Sean Higgins

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Trump is unapologetically jettisoning long-entrenched GOP orthodoxy on trade. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

US, EU unions issue joint slam on Trump trade policy

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2018 10:31 pm

Unions sue Trump over restrictions on government workers

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2018 9:20 pm

In this 2012 file photo, people are led on a tour on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard limited Asian-American admissions, court documents show

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2018 6:11 pm

Business groups warn Trump’s tariffs on China could backfire

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2018 3:45 pm

Trump hits China with tariffs on $50 billion worth of exports

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2018 8:35 am

"Significant differences remain on some key areas ... These are proposals we simply cannot agree to," Chrystia Freeland said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Canada: NAFTA talks should continue

Sean Higgins · June 14, 2018 9:31 pm

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Mexico City on June 3. Mexico will hold general elections on July 1.

Mexican presidential front-runner says NAFTA collapse would be OK

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2018 9:00 pm

OSHA inspectors survey homes that lost roofs in the aftermath of a fierce storm, along Quincy Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.

OSHA inspections up under Trump, but less intense

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2018 11:13 pm

Trump’s economic experiment: Growth without immigrants

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2018 4:01 am

Workers with the American Federation of Government Employees union protest outside of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in D.C.

Trump aims to limit government unions from working on taxpayers’ dime

Sean Higgins · June 8, 2018 9:54 pm

The sign for the National Labor Relations Board seen on the building that houses their headquarters in downtown Washington.

NLRB launches review on recusal policy

Sean Higgins · June 8, 2018 7:01 pm

A worker straps down a steel coil at the Borusan Mannesmann steel pipe plant in Baytown, Texas. President Trump's escalating dispute with China over trade and technology is threatening jobs and profits in working-class communities where his "America First" agenda hit home.

Mexico complains to WTO about steel tariffs, following Canada, Europe

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2018 8:45 pm