The Trump administration gave the tech industry and consumers a collective heart attack this morning with a statement that suggested the US would raise tariffs on China to 245%. The White House published an official fact sheet that said,

China now faces tariffs up to 245 per cent on imports to the US due to its retaliatory actions, the White House has said, as the trade war escalated between the world’s two largest economies. Separately in a post on Truth Social,

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Tensions are rising across American academia as the Trump administration froze over $2 billion in multi-year grants and contracts at Harvard University after its leaders refused to make key policy changes the White House also is demanding of other elite US colleges.