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Amazon is implement a new fuel surcharge affecting third-party sellers who rely on its fulfillment network. The online giant will charge sellers an additional 3.5 percent fee to account for what it calls “elevated costs in fuel and logistics.” TechCrunch reports that Amazon has announced a 3.5 percent fuel surcharge for merchants using its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service, set to take effect on April 17. The policy comes in response to what the tech giant claims are elevated fuel and logistics costs driven by ongoing geopolitical instability affecting global oil markets. The surcharge will apply to all sellers who use…
On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that President Donald Trump “should be impeached now. He’s taken us into a disastrous war, threatening war crimes in Iran, in terms of knocking out plants, and knocking out electricity. And the Democrats will impeach him once we take back the House, and should impeach him for all the things he’s done.” Guest host Ali Velshi said, “Let me ask you about, Donald Trump has said, we have recordings of him saying that Republicans have to pass the SAVE Act or the SAVE America Act, because, without…
A Greensboro, Alabama, police officer was shot Thursday night during a traffic stop and the suspect was also injured. Details on the incident are scant, but ABC 33/40 reported the incident occurred during a situation in which the officer had the suspect’s vehicle stopped. WBRC noted that a cellphone video shows an officer running from the car where he had just been shot or was taking fire. The officer was shot at least once and taken to the hospital in critical condition. WVTM 13 pointed out that Hale County EMA Director Russell Weeden indicated the suspect was also shot, but he did…
Only a narrow majority of Virginians are supportive of a ballot referendum that would allow Democrats to gerrymander the state’s congressional map, a significant warning sign for the party ahead of the vote later this month. Fifty-two percent of likely voters said they would vote in favor of the redistricting measure if the election was held today in a Washington Post/Schar School poll released Friday, with 47 percent going the other way. Election Day is April 21, but early voting began in March. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are showing more energy than their Democratic counterparts, with 85 percent of GOP…
The US president has threatened to halt arms supplies to Ukraine after European leaders refused to join the campaign US President Donald Trump has lashed out at NATO and key European leaders, deepening tensions within the bloc over the war against Iran. According to the Financial Times, Washington has also threatened to curb weapons supplies to Ukraine to pressure European countries into involvement in the war in the Middle East.At a White House Easter lunch on Wednesday, Trump described NATO as a “paper tiger” and voiced frustration that other bloc members have not joined the US-Israeli war on Iran. He…
ASSEN, Netherlands (AP) — A priceless ancient golden helmet from Romania stolen last year from a museum in the Netherlands has been recovered, Dutch authorities announced Thursday. Under the guard of heavily armed, balaclava-clad police, prosecutors unveiled the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet, one of Romania’s most revered national treasures from the Dacia civilization, during a news conference in the eastern Dutch city of Assen. “We are incredibly pleased,” Corien Fahner of the prosecution service told reporters. “It has been a roller-coaster. Especially for Romania, but also for employees of the Drents Museum.” The helmet was on display at the small museum…
The U.S. economy added 178,000 workers to payrolls in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That’s three times the consensus forecast of 59,000 and a sharp reversal from February’s revised decline of 133,000, which was dragged down by a large healthcare strike. But the headline number understates just how strong the report really is. The break-even rate of employment growth — the number of new workers needed on payrolls each month to hold the unemployment rate steady — has collapsed to near zero, according to converging analyses from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Federal Reserve…
A U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle jet has been shot down, and both American and Iranian forces are scrambling to find the crew first, unconfirmed reports claim. UPDATE 1800 BST — One crewman rescued, report claims One crew member from that downed F-15 has been recovered by U.S. forces, broadcaster CBS News claimed it was told by “U.S. Officials”. The search and rescue mission to recover the second crew member is ongoing. The BBC says White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told them “The President had been briefed”. Other than that it’s still very unclear what happened and how: Leavitt’s reported remark…
The outgoing DOJ chief faced mounting scrutiny over inconsistent messaging and unanswered questions tied to the late sex offender Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has dismissed reports that President Donald Trump fired former AG Pam Bondi over her botched handling of the Epstein files.Blanche made the remarks on Fox News on Thursday, hours after Trump announced that Bondi, who had served since early 2025, was out. The president called her a “Great American Patriot” but offered no explanation for the dismissal.“I have never heard President Trump say that the attorney general was – that anything that happened to her…
A 23-year-old Chicago man is facing multiple felony charges after authorities say he committed a string of armed robberies targeting individuals selling Pokemon cards through online marketplace listings. CWB Chicago reports that Anthony Garcia faces five counts of armed robbery with a firearm. According to Chicago police, Garcia used Facebook Marketplace to arrange in-person meetings with sellers who had listed Pokemon cards for sale. Once the victims arrived at the agreed-upon locations, Garcia allegedly led them into building lobbies, produced a handgun, and stole the collectible cards before escaping on foot. All five robberies occurred in March within the Gage…