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12.03.2025 โ€” Tariff War's Global Expansion

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This page is an archive of main headlines from the US for 12.03.2025.

It displays 224 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.

12.03.2025 โ‡ข Tariff War's Global Expansion
โŒจTrump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum took effect, triggering immediate retaliation from the European Union with $28 billion in counter-tariffs and Canada with $30 billion in retaliatory measures. These responses came as markets fluctuated amid growing recession fears.

Inflation showed unexpected cooling to 2.8% in February, Trump's first full month in office, though economic experts expressed concern about how the escalating trade conflicts might reverse this trend.

The Education Department completed laying off approximately 1,300 employeesโ€”nearly half its staffโ€”with significant cuts to its civil rights office. NOAA faced similar reductions with 1,000 additional employees being let go.

A government shutdown appeared increasingly likely as Senate Democrats announced they would not support the Republican funding bill passed by the House earlier in the week.

Russia responded cautiously to the US-Ukraine ceasefire agreement reached the previous day, while continuing battlefield advances.
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President Donald Trump has officially increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%. He has promised that the taxes will help create U.S. factory jobs at a time when his seesawing tariff threats are jolting the stock market and raising fears of an economic slowdown.
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06:13โ‡ขSteel & Aluminum Tariffs Strike Globally

โŒจThe newspapers report on Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports taking effect, raising them to 25% across all countries (AP News, Epoch Times, Fox News, NYTimes). The House passed a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, sending it to the Senate for consideration (ABC News, Breitbart, Common Dreams, Newsweek). The Education Department is undergoing significant cuts, laying off nearly half its staff (CBS, MSNBC, Washington Post). Hydro-Quebec has cut off electricity exports on the main power line into New England (Boston Globe), though reports suggest Canada may be backing down on electricity tariffs following Trump's retaliation threats (OANN).
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11:20โ‡ขEurope Strikes Back With Tariffs

โŒจThe newspapers report on the escalating trade tensions as Trump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum have officially taken effect, with the European Union announcing retaliatory measures on $28 billion worth of American goods (ABC News, AP News, CBS, CNN, NYTimes, Newsweek, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Epoch Times). The EU countermeasures will begin April 1, with tariffs targeting products from Republican states (AP News). Meanwhile, domestic issues include Republican efforts to change voter registration requirements (NPR), "Project 2025" authors joining the Trump administration (NBC News), and LAPD data showing police bullets have struck 21 bystanders in the past decade (LA Times).
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In the late 1970s, nationalist vigilantes tried to destroy Pablo Picassoโ€™s Guernica. Today the painting itself is safe โ€” but the museum in which it is housed has again become the focus of right-wing polemics.
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13:28โ‡ขInflation Cools As Federal Layoffs Accelerate

โŒจThe newspapers report on inflation cooling to 2.8% in February, the first full month of Trump's term and slowest monthly increase since August 2024 (ABC News, Breitbart, Epoch Times, NPR, NYTimes). However, analysts express concern that Trump's tariff policies could reverse this trend (NPR, NYTimes). The trade war with the EU intensifies as European countermeasures target American goods like beef, whiskey, and motorcycles in response to Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs (AP News, HuffPost). Simultaneously, Project 2025 implementation appears underway with the Trump administration firing approximately half of the Education Department staff (Common Dreams, USA Today reports similar cuts at NOAA).
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Canadaโ€™s economic and military dependence on the United States has long led its elites to believe that they could never be the victims of American aggression. Donald Trumpโ€™s tariffs have disproved this received wisdom.
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15:01โ‡ขCanada Slaps $20 Billion In Tariffs On American Goods

โŒจThe newspapers report on a rapidly escalating trade war as Canada announced $20.7 billion in retaliatory tariffs against Trump's 25% metal tariffs (AP News, Boston Globe, CNN, NYTimes, USA Today, Jacobin). This follows similar countermeasures from the European Union, creating a widening global trade conflict. Meanwhile, inflation cooled to a lower-than-expected 2.8% in February, Trump's first full month in office (ABC News, Breitbart, Epoch Times), though egg prices continue rising. On foreign policy, Russia appears hesitant about a U.S. truce proposal for Ukraine while continuing battlefield advances (CBS). Republican voter registration legislation requiring citizenship documentation is also gaining attention (NPR).
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17:13โ‡ขGlobal Tariff War Erupts

โŒจThe newspapers report on a rapidly escalating global trade war as both Canada and the European Union announce retaliatory tariffs against Trump's steel and aluminum levies (ABC News, AP News, Boston Globe, CNN, NBC News, NYTimes, The Washington Post, USA Today, OANN). Canada has imposed $21 billion in countermeasures (NBC News, CNN, Boston Globe), while the EU announced nearly $28 billion in tariffs (OANN). The trade tensions are affecting financial markets, with stocks fluctuating dramatically amid recession fears (ABC News, AP News). In Greenland, an unexpected election result has shifted power toward more right-wing, pro-American politicians (Breitbart). Congress is also working on bipartisan legislation to ban hair discrimination (NPR).
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Individual Democrats have made strong statements against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. The bulk of the party and its leadership has offered silence or mealymouthed equivocation.
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19:09โ‡ขCanada Strikes Back With $30 Billion Tariffs

โŒจThe newspapers report on a rapidly escalating global trade war with Canada implementing $30 billion in retaliatory tariffs against Trump's steel and aluminum levies (CNN, NBC, Washington Post, The Epoch Times). Trump has also targeted Ireland, claiming they are "taking advantage" of the US (ABC News, Boston Globe, Fox News). Domestically, government shutdown fears grow as Senate negotiations stall on a spending bill (Common Dreams, NPR). EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to clear a Biden-era backlog of environmental cases (Breitbart). Market volatility continues as stocks sway dramatically between gains and losses amid trade war concerns (AP News).
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21:22โ‡ขShutdown Looms As Dems Reject Funding Bill

โŒจThe newspapers report on a government shutdown becoming likely as Senate Democrats refuse to support the Republican funding bill (ABC News, NY Post, Washington Post, Common Dreams). Environmental policy faces major changes as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announces plans to review the landmark finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health (Breitbart, CBS). Trump's immigration enforcement intensifies, with ICE arrests doubling in his first 50 days and accusations that the Biden administration "cooked the books" on enforcement data (Fox News, Newsweek, NYTimes). Federal workforce reductions continue, particularly gutting the Education Department's civil rights office (AP News, USA Today, Vox, Daily Beast).
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22:56โ‡ขShutdown Looms Friday As Dems Reject GOP Bill

โŒจThe newspapers report on a government shutdown becoming increasingly likely as Senate Democrats vow to block the Republican funding bill ahead of Friday's deadline (Boston Globe, CBS, NY Post, The Epoch Times, Washington Post). Trump's immigration enforcement intensifies with doubled ICE arrest rates (Newsweek) and criticism of "pro-illegal" policies (Breitbart, Fox News). Federal workforce reductions continue with major cutbacks, particularly at the Education Department's civil rights office (AP News, USA Today, Vox). A judge has blocked Trump's executive order against law firm Perkins Coie, calling it a "chilling harm" to the legal profession (NPR). Meanwhile, six American prisoners have been released from Kuwait (ABC News).
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