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President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (Pool via AP)

The week that Trump pushed the global economy to the brink with tariffs — and then pulled back

It was one week after President Donald Trump’s big tariff announcement when he pulled back from the import taxes he’d imposed on many U.S. trading partners. Trump’s retreat on tariffs Wednesday sent the stock market soaring.
 
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the West Wing of the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

White House keeps world guessing as clock ticks down to Trump’s new tariffs

 
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R- Iowa, takes his seat as the panel meets to consider prescription drug pricing and other measures, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress has the power to halt Trump’s tariffs. But Republicans aren’t ready to use it

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is joined by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., right, as they speak to reporters about President Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" of tariffs on foreign countries, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Measuring the cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts becomes a flashpoint in Congress

 
Michal Roseberry, a victim of human trafficking,speaks against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's proposal to limit lawsuits on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)

Amid heightened blowback, a push to limit lawsuits in Georgia moves forward

 

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State Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, speaks in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Second part of Georgia governor’s bill to limit lawsuits passes unanimously

 
State. Sen. John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, speaks on a bill he sponsored to rewrite Georgia's litigation rules to limit lawsuits at the Senate at the Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Arvin Temkar /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia bill to limit lawsuits advances after Kemp makes concession to Republican senators

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., calls on a reporter, Feb. 19, 2025, after a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats channel their outrage over DOGE, Ukraine and more in marathon Senate session

 
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during a news conference pushing for tort reform on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 in Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP, File)

Georgia’s governor wins support for his top legislation from 3 skeptical senators

 
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks to the Senate Banking Committee, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Fed chair says bank accounts ‘safe’ despite Trump’s teardown of consumer protection agency

 
Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Bondi says she won’t play politics as attorney general but doesn’t rule out probes of Trump foes

 
Lyonel Myrthil, special agent in charge of the New Orleans field office, second from left, shows footage of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man who carried out an attack on New Orleans' Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, during a news conference in a secure garage at the FBI Headquarters in New Orleans, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. (Scott Threlkeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

New Orleans attack came at a time of political heat, and transition, for the FBI

 
Former President Donald Trump speaks members of the media while visiting with construction workers at the construction site of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in midtown Manhattan, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. Trump met with construction workers and union representatives hours before he's set to appear in court. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration

 
Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, waves as he is introduced during the swearing in of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Pool, File)

Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming announces bid to run for U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s seat

 
Georgia Senate President Pro Tem John Kennedy, R-Macon, speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the State Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Georgia Senate Republicans keep John Kennedy as leader for next 2 years

 

Editorial Roundup: Louisiana

 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, greets sheriffs from different counties in Florida before he delivered remarks at an event, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Ron DeSantis sharpens his attacks on Donald Trump in their shared home state of Florida