Wall Street thought the stock market would act as a check on the president. It's not panning out.

The U.S. stock market is sinking further Tuesday after Trump raised the stakes in his trade war, pulling Wall Street more than 9% below its record set just a month ago.

Wall Street keeps shaking because of tariffs. Stocks jumped to a big early gain, gave it back and then went up again as a volatile week for the market rolls on. The competing drivers of the market were an encouraging inflation update and the retaliation by other countries following President Donald Trump's latest escalation in his

President Trump’s senior adviser Elon Musk will attend the Tuesday joint session of Congress, a White House official confirmed to The Wall Street Journal. Musk’s attendance comes after his Department

Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.