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A person watches at site of an under construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April, 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)2025-04-04T08:18:26Z BANGKOK (AP) Search teams pulled more bodies from the ruins of buildings on Friday, a week after a massive earthquake rocked Myanmar killing more than 3,100 people, as the focus turns toward the urgent humanitarian needs in a country that was already devastated by civil war.United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, who is also the emergency relief coordinator, was to arrive Friday in an effort to spur action following the quake. Ahead of his visit, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the international community to immediately step up funding for quake victims to match the scale of this crisis, and he urged unimpeded access to reach those in need.The earthquake has supercharged the suffering with the monsoon season just around the corner, he said Thursday. Myanmar authorities said Thursday that 3,145 people had been killed, with another 4,589 people injured and 221 missing, and did not immediately update the figures on Friday. Britain, which had already given $13 million to purchase emergency items like food, water and shelter, pledged an additional $6.5 million in funds to match an appeal from Myanmars Disasters Emergency Committee, according to the U.K. Embassy in Yangon. Many international search and rescue teams were also on the scene, and eight medical crews from China, Thailand, Japan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Russia were operating in Naypyitaw, according to Myanmars military-run government. Another five teams from India, Russia, Laos and Nepal and Singapore were helping in the Mandalay region, while teams from Russia, Malaysia and the ASEAN bloc of nations were assisting in the Sagaing region. The Trump administration has pledged $2 million in emergency aid and sent a three-person team to assess how best to respond given drastic cuts to U.S. foreign assistance.On Friday, five bodies were recovered from the rubble in the capital Naypyitaw and the second-largest city of Mandalay, near the epicenter of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake March 28, authorities said. The last reported rescue came Wednesday, some 125 hours after the quake struck, when a man was saved from the wreckage of a hotel in Mandalay. The quake also shook neighboring Thailand, bringing down a high-rise under construction in Bangkok, where recovery work continued Friday. Overall, 22 people have been found dead and 35 injured in Bangkok, primarily from the construction site.Myanmars military seized power in 2021 from the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking what has turned into a civil war.The quake worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis, with more than 3 million people displaced from their homes and nearly 20 million in need even before it hit, according to the United Nations. As concerns grew that ongoing fighting could hamper humanitarian aid efforts, the military declared a temporary ceasefire Wednesday, through April 22. The announcement followed unilateral temporary ceasefires announced by armed resistance groups opposed to military rule. On Thursday, however, there were renewed airstrikes in Kayah state, also known as Karenni, in eastern Myanmar, according to witnesses. The military has said that it would still take necessary measures against resistance groups, if they use the ceasefire to regroup, train or launch attacks, and the groups have said they reserved the right to defend themselves._____Associated Press Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. DAVID RISING Rising covers regional Asia-Pacific stories for The Associated Press. He has worked around the world, including covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, and was based for nearly 20 years in Berlin before moving to Bangkok. twitter mailto

Billy O'Keefe celebrates victory in a six-man-scramble at a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)2025-04-04T04:13:18Z SHIPLEY, England (AP) Sitting around a wrestling ring, churchgoers roared as local hero Billy OKeeffe body-slammed a fighter named Disciple. Beneath stained-glass windows, they whooped and cheered as burly, tattooed wresters tumbled into the aisle during a six-man tag-team battle.This is Wrestling Church, which brings blood, sweat and tears mostly sweat to St. Peters Anglican church in the northern England town of Shipley. Its the creation of Gareth Thompson, a charismatic 37-year-old who says he was saved by pro wrestling and Jesus and wants others to have the same experience. Thompson says the outsized characters and scripted morality battles of pro wrestling fit naturally with a Christian message.Boil it down to the basics, its good versus evil, he said. When I became Christian, I started seeing the wrestling world through a Christian lens. I started seeing David and Goliath. I started seeing Cain and Abel. I started seeing Esau having his heritage stolen from him. And Im like, We could tell these stories. Gareth Angel Thompson, founder of the Kingdom Wrestling charity stands ringside at St Peters Church in Shipley before one of the charitys monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Gareth Angel Thompson, founder of the Kingdom Wrestling charity stands ringside at St Peters Church in Shipley before one of the charitys monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A match made in heavenChurch attendance in the U.K. has been declining for decades, and the 2021 census found that less than half of people in England and Wales now consider themselves Christian. Those who say they have no religion rose from 25% to 37% in a decade.That has led churches to get creative in order to survive.Youve got to take a few risks, said the Rev. Natasha Thomas, the priest in charge at St. Peters. She acknowledged that she wasnt entirely sure what it was I was letting myself in for when she agreed to host wrestling events. Rev. Natasha Thomas is preaching to spectators before the Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Rev. Natasha Thomas is preaching to spectators before the Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Its not church as you would know it. Its certainly not for everyone, she said. But its bringing in a different group of people, a different community, than we would normally get.At a recent Wrestling Church evening, almost 200 people older couples, teenagers, pierced and tattooed wrestling fans, parents with excited young children packed into chairs around a ring erected under the vaulted ceiling of the century-old church. After a short homily and prayer from Thomas, it was time for two hours of smackdowns, body slams and flying headbutts. The atmosphere grew cheerfully raucous, as fans waved giant foam fingers and hollered knock him out! at participants.Some longtime churchgoers have welcomed the infusion of energy. Spectators cheer proceedings during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Spectators cheer proceedings during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Spectators cheer proceedings during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Spectators cheer proceedings during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More I think its absolutely wonderful, said Chris Moss, who married her husband Mike in St. Peters almost 50 years ago.You can look at some of the wrestlers and think she scrunched her face in distaste. But talking to them made her realize you shouldnt judge a book by its cover.Wrestling was a lifelineThompson, whose wrestling moniker is Gareth Angel, both wrestles and presides over the organized mayhem. Hes a mix of preacher and ringmaster, wearing a T-shirt that says Pray, eat, wrestle, repeat.Hes loved wrestling since it provided solace and release during a troubled upbringing that saw him survive childhood sexual abuse and a period of homelessness as a teenager.I could watch Shawn Michaels and the Rock and Stone Cold (Steve Austin) and I could be like, I want to be like them, he said. So its always been an escape for me, and a release and a way to get away from stuff. But then God has obviously turned that around now and its become this passion. Gareth Angel Thompson body slams Young Johnty during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Gareth Angel Thompson body slams Young Johnty during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More He found Christianity in 2011, ran his first Wrestling Church event in a former nightclub-turned-church in 2022, and moved to St. Peters last year.As well as the monthly Saturday night shows, his charity Kingdom Wrestling runs training sessions for adults and children in a back room of the church, along with womens self-defense classes, a mens mental health group and coaching for children who have been expelled from school.For many in the close-knit community of U.K. wrestlers and fans, religion is a new ingredient, but not an unwelcome one.Im mainly here for the wrestling, said 33-year-old Liam Ledger, who wrestles as Flamin Daemon Crowe. Sitting in a pungent changing room as wrestlers discussed fight plans, donned knee pads and laced up their many-holed boots, he said its a bit surreal when baptisms are held between bouts.It works both ways, he said. Theres people that come here that are big on religion, and theyre here for all of that sort of stuff. And then they go, Oh, actually this wrestling is sort of fun. Kiara, Kingdom Wrestlings reigning womens champion, said the organization has helped her bring her Catholic faith into her wrestling life.Its thanks to Kingdom Wrestling that Ive had the confidence to pray in the locker room now before matches, said Kiara, 26, known outside the ring as Stephanie Sid. I invite my opponent to pray with me, pray that we have a safe match, pray that theres no injuries and pray that we entertain everybody here. A cross is seen on the hand of Gareth 'Angel' Thompson, founder of the Kingdom Wrestling charity during a wrestling bout at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) A cross is seen on the hand of Gareth 'Angel' Thompson, founder of the Kingdom Wrestling charity during a wrestling bout at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Stephanie Sid who goes by the stage name Tiara poses for a picture before a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Stephanie Sid who goes by the stage name Tiara poses for a picture before a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Going for growthOnly a handful of people have gone from watching the wrestling to attending Sunday-morning services at St. Peters, but Wrestling Church baptized 30 people in its first year. Thompson, whose brand of born-again Christianity is more muscular than many traditional Anglicans, plans to expand to other British cities. One day, he says, he may start his own church.There has long been overlap between Christianity and wrestling in the U.S., where figures like Thompsons hero Shawn Michaels proudly proclaim their faith. But Britain is a less religious place, and Shipley, a former mill town 175 miles (280 kilometers) north of London, is a long way from the Bible Belt.Thompson, though, is unfazed by doubters.People say, Oh, wrestling and Christianity, theyre two fake things in a fake world of their own existence, he said. If you dont believe in it, of course you will think that of it. But my own personal experience of my Christian faith is that it is alive and living, and it is true. The wrestling world, if you really believe in it, you believe that its true and you can suspend your disbelief.You suspend it because you want to get lost in it. You want to believe in it. You want to hope for it. A six-man-scramble plays out in the ring at a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) A six-man-scramble plays out in the ring at a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Tucker, a former WWE NXT UK wrestler, stands on the ropes at the Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Tucker, a former WWE NXT UK wrestler, stands on the ropes at the Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wrestlers Will Valour, left speaks with fellow competitor Lawson, both stage names, backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of the Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Wrestlers Will Valour, left speaks with fellow competitor Lawson, both stage names, backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of the Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wrestlers prepare backstage for a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025.(AP Photo/Jon Super) Wrestlers prepare backstage for a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peter's Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025.(AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wrestler Liam Ledger aka Daemon Crowe sits backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of the Kingdom Wrestling's monthly shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Wrestler Liam Ledger aka Daemon Crowe sits backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of the Kingdom Wrestling's monthly shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wrestling themed memorabilia is seen backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Wrestling themed memorabilia is seen backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wesley Nsereko, right, is proclaimed victor over Daemon Crowe aka Liam Ledger by referee Kate Crosby during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Wesley Nsereko, right, is proclaimed victor over Daemon Crowe aka Liam Ledger by referee Kate Crosby during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A six-man-scramble spills out of the ring at a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) A six-man-scramble spills out of the ring at a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wrestling figurines are seen backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Wrestling figurines are seen backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Mini wrestling belts are seen with self-help and religious themed books backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Mini wrestling belts are seen with self-help and religious themed books backstage at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one of Kingdom Wrestling's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Sarlett high fives fans as she makes her ringwalk before fighting Tiara during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Sarlett high fives fans as she makes her ringwalk before fighting Tiara during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Referee Katie Crosby holds up the contested belt before Tiaras bout against Sarlett, left, during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Referee Katie Crosby holds up the contested belt before Tiaras bout against Sarlett, left, during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A detail is seen on the shirt of Gareth 'Angel' Thompson, founder of the Kingdom Wrestling charity at St Peter's Church in Shipley after one of the charity's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) A detail is seen on the shirt of Gareth 'Angel' Thompson, founder of the Kingdom Wrestling charity at St Peter's Church in Shipley after one of the charity's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Kingdom Wrestling merchandise is seen for sale at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one the charity's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Kingdom Wrestling merchandise is seen for sale at St Peter's Church in Shipley before one the charity's monthly wrestling shows, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Wrestler Brandon Prince makes his ringwalk at the Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Wrestler Brandon Prince makes his ringwalk at the Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Stephanie Sid aka Tiara is proclaimed winner over Sarlett during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Stephanie Sid aka Tiara is proclaimed winner over Sarlett during a Kingdom Wrestling show at St Peters Church in Shipley, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More ___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. JILL LAWLESS Lawless is an Associated Press reporter covering U.K. politics and more. She is based in London. twitter mailto

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President Donald Trump, driven by his son Eric Trump, arrives at Trump National Doral during the LIV Golf Miami tournament, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-03T22:08:00Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment after the stock market dropped sharply Thursday over his tariffs, saying, I think its going very well.The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, he said when asked about the market as he left the White House to fly to one of his Florida golf clubs. President Donald Trump, driven by his son Eric Trump, arrives at Trump National Doral during the LIV Golf Miami tournament, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Donald Trump, driven by his son Eric Trump, arrives at Trump National Doral during the LIV Golf Miami tournament, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,600 points on Thursday as U.S. stocks led a worldwide selloff after the Republican presidents announcement of tariffs against much of the world ignited a shock like none seen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump on Wednesday announced a minimum tariff of 10% on imports, with the tax rate running much higher on products from certain countries like China and those from the European Union.The announcement jolted markets worldwide, but Trump said that was to be expected. He compared the United States to a sick patient in need of surgery when asked by a reporter for his reaction to the worst stock market drop in years.I think its going very well. We have an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and its a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is, he said, an apparent reference to the selloff. He talked about trillions of dollars in investment that is coming into our country from companies that want to make their products in the U.S. to avoid tariffs. The rest of the world wants to see is there any way they can make a deal, he said.Later, speaking with the reporters on aboard Air Force One, Trump said that hed be open to using tariffs to negotiate with other countries and that it would depend on whether they had something phenomenal to offer in return. He maintains that other countries have been taking advantage of the U.S. for a long time and he wants it to stop. US President Donald Trump appears on a television screen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) US President Donald Trump appears on a television screen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More For many years, weve been at the wrong side of the ball and Ill tell you what, I think its going to be unbelievable, Trump said as he left the White House to attend a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his club in Doral, Florida.____ DARLENE SUPERVILLE Superville covers the White House for The Associated Press, with a special emphasis on first ladies and first families.

President Donald Trump, driven by his son Eric Trump, arrives at Trump National Doral during the LIV Golf Miami tournament, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-04T04:01:36Z WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. job market is slowing at a time when Americans are increasingly anxious about what President Donald Trumps trade wars are going to do to the economy.When the Labor Department releases employment numbers for March on Friday, they are expected to show that U.S. businesses, government agencies and nonprofits added 130,000 jobs last month, down from 151,000 in February, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet. The unemployment rate is forecast to tick up to 4.2% in March from 4.1% in February.Those would unspectacular but not terrible hiring numbers. But the fear is that things might get worse from here.President Donald Trumps trade wars including the sweeping Liberation Day import taxes he announced Wednesday threaten to drive up prices, disrupt commerce and invite retaliatory tariffs from Americas trading partners. Another threat comes from the presidents promise to deport millions of immigrants who are working in the United States illegally. In the past several years, those workers have eased labor shortages and helped the economy keep growing. If theyre deported or frightened out of the job market, companies could have to cut back on what they do or increase wages and raise prices, potentially feeding inflation. Likewise, purges of the federal workforce by Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to threaten weigh the labor market and push up unemployment. Still, the impact of Musks firings is only starting to show up.We do not expect DOGE-driven job cuts to be a sizable drag in the overall March hiring numbers, Shruti Mishra, economist at Bank of America, wrote in a commentary. The numbers are too small to move the needle on the broader labor market.Mishra forecasts 185,000 new jobs last month, considerably higher than economists consensus, partly because she expects hiring at leisure and hospitality companies like hotels and restaurants to rebound after being pushed down by unusually cold weather in January and February. The job market has cooled from the red-hot hiring days of 2021-2023. Employers added 151,000 jobs in February and 125,000 in January. Not bad but down from monthly averages of 168,000 last year, 216,000 in 2023, 380,000 in 2022 and a record 603,000 in 2021 as the economy surged back from COVID-19 lockdowns.The economy has been remarkably durable in the face high interest rates.In 2022 and 2023, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate 11 times to combat inflation. Economists expected the higher borrowing costs to tip the United States into recession. But they didnt. Consumers kept spending, employers kept hiring and the economy kept growing.Inflation came down allowing the Fed to cut rates three times last year. But then progress against inflation stalled, forcing the Fed to put off more rate cuts this year.Now there are increasing worries about the health of the economy. The University of Michigans consumer sentiment survey last month showed that two-thirds of American consumers expected unemployment to rise over the next year the highest reading in 16 years. The U.S. economy is in good shape at the start of the second quarter, but the ongoing trade war has increased the risk of near-term recession dramatically, Ershang Liang of PNC Economics wrote in a commentary Thursday.Still, the slowdown, if one is coming, may not show up in Fridays job numbers.Thomas Simons, chief economist at Jefferies, says the March numbers may be inflated by seasonal adjustments and end up getting revised lower in coming months. After we see more data, and eventually a number of revisions, this period of time in the labor market will probably look quite a bit worse than it does now, he wrote in a commentary Thursday.

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A man walks past Apple and Nike stores in Beijing, China, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)2025-04-04T10:53:12Z BANGKOK (AP) Countries and industries were scrambling Friday to respond as President Donald Trumps latest tariffs hikes upend global trade and world markets.China responded to the 34% tariffs imposed by the U.S. on imports from China by announcing it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10.Taiwans president promised to provide support to industries most vulnerable to the 32% tariffs Trump ordered in his Liberation Day reciprocal tariffs announcement. Vietnam said its deputy prime minister would visit the U.S. for talks on trade. Some, like the head of the EUs European Commission, have vowed to fight back while promising to improve the rules book for free trade. Others said they were hoping to negotiate with the Trump administration for relief. Fighting backAs with earlier countermoves to U.S. trade penalties, Beijing hit back with targeted action, as well as its universal 34% tariff on all products from the U.S. The Commerce Ministry in Beijing said it will impose more export controls on rare earths, which are materials used in high-tech products such as computer chips and electric vehicle batteries. Included in the list was samarium and its compounds, which are used in aerospace manufacturing and the defense sector. Another element called gadolinium is used in MRI scans. Chinas customs administration said it had suspended imports of chicken from two U.S. suppliers, Mountaire Farms of Delaware and Coastal Processing. It said Chinese customs had repeatedly detected furazolidone, a drug banned in China, in shipments from those companies. Additionally, the Chinese government said it has added 27 firms to lists of companies subject to trade sanctions or export controls.For good measure, China also filed a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization, saying the U.S. tariffs were a typical unilateral bullying practice that endangers the stability of the global economic and trade order. Seize the day India was hit by a 26% tariff rate, lower than the 34% for Chinese exports and 46% for Vietnam. Its Commerce Ministry that it was studying the opportunities that may arise due to this new development in U.S. trade policy. It said talks were underway on a trade agreement, including deepening supply chain integration. The U.S was New Delhis biggest trading partner in 2024 with two-way trade estimated at $129 billion, according to U.S. data. They have set an ambitious target of more than doubling their bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030. Most pharmaceuticals and other medicines, important Indian exports to the U.S., are exempt from the reciprocal tariffs. However, diamonds and other gems, another major export industry, are subject to the higher duties.Business groups said they viewed the challenge as a chance to improve Indias competitiveness. At a time when global trade dynamics are shifting rapidly, Indian exporters must be equipped with the right policies, strategies, and support to compete effectively, S.C. Ralkan, head of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations, said in a statement. We need to talkMost U.S. trading partners have emphasized they hope negotiations can help resolve trade friction with Washington. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he was prepared to fly to Washington, in a last-ditch effort to forestall the 24% tariffs Trump ordered for exports from the biggest Asian U.S. ally. The global trading system has serious deficiencies, the president of the EUs European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Thursday while on a visit to Uzbekistan. But she chided Trump, saying that reaching for tariffs as your first and last tool will not fix it. This is why from the onset we have always been ready to negotiate with the United States. In Italy, Premier Giorgia Meloni told state TV she believes the 20% U.S. tariffs on exports from Europe were wrong, but it is not the catastrophe that some are making it out to be. Her government planned to meet next week with representatives of affected sectors to formulate plans. We need to open an honest discussion on the matter with the Americans, with the goal, at least from my point of view, of removing tariffs, not multiplying them, Meloni said. Vietnams Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Pham Thu Hang, said Hanoi would keep talking with the U.S. to find practical solutions as 46% U.S. tariffs threatened to decimate exports of footwear, electronics, textiles and seafood.If enforced, would negatively impact bilateral economic and trade relations as well as the interests of businesses and people in both countries, Hang said in comments cited by state-run media, which reported that the deputy prime ninister and former finance minister Ho Duc Phoc was scheduled to visit the U.S. for trade talks next week. A helping handTaiwan President Lai Ching-te said he will offer the greatest support to industries most impacted by the new tariffs. Taiwans trade surplus with the U.S. is relatively high partly because the island is a major source of computer chips and other advanced technology. Lai said in a statement on his Facebook page that We feel that this is unreasonable and are also worried about the subsequent impact these measures may have on the global economy.Lai said he instructed Premier Cho Jung-tai to work closely with industries that are impacted and to communicate with the public about their plans to stabilize the economy.Japans leader Ishiba and other governments also said they were preparing countermeasures to help industries cope. Likewise, von der Leyen said the EU was consulting with steel and auto makers, pharmaceutical companies and other industries about how to give them more breathing space.Looking elsewhereTrumps decision to sharply raise tariffs on countries spanning the globe is self-defeating, Wang Huiyao, president of the Chinese think tank Center for China and Globalization, said in an interview. The latest tariffs impose heavy burdens on some countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Its a trade war with the world, Wang said, while Chinas strategy is to trade more with Southeast Asia and Latin America, with Europe, the Middle East and other developing nations. The likely outcome is that China will become the largest trading nation and its economy will be trading more with other nations and the U.S. may ... become more isolated, Wang said. Europe will work to build more bridges and as a regional economic bloc of 450 million people, larger than the United States, it also has its own huge market, said von der Leyen, the EC president. The EU is its own safe harbor in tumultuous times, she said. ___AP journalists from around the world contributed. ELAINE KURTENBACH Based in Bangkok, Kurtenbach is the APs business editor for Asia, helping to improve and expand our coverage of regional economies, climate change and the transition toward carbon-free energy. 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Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, 15, right, who lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast six years ago, spends time with his brother Vilvaraj Jethurshan, 16, left, outside their house in Mankindy, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)2025-04-04T05:28:14Z MANKULAM, Sri Lanka (AP) Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decadeslong separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines on the same battle lines.But the Trump administrations suspension of aid threatens Sri Lankas demining operations, pushing the livelihoods of thousands like Pushparani into uncertainty.What is more uncertain for Sri Lanka now is its obligation to rid the island nation of mines by 2028 under the Ottawa Treaty, which it ratified in 2017.Pushparani has experienced the civil war in its full fury. In her family, her husband, father and two brothers died fighting for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, as the rebel group was formally known. Two other siblings are missing. Thavarathnam Pushparani, 56, puts on her protective gear to work in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani, 56, puts on her protective gear to work in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Thavarathnam Pushparani, right, directs her team members as they prepare to work in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani, right, directs her team members as they prepare to work in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Thavarathnam Pushparani, left, monitors a fellow worker as they work in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani, left, monitors a fellow worker as they work in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Thavarathnam Pushparani holds up her mobile phone to show a portrait of herself from the time she fought for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against Sri Lankan forces, at her home in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani holds up her mobile phone to show a portrait of herself from the time she fought for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against Sri Lankan forces, at her home in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More She was born in eastern Sri Lanka and while still in school, her family had to move to the northern parts of the nation after a countrywide ethnic pogrom against minority Tamils by majority Sinhala mobs in 1983.The incident stirred up emotions among many Tamil youth who joined militant organizations to fight for an independent state for the Tamils. Pushparani too joined the Tamil Tigers while still a teenager in school. Because the whole of my family was with the organization they arranged my marriage. My eldest daughter was born in 1990 and the younger one was born in 1992. My husband died in battle in 1996 and my children were raised in the Sencholai home, run by the organization, said Pushparani. She was reunited with her children when the fighting ended in 2009 and started working with demining groups for a living. Thavarathnam Pushparani hangs a portrait of herself with her late husband and their two daughters at her house in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani hangs a portrait of herself with her late husband and their two daughters at her house in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Thavaraththinam Tharsini, left, joins her mother Thavarathnam Pushparani who is on a video call with her granddaughter at their home in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavaraththinam Tharsini, left, joins her mother Thavarathnam Pushparani who is on a video call with her granddaughter at their home in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Thavarathnam Pushparani, left, spends time with her daughter Thavaraththinam Tharsini at their home in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani, left, spends time with her daughter Thavaraththinam Tharsini at their home in Paranthan, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Funds pending reviewDemining operations in Sri Lanka started in 2002 during a ceasefire period and the U.S. has been the major donor among 11 countries supporting the effort, contributing about 34% of the $250 million grants received for the projects so far.The U.S. contribution was 45% of the grants received last year, according to M.M Nayeemudeen, director of the state-run National Mine Action Center.Thanks to the international generosity, the demining operations continue to date despite being interrupted for a few years because of the break down of the ceasefire. They have so far managed to clear more than 2.5 million anti-personnel, anti-tank, small arms ammunition and unexploded ordnance. Vilvaraj Vinothan, 30, who works for the demining agency Mine Advisory Group, excavates the ground in search for unexploded explosive devices in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Vilvaraj Vinothan, 30, who works for the demining agency Mine Advisory Group, excavates the ground in search for unexploded explosive devices in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Out of 254 square kilometers of land that originally needed to be cleared, only about 23 square kilometers are left to deal with. Whether that can be achieved by the 2028 deadline will depend on continued funding.Nayeemudeen said once the aid suspension was announced, Sri Lankas foreign ministry appealed and the U.S allowed the usage of its allocated funds pending a review, a decision on which is expected on May 1.We hope that on completion of the 90-day review period that commenced from Jan. 24, 2025, the U.S government funding assistance will continue, said Ananda Chandrasiri head of Delvon Assistance for Social Harmony, one of the four demining groups operating in the country.Otherwise it will create a grave problem for Sri Lanka to achieve mine-free status by the end of 2027 as targeted ... A huge reduction of staffing levels of the four operators would be inevitable. It looked like perfumed powderThere are around 3,000 workers, most of them recruited from among the civil war-affected communities. With the uncertainty, some groups have already started terminating their staff, Nayeemudeen said.Sri Lankas civil war ended in 2009 when government troops crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, ending their quarter-century separatist campaign. According to conservative U.N. estimates, about 100,000 people were killed in the conflict. Thavarathnam Pushparani, second left in front row, listens to the safety instructions with her fellow workers before stepping into a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Thavarathnam Pushparani, second left in front row, listens to the safety instructions with her fellow workers before stepping into a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A worker in protective gear works in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) A worker in protective gear works in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Civilian properties were demined, but large areas were still contaminated when hundreds of thousands of civilians who were displaced by the conflict came back to resettle. Mine awareness campaigns were held, but there were many accidents.Kumarakulasingham Dinojan has lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast. As a 9-year-old boy, he tried to open a metal container that he found in the woods. His brother, who was playing with him, also suffered wounds.My grandmother went into the woods to get firewood and we also followed her. We did not know that she had reached home through another way. We found a container which looked like a perfumed powder, and when we tried to open it, it exploded, said Dinojan. Brothers Vilvaraj Vinothan and Kulasingham Dinojan walk in a field near their home where a landmine exploded six years ago leaving them both injured, in Mankindy, Sri Lanka. Scars from wounds caused by a landmine explosion six years ago are seen on the legs of Vilvaraj Jethurshan, 16, in Mankindy, Sri Lanka, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Scars from wounds caused by a landmine explosion six years ago are seen on the legs of Vilvaraj Jethurshan, 16, in Mankindy, Sri Lanka, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, 15, who lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast six years ago, in Mankindy, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, 15, who lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast six years ago, in Mankindy, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More There were people who were injured or killed trying to open mines and use the explosives for fishing.Vidya Abhayagunawardena, coordinator of the Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Land Mines, said its critical for Sri Lanka to ratify Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. He also called for the enactment of domestic legislation to enforce the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified in 2016, to bolster the legal rights of the countrys disabled population.Dinojans older brother, Vilvaraj Vinothan, said his brothers becoming land mine victims made him take action and become involved in mine clearance. He has worked with the Mine Advisory Group for six years.Only when the land was being cleared that I understood how we should deal with the mines, he said. Thats when I decided to help, knowing it would benefit the entire community. Vilvaraj Vinothan, center, who works for a demining agency, poses with his younger brothers Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, right, and Vilvaraj Jethurshan, both injured in a land mine explosion, in Mankindi, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Vilvaraj Vinothan, center, who works for a demining agency, poses with his younger brothers Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, right, and Vilvaraj Jethurshan, both injured in a land mine explosion, in Mankindi, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Pushparani is grateful that her demining income has allowed her to fulfill her familys needs. She financed one daughters university education and her marriage. However, she also cares for a daughter injured in crossfire and an elderly mother.The reason for my choosing demining for livelihood is not only because of poverty. I also have a desire to see this land to be free of mines, she said.I dont want to see our future generations being injured or affected by war. I can say that I am carrying the burden of both my family and of the country on my shoulders.___Francis reported from Colombo.

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Yamama Jundia, 13, injured in an Israeli airstrike, grieves alongside others over the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in the same strike, at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)2025-04-04T12:44:04Z DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza (AP) Israeli strikes killed more than a dozen people in the Gaza Strip early Friday, as Israel sent more ground troops into the Palestinian territory to ramp up its offensive against Hamas.At least 17 people, some from the same family, were killed after an airstrike hit the southern city of Khan Younis, according to hospital staff. Hours later, people were still searching through the rubble, looking for survivors. The attack follows days of Israeli strikes, which have killed at least 100 people, as it intensifies operations, intended to pressure Hamas to release its hostages. On Friday, Israel said it had begun ground activity in northern Gaza, in order to expand its security zone. Israels military had issued sweeping evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza before expected ground operations. The U.N. humanitarian office said around 280,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas last month. In recent days, Israels vowed to seize large parts of the Palestinian territory and establish a new security corridor across it. To pressure Hamas, Israel has imposed a monthlong blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle a tactic that rights groups say is a war crime. Israel said earlier this week that enough food had entered Gaza during a six-week truce to sustain the territorys roughly 2 million Palestinians for a long time. Hamas says it will only release the remaining 59 hostages 24 of whom are believed to be alive in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli pullout from Gaza. The group has rejected demands that it lay down its arms or leave the territory. The predawn strike on Friday hit a three-story building. In addition to the dead, the attack wounded at least 16 people from the same family. Associated Press reporters saw bodies being carried out in blankets, while others searched for people trapped under the rubble and collected charred remains. We dont know how to collect them and how to bury them. We dont know whose remains these are. They were burned and dismembered, said Ismail Al-Aqqad, whose brother died in the strike, as well as his brothers family.On Thursday, more than 30 bodies, including women and children, were taken to hospitals in and around Khan Younis, according to hospital staff.Israel said Friday that it had killed a top Hamas commander in a strike in Lebanons coastal city of Sidon. Israel said that Hassan Farhat was a commander of Hamas western area in Lebanon and that he was responsible for numerous attacks against Israel, including one in February 2024, which killed an Israeli soldier and injured others. The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, most of whom have since been released in ceasefire agreements and other deals. Israel rescued eight living hostages and has recovered dozens of bodies. More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as part of Israels offensive, according to Gazas Health Ministry, which doesnt say whether those killed are civilians or combatants. The ministry says more than half of those killed were women and children. Israel says it has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.The war has left most of Gaza in ruins, and at its height displaced around 90% of the population.___Follow APs war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

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A hand-embroidery dress fabric made in India, costing a couple hundred dollars per yard, is sold at the Francia Textiles fabric store in the Fashion District in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)2025-04-04T14:17:28Z NEW YORK (AP) President Donald Trump has unveiled his latest tariffs, and they could have significant implications for your wallet.Trumps sweeping new tariffs, on top of previous levies and retaliation worldwide, are expected to increases prices for everyday items. The trade wars have already roiled financial markets and plunged businesses into uncertainty all while economists warn of potentially weakened economic growth and heightened inequality.Which impacts will be felt by consumers and workers first? And what can households do in the face of so much uncertainty? Heres what you need to know:What are tariffs and how will they affect me?Tariffs are taxes on goods imported from other countries. Companies buying foreign products pay the tariffs imposed on them and, as a result, face higher costs that are typically passed on to customers.Trump has argued tariffs will protect U.S. industries from unfair foreign competition and raise money for the federal government. But since so much of what we buy today relies on a global supply chain, steeper tariffs mean youll likely see more expensive prices from the grocery aisle to your next car repair. It is going to affect everything in the economy, said Josh Stillwagon, an associate professor of economics and chair of the Economics Division at Babson College. Theres this immediate price increase thats going to be passed on to consumers here, basically as soon as the retailers have to buy new product. Will the tariffs affect everyone equally?No. Experts warn that these tariffs could escalate inequities. Low-income families in particular will feel the costs of key necessities, like food and energy, rise with fewer savings to draw on significantly straining budgets.Low-income households often spend a larger share of their income on essential goods whether its food or other basic products ... (like) soap or toothpaste, said Gustavo Flores-Macas, a professor of government and public policy at Cornell University whose research focuses on economic development. Because of this, he said, even relatively small price increases will have disproportionate impacts. Evidence of that disparity will only mount for big-ticket items. Dipanjan Chatterjee, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, points to now-imposed auto tariffs, explaining that projected price hikes of thousands of dollars for a new imported car will be easier for those with larger salaries to absorb.That tax is more severe for people who earn less money, said Chatterjee. So its a regressive tax. What about jobs?Beyond more immediate price pressures, experts also warn that tariffs could contribute to unemployment or lower incomes down the road. Trump has argued that tariffs will bring manufacturing back to the U.S., but if businesses take profit hits or change their supply sources, there could be layoffs worldwide.Its not just the price aspect and purchasing power decreasing, said Flores-Macas. As tariffs start to work their way through the economy .... low-income families jobs often will be the first to go. And those sectors of the population are most vulnerable.Economist Susan Helper, former senior advisor for industrial strategy at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said that there are some cases where tariffs could raise wages, but this doesnt look likely to be one of them. There isnt enough certainty for businesses to invest and create new and better jobs, she said. It takes a few years at minimum to profit off a new facility or factory, and I dont think people have the confidence that the tariffs will be stable enough that they will have a return on that investment. Which consumer goods will be affected?The tariffs announced by Trump Wednesday, on top of other levies that are already in effect, tax imports from nearly all of Americas trading partners. And U.S. shoppers currently rely on a lot of goods made abroad.Fruits and vegetables, your next phone purchase, a pharmacy order, new clothes, or a trip to a mechanic who uses auto parts made outside of the U.S. could all be impacted. The timing of when prices will go up comes down to inventory, Stillwagon said. Much of that will also depend on how businesses prepare and respond to the new levies. While companies may have stocked up on goods in anticipation of these tariffs, he expects some stores to see more immediate price increases. Prices on perishable groceries will likely increase first, because supermarket inventories need to be replenished more frequently. But a range of other items like electronics, household appliances, clothing and footwear could also be affected in the coming weeks and months.Annual losses for households at the bottom of the income distribution are estimated to be $980 under the April 2 policy alone, according to John Breyault, vice president of public policy, telecom and fraud at the National Consumers League, who cited an analysis from the Budget Lab at Yale. He said that tariffs will disproportionately affect clothing and textiles, with apparel prices predicted to rise 17%. Consumers are also likely to feel the pinch of tariffs in home buying, Breyault said. The new taxes on building materials are estimated to increase the average costs of a new home by $9,200, according to an analysis by the National Association of Home Builders.Rerouting supply chains to re-emphasize domestic production is also very complex and could take years. Stillwagon said there are some products, like bananas and coffee, that the U.S. simply cant substitute to the same scale of production other countries provide. And even for goods that can be made in the U.S., there will still likely be inflation.A real worry here is that this wont just be a one-time price jump, he said.For products like coffee, Helper predicts people will likely absorb costs, while changing their shopping choices when it comes to other products. I guess you could switch to Coca-Cola if all you want is the caffeine, she said, lightly. It will probably be good for California wines.Can I do anything to prepare?Stocking up on what you know you need is a start but with limits.If there are things that youre buying on a consistent basis week to week, month to month I think its not a bad idea to try to stock up in advance, Stillwagon said. But its important to avoid panic buying like that seen at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he and others added. That could cause shortages to emerge sooner and prices to go up faster.You also dont want to buy a bunch of items that will eventually go to waste. If you do plan stock up on consumables, make sure you have a plan on how to store them properly so you dont end up having to throw out that 20-pound bag of shrimp, for example, in a few weeks, said Breyault.It may also be time to look for substitutes. From electronics to clothing, Flores-Macas says that there could be more affordable second-hand or refurbished options to turn to. And Chatterjee noted consumers may want to start comparing prices of name-brands versus private, or generic, labels in major retailers. Others may turn to at-home solutions, he said, such as growing their own vegetables.Overall, experts say youll need to evaluate your budget and consumption habits for the road ahead.This is not a hurricane thats going to be around for seven days and everything goes back to normal afterwards. And you stock up on toilet paper (temporarily), said Chatterjee. For all you know, this thing could be around until a different administration comes in and changes trade policy.Is there anything to watch out for in the coming months?Consumers should be on the lookout for even greater use of so-called shrinkflation on the grocery aisle, according to Breyault. Shrinkflation is a tactic consumer goods manufacturers use to hide cost increases by changing the design of packaging. Consumers can prepare for the inflation that the tariffs are likely to exacerbate by getting into the habit of checking the unit price of items on the grocery shelf, said Breyault. While not all states require it, where it is required, consumers can more easily compare the per unit price of one item cereal, for example to another item.___ The Associated Press receives support from Charles Schwab Foundation for educational and explanatory reporting to improve financial literacy. The independent foundation is separate from Charles Schwab and Co. Inc. The AP is solely responsible for its journalism. WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Grantham-Philips is a business reporter who covers trending news for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter mailto CORA LEWIS Lewis is an Associated Press business reporter based in New York. twitter mailto

Actor Russell Brand is seen during the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)2025-04-04T13:14:12Z LONDON (AP) British police on Friday charged Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault following an 18-month investigation sparked when four women alleged they had been assaulted by the controversial comedian.Londons Metropolitan Police force said Brand, 50, faces one count of rape, one of indecent assault, one of oral rape and two of sexual assault.The alleged offenses involve four women and took place between 1999 and 2005.In September 2023, British media outlets Channel 4 and the Sunday Times published claims by four women of being sexually assaulted or raped by Brand. The accusers have not been identified.The comedian, author and Get Him To The Greek actor has denied the allegations, saying his relationships were always consensual.Known for his unbridled and risqu standup routines, Brand hosted shows on radio and television, wrote memoirs charting his battles with drugs and alcohol, appeared in several Hollywood movies and was briefly married to pop star Katy Perry between 2010 and 2012. In recent years, Brand has largely disappeared from mainstream media but has built up a large following online with videos mixing wellness and conspiracy theories. He recently said he had moved to the United States. Brand is due to appear in a London court on May 2.Jaswant Narwal, of Britains Crown Prosecution Service, said prosecutors carefully reviewed the evidence after a police investigation into allegations made following the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary in September 2023.We have concluded that Russell Brand should be charged with offences including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault, Narwal said.The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal proceedings are active, and the defendant has the right to a fair trial. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

The Outlook is our weekly roundup of political issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has begun mass layoffs, including cuts at the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy. In California, legislators have blocked two bills that would have banned trans athletes from playing sports in the state. On Transgender Day of Visibility, leaders in Chicago came together to support the trans community. Despite support from Democratic legislators, 15 bills focused on expanding LGBTQ+ rights in Arizona have been blocked from moving forward by the states Republican leadership. A new law similar to a controversial 2016 bill, would ban trans people from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity in North Carolina. The post The OutLook: LGBTQ+ politics & policy: April 4, 2025 appeared first on News Is Out.

Waking up on March 31st felt like waking up on my birthday.I brewed my coffee after showering, moisturized (I've been on a SKNMUSE high lately), and applied makeup. I danced around the kitchen in a pink shirt and leggings that hugged all the right curves, playfully chasing the dog around as my coffee scented the air. With about a half hour to spare before clocking into work, I grabbed my phone and checked on Instafeed. I smiled at every photo with a familiar face and video popping up with a glowing caption.It felt like the internet gave us a group hug for the first time in a while.Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) is an annual celebration of trans bodies and voices. Far too often, we're inundated with trans sorrows, from harassment and anti-trans legislation to the murder of trans lives. Trans Day of Visibility is the time to give flowers to those who relish in their authentic skins and provide hope to those not yet there. In the past, I've seen the usual fixings: a post with the trans flag here or a statement on uplifting trans voices and employees there (and I've written a few myself when asked by employers).But this year felt different: in all the good ways.Sure, there were a few posts that feltstandard. Mainly from politicians, though I can at least take note of those who chose to acknowledge the day in some fashion compared to those who didn'tyes, even in "blue" communities. But from what I observedand Auntie tends to be on social a lot ("for research," if my boss is reading!)it looked and felt more intentional than in previous years. The content wasn't simply a nod to TDOV but amplified and uplifted trans voices and trans stories. Them shared a powerful video on the life of the late Sir Lady Java, a trans icon who lived at a time when trans could get arrested (oh, how times have changed.) Clips from the grand opening of the [[TS Madison Starter House, waiting for Lamont's article]] were broadcast on news outlets and shared via Stories by creators and celebrities. Video messages of support from Governor Pritzker of Illinois, award-winning screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes, and a heartfelt piece from Representative Sarah McBride, our nation's first out congresswoman, were shared to the masses. Surprisingly, even some corporations got into the mix. I didn't expect many, but I have to commend the likes of Sephora, which pushed all the way forward in championing trans bodies in this anti-DEI climate.It's more than just "good" marketing or publicity; it's showcasing that a company values its diverse staff. See on Instagram What was even more heartfelt was the content shared by trans netizens. They confidently shared their stories visibly and publicly at a time when anti-trans legislation and executive orders feel like they happen almost daily. It's these stories that help humanize an experience many people don't honestly know or understand, learning from some podcasters making a joke or a "trans trauma" show or film. The good fight carried on, the voices were heard, and the stories were shared on social media. But where do we go from here?Visibility is the park, not the whole fire. We can't live in the glow of one day. What we do in the days after matters even more.So, how do we turn social solidarity into community action?It begins by supporting trans-led organizations year-round. There are many, from the Advocates for Trans Equality to the Transgender Law Center, Trans Lifeline to the Trans Latin@ Coalition. A quick search can also help you provide references to the trans-centered community organizations right in your backyard. Checking in with the trans folks in your lives may seem like a no-brainer, but it does make a differencea quick phone call, a meetup at a coffee shop, or walking around and talking. And yes, even doing so for the ones who look like they have it all together. A show of support can do wonders.I will say it as loud as possible for the business leaders in the back: Hire. Trans. TALENT! In front of and behind the camera, not just for pride campaigns. Uplift and provide resources for trans staffers who want to climb the corporate ladder; provide space (physically or virtually) to discuss dealing with personal and professional journeys. And ensure DEI commitments are not just in practice but continue in policy.Speak up for trans youths at school boards. Support from them is vital at this time. We have to continue pushing back against those who deem books on trans lives as not valuable or needed in the classroom. Speak up at city council meetings to advocate for your trans neighbors, those in dire need of housing, employment, and medicine, and those who want to live in a safe community. Send letters to congressional leaders to advocate for trans lives, ensuring we all can exist in a nation that praises "unalienable rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And don't just read about our sorrows; read about our hopes and dreams. Support trans-centered stories and celebrate trans joy when published. We're not just visiblewe're visionaries. Visibility, when paired with action, becomes power. So, let's keep showing up for one another, dreaming aloud, and living, loving, and leading in the light.And to my trans nieces, nephews, and niblings: Auntie sees you and is always determined to ensure you have room to be visible.Stay visible,Your Lovable Trans AuntieYour Lovable Trans Auntie is our go-to advice column for lifes biggest (and messiest) questionslove, work, identity, and everything in between. With a signature blend of warmth, wit, and just the right amount of sass, Auntie offers readers a uniquely trans perspective thats as affirming as it is entertaining. Whether dishing out heartfelt wisdom, practical advice, or a little tough love, Auntie is here to remind everyone that theyre never alone on this journey.Got a crush but dont know how to tell them youre trans? Wondering how to deal with that coworker who still forgets your pronouns? Trying to navigate family drama, dating dilemmas, or just figuring out who you are? Aunties got you. Submit your questions to voices@equalpride.com.

Karan Soni returns to the romcom spotlight with A Nice Indian Boy, a heartfelt, culture-clashing queer love story thats already winning over audiences. Premiering at SXSW and opening NewFest, the film is currently sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoesso, safe to say, its one to watch. Starring opposite Jonathan Groff, Karan plays Naveen, a mild-mannered doctor who has always done whats expected of him. But when he falls for Jay, a white man adopted by Indian parents, their relationship forces his traditional family to confront what true acceptance really looks like. Between comical misunderstandings, emotional reckonings, and a wedding in the making, A Nice Indian Boy delivers a fresh, heartfelt take on love, identity, and the messy, beautiful reality of family.Born in New Delhi and now based in LA, Karan Soni first caught attention in Deadpool as the hilariously endearing Dopindera role he reprised in the sequel. Since then, hes starred in Ghostbusters and Miracle Workers, co-wrote and starred in 7 Days, and recently stepped behind the camera to direct an episode of Abbott Elementary.In our Out and About interview, Karan opens up about working alongside his partner, Roshan Sethi, who directed A Nice Indian Boy, his growing role behind the camera, and what it was like getting cozy on set with Jonathan Groff. And when we got to the topic of what it means to still believe in the dream and magic of this country, his answer struck a chord. It gave me a little hopeor maybe were both just completely delulu. Either way, enjoy the interview below!OT: A Nice Indian Boy brings you back together with your partner professionally once again. How does your dynamic shift when transitioning from partners to colleagues on set? Do you set boundaries to separate work from personal life, or does the creative process naturally spill over into your downtime?KS: It took us a beat to establish our dynamic between work and life. The first movie we did (7 Days, now on Hulu!) helped us understand what works and what doesn't. Essentially, if there is a creative disagreement, then my partner will hear me out, but he gets to make the final decision since he's the director. Unlike real life, it's important for one person at work to have the power to say when you're moving on and making a decision otherwise nothing will get done. Luckily, he has excellent taste. Also, he is my biggest fan so that helps (again, excellent taste).OT: In the film, you're not only starring but also serving as an executive producer. How did wearing both hats shape your experience on set, and were there particular moments where you found yourself thinking like a producer rather than an actor? KS: I really appreciate being able to EP projects like this where I am in almost every scene. With the executive producer credit, you're able to have a voice in the room when certain decisions are being made, and you don't feel like the actor trying to insert an opinion. I usually find that I'm most useful in prep with casting, a lot of the actors in the movie are friends or people I've worked with on previous jobs and I'm able to get them the script directly which can be helpful on independent films. I also did a punch up pass on the script for this movie (with Roshan) and enjoyed sitting in various cuts in the edit to be another voice in the room. Most of the other producers aren't actors so I think it can be helpful sometimes to see performances or moments from an actor's perspective in the edit. OT: Your on-screen chemistry with Jonathan Groff is already being praised. What was it like building that dynamic with him, and do you have a favorite behind-the-scenes moment from filming?KS: I think it's impossible to create or manufacture chemistry. It's either there or it isn't. What usually helps is if you like the person, and I love Jonathan!! My favorite memories with him were when I handed him my phone so he could scroll through my Instagram. Jonathan doesn't have Instagram (because he's smart) but whenever someone shows him their page, he can get lost in it for hours. OT: Was it ever awkward filming intimate scenes with Jonathan in front of your partner, or are you all consummate professionals who rise above such thingsunlike my overactive, anxiety-ridden brain, which would absolutely be spiraling in that situation? KS: I was actually so nervous about this! But once the day actually arrived, it was so easy. Mainly because of Jonathan. He made both Roshan and I feel so comfortable. He has so much experience from doing sex scenes on shows like Looking that it felt so normal to him and that feeling trickled down. We also had a great intimacy coordinator. OT: Directing an episode of Abbott Elementary must have been a blast. I particularly loved the scenes with Lisa Ann Walter's Melissa and Chris Perfetti's Jacob as their dynamic evolved from colleagues to roommates and, eventually, friends. Was there a specific scene or moment for you in your season three episode that you were especially excited to bring to life? And how did you approach collaborating with the cast to maximize the comedy in those moments?KS: Thank you!! I was really excited to shoot the scene where Quinta's character reads the review that Barbara left for her librarian program. I love how Abbott combines laughs with real grounded emotional moments like that. I'm also such a fan of Quinta's and I couldn't wait to see how she performed that scene. And that cast doesn't need my help with comedy, they are such pros. It's just my job to design the shots in such a way that we capture all the moments, but they always deliver no matter what. OT: You've now directed, produced, and acted in major projects. Do you feel most at home in front of the camera, or are you finding yourself drawn more to the creative control behind the scenes?KS: Acting will always be my first love. It's the most therapeutic for me. I can be an internal person and an overthinker so acting helps me turn my brain off. Behind-the-scenes jobs are wonderful but are often more organizational and slightly less creative. OT: As someone who immigrated from India and built a career in Hollywood, how much of your own personal experience influences the characters you choose to play? Does A Nice Indian Boy reflect any parts of your own journey? KS: How much time do you have? I mean, this was the most personal project I've done to date. On several days it felt like I was recreating exact moments from my own life. I showed the film to my family over Christmas, and we were all ugly crying. This movie is something I wish I had during the tougher times with my family but I'm so glad it exists now. OT: Outside of LA, what's your favorite hotel that you enjoy returning to?KS: I love The Standard, High Line in New York! OT: Your go-to restaurant in Los Angeles?KS: The Cafe at Erewhon. Sorry, please don't hate me. OT: What are some of your must-have travel essentials?KS: Multiple chargers (you'll only use one, but I like having the others like a safety blanket), a book (yes, actors can read) and back up eyeglasses (I'm very blind). OT: What's one destination still on your bucket list, and what's drawing you to it?Japan. It feels like such a magical, all-encompassing place.OT: Is there a place you visited that completely surprised yousomewhere you didn't expect to love but ended up being unforgettable? Prague! I got to film a season of this TV show called Miracle Workers there and I loved it. There is so much beautiful architecture there and the people were so welcoming. OT: There's been a surge in media coverage of aviation mishaps lately, which has led to more people clapping when the plane lands, blessing the aircraft with holy water, and so forth. Do you have any personal travel ritualswhether it's a pre-flight superstition or a must-do activity once you arrive in a new place? KS: I like getting to the airport early. We're talking two hours early for a domestic flight (I know). I love walking around the terminal and evaluating all the food options and then getting something to eat. I feel like if I rush through the airport to catch a flight then I'm carrying that anxiety with me on the plane. But if the time at the airport feels relaxed then I board the plane relaxed.OT: If you could work with any filmmaker or actorliving or deadon a passion project, who would it be and why?KS: Steven Spielberg has always been my ultimate filmmaker to work with. I've just been such a fan of his work for so long. As for actors, Emma Stone is on the top of the list. She can do no wrong in my book.OT: And finally, from one immigrant who chose to move to America to another, there have definitely been momentsespecially since January 20where I've thought, "Alright, time to pack up and head home" Have you ever felt that way, or at this point, does America truly feel like home-home to you?KS: Oh damn, Out Traveler with the big question!! Sadly, yes, I have also had to entertain the thought of maybe leaving if things keep going the way they are. But I'm not there yet. I love America and do consider it my home now and I've had opportunities here that I wouldn't have been able to have in India. At this point, I still believe in the dream and magic of this country.

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In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), published the The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, arguing that human ingenuity has been stagnated and demoralized by regulation, and that the only viable path forward for society is the accelerated development and adoption of new technologies, and specifically artificial intelligence.Andreessen was only formalizing and articulating a position that had already gained traction among tech company executives and Twitter shitposters like @BasedBeffJezos (Andreessen crowned him a patron saint of techno-optimism), who adopted the label of effective accelerationists, or e/acc.As the 2024 presidential election got closer, Andreessen, Elon Musk, other tech CEOs, and less consequential shitposters saw a natural alliance between their cause and Donald Trumps campaign. Trump wanted to slash and burn government regulation in all forms, but also specifically in a way that would unleash tech and AIs true potential. Joe Biden and the Democratic party, the party of big government, Lina Khans antimonopolist FTC, welfare, and fear of climate change, were luddites. They demanded that tech platforms limit speech they perceived to be harmful. They wanted AI regulated so it could limit real and theoretical harm in the future, including science fiction nightmares about artificial general intelligence. They were worried about the environmental and energy costs of mining cryptocurrency and massive datacenters for training frontier AI models. They were referred to as decelerationists (decels) and degrowthers, a derogatory umbrella term that covers everything from the ambition to actually reduce the number of humans of the planet in order to make it more sustainable (a future most vividly imagined in Kim Stanley Robinsons novel The Ministry for the Future) to any form of regulation on AI. Andreesen is so passionate about this position in his manifesto that he says that this type of regulation is a form or murder because it could stop the development of life saving technologies, and makes a list enemies of AI, which includes supporters of sustainability, social responsibility, and trust and safety, the latter of which refers to the people at tech companies who try to keep platforms safe for users.The good news for Andreessen and the accelerationists is that they backed Trump and he won. Andreessen is advising the administration. Venture Capitalist David Sacks is the White House AI and crypto czar. Musk and his posse of young engineers from his companies are doing the slashing and burning themselves. The regulation on AI and everything else they didnt like is in the process of being removed, and the administration is working on tax cuts that will benefit them all.The bad news for these people is that Trump is also the Decel-in-Chief. The most painfully obvious evidence for this is Trumps cataclysmic tariffs this week, which sent the stock market tumbling, and will be particularly damaging to giant tech companies. The problem here is not just "uncertainty in the markets. As Jason wrote yesterday, the tariffs are aggressive, wide ranging, and very painful for tech companies that rely on complex global supply chains. It seems that the Trump administration tried to at least temporarily throw the tech industry a bone here by exempting semiconductors from these tariffs, but as the Wall Street Journal explains, this is a fantasy:[M]ost chip imports are indirect. Chips typically are made overseas, packaged up there and inserted into electronics shipped across the globeincluding to the U.S., where they will be subject to tariffs as high as 49%. Even many U.S.-made chips are sent to Taiwan, China or Southeast Asia for final assembly before being re-exported to end customers.Unless Trump folds, the tariffs will make the price of everything go up. Unemployment will go up. People will buy less stuff, and companies will spend less money on advertising that powers tech platforms. The tech industry, which has thrived on the cheap labor, cheap parts, cheap manufacturing, and supply chains enabled by free and cheap international trade, will now have artificial costs and bureaucracy tacked onto all of this. The market knows this, which is why tech stocks are eating shit.Meanwhile, there is deafening silence from Musk, Andresseen, and the usual e/acc shitposters, who spent the last three months doing victory laps for Trumps win, owning the libs, and posting AI-generated images of the glass tower cities and Mars space colonies that will be built under Trumps admin and unrestrained technological progress.We'd be quiet too if we were them because its such a humiliating self own. Maybe, like many other pundits, they thought that Trump was just bluffing about tariffs. Maybe they thought they could push him in a direction that was purely beneficial to their industry. He might still back down. But at least for now, what the accelerationists did here by backing Trump is not just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot, but methodically blow off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.Even on a long enough timeline, there is no world in which the techno-optimist utopia comes to be in the United States under protectionist, isolationist policies. The Trump administration has also set to work dismantling the academic, scientific, research, and immigration infrastructures that have allowed business and innovation to thrive in the US, and the soft-power structures that have made it easy for tech companies to enter and dominate markets all over the world. Even if Americans believed and wanted to go back in time to a post WWII or turn of the century US economy, which has always been the backwards looking, regressive mantra of the MAGA movement, it is inherently incompatible with progress and the future because the future is not about cranking out Sherman tanks and gas powered Buicks. The techno-optimist utopia relies on the complex supply chains Trump threw into chaos this week, where different manufacturing and fabrication hubs with highly specialized expertise feed into a mutually beneficial system of free markets in order to make iPhones, semiconductors, lithium batteries, and so on. Trump has also thrown chaos into Americas software and service businesses, which require a neverending supply of new markets and new people to sell to in the name of chasing growth, scale, and new users; growing something like Facebook or OpenAI with the scale the stock market wants to see requires signing up users by the countryload; thats far easier to do in a regulatory environment where youre a willing partner with those countries, not creating trade wars and isolationist bureaucracies.As Peter Thiel loves to say, venture capitalists can invest in either bits or atoms, meaning digital products, or actual physical things. Trump is currently fucking Silicon Valley on both ends.Making things will be much harder even if we adopt the fantasy that a lot of manufacturing jobs can be reclaimed from countries like China, India, and Vietnam, because we simply dont have the atoms we need in the United States. America has used countries around the world both for their raw materials but also for their cheap labor; the trade deficits that Trump speaks of are largely due to American companies setting up factories in places with cheap labor and extracting value from those countries to sell products to Americans. Its Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and other American conglomerates that benefit most from global trade, not the factory workers making a few dollars a day. Moving this infrastructure to the United States is not advisable or feasible because lots of the jobs American companies have outsourced to China have already been outsourced from there to poorer countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, and India because many Chinese people have realized they dont want to do this type of work. And many of those jobs are being automated by robots. Those jobs arent coming back to the United States, and we shouldnt want them to, anyway. Meanwhile, the United States has exactly one rare Earth mineral mine in the entire country, which itself only became active after years of mishaps, regulatory mess, a bankruptcy, and a period of Chinese ownership.And were not going to make the bits as well either because Trump is aggressively instigating a brain drain weve never seen in the US before. Its harder for the best talent in the world to immigrate here, and how long will they even want to when ICE can disappear them off the street without reason. Researchers and scientists born in the US are getting their funding pulled because its woke, so theyre looking to move to other countries. Musk and Doge are deleting the very agencies and programs that breathed life into the semiconductor industry, electric cars, the internet, etc. We just dont see how accelerationist dreams about biotech and human longevity can come to pass without the research the administration is actively trying to kill.This is not an endorsement of Andressens techno-optimist vision for the future. Its certainly not an endorsement of what Trump is doing now, though We share the glee in seeing Teslas stock tank. Again, it is possible that Trump will fold as he has in the past, but as things stand today, Americas vision for the future has never been more dim and decelerated, and that includes the fantasies of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley.

Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for review under the Trump administrations direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down.The problem with archiving this data is that we cant, Lisa Chinn, Head of Research Data Services at the University of Chicago, told 404 Media. Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency, and those agreements are carefully administered through a disclosure risk review process.A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.Repositories with the message include archives of cancer imagery, Alzheimers disease research, sleep studies, HIV databases, and COVID-19 vaccination and mortality data. A list identified by an archivist includes:DASH Data and Specimen HubNational COVID Cohort CollaborativeThe DANDI ArchiveThe Brain Image LibraryThe Cancer Imaging ArchiveBioData CatalystNational Sleep Research ResourceNational Alzheimers Coordinating CenterAgingResearchBiobankSeattle Alzheimers Disease Brain Cell AtlasApoE Pathobiology in Aging & Alzheimers DiseaseChild Language Data Exchange SystemLDbaseCellular Senescence Network (SenNet)The National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences OpenData PortalCatalog of the NINDS Human Cell and Data RepositoryThe Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies InitiativeHIV databasesThe Neuroscience Multi-Omic ArchiveThe Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource Data CenterMouse Models of Human Cancer DatabaseBased on archived versions of the websites, the message was added to most of the sites last week, around March 26 or 27. On March 28, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that HHS and agencies it oversees, including NIH, would lay off 10,000 full-time employees as part of a reduction in force plan. On Tuesday, at least five directors of NIHs 27 institutes and centers were told they were put on leave. Kennedys plan outlines 1,200 layoffs at NIH alone. Yesterday, Kennedy said some of the cuts to programs will be reinstated. Personnel that should not have been cut were cut. Were reinstating them, he said. Part of the DOGEwe talked about this from the beginningis were going to do 80 percent cuts, but 20 percent of those are going to have to be reinstalled, because well make mistakes. Earlier this week, researchers filed a lawsuit challenging the cancellation of research grants totaling more than $2.4 billion over the past month by NIH.Under the Trump administrations purge of public government websites and health resources, archivists have been diligently saving what they can. But there are limits to what can be archived by volunteers, and many of these databases marked for potential modification cant be saved."People don't usually appreciate, much less our current administration, how much labor goes into maintaining a large research dataset."Even if someone does have access through a DUA, they might not have long term access or the data might only be accessible through secure devices that arent connected to external networks, so data cant be downloaded or backed up. And much of the data contains personally identifying information or health information thats protected under HIPAA, which complicates volunteers efforts to store it.Henrik Schnemann, a historian who started the Safeguarding Research & Culture archivist project, told 404 Media that as part of the project, they rely on institutions to help contribute storage; if they cant guarantee all of the data is legal to download and store, they cant save it in partnership with an institution if the opportunity arises.In general its very important for us to be able to say to institutions, yes we got public data, we did not break paywalls, we did not break any agreements, its fine for you to contribute with hosting, Schnemann said. The group is using Bittorrent to store and seed archived pages for now. But the NIH datasets under threat contain potentially multiple petabytes of data to be saved, and archivists need hosts to help with storage. All of this is only possible for the publicly funded institutions if they can be sure they dont host any infringing material, he said.Researcher Captures Contents of DEI.gov Before It Was Hidden Behind a PasswordThe list includes budget claims like $3.4 million for Malaysian drug-fueled gay sex app and Disbursed $15,000 to queer Muslim writers in India.404 MediaSamantha ColeSo far, it seems like what is happening is less that these data sets are actively being deleted or clawed back and more that they are laying off the workers whose job is to maintain them, update them and maintain the infrastructure that supports them, a librarian affiliated with the Data Rescue Project told 404 Media. In time, this will have the same effect, but it's really hard to predict. People don't usually appreciate, much less our current administration, how much labor goes into maintaining a large research dataset.The impacts that Ive personally seen are that researchers lose five years of research because they once had access and now their DUA is up, and theres no one in office, because theyve been fired, to renew their DUA, Chinn said. This means researchers cant publish (de-identified versions) papers based on data analysis theyve already completed. She gave an example of research from the Department of Education, which has decades of studies that some researchers use to compare student performance and learning outcomes that teach us about how wealth and location impact education. In a scenario where that data is lost, we will not have access to that data to compare year over year shifts in performance, she said. We will also not be able to compare, on a national scale, where we stand in comparison to other nations.Right now, the best I can do is advise the researchers that they need to get copies of the data that they are researching with that's restricted, the librarian-archivist said.