Extortion is crippling businesses across Mexico, forcing many to shut down. A Mexico City shop owner shared his ordeal, which began in 2019 with threatening calls demanding payments.

Plus: President Donald Trump announces new tariffs for copper, Brazil and more. | Death tolls rise in the flooding disasters in Texas and New Mexico.

The pause on the biggest of Trump's tariffs won't end this week, as planned, but the problems they present still loom large.