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Shipping containers sit on the container ship Alexandra at the Port Newark Container Terminal, … MoreCopyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. In a world of instant communications and consumer expectations of same-day delivery of goods, it’s easy to overlook how much time in advance is necessary to enable speed and convenience. President Donald Trump imposed a series of increased tariffs on goods from China, which, in turn, imposed higher tariffs on goods from the U.S. This isn’t an abstract issue but one that is already in effect and will create a waterfall of additional domestic consequences. How Products…

PARIS (AP) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sided Thursday with three women who said they were raped when they were aged 13, 14 and 16 and argued that French authorities did not do enough to protect them. The ruling will likely fuel the debate on the inclusion of consent in the law for sexual offences that was reignited by the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France last year. France has taken steps to toughen punishment for rape and sexual misconduct, including a 2021 law stating that a child under age 15 cannot consent to sex with an adult,…

Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Your Great-Grandfather’s Protectionism The usual chorus of critics has returned to form. As President Trump pushes ahead with a sweeping new round of tariffs, pundits, professors, and corporate lobbyists are once again declaring that America is veering into the ditch of economic ignorance. Their refrain is familiar: tariffs will stifle innovation, protect inefficient monopolies, and reward corporate rent-seekers. But something is off. If Trump’s tariffs are such a favor to entrenched business interests, why are those very businesses sounding the alarm? Why are they slashing forecasts, pulling guidance, and getting punished in the stock market? And…

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to unblock its ban on transgender troops in the military as litigation continues in lower courts. The Trump administration argued in its filing that stalling the policy could hinder U.S. military readiness, and asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court’s ruling halting the ban, Fox News reported. Justices asked plaintiffs in the case to file a response by next week, “indicating that they could move quickly on the issue.” “Absent a stay, the district court’s universal injunction will remain in place for the duration of further review in the…

Israel’s military has admitted killing a United Nations (UN) worker with tank fire, having previously denied responsibility, in an incident in the Gaza Strip last month.After a UN staff member was killed when a UN compound in Deir al-Balah was damaged on 19 March, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had not struck the site.But the IDF said on Thursday that the initial findings of its investigation into the incident indicated its troops had in fact killed the UN worker after wrongly identifying the building as containing an “enemy presence”.It said in a statement: “The building was struck due…

The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat.The department on Thursday said it was withdrawing a rule proposed in August after three years of development. Officials with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service cited feedback from more than 7,000 public comments and said they would “evaluate whether it should update” current salmonella regulations.The rule would have required poultry companies to keep levels of salmonella bacteria under a certain threshold and test for the presence of six strains most associated with…

The third day of witness testimony in Karen Read’s retrial came to an abrupt and unexpected end shortly before noon on Thursday after Judge Beverly Cannone said there was “confusion” over special prosecutor Hank Brennan’s witnesses.Read is accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, with her SUV in January 2022 and leaving him to die alone in the snow outside of a house party in Canton. She has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a vehicle under the influence, and leaving the scene.Before Cannone sent the jurors home for the day, Brennan played interview clips…

France and the UK are calling for the deployment of Western “reassurance” forces A majority of Poles opposed the idea of sending national troops to Ukraine, should Kiev and Moscow agree to a truce, according to a new opinion poll.France and the UK have called for a “coalition of the willing” to deploy troops to Ukraine following a possible ceasefire, although only four nations have reportedly said they would join them in doing so. Moscow has stated that it will not tolerate the presence of troops from NATO countries in Ukraine under any circumstances.In a survey conducted in early April…

Credit: DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza Another day, another Deep State leak. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was hit with another round of leaks on Thursday after several top aides have been fired for leaking. The attacks against Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal began last month after Jeffrey Goldberg, the anti-Trump editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed he was accidentally added to a secure Signal group chat where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. The Biden Administration installed Signal on government-issued computers, but use of the app only…

TOPSHOT – A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in … More New York City, on April 7, 2025. Wall Street stocks opened sharply lower Monday, joining a global selloff on worries that a trade war induced by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs will spark a global economic slowdown. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Is anybody watching the news about the financial markets and their own 401(k)s these days? Anybody not? Between tariffs and trade wars and…