The U.S. Agency for International Development is at the center of a political firestorm after the Trump administration indicated it will shut it down as an independent agency and possibly move it under the U.S. State Department in a larger effort to crack down on federal bureaucracy.

Tariffs on Chinese goods are still scheduled to take effect at midnight, despite the White House pausing those on Canadian and Mexican products after agreement on new border security measures.

President Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Canada struck last-minute deals today to postpone hefty tariffs that the U.S. planned to impose tomorrow on goods from the two countries. The agreements temporarily averted a North American trade war.