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Alabama and the world marketplace is waiting to see happens next with Donald Trump and tariffs. It’s been a week since his deadline to impose a fifty percent hike on imported steel and aluminum. Alabama appears to be among those caught in the middle.

Alabama reportedly imported over eight million “short tons” of steel in 2024. The raw material was used, among other things, for the six hundred thousand automobiles produced by Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai factories. Now, Donald Trump told Pennsylvania steelworkers he's doubling the tariff on steel imports to 50%

It’s an uncertain time in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump is working to cut the federal budget and the size of Uncle Sam’s workforce. One name isn’t making many headlines is the Peace Corps. Trump named a new chief of the program that sends volunteers to help in foreign countries. But, possible changes to the Peace Corps aren’t so far making their way to the public. APR looked into how the organization partners with Alabama universities and one volunteer who stepped up to help…

The Digital Equity Act tried to close the digital divide by teaching computer skills to older rural Alabamians. Trump calls the plan racist and is acting to end it. The act also distributed laptops in rural Iowa and worked to get people get back online in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones.

Democratic Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut went to the Senate floor and tried to force a vote on a resolution disapproving of the Qatari gift. The Middle Eastern nation wants to give Donald Trump a thirteen year old Boeing 747 to be the latest Presidential aircraft known as Air Force One. But it was blocked by Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.

An Iranian student at the University of Alabama under federal arrest says he will leave the U.S. voluntarily. The attorney for Alireza Doroudi announced his client’s decision after the Government dropped a key charge in his arrest and the judge denied reconsideration of bail.

Donald Trump hasn’t given up on taking possession of Greenland. The White House says it wants the world’s third largest island which is located just east of Canada in the north Atlantic Ocean. APR reports from Denmark on the Alabama connection to the story…

University of Alabama graduates could have some unwelcome news coming today. The Trump administration is ordering the U.S. Department of Education to start collecting on student loans in default. The U.S. Treasury Department could claw back those dollars through the garnishment of wages. The website Education Data Initiative says Alabama has greater student loan debt on average than the rest of the nation. Over six hundred thousand Alabamians have outstanding college loans that need to be paid back.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged "bias" in the broadcasters' reporting.

From Tokyo to Taipei to Manila, people across Asia marked May Day with marches and protests that spotlighted growing unease over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and fears of global economic instability.