|  | | | | | | | | | Highlights | | The Trump administration is expected to appear in court to defend itself against claims that its proposed addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census was secretly orchestrated by a political operative seeking to boost Republicans’ voting power. | | | | China’s determination to resist U.S. bullying in two years of negotiations to end the Korean War is a reason not to bow to Washington in bitter trade talks, a top Chinese newspaper suggested. State media has increasingly alluded to or directly referenced the 1950-53 Korean War - when China and North Korea battled United Nations forces led by the United States - to rally public opinion behind the government during China’s ongoing trade conflict with the United States.
| | | | Los Angeles County’s homeless population has swelled by 12% during the past year as a shortage of affordable housing deepens in and around America’s second-largest city, pushing more people into poverty, a study released on Tuesday found. Overall, the authority counted nearly 59,000 people sleeping on sidewalks, in makeshift tents, in abandoned vehicles or in shelters and government-subsidized “transitional housing” on any given night in Los Angeles County.
| | | | A Russian fighter jet made a dangerous high-speed pass that put a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft at risk during an intercept over the Mediterranean Sea, the U.S. Sixth Fleet said, but Moscow said its pilot had behaved responsibly. “While the Russian aircraft was operating in international airspace, this interaction was irresponsible,” the Sixth Fleet said in a statement.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Business | | Toyota said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to slap tariffs on Mexican-made goods could cost its major suppliers $1 billion, highlighting growing concern in the U.S. auto sector about the potential damage of a new front in the Trump administration’s trade wars. 4 min read | | | | Chinese importers are preparing applications for waivers on import tariffs levied on more than 700 U.S. goods in the Sino-U.S trade war, after the finance ministry said it would start taking submissions. 4 Min Read | | | | Volkswagen will invest up to 4 billion euros over the years to 2023 to digitalize its administration and production, the German carmaker said, adding that up to 4,000 jobs in non-production units could be cut. 1 min read | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
