Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 1-0 at a feverish Metropolitano Stadium on Wednesday to complete a 5-4 aggregate win in the Copa del Rey semifinal and set a Clasico final against Real Madrid.

Megha Ganne set the Augusta National Women's Amateur record on Wednesday with a 9-under 63 at Champions Retreat, giving her a two-shot lead over defending champion Lottie Woad.

Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho was involved in a bizarre altercation with Galatasaray boss Okan Buruk on Wednesday.

Diamondbacks All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte has agreed to a six-year, $116.5 million contract extension which begins this season, his agent told ESPN.

A TikTok logo is shown on a phone in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)2025-04-02T17:48:13Z WASHINGTON (AP) Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.The New York Times first reported on the bid.President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that had been upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, which said the ban was necessary for national security.Under the law, TikToks Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance is required to sell the platform to an approved buyer or take it offline in the United States. Trump has suggested he could further extend the pause on the ban, but he has also said he expects a deal to be forged by Saturday. Amazon declined to comment. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The existence of an Amazon bid surfaced as Trump was scheduled on Wednesday to meet with senior officials to discuss the coming deadline for a TikTok sale. Although its unclear if ByteDance plans to sell TikTok, several possible bidders have come forward in the past few months. Among the possible investors are the software company Oracle and the investment firm Blackstone. Oracle announced in 2020 that it had a 12.5% stake in TikTok Global after securing its business as the apps cloud technology provider. In January, the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI presented ByteDance with a merger proposal that would combine Perplexitys business with TikToks U.S. operation. Last month, the company outlined its approach to rebuilding TikTok in a blog post, arguing that it is singularly positioned to rebuild the TikTok algorithm without creating a monopoly. Any acquisition by a consortium of investors could in effect keep ByteDance in control of the algorithm, while any acquisition by a competitor would likely create a monopoly in the short form video and information space, Perplexity said in its post.The company said it would remake the TikTok algorithm and ensure that infrastructure would be developed and maintained in American data centers with American oversight, ensuring alignment with domestic privacy standards and regulations.Other potential bidders include a consortium organized by billionaire businessman Frank McCourt, which recently recruited Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian as a strategic adviser. Investors in the consortium say theyve offered ByteDance $20 billion in cash for TikToks U.S. platform. Jesse Tinsley, the founder of the payroll firm Employer.com, says he too has organized a consortium and is offering ByteDance more than $30 billion for the platform. Wyoming small business owner Reid Rasner has also announced that he offered ByteDance roughly $47.5 billion.Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share user data such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers with Chinas authoritarian government. TikTok said it has never done that and would not do so if asked. The U.S. government has not provided evidence of that happening. Trump has millions of followers on TikTok and has credited the trendsetting platform with helping him gain traction among young voters. During his first term, he took a more skeptical view of TikTok and issued executive orders banning dealings with ByteDance as well as the owners of the Chinese messaging app WeChat.Parvini reported from Los Angeles. AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto SARAH PARVINI Parvini covers artificial intelligence for The Associated Press. She is based in Los Angeles. mailto

Friendship is at the heart of Lil Nas X and Camila Cabellos newly forged connection, which blossomed during their collaboration on the 2024 track He Knows. In a new cover story for Paper magazine, Lil Nas X, the 25-year-old Grammy-winning artist, opened up about the meaningful partnership with Cabello and how their collaboration helped him regain his confidence at a difficult time in his life.Source

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00904-8The discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization reveals a pathway to accelerate improvement of this crop and potentially others.

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08793-7Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

Ten groups have submitted bids to the NFL to be investors in new women's and men's professional flag football leagues, sources told ESPN.

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his injured left knee next week, a team official tells ESPN.

Ten groups have submitted bids to the NFL to be investors in new women's and men's professional flag football leagues, sources told ESPN.

Liverpool had to sweat it out to win the latest Merseyside derby, but it was enough to see Arne Slot's team move closer to the Premier League title.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot said he is "not surprised" that Everton defender James Tarkowski was not shown a red card in the Merseyside derby.

Ten groups have submitted bids to the NFL to be investors in new women's and men's professional flag football leagues, sources told ESPN.

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his injured left knee next week, a team official tells ESPN.

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-04-02T22:55:27Z MEXICO CITY (AP) The sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump were met initially with measured reactions from key trading partners, highlighting the lack of appetite for a full-fledged trade war.The fact that the tariffs fell most heavily on parts of the world sleeping through the night appeared to at least temporarily delay some of the potential outrage.Trump presented the import taxes, which he calls reciprocal tariffs and range from 10% to 49%, in the simplest terms: the U.S. would do to its trading partners what he said they had been doing to the U.S. for decades.Taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, he said. But it is not going to happen anymore.The president promised that Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country. He framed it not just as an economic issue, but a question of national security that threatens our very way of life. Nobody wants a trade warShortly after Trumps announcement, the British government said the United States remains the U.K.s closest ally. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the U.K. hoped to strike a trade deal to mitigate the impact of the 10% tariffs on British goods announced by Trump.Nobody wants a trade war and our intention remains to secure a deal, said Reynolds. But nothing is off the table and the government will do everything necessary to defend the U.K.s national interest. British officials have said they will not immediately retaliate, an approach backed by the Confederation of British Industry, a major business group.Italys conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni described the new 20% tariffs against the European Union as wrong, saying they benefit neither side.We will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States, with the aim of avoiding a trade war that would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players, Meloni said in a Facebook post. In any case, as always, we will act in the interest of Italy and its economy, also by discussing with other European partners, she added. No basis in logicSome countries took issue with the White Houses calculations.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the U.S. tariffs imposed on his country were totally unwarranted, but Australia will not retaliate.President Trump referred to reciprocal tariffs. A reciprocal tariff would be zero, not 10%, said Albanese. The U.S. and Australia have a free trade agreement and the U.S. has a $2-to-$1 trade surplus with Australia. The administrations tariffs have no basis in logic and they go against the basis of our two nations partnership. This is not the act of a friend.Trump said the United States bought $3 billion of Australian beef last year, but Australia would not accept U.S. beef imports. Albanese said the ban on raw U.S. beef was for biosecurity reasons.New Zealand also took issue with Trumps tariff logic.Trade minister Todd McClay rejected the figure on the administrations chart about the tariffs New Zealand imposes and said he had asked his countrys officials to clarify it. We dont have a 20% tariff rate, he said, adding that New Zealand was a very low tariff regime and the correct figure was below the 10% baseline rate applied by the U.S. to all countries.We wont be looking to retaliate. That would put up prices on New Zealand consumers and it would be inflationary, he said.Spared for the moment from the latest round of tariffs were Mexico and Canada, so far as goods that already qualified under their free trade agreement with the United States. Yet, the previously announced 25% tariffs on auto imports were scheduled to take effect at midnight.Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday she would wait to take action on Thursday when it was clear how Trumps announcement would affect Mexico.Its not a question of if you impose tariffs on me, Im going to impose tariffs on you, she said in a news briefing Wednesday morning. Our interest is in strengthening the Mexican economy.Canada had imposed retaliatory tariffs in response to the 25% tariffs that Trump tied to the trafficking of fentanyl. The European Union, in response to the steel and aluminum tariffs, imposed taxes on 26 billion euros worth ($28 billion) of U.S. goods, including bourbon, prompting Trump to threaten a 200% tariff on European alcohol. Little to gainAs Trump read down the list of countries that would be targeted Wednesday, he repeatedly said he didnt blame them for the tariffs and non-tariff barriers they imposed to protect their own nations businesses. But were doing the same thing right now, he said.In the face of unrelenting economic warfare, the United States can no longer continue with a policy of unilateral economic surrender, Trump said.Speaking from a business forum in India, Chilean President Gabriel Boric warned that such measures, in addition to causing uncertainty, challenge the mutually agreed rules and the principles that govern international trade. Ultimately, Trump announced Chile would face the baseline reciprocal tariff of 10%. The U.S. is Chiles second most important trading partner after China.Analysts say theres little to be gained from an all-out trade war, neither in the United States or in other countries.Once again, Trump has put Europe at a crossroads, said Matteo Villa, senior analyst at Italys Institute for International Political Studies.If Trump really imposes high tariffs, Europe will have to respond, but the paradox is that the EU would be better off doing nothing, he added.Villa also noted that retaliation would certainly be a further blow to the United States, but it would hurt Europe even more, as the EU bloc depends more on exports to the U.S. than vice versa.On the other hand, Trump seems to understand only the language of force, and this indicates the need for a strong and immediate response, Villa said. Probably the hope, in Brussels, is that the response will be strong enough to induce Trump to negotiate and, soon, to backtrack.__AP journalists around the world contributed to this story.

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)2025-04-02T22:42:00Z WASHINGTON (AP) After weeks of anticipation and speculation, President Donald Trump followed through on his reciprocal tariff threats by declaring on Wednesday a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States.In announcing the reciprocal tariffs, Trump was fulfilling a key campaign promise by raising U.S. taxes on foreign goods to narrow the gap with the tariffs the White House says other countries unfairly impose on U.S. products.Reciprocal means they do it to us and we do it to them, the president said from the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday.Trumps higher rates would hit foreign entities that sell more goods to the United States than they buy. But economists dont share Trumps enthusiasm for tariffs since theyre a tax on importers that usually get passed on to consumers. Its possible, however, that the reciprocal tariffs could bring other countries to the table and get them to lower their own import taxes.The Associated Press asked for your questions about reciprocal tariffs. Here are a few of them, along with our answers: Do U.S.-collected tariffs go into the General Revenue Fund? Can Trump withdraw money from that fund without oversight?Tariffs are taxes on imports, collected when foreign goods cross the U.S. border by the Customs and Border Protection agency. The money about $80 billion last year goes to the U.S. Treasury to help pay the federal governments expenses. Congress has authority to say how the money will be spent. Trump largely supported by Republican lawmakers who control the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives wants to use increased tariff revenue to finance tax cuts that analysts say would disproportionately benefit the wealthy. Specifically, they want to extend tax cuts passed in Trumps first term and largely set to expire at the end of 2025. The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, has found that extending Trumps tax cuts would reduce federal revenue by $4.5 trillion from 2025 to 2034. Trump wants higher tariffs to help offset the lower tax collections. Another think tank, the Tax Policy Center, has said that extending the 2017 tax cuts would deliver continued tax relief to Americans at all income levels, but higher-income households would receive a larger benefit. How soon will prices rise as a result of the tariff policy? It depends on how businesses both in the United States and overseas respond, but consumers could see overall prices rising within a month or two of tariffs being imposed. For some products, such as produce from Mexico, prices could rise much more quickly after the tariffs take effect. Some U.S. retailers and other importers may eat part of the cost of the tariff, and overseas exporters may reduce their prices to offset the extra duties. But for many businesses, the tariffs Trump announced Wednesday such as 20% on imports from Europe will be too large to swallow on their own.Companies may also use the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices. When Trump slapped duties on washing machines in 2018, studies later showed that retailers raised prices on both washers and dryers, even though there were no new duties on dryers. A key question in the coming months is whether something similar will happen again. Economists worry that consumers, having just lived through the biggest inflationary spike in four decades, are more accustomed to rising prices than they were before the pandemic.Yet there are also signs that Americans, put off by the rise in the cost of living, are less willing to accept price increases and will simply cut back on their purchases. That could discourage businesses from raising prices by much. What is the limit of the executive branchs power to implement tariffs? Does Congress not play any role?The U.S. Constitution grants the power to set tariffs to Congress. But over the years, Congress has delegated those powers to the president through several different laws. Those laws specify the circumstances under which the White House can impose tariffs, which are typically limited to cases where imports threaten national security or are severely harming a specific industry. In the past, presidents generally imposed tariffs only after carrying out public hearings to determine if certain imports met those criteria. Trump followed those steps when imposing tariffs in his first term.In his second term, however, Trump has sought to use emergency powers set out in a 1977 law to impose tariffs in a more ad hoc fashion. Trump has said, for example, that fentanyl flowing in from Canada and Mexico constitute a national emergency and has used that pretext to impose 25% duties on goods from both countries.Congress can seek to cancel an emergency that a president declares, and Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, has proposed to do just that regarding Canada. That legislation could pass the Senate but would likely die in the House. Other bills in Congress that would also limit the presidents authority to set tariffs face tough odds for passage as well. What tariffs are other countries charging on US goods? U.S. tariffs are generally lower than those charged by other countries. The average U.S. tariff, weighted to reflect goods that are actually traded, is just 2.2% for the United States, versus the European Unions 2.7%, Chinas 3% and Indias 12%, according to the World Trade Organization. Other countries also tend to do more than the United States to protect their farmers with high tariffs. The U.S. trade-weighted tariff on farm goods, for example, is 4%, compared to the EUs 8.4%, Japans 12.6%, Chinas 13.1% and Indias 65%. (The WTO numbers dont count Trumps recent flurry of import taxes or tariffs between countries that have entered into their own free trade agreements, such as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that allows many goods to cross North American borders duty free.) Previous U.S. administrations agreed to the tariffs that Trump now calls unjust. They were the result of a long negotiation between 1986 to 1994 the so-called Uruguay Round that ended in a trade pact signed by 123 countries and has formed the basis of the global trading system for nearly four decades. CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Rugaber has covered the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy for the AP for 16 years. He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb award for business reporting. twitter mailto

Not only is Vivian Jenna Wilson a fierce defender of trans rights and an outspoken advocate for gender-affirming care, but she also has a barbed tongue and enough smarts to know how and when to use it. Her favorite target? Her own father, Elon Musk.While even high-ranking Democrats have struggled to contain Musks power grabs since he started elbowing his way into the Oval Office, Wilson, despite her young age, is standing up to her estranged father every chance she gets.The 20-year-old trans firecracker has no problem ripping into the X and Tesla CEO and loves to do it publicly. Considering his anti-trans rhetoric, we cant blame her, and were just glad we get to see it happen!Elon Musk is a scam artistIn her latest takedown of her estranged father while on Hasan Pikers YouTube livestream, Wilson called Musks prior liberal stances a marketing scheme, called Tesla a Ponzi scheme, and said that his plan to colonize mars is not happening and claimed its just a marketing scheme that everyone somehow fell for despite being debunked by a f**king Google search.Calling him a 'man child'See on InstagramWilson is so fearless she used her interview with Teen Vogue to rake Musk over the coals. Hes a pathetic man-child. Why would I feel scared of him? Ohhh, he has so much power. Nah, nah, nah. I don't give a f**k, Wilson said. "Why should I be scared of this man? Because he's rich? Oh, no, I'm trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here. I don't give a f**k how much money anyone has. I don't. I really don't. He owns Twitter. Okay. Congratulations.Ketamine is a helluva drugBack in July 2024, Wilson responded to Jordan Petersons interview with Musk, where deadnamed his estranged trans daughter and claimed she was killed by the woke mind virus. Wilson went on Xs rival social media platform Threads to call him out for anti-trans bigotry and alleged use of Ketamine. As for if Im not a woman sure, Jan. Whatever you say. Im legally recognized as a woman in the state of California and I dont concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me," she wrote. "Obviously Elon cant say the same because in a ketamine-fueled haze, hes desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him."Subtly calling out Musk for being racistAfter Musk attended a rally for Trump in New York in the lead-up to the presidential election, Wilson didnt mince words about the kind of people who cheered on the racism and misogyny present at the event. Fuck every single one of you motherfuckers who was at that Madison Square Garden rally, and fuck everyone who had anything to do with that racist bigoted bullshit," she wrote on Threads Monday. "This isn't worthy of respect, this isn't worthy of engagement, this is worthy of nothing but shame, humiliation, and contempt."Let's call a Nazi salute and Nazi salute (@) When right-wing pundits were claiming that the left was being snowflakes for being enraged that Musk clearly made a Nazi salute not once but twice during Trumps presidential inauguration, and many in the press were tiptoeing around calling it a controversial hand gesture, Wilson was ready to call her dad out.The Nazi salute shit was insane. Honey, were going to call a fig a fig, and were going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That shit was definitely a Nazi salute, Wilson said in her Teen Vogue interview.Hes a serial adultererAfter someone on X tweeted a photo of Musk surrounded by some of his many children with the caption, Even though Elon Musk was super busy, he still make time for his family. Nothing is more important than family, Musk reasoned, All 5 boys super happy.But Wilson wasnt going to let his hypocrisy stand. Instead, she reposted it on Threads and took her father down a peg or two. I understand your new angle is this western values/christian family man thing but its such a weird choice, she wrote. You are not a family man, you are a serial adulterer who wont stop fucking lying about your own children. You are not a christian, as far as Im aware youve never stepped foot in a church. You are not some bastion for equality/progress

The Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) Las Vegas, one of the worlds largest and most iconic electronic dance music festivals, is fast approaching, and this years lineup is one to watch. Among the diverse talent slated to perform are a group of LGBTQ+ DJs who are not only making waves in the dance music scene but also reshaping the landscape with their unique sounds and empowering messages.Source

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08753-1A head-to-head double-ring complex of the human multifunctional DNA repair protein RAD52 mediates protection of stalled replication forks during replication stress, protecting them from reversal by SMARCAL1 motor.

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08726-4A millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic system with an onboard power supply and a wireless, optical control mechanism is developed for general applications in electrotherapy and specific uses in temporary cardiac pacing.

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Barcelona coach Hansi Flick is dreaming of winning a treble after his side beat Atltico Madrid 1-0 on Wednesday to set up a Clsico showdown against Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey final.

Atltico Madrid coach Diego Simeone maintained that his team has "competed well" throughout the season despite recent eliminations from the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.

Sacramento State plans to file an application with the NCAA this week to transition from FCS to FBS in football as an independent, sources told ESPN.

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Liverpool had to sweat it out to win the latest Merseyside derby, but it was enough to see Arne Slot's team move closer to the Premier League title.

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08759-9A RISC-V microprocessor capable of executing standard 32-bit instructions has been designed with 5,900 MoS2 transistors and a complete standard cell library based on 2D semiconductor technology.

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00560-yResearchers describe how they are using skills honed in the laboratory in their creative pursuits.

Defensive end Trey Hendrickson said Wednesday that he's disappointed and confused by Bengals executive Katie Blackburn's recent comments on his contract talks with the team.

Alex Ovechkin moved three goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record after scoring the 892nd of his career in the the Capitals' game at Carolina on Wednesday night.

Alex Ovechkin moved three goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record after scoring the 892nd of his career in the the Capitals' game at Carolina on Wednesday night.

Capitals goalie Logan Thompson left Wednesday night's game against the Hurricanes because of an upper-body injury.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli finished fourth in the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, making him the second-youngest driver to score a point in an F1 race.

USWNT captain Lindsey Heaps hailed teammate Trinity Rodman in her return to international duty after an eight-month injury absence.

Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho was involved in a bizarre altercation with Galatasaray boss Okan Buruk on Wednesday.

New Villanova coach Kevin Willard said he's aware of the criticism he has received since leaving Maryland but said, "I just think it's time that everyone moved on."

Defensive end Trey Hendrickson said Wednesday that he's disappointed and confused by Bengals executive Katie Blackburn's recent comments on his contract talks with the team.

Alex Ovechkin moved three goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record after scoring the 892nd of his career in the the Capitals' game at Carolina on Wednesday night.

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01028-9Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery plus, research suggesting that a shingles vaccination reduces the risk of dementia.

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00902-wMirror-image isomer blends have been converted into a single isomer by a light-activated copper catalyst a challenging reaction that prevents the waste of materials.

Sacramento State plans to file an application with the NCAA this week to transition from the FCS to the FBS in football as an independent, sources told ESPN.

New Villanova coach Kevin Willard said he was aware of the criticism he received since leaving Maryland but said, "I just think it's time that everyone moved on."

The Rockets' Dillon Brooks is set to face an automatic one-game ban after he was whistled for his 16th technical of the season during Wednesday's game against the Jazz.

Arsenal are reportedly plotting a move for Spain starlet Nico Williams this summer. Transfer Talk has the latest news, gossip and rumors.

Buzz Williams was introduced Wednesday as the Terrapins' coach on the heels of Kevin Willard's messy exit.

Sacramento State plans to file an application with the NCAA this week to transition from the FCS to the FBS in football as an independent, sources told ESPN.

New Villanova coach Kevin Willard said he was aware of the criticism he received since leaving Maryland but said, "I just think it's time that everyone moved on."