canada for extradition to the US in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 10, 2018. (Jason Redmond / AFP)
December 12, 2018, 3:08 am
Huawei CFO gets bail; Trump says he could intervene to free Chinese exec
US president hints he may undercut Justice Department case against Meng Wanzhou in order to help forge a trade deal with Beijing
By JIM MORRIS, Rob Gillies and PAUL WISEMAN
In this courtroom sketch, Meng Wanzhou, right, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, sits beside a translator during a bail hearing at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, on December 7, 2018. (Jane Wolsak/The Canadian Press via AP)
December 7, 2018, 11:12 pm
Chinese exec facing US extradition appears in court for breaching Iran sanctions
Canadian prosecutors say daughter of Huawei founder used shell company to access Iranian market, urges court not to release her on bail
By JIM MORRIS, Rob Gillies and PAUL WISEMAN
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council after an agreement was reached in the NAFTA negotiations in Ottawa, Ontario, September 30, 2018. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
October 1, 2018, 8:00 am
Canada and US reach free trade deal with Mexico
Agreement, reached just before a midnight deadline, replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump had called a job-killing disaster
By Rob Gillies and PAUL WISEMAN
In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, US President Donald Trump (right) and China's President Xi Jinping arrive for a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (Thomas Peter/Pool)
June 15, 2018, 7:29 pm
Trump announces US tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports
Beijing says that it will retaliate with $50 billion in tariffs in response, rattling financial markets and escalating a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies
By Ken Thomas and PAUL WISEMAN
US President Donald Trump, left, is greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. (AFP / POOL / Ludovic MARIN)
June 11, 2018, 4:15 am
Why Trump’s combative trade stance toward allies poses risks
Experts warn trading partners are likely to retaliate against tariffs with own protections, which could scare markets and spark major economic slowdown. Or it could all be a bluff
By PAUL WISEMAN
Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
June 2, 2017, 4:43 pm
Fact-checking Trump’s reasoning on climate deal pullout
Paris agreement not cause of US job losses, will potentially prevent significant rise in extreme weather events
By Michael Biesecker and PAUL WISEMAN
then-attorney general-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
March 8, 2017, 5:02 am
Chinese firm ZTE pleads guilty to breaking Iran sanctions
US levels $900m fine over company’s illegal export of sensitive US-made equipment to Tehran and North Korea
By PAUL WISEMAN and SADIE GURMAN
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