Donald Trump barely repelled a challenge to his global tariff offensive in the Republican-controlled US Senate as the president’s trade policy stokes public fears of inflation and recession.

An evenly split U.S. Senate rejected the latest bid to overturn a slew of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Wednesday, hours after the federal government said the economy contracted for the first time in three years amid the chaos of the tariff regime.

Four Republicans broke with the leader of their party in support of Congress' authority over trade amid growing fears of an economic recession.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday counseled patience, cast blame and claimed victory in the face of a first-quarter U.S. economic contraction and tariffs that have taken a bite out of his popularity,

President Donald Trump has gotten worrisome news about how the U.S. economy is battening down for potential fallout from his tariffs

President Donald Trump’s economic policies have already shrunk the U.S. economy for the first time in three years. A report released Wednesday by the official U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis found gross domestic product had contracted last quarter by an annualized rate of 0.