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A ship with cargo is docked at The Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Bronte Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Answering your questions about President Trump’s vast new tariffs

After weeks of anticipation and speculation, President Donald Trump followed through on his reciprocal tariff threats by declaring on Wednesday a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States.
April 4
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, is joined from left by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., as they speak to reporters about President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign countries, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports

April 3
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain speaks at an election night campaign party, Nov. 5, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

How this auto union leader’s support for Trump’s tariffs scrambled labor politics again

March 27
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, accompanied by investigator in charge Brice Banning, left, speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Close calls at Washington DC airport raise questions about why changes weren’t made before crash

March 14
President Donald Trump leaves the chamber after addressing a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump order denies student loan relief to nonprofit workers engaged in ‘improper’ activity

March 8

Hundreds gather in Washington, DC, to protest the shuttering of USAID

Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Capitol to protest the shutdown of USAID seem increasingly frustrated with Democratic lawmakers. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia took the microphone and described how Democrats plan to fight the changes. (AP video by Rick Gentilo)
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A rare brain disease took her voice. See how AI is giving it back

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Senate passes $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

February 15
Sen. Henry L. Marsh, III, D-Richmond, smiles in Richmond, Va. Marsh is resigning from the state Senate, ending a 22-year career in the upper chamber, April 23, 2014. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Richmond’s first Black mayor is remembered as a civil rights fighter and trailblazer

February 2

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

February 1
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of National Intelligence, arrives to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Conspiracies, espionage, an enemies list: Takeaways from a wild day of confirmation hearings

January 31
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison speaks Nov. 2, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

A Democratic Party in crisis will elect its new chairman on Saturday

January 29
Tulsi Gabbard speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

A mysterious meeting with Syrian president is at the center of spy chief’s nomination fight

January 29

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

January 18
Supporters look on as Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election, Nov. 6, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Many Democrats don’t think they’ll see a woman become president, AP-NORC poll finds

January 11

AP Race Call: Democrat Timothy Kaine wins reelection to U.S. Senate from Virginia

November 6, 2024
FILE - This combination of file photos shows, from left,Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va, on Sept. 24, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, and Hung Cao, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, left, J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrat Tim Kaine of Virginia fends off GOP challenger to win a 3rd term to the US Senate

November 6, 2024
This undated photo provided by the Hung Cao for Virginia campaign shows Cao. Cao is one of five Republicans in Virginia who are running for a chance to try to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine. The state’s Republican primary is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Cao has the most campaign money and experience running for higher office among the primary candidates, and he has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. (James Stone/Hung Cao for Virginia via AP)

Navy vet has Trump’s nod ahead of Virginia’s US Senate primary, targets Tim Kaine in uphill battle

June 5, 2024
Retired Navy captain Hung Cao participates in a debate on Oct. 20, 2022, in Leesburg, Va. Cao announced plans Tuesday, July 18, 2023 to seek the 2024 Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat, File)

Navy veteran Hung Cao enters GOP race to challenge Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine in 2024

July 18, 2023
In this undated photo provided by Christopher D’Anna, Scott Parkinson poses for a photo. Parkinson, a former congressional staffer and advisor to Ron DeSantis and other Republican officials, is set to announce plans Monday, April 3, 2023, to seek the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia next year. (Christopher D’Anna via AP)

Ex-DeSantis staffer Parkinson runs for Kaine’s Virginia seat

April 3, 2023
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., center, speaks at a news conference in Springfield, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. Virginia's political leaders made their case Wednesday for moving the FBI's headquarters from the nation's capital to the state, arguing that the federal government would be wise to follow the steps of Amazon and other big companies that now have a major presence in the commonwealth. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

Virginia competes with Maryland to land new FBI headquarters

February 15, 2023

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to seek reelection

January 20, 2023
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., announces that he is seeking reelection, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to seek reelection

January 20, 2023

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

January 20, 2023
FILE - Roanoke, Va., Mayor Sherman Lea, left, applauds after former Virginia Gov Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr., and his wife Virginia "Jinks" Rogers Holton cut the ribbon for the dedication of the newly renovated Linwood Plaza in downtown Roanoke, Va. on Oct. 16, 2017. Virginia Holton died Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, at her home, her family said in a statement. She was 97. (Stephanie Klein-Davis/The Roanoke Times via AP, File)

Former Virginia first lady ‘Jinks’ Holton dies at 97

December 16, 2022
FILE - U.S. Rep Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., right, talks with a supporter at an early voting location, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, in Stafford, Va. The race for Virginia's 7th Congressional District is a nail-biter in the final stretch and a contest that could help determine which party controls the U.S. House. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Spanberger, Vega in tight race for Virginia’s 7th District

November 3, 2022
FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference at the 2022 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Oct. 14, 2022, in Washington. Yellen is promoting Biden administration policies as the key to advancing the nation's "long-term economic well being" in the lead-up to the midterm elections (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Yellen boosting Biden’s agenda in Virginia as midterms near

October 21, 2022

Umbrella swept by wind kills woman at South Carolina beach

August 11, 2022
FILE - Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill July 21, 2022, in Washington. A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the June Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The legislation introduced by two Republicans and two Democrats on Aug. 1, is not expected to pass or even get a vote.(AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Bipartisan compromise bill would restore abortion rights

August 1, 2022

Warner, Kaine want dog breeding facility stripped of license

March 31, 2022
FILE - Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks to reporters alongside Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., during a press conference regarding the Democratic party's shift to focus on voting rights at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 18, 2022. Nearly two years after getting COVID-19, Sen. Kaine says he still has mild symptoms. Kaine joined fellow Democratic senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois in introducing a bill Wednesday, March 3, 2022, to fund research aimed at better understanding long COVID-19. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Kaine, with long COVID himself, introduces research bill

March 3, 2022

US Senators ask Mexico to do more to protect journalists

February 8, 2022

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

January 15, 2022
Drivers wait for the traffic to be cleared as cars and trucks are stranded on sections of Interstate 95 Tuesday Jan. 4, 2022, in Carmel Church, Va. Close to 48 miles of the Interstate was closed due to ice and snow. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Drivers fret about food and fuel while stranded on highway

January 5, 2022
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, talks to a reporter as he walks to the Senate Chamber for a vote, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sen. Kaine: ‘Miserable’ commute became a survival project

January 5, 2022

Senators: Virginia congresswomen bear redistricting burden

December 24, 2021

Goodwyn elected chief justice of Supreme Court of Virginia

December 20, 2021
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