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Law enforcement used tear gas and made arrests after celebrations following a Champions League semi-final win led to unrest Widespread unrest broke out Wednesday evening in the French capital as Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) fans gathered to celebrate the football club’s Champions League semi-final victory. The jubilation turned violent, prompting riot police to intervene and use tear gas to control the crowds.Clashes with law enforcement erupted across the city, particularly around the Parc des Princes stadium and in central districts. Video footage shared on social media showed fans igniting flares and fireworks, damaging property, and confronting police officers. Tear gas was…
President Trump on Thursday announced his first trade deal over tariffs and reciprocal trade with the United Kingdom. “With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade,” Trump said while announcing the agreement. “In addition, the UK will reduce or eliminate numerous non-tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products.“ UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who joined the ceremony via phone, stated, “With this President and this Prime Minister, we’ve managed to achieve what many people have tried to achieve for many years, and…
As America’s top-selling yogurt brand with $3 billion (annual revenue) and yogurt sales up 20% last … More year, Chobani is in a position most food companies would envy.Photo Illustration by Drew Angerer/Getty Images I’m back this week with a more in-depth Fresh Take newsletter for you, and I hope you enjoy the new format! I’ve been a reporter at Forbes for well over a decade now, and I’m hoping that my expertise will help provide much-needed context behind the headlines. What a time to be reporting on all things food, agriculture and sustainability! I’m honored to be doing it.…
The Class of 2025 faces a job market shaped by AI, inflation fears and hiring shifts. Learn which … MoreGetty The Class of 2025 is walking off the graduation stage and into one of the most volatile job in years, one shaped by economic uncertainty, AI disruption and shifting employer expectations. Hiring projections for the class of 2025 are up slightly, by 7.3% compared to last year’s class, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, but people aren’t feeling especially optimistic. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s March Survey of Consumer Expectations shows the perceived probability that…
In order to understand the magnitude of the position in which we find ourselves, we must first understand the magnitude of the deception and the machinery. We must look back at all of the components and contributing factors that may have seemed unrelated, but which we can see today are anything but. This means starting at the mouth of the river and tracing all the tributaries, in order to effectively analyze the terrain. Take bad policy, add bad politicians, decaying infrastructure, pulled funding, bad management, institutional failure, anomalous and disaster-level weather, mismanaged funds (we’ll call it that), mismatched skillsets (we’ll…
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a separate ceasefire with Houthi rebels in Yemen took Israel by surprise and left some Israelis feeling abandoned — although it also preserved Israel’s freedom of action. Trump announced the ceasefire with the Iranian-backed rebel terrorists Tuesday to stunned reporters at a press event in the White House with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, saying the Houthis had become tired of fighting and offered to stop attacking shipping in the Red Sea. He said that the U.S. would stop bombing Houthi targets in Yemen as a result, effective “immediately.” Houthi spokesmen confirmed the deal,…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, May 7. Patel will answer questions from members of Congress about the FBI’s proposed budget for the year. Earlier Wednesday Patel participated in a press conference with Attorney General Pam Bondi about Operation Restore Justice, targeting child abuse and trafficking networks. Read the full article here
The House took a largely party-line 211-206 vote Thursday to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” moving to codify President Donald Trump’s recent executive order. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), voted against the bill that had been led by firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who hailed it as “one of the most important things that we can do this Congress.” Democrats denounced the move to cement Trump’s executive order renaming the body as a waste of congressional time. “When the American people woke up this morning, they could reasonably ask the question, what are…
Bilateral trade between the countries jumped 50% from February to March, according to RIA Novosti Russia and the US posted a 50% month-over-month uptick in bilateral trade in March, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing customs data. The surge was reportedly driven by a significant increase in Moscow’s exports of fertilizers and other agricultural products to the US.Russia faced unprecedented sanctions from the West following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. While Russian fertilizers and grain have not been directly targeted by the restrictions, the exports have been affected by financial, shipping, and insurance constraints introduced against…
Warsaw will instead focus on building a “safe future” with Berlin, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Poland will no longer demand reparations from Berlin for the crimes committed by the Nazis in the country during the Second World War, the country’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said on Wednesday after talks with new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Warsaw.Calls for Germany to pay compensation resumed under the previous Polish government led by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which ruled the country between 2015 and 2023. In 2022, Warsaw estimated that Berlin would need to pay 6.2 trillion Polish…