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Ship-to-shore (STS) cranes load a container ship at the Bayport Container Terminal at the port of Houston in Seabrook

Trump’s tariffs are under threat, but ports aren’t seeing a big rebound yet. That’s bad news for prices

By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — US ports have been seeing pandemic-level declines in imports, so good news on tariffs was just what port officials were hoping for. For awhile on Wednesday, it looked like retailers and ports got exactly that, with a court blocking many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But a federal appeals

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Ship-to-shore (STS) cranes load a container ship at the Bayport Container Terminal at the port of Houston in Seabrook

Trump’s tariffs are under threat, but ports aren’t seeing a big rebound yet. That’s bad news for prices

CNN, POOL, TRUTH SOCIAL, @REALDONALDTRUMP, Truth Social/@realDonaldTrump By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — US ports have been seeing pandemic-level declines in imports, so good news on tariffs was just what port officials were hoping for. For awhile on Wednesday, it looked like retailers and ports got exactly that, with a court blocking many of President

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United Airlines planes are seen on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport

After several meltdowns this spring, it will be the ‘cheapest’ summer to fly United Airlines at Newark Airport, CEO says

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — After a series of air traffic control outages, short staffing, and runway construction caused repeated days of delays and cancelations at Newark Liberty International Airport it’ll be the cheapest summer to fly there in United Airlines’ history, according to the airline’s CEO. “Because we lost a lot of

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has stayed silent amid a slew of attacks from President Donald Trump.

Trump met with Jerome Powell today to scold him about rates. Powell stressed the Fed is staying out of politics

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for the first time in his second term, scolding him for not lowering borrowing costs. Powell maintained that any decisions won’t be based on the president’s demands. The meeting, which comes after months of unrelenting attacks

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Shoppers hold bags while waiting to cross Post Street in San Francisco on March 27.

America’s economy performed slightly better in the first quarter than we thought — but it still shrank

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US economy shrank slightly less in the beginning of the year than previously reported, new data shows, but it was still the first quarterly decline since 2022, in a sign of how President Donald Trump’s chaotic and aggressive tariff regime is affecting American consumers and businesses. Gross

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