The EU confirmed plans to impose additional tariffs on electric cars made in China, dashing hopes of a solution sought by several carmakers whose executives fear reprisal from an escalating trade war.
Some top players in Hollywood’s reliably Democratic donor class are looking to replace Biden as the party’s candidate, and other moneyed benefactors are divided about the president’s capacities and prospects.
American students have been slow to return to China since Beijing ended its strict Covid restrictions in late 2022, deterred in part by a State Department travel warning.
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian goes into Iran’s presidential-election runoff with a slight edge against conservative Saeed Jalili as they vie to succeed the late Ebrahim Raisi.
Biden is entering a crucial stretch in which he needs to demonstrate to Americans that he has the capacity to serve a second term and tamp down Democrats’ worries about his ability to defeat Trump in November’s election.
