Press Digest: New York Times business news - July 21

The New York Times

21/07/2026 06:05

    July 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the
New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
    - U.S. President Trump imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range
of Canadian goods claiming that Canada had discriminated against
three United States industries namely, motor vehicles, dairy and
alcohol. 
     
    - A federal judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín temporarily
stopped Paramount  PSKY.O  from completing its $110 billion
acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery  WBD.O  while she
considers a lawsuit that argues the deal violates antitrust
laws.
     
    - The Trump administration sought phone records of several
New York Times  NYT.N  journalists and their relatives in
efforts to seek confidential sources who had provided
information for articles about the president's new
Qatari-donated Air Force One jet. 
     
    - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that the basis
for linking Taylor Farms' lettuce from Central Mexico to the
cyclospora outbreak remains unchanged, despite the agency's
retraction of what it had said was a positive test of a lettuce
sample for the parasite. 
     
     
 

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