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Results 1 to 30‘Chaotic’ tariff regime and trade war are leaving small businesses in their wake
2025-04-20, 08:23Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy, homegrown companies that would seem to be exactly what President Donald Trump aims to protect as part of his “America First” trade agenda. But for many small business owners, the years of hard work and the optimistic outlooks have unraveled...
DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers
2025-04-20, 07:29DHL Express, a division of Germany’s Deutsche Post, said it would suspend global business-to-consumer shipments worth over $800 to individuals in the United States from April 21, as US customs...
Canada votes in federal elections under shadow of Trump threats. Here’s what you need to know
2025-04-20, 05:22Canada is heading into federal elections, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is vying for a chance to continue leading the country, as tensions grow with its closest neighbor. The former central banker’s main competition is Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Conservative party leader whose political capital...
Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party is shutting down as Beijing leaves no room for dissent
2025-04-20, 00:52Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate. The Democratic Party, one of the leading voices of opposition in the semi-autonomous city for the past three...
‘50501’ protesters denounce Trump administration in nationwide rallies while supporting to impacted communities
2025-04-20, 00:34A national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration has united an outpouring of protesters across the country who are rallying in defiance of what they describe as a relentless assault on democratic institutions and civil liberties. Over 80 protests were held at state...
New York Times: Trump administration sent letter of demands to Harvard University in error
2025-04-20, 00:16Harvard University has been in an escalating battle with the Trump administration heightened last week by a letter it received from the administration that outlined a slew of demands tied to federal funding – like reforming its curriculum and admissions programs, discontinuing DEI practices and...
Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr. later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
2025-04-19, 23:39A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and praised him as an “extraordinary” healer. Dr. Ben Edwards appeared in the video posted March 31 by the...
Stevie Nicks working on ‘autobiographical’ album inspired by Prince and other ‘fantastic men’ she’s known
2025-04-19, 23:04Stevie Nicks is continuing to leave Fleetwood Mac in her (gold) dust with a newly announced solo album. The music legend was on hand at the Pollstar Awards earlier this week, where she was entered into the Hall of Fame. During her speech, she mentioned that she’s making a new “autobiographical”...
Netanyahu vows to continue war in Gaza despite growing opposition at home
2025-04-19, 22:10Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the war in Gaza in the face of growing opposition to Israel’s ongoing military campaign. In a pre-recorded video Saturday night, Netanyahu said Israel has “no choice” but to keep fighting “for our very own existence until victory.” The...
What to know about the Supreme Court’s midnight Alien Enemies Act order
2025-04-19, 22:10Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences. The situation was entirely...
The real strategy behind Russia’s sudden truce announcement
2025-04-19, 20:03The timing, the brevity, the sudden, unilateral nature of it all. If Ukraine’s allies needed proof of Moscow’s wild cynicism when it comes to peace, the announcement of an immediate truce for Easter provided just that. It came mere hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and his boss...
US Naval Academy canceled author’s lecture that would have criticized book bans
2025-04-19, 19:45The US Naval Academy canceled a lecture that author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to give to students there last week after he refused to remove slides from his planned presentation that criticized the academy’s decision to remove nearly 400 books from its main library. Holiday, a writer and...
Lady Gaga apologized for mic issues at Coachella set and flexed her talent
2025-04-19, 18:32The madame of “Mayhem” Lady Gaga was again on the main stage at Coachella on Friday night for the event’s second weekend, and she didn’t let some momentary tech glitches stop her. As she did on the first...
‘Bewitched, body and soul’: How ‘Pride & Prejudice’ still holds up 20 years later
2025-04-19, 16:44One of the most iconic scenes in “Pride & Prejudice” (2005) is the first proposal scene. Even those who have yet to watch the beloved movie likely have some idea of the shot. Pummelled by the rain, Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) — wet hair flopping against his forehead — confesses his adoration to...
The world’s first motel opened 100 years ago, but now only ruins remain
2025-04-19, 16:08This week in travel news: the original “motor hotel” sits abandoned, the world’s busiest airports are ranked, and how to move abroad without messing it up. Birth of the motel Hotels and guesthouses have existed for centuries. But the motel was born in 1925 when an architect named Arthur Heineman...
Chemical fingerprints could belong to a signature of life on distant planet
2025-04-19, 16:08When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world, or lead to an Earth-like twin thought of as Planet B? Or perhaps a technosignature, a signal that...
Putin declares brief ‘Easter truce’ in war with Ukraine
2025-04-19, 15:32Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a brief “Easter truce” in his war with Ukraine, saying “all...
How to stop living for the weekend, according to well-being experts
2025-04-19, 15:14“Everybody’s working for the weekend,” according to Canadian rock band Loverboy. If you work a traditional five-day workweek, you might relate to that feeling. But if someone is in a constant loop of dreading Monday through Friday and only looking forward to days off, it might not be the most...
‘My heart was broken’: Luka Dončić threw and cracked phone upon hearing Los Angeles Lakers ...
2025-04-19, 14:38Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Dončić was so upset he was being traded by the Dallas Mavericks in February that he threw and cracked his phone upon hearing the news, he revealed in an interview with ESPN’s Malika Andrews. “It still works,” he smiled during the interview, which was broadcast on...
Comics like Tim Dillon helped Trump reach young men. Democrats want in on the joke
2025-04-19, 14:02Comedian Tim Dillon isn’t expecting a certain member of the British royal family to stream his newly released stand-up special on Netflix. And he thinks the same logic should apply to Democrats who may fault him and other entertainers for President Donald Trump’s return to power. “You can’t go to...
Vance, Vatican officials engage in ‘exchange of opinions’ over migrants
2025-04-19, 13:08US Vice President JD Vance met senior Vatican officials on Saturday for talks that follow sharp criticism by Pope Francis of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. The Vatican said that during the meeting an “exchange of opinions” took place concerning migrants, refugees, and prisoners. The...
An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space
2025-04-19, 13:08Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, is due to return to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit will turn 70 on Sunday. The scientist invented the first object patented in space...
Supreme Court to debate if elementary schools may skip parental notice for LGBTQ+ reading
2025-04-19, 13:08For Billy Moges, the fight with a Washington, DC-area school district over the reading of LGBTQ+ books in elementary school is a matter of faith. “We have no hate for anyone,” said Moges, one of the Christian parents who sued Maryland’s largest school district over the policy in a case that will be...
What’s open and closed on Easter Day 2025
2025-04-19, 13:08Before you hop out the door this Easter Sunday, it may be worth checking what’s open as some places aren’t cracking their doors. Easter falls on April 20 this year. While it’s not a federal holiday, it’s widely observed across the US, and many businesses either close or shorten their hours....
Death toll from a boat capsizing in Congo earlier this week rises to 148, officials say
2025-04-19, 12:50The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in Congo earlier this week rose to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said Friday. About 500 passengers were on board. The wooden boat capsized Tuesday after catching fire on the Congo River in the country’s...
Shohei Ohtani misses Los Angeles Dodgers’ win over Texas Rangers as he awaits birth of ...
2025-04-19, 12:32Shohei Ohtani missed the Los Angeles Dodgers’ game against the Texas Rangers on Friday as he stayed with his wife ahead of the birth of their first child. “He’s on paternity. He and Mamiko are expecting at some point. That’s all I know,” Dodgers manager Dave...
Trump admin continues releasing information to paint Abrego Garcia as violent gang member as outcry ...
2025-04-19, 11:38The Trump administration this week escalated its efforts to portray the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador as a gang member with a violent history who they say is “never coming back” to the United States. A renewed push to cast Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a violent member of MS-13 comes amid...
Trump administration ready to recognize Russian control of Crimea as part of framework to end ...
2025-04-19, 11:20The Trump administration is ready to recognize Russian control of Crimea as part of the US proposal to drive an end to the war with Ukraine, an official familiar with the framework told CNN on Friday. Crimea, southern Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since it was illegally annexed in 2014....
‘Miracle baby’ from Oklahoma City bombing finds his purpose, 30 years on
2025-04-19, 11:20PJ Allen’s tiny body was horrifically burned when rescuers found him. Later in the hospital, the toddler was so covered in bandages, his grandmother had only his belly button to recognize him. He bears the scars of the deadliest homegrown terrorist attack in US history but has no memory of the day...
Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects
2025-04-19, 10:44At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration....
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