President Trump escalated efforts to reduce drug prices in the US on Thursday, releasing letters sent to 17 pharmaceutical company CEOs on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on major drugmakers to bring their US prices in line with the far lower ones available to patients in other countries.

Trump has given the companies until September 29 to respond with binding commitments to those terms. "According to recent data, the prices that Americans have been paying for brand name drugs are more than three times the price other similarly developed nations pay,

US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs will go into effect at 00:01 EDT (05:01BST) Friday Trump announced the levies in April, sending chaos rippling through the world economy. But he paused them so countries could negotiate new trade deals Many nations do not yet have a deal with the US and face steep tariff percentages - as high as 50% for Brazil Companies that bring foreign goods into the US will have to pay the tax to the government,

U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be "very hard" to make a deal with Canada after it gave its support to Palestinian statehood.

President Trump said Canada’s announcement it will recognize a Palestinian state “will make it very hard” for the U.S. to reach a trade agreement.

In the end, President Donald Trump got exactly what he wanted. The 120 days since Trump’s Rose Garden “Liberation Day” announcement rocked financial markets weren’t exactly pretty. From the Washington to Wall Street and across foreign capitals far and wide,