Pop sensation Kesha is hitting the road for the biggest headline tour of her career, and shes bringing along the legendary Scissor Sisters for their first North American tour in over a decade. Announced today, the Tits Out Tour is set to begin on July 1 in West Valley City, Utah, marking a milestone in Keshas already storied career. This epic tour will see the pop star play her largest soloSource

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Lynn Sokler, who retired from the CDC three weeks ago after working there almost two decades, protests with others in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in front of the headquarters in Atlanta, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)2025-04-03T21:11:31Z A federal judge will temporarily block President Donald Trumps administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support COVID-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country.U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island said Thursday that she plans to grant the court order sought by 23 states and the District of Columbia. They make a case, a strong case, for the fact that they will succeed on the merits, so Im going to grant the temporary restraining order, said McElroy, who plans to issue a written ruling later.New York Attorney General Letitia James tweeted about the judges decision immediately after the hearing, saying: Were going to continue our lawsuit and fight to ensure states can provide the medical services Americans need.Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Kane objected to the temporary restraining order in court, but she said she was limited in the argument she could make against it, adding that her office was unable to thoroughly review the thousands of documents under the time limitation. The states lawsuit, filed Tuesday, sought to immediately stop the $11 billion in cuts. It said the loss of money which was allocated by Congress during the pandemic and mostly used for COVID-related initiatives, as well as for mental health and substance use efforts will devastate U.S. public health infrastructure, putting states at greater risk for future pandemics and the spread of otherwise preventable disease and cutting off vital public health services. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has defended the decision, saying that the money was being wasted since the pandemic is over. State and local public health departments already have laid off people, including nearly 200 employees at the Minnesota Department of Health. North Carolina says it stands to lose about $230 million, and California officials put their potential losses at $1 billion. The temporary block on chopping health funding is the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the Trump administration, which is facing some 150 lawsuits on issues ranging from immigration to deep financial and job cuts at federal agencies to transgender rights. Federal judges have issued dozens of orders slowing at least for now the presidents ambitious conservative agenda.___AP reporter Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. DEVNA BOSE Bose is a public health reporter for The Associated Press, based in Jackson, Mississippi. She covers hospitals, rural health access and disparities, public health funding and other topics that broadly intersect with the health of communities. twitter mailto

His snake will poke your eye out!Robert Irwin is the handsome 21-year-old TV personality and son of Australian zookeeper and conservationist Steve Irwin.Now, the star is all grown up and ready to show off more skin than ever in a new underwear campaign for Australian underwear brand Bonds.In typical Irwin fashion, the model posed with snakes and venomous spiders while posing for some sensual photos.See on InstagramWhen he was approached for the campaign, Irwin tells People that "it was a pretty immediate yes." He also added that's he's "trying to do as many different and random exciting things" at this point of his career.His sister Brandi Irwin, who's served a guest judge on Drag Race Down Under, was in attendance for the racy shoot and had no problem supporting her sexy brother."My family are so supportive, I just love them so much. They're the solid foundation to everything I do, and what we're doing together," Irwin says.To see all of the racy photos, check out the exclusive full interview and spread on People's website here.

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Dancers rehearse at Abbey Road's Studio One in London on Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)2025-04-03T14:36:01Z LONDON (AP) In Abbey Roads Studio One, even a lick of paint could ruin everything.Famous for hosting Adele, Harry Styles and U2, its where the scores of Star Wars, Harry Potter and Wicked were recorded, as well as the soundtracks of blockbuster games like Call of Duty, Halo and Final Fantasy. Its also where Ryan Gosling delivered his memorable Im Just Ken for Barbie.Nearly a century after its opening, Studio One underwent a six-month, multimillion-pound refurbishment, with the main priority being the preservation of one very important thing: the sound.What we dont want to do is change the acoustics, so every minute detail in the room has been conserved and preserved, so the sound doesnt shift, said Sally Davies, managing director of Abbey Road Studios.The reverb of the 4,844-square-foot (450-square-meter) room has been maintained at 2.3 seconds, the same as it was in the 1970s. Theres been no redecorating or style makeover, leaving the original Art Deco wall panels untouched.We have simply washed down the walls to preserve that sound, said Davies, adding that the floor was re-sanded and oiled, but not varnished. Most of the upgrades, she explained, are technological upgrades in the control room. This room is just about preserving that magic. A pilgrimage for music fansOpened in 1931, this hallowed hall once a nine-bedroom house on a grand suburban street in Londons St. Johns Wood neighborhood became the worlds first recording studio. Its where stereo was invented and its visited every day by music fans from around the world, who are happy just to stand on the street outside.Davies says that more than a million people a year make a pilgrimage to the crossing outside, many to recreate the cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album and that number could increase after Sam Mendes upcoming biopics starring Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson and Joseph Quinn as the Fab Four. And while John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are famously known for using Studio Two, they also made history in the larger Studio One, which they used for the worlds first global live performance, a rendition of All You Need Is Love beamed to television sets around the world in 1967.Before The Beatles, Studio One had already cemented its place in music history, when it was opened by British composer Sir Edward Elgar, who recorded his Land of Hope and Glory with the London Symphony Orchestra. Its also hosted other music greats like Maria Callas, Igor Stravinsky, Daniel Barenboim, Fats Waller and Glenn Miller.Due to its huge size, more than double Studio Two, it can fit a 100-piece orchestra and 100-member choir at the same time which is perfect for recording film soundtracks, and explains why six to seven out of every 10 Hollywood films are scored at Abbey Road, according to the studio. History being madeStanding on the balcony, overlooking the 40-foot-high (12-meter-high) room, Davies points out the original screen that was used to show Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) while musicians played along to record the soundtrack.Since then, everything from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Marvels Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy to Barbie were scored in Studio One. For the last, all the musicians came in with something pink, whether a pink instrument or piece of clothing.Oscar-nominated composer Daniel Pemberton has been recording in Studio One since 2009 and calls his creative home a spectacular space.Outside, it just looks like a normal house. And then you come in and you find this space in it thats like almost the size of a football pitch. In fact, I have played football in there once, he laughs.Pemberton is known for scoring Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse, Ferrari, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and creating the Slow Horses theme song and Strange Game, with Mick Jagger.Whats so exciting about a room like Studio One is what happens on the day is what happens for the rest of time, he says. Its like history is being made, whether its good history or bad history or whatever, youre making a moment then. Pemberton notes the stories, whether personal or musical, that have unfolded within the walls of Studio One. The ghosts are insane in there, he said.Davies agrees that the history adds to the enchantment.You walk into this room and you can feel it. There is a magic in the sound. It sounds phenomenal. There is a spirituality in who has been here, who has performed here, she says. So when we see artists come through, you know that immediate reaction of, Oh my gosh. Im in Studio One.To celebrate the reopening this week, Abbey Road Studios showcased an unusual art form for the space: dance, which incorporated Pembertons scores, remixed by resident artist Jordan Rakei and choreographed by Joseph Toonga. It kind of like threw me back a bit like, wow, it really is big, said Toonga of the first time he saw the studio. He then incorporated that feeling into a dance which spanned hip-hop, krumping and ballet.Up next, the first client to record in Studio One since the refurbishment is a hush-hush Hollywood franchise. But there are lots of secrets at Abbey Road. One of them is Pembertons plan to record the unique rattling sound of the new railings for a movie soundtrack.There was concern that the hollow, Art Deco-style bars would upset the acoustics of the room, and a backup plan was made to fill them with sand if they messed with the reverb.Luckily, the empty bars were allowed to stay because Pemberton is delighted by the noise they make when you run past them with keys its another dramatic sound that can only be created in Studio One and will make its way into theaters around the world, via a film score.___This story has been corrected to show that Studio One can fit a 100-piece orchestra and 100-member choir at the same time, not 110 each, and that the managing director is named Sally Davies, not Sally Davis.

El presidente Donald Trump en el evento en que anunci nuevos aranceles en la Casa Blanca el 2 de abril del 2025. (AP foto/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-04-03T22:21:41Z WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trumps attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states clear authority to run their own elections.The lawsuit is the fourth against the executive order issued just a week ago. It seeks to block key aspects of it, including new requirements that people provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and a demand that all mail ballots be received by Election Day.The President has no power to do any of this, the state attorneys general wrote in court documents. The Elections EO is unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American.Trumps order said the U.S. has failed to enforce basic and necessary election protection. Election officials have said recent elections have been among the most secure in U.S. history. There has been no indication of any widespread fraud, including when Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. The order is the culmination of Trumps longstanding complaints about how U.S. elections are run. After his first win in 2016, Trump falsely claimed his popular vote total would have been much higher if not for millions of people who voted illegally. In 2020, Trump blamed a rigged election for his loss and falsely claimed widespread voter fraud and manipulation of voting machines. Trump has argued his order secures the vote against illegal voting by noncitizens, though multiple studies and investigations in the states have shown that its rare. It has received praise from the top election officials in some Republican states who say it could inhibit instances of voter fraud and will give them access to federal data to better maintain their voter rolls.The order also requires states to exclude any mail-in or absentee ballots received after Election Day, and puts states federal funding at risk if election officials dont comply. Some states count ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day or allow voters to correct minor errors on their ballots. Forcing states to change, the suit says, would violate the broad authority the Constitution gives states to set their own election rules. It says they decide the times, places and manner of how elections are run.Congress has the power to make or alter election regulations, at least for federal office, but the Constitution doesnt mention any presidential authority over election administration.We are a democracy not a monarchy and this executive order is an authoritarian power grab, said New York Attorney General Letitia James.A request sent to the White House was not immediately returned.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts by the Democratic attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.Other lawsuits filed over the order argue it could disenfranchise voters because millions of eligible voting-age Americans do not have the proper documents readily available. People are already required to attest to being citizens, under penalty of perjury, in order to vote. Under the order, documents acceptable to prove citizenship would be a U.S. passport, a REAL ID-compliant drivers license that indicates the applicant is a citizen, and a valid photo ID as long as it is presented with proof of citizenship.Democrats argue that millions of Americans do not have easy access to their birth certificates, about half dont have a U.S. passport, and married women would need multiple documents if they had changed their name. That was a complication for some women during recent town elections in New Hampshire, the first ones held under a new state law requiring proof of citizenship to register.Not all REAL ID-compliant drivers licenses designate U.S. citizenship.___Cassidy reported from Atlanta. LINDSAY WHITEHURST Whitehurst covers the Supreme Court, legal affairs and criminal justice for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Past stops include Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Indiana. twitter mailto

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, talks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)2025-04-03T23:28:40Z WASHINGTON (AP) After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trumps big, beautiful bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at a risky moment for the U.S. and global economy. More than a month after House Republicans surprised Washington by advancing their framework for Trumps tax breaks and spending cuts package, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to start working on their version. The 52-48 vote sets the stage for back-to-back Senate all-nighters spilling into Friday and the weekend. But work on the multitrillion-dollar package is coming as markets at home and abroad are on edge in the aftermath Trumps vast tariffs scheme, complicating an already difficult political and procedural undertaking.Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., opened the chamber Thursday saying they were expected to begin as soon as today embarking on what they hope will become the GOPs signature domestic policy package. Trump says hes on board and Republicans, in control of Congress, are eager to show the party is making progress toward delivering on their campaign promises. After that, its still long weeks, if not months, to go toward a final product. Democrats, as the minority party, dont have the votes to stop the GOP plan. But they intend to use the procedural tools available to prolong the process. Democrats argue that Republicans are focusing on tax breaks for the wealthy at the expense of the programs and services millions of Americans rely on for help with health care, child care, school lunches and other everyday needs. Theyre mean, theyre nasty, theyre uncaring, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said about the Republicans.Senate Democrats are ready to spend the night and day ahead with floor debates over potential GOP cuts to Medicaid, veterans programs, DOGE cuts and the impact of Trumps tariffs. We, tonight and tomorrow, are going to show just who they are, Schumer said. Fundamental to the Senate package is making sure Trumps first-term tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of the year, are continued and made a permanent fixture of the tax code. The senators also will consider adding Trumps proposed tax cuts on tipped wages, Social Security income and others.The Senate package also would bolster border security funds by some $175 billion to carry out Trumps mass deportation campaign, which is running short of cash, and it would add national security funds for the Pentagon all priorities the Senate GOP tucked into an earlier version that was panned by House Republicans. Whats unclear is how it will all be paid for, since Republican deficit hawks typically require spending offsets to help defray the lost tax revenue and avoid piling onto the nations $36 trillion debt load.While House Republicans approved their package with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and up to $2 trillion in spending cuts, the Senate Republicans are taking a different tack.Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is making the case that since the existing Trump tax breaks are the current policy, they are not considered new, and do not need to be offset with reductions in spending an approach Democrats compare to going nuclear with the normal rules. Democrats are vowing to put the strategy to the test before the Senate parliamentarian. Instead, Senate Republicans are considering offsets mostly for any new Trump tax breaks. Raising alarms from the most conservative budget hawks, the senators have set a floor of about $4 billion in budget reductions to health and other programs a fraction of the packages expected $4 trillion-plus price tag for tax breaks. GOP leaders are assuring the deficit hawks within their own ranks that the legislation says the cuts can rise to as much as $2 trillion.After an expected Friday night vote-a-rama, with dozens of amendments being offered to the package, the senators are planning to stay into Saturday if needed to take a final vote to approve it, sending it to the House for action. The House and Senate will ultimately need to merge their frameworks into a final product, expected in May, but House Speaker Mike Johnsons intention to have it all wrapped up by Memorial Day could prove optimistic.The political environment is uncertain, and the publics appetite for steep budget cuts is being tested in real time, with Trumps Department of Government Efficiency headed by billionaire Elon Musk blazing through federal offices, firing thousands of workers and shuttering long-running government mainstays from scientific research projects on diseases to educational services for schoolchildren to offices that help with Social Security, tax filing and the weather.At the same time, the staunchest fiscal conservatives in both the House and Senate, many aligned with the Freedom Caucus, are pushing for even more cuts. Trump told senators publicly and privately this week he would have their backs, particularly when it comes to standing up for the spending reductions. At a White House announcing the tariffs Wednesday, Trump said the Senate plan had his complete and total support.The presidents steep tariffs threw the global economy into a tailspin Thursday, with stocks down around the world, the U.S. markets leading the way.__Associated Press writers Leah Askarinam and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)2025-04-03T20:34:17Z WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration may have acted in bad faith by trying to rush Venezuelan migrants out of the country before a court could block their deportations to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James Jeb Boasberg in Washington pressed a Justice Department lawyer to explain the governments actions in a high-stakes court hearing to determine whether the administration ignored his orders to turn around planes that were carrying deportees to El Salvador. The judge said he could issue a ruling as soon as next week on whether there are grounds to find anyone in contempt of court for defying the court order. The case has become a flashpoint in a battle between the judiciary and the Trump administration amid mounting White House frustrations over court orders blocking key parts of the presidents sweeping agenda. Trump has called for the judges impeachment, while the Justice Department has argued the judge is overstepping his authority. Boasberg ordered the administration last month not to deport anyone in its custody under the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime law Trump invoked over what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The judge also ordered that any planes with Venezuelan immigrants that were already in the air be returned to the United States. That did not happen. Boasberg, who was appointed to the federal bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, said it appeared the administration had tried to get the deportees out of the country as quickly as possible before a court could step in. He told a Justice Department lawyer he suspects the government may have acted in bad faith throughout that day. If you really believed anything you did that day could survive a court challenge, I cannot believe you would have operated the way you did, Boasberg said. The Justice Department has said the administration didnt violate the judges order, arguing it didnt apply to planes that had already left U.S. airspace by the time his command came down. The Justice Department has noted that the judges written order said nothing about flights that had already left the U.S. and that the judge had no power to compel the president to return the planes anyway. The Trump administration has refused to answer the judges questions about when the planes landed and who was on board, contending they are considered state secrets. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign told the judge that details about the flights could be diplomatically sensitive, since the migrants were being sent to a third country that had agreed with the U.S. to hold them in their prison. Ensign also repeatedly said he didnt know any operational details of those March 15 deportation flights. I had no knowledge from my client that was the case, Ensign replied when asked if he knew during the court hearing that day that planes were already in the air or were about to take off.The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department says federal courts shouldnt interfere with sensitive diplomatic negotiations. It also claimed that migrants should make their case in a federal court in Texas, where they are being detained. LINDSAY WHITEHURST Whitehurst covers the Supreme Court, legal affairs and criminal justice for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Past stops include Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Indiana. twitter mailto

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Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)2025-04-03T20:11:33Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Koreas Constitutional Court is set to rule Friday on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after the conservative leader threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.The court was scheduled to issue its verdict in a nationally televised session to begin at 11 a.m. A ruling to uphold parliaments impeachment and remove Yoon from office requires the support of at least six of the courts eight justices.If the court orders Yoon removed, South Korea must hold a new presidential election within two months. If the court overturns his impeachment, Yoon will immediately return to presidential duties.Facing worries of potential violence after the ruling, police deployed crowd-control measures to their fullest extent. By Friday morning, they created an airtight maze of portable walls, folding fences, fiberglass barricades, and hundreds of buses and vans some of their wheels were tied together with ropes to prevent protesters from moving them to seal off nearly every road and alley leading to the court. Officers guarded the narrow gaps between vehicles and barricades, directing pedestrians through designated channels, checking IDs, and instructing them to walk only in a straight direction. Thousands of Yoon opponents rallied in nearby streets overnight, waving banners and sitting on the road with plastic cushions as they awaited the court ruling. The military said it plans to heighten its own surveillance posture. Yoons declaration of martial law on Dec. 3 lasted only six hours before he was forced to lift it after the liberal opposition-controlled legislature quickly managed to vote it down. Later in December, the assembly impeached Yoon, suspending his powers and sending his case to the Constitutional Court. Yoon is facing a separate criminal trial for alleged rebellion. Whatever Fridays verdict is, experts predict it will further deepen domestic divides. In the past four months, millions have taken to the streets to denounce or support Yoon, deepening South Koreas already severe conservative-liberal division. The most contentious issue at Yoons impeachment trial was why he sent hundreds of troops and police officers to the National Assembly, election offices and other places after declaring martial law.Yoon has said he dispatched soldiers to the assembly to maintain order and that his declaration of martial law was a desperate attempt to bring attention to the wickedness of the main liberal opposition Democratic Party. But senior military and police officials who were sent to the assembly have testified Yoon ordered them to detain rival politicians and prevent the assembly from voting to lift his order.Although the period of martial law ended without violence, the impeachment motion accuses Yoon of violating the constitution and other laws by suppressing assembly activities, attempting to detain politicians and undermining peace.Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the countrys acting leader, has repeatedly urged the rival sides to accept whatever ruling the court makes. HYUNG-JIN KIM Hyung-jin is an Associated Press reporter in Seoul, South Korea. He reports on security, political and other general news on the Korean Peninsula. twitter mailto KIM TONG-HYUNG Kim has been covering the Koreas for the AP since 2014. He has published widely read stories on North Koreas nuclear ambitions, the dark side of South Koreas economic rise and international adoptions of Korean children. twitter mailto

Passersby walk past Sayles Hall on Brown University's campus in Providence, R.I., May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)2025-04-04T00:26:27Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University, adding to a list of Ivy League colleges that have had their federal money threatened as a result of their responses to antisemitism, a White House official said Thursday. Nearly $510 million in federal contracts and grants are on the line, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity. In an email Thursday to campus leaders, Brown Provost Frank Doyle said the university was aware of troubling rumors about government action on its research money. At this moment, we have no information to substantiate any of these rumors, Doyle said. Brown would be the fifth Ivy League college targeted by President Donald Trumps administration, which is using federal money to enforce its agenda at colleges. Dozens of universities including every Ivy League school except Penn and Dartmouth are facing federal investigations into antisemitism following a wave of pro-Palestinian protests last year. Columbia University was the first one targeted, losing $400 million in federal money with threats to terminate more if it didnt make the campus safer for Jewish students. The school agreed to several demands from the government last month, including an overhaul of student discipline rules and a review of the schools Middle East studies department. The government later suspended about $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who previously competed for the school. On Monday, a federal antisemitism task force said it was reviewing almost $9 billion in federal grants and contracts at Harvard University amid an investigation into campus antisemitism. And on Tuesday, Princeton University said the administration had halted dozens of its research grants. The pressure has created a dilemma for U.S. colleges, which rely on federal research funding as a major source of revenue.Trumps administration has promised a more aggressive approach against campus antisemitism, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting schools off the hook. It has opened new investigations at colleges and detained and deported several foreign students with ties to pro-Palestinian protests. An incoming assistant professor of medicine at Brown was deported to Lebanon last month for having openly admitted to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral, the Department of Homeland Security said. During last school years campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war, Brown stood out for a deal it struck with student activists. In exchange for the students dismantling an encampment, the university committed to having its governing board vote on whether to divest from companies that protesters said were facilitating Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.The Corporation of Brown rejected the divestment proposal.___AP Education Writer Collin Binkley contributed. Mumphrey reported from Phoenix.___The Associated Press education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Mumphrey is a national writer who covers higher education. twitter mailto SEUNG MIN KIM Seung Min is a White House reporter. twitter mailto

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A screen displays financial news as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)2025-04-04T03:29:20Z HONG KONG (AP) Asian markets retreated Friday after Wall Street shuddered with a level of shock unseen since the COVID-19 impact tore on Trumps latest set of tariffs damage on the worlds economy.Futures for U.S. stocks and the oil prices declined.Tokyos Nikkei 225 lost 2.6% to 33,818.18, and Koreas Kospi fell 0.8% to 2,467.14 after the two countries pivoted to negotiating lower tariffs with Trumps administration.Australias S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.9% to 7,713.60. Chinese markets were closed for a holiday.Trump 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. Its plausible the tariffs altogether, which would rival levels unseen in roughly a century, could knock down U.S. economic growth by 2 percentage points this year and raise inflation close to 5%, according to UBS. Such a hit would be so big that it makes ones rational mind regard the possibility of them sticking as low, according to Bhanu Baweja and other strategists at UBS.Trump has previously said tariffs could cause a little disturbance in the economy and markets, and on Thursday he again downplayed the impact as he left the White House to fly to Florida. The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom and the country is going to boom, Trump said.The S&P 500 sank 4.8% to 5,396.52 Thursday, more than in major markets across Asia and Europe, for its worst day since the pandemic crashed the economy in 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4% to 40,545.93, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 6% to 16,550.61. Little was spared in financial markets as fear flared about the potentially toxic mix of weakening economic growth and higher inflation that tariffs can create. Everything from crude oil to Big Tech stocks to the value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies fell. Even gold, which hit records recently as investors sought something safer to own, pulled lower. Some of the worst hits walloped smaller U.S. companies, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks dropped 6.6% to pull more than 20% below its record. Investors knew Trump was going to announce sweeping new tariffs, and fears surrounding it had already pulled Wall Streets main measure of health, the S&P 500 index, 10% below its all-time high. But Trump still managed to surprise them with the worst case scenario for tariffs, according to Mary Ann Bartels, chief investment officer at Sanctuary Wealth. Wall Street had long assumed Trump would use tariffs merely as a tool for negotiations, rather than as a long-term policy. But Wednesdays announcement may suggest Trump sees tariffs more as helping to solve an ideological goal than as an opening bet in a poker game. Trump talked about wresting manufacturing jobs back to the United States, which could take years. If Trump follows through on his tariffs, stock prices may need to fall much more than 10% from their all-time high in order to reflect the recession that could follow, along with the hit to profits that U.S. companies could take. The S&P 500 is now down 11.8% from its record set in February. Markets may actually be underreacting, especially if these rates turn out to be final, given the potential knock-on effects to global consumption and trade, said Sean Sun, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management, though he sees Trumps announcement as more of an opening move than an endpoint for policy.Trump offered an upbeat reaction after he was asked about the markets drop as he left the White House to fly to his Florida golf club on Thursday.I think its going very well, he said. 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.One wild card is that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates in order to support the economy. Thats what it had been doing late last year before pausing in 2025. Lower interest rates help by making it easier for U.S. companies and households to borrow and spend. Yields on Treasurys tumbled in part on rising expectations for coming cuts to rates, along with general fear about the health of the U.S. economy. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.04% from 4.20% late Wednesday and from roughly 4.80% in January. Thats a huge move for the bond market.The Fed may have less freedom to move than it would like, though. While lower rates can goose the economy, they can also push up inflation. And worries are worsening about that because of tariffs, with U.S. households in particular bracing for sharp increases to their bills.The U.S. economy at the moment is still growing, of course. A report Thursday said fewer U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week. Economist had been expecting to see an uptick in joblessness, and a relatively solid job market has been the linchpin keeping the economy out of recession. A separate report said activity for U.S. transportation, finance and other businesses in the services industry grew last month. But the growth was weaker than expected, and businesses gave a mixed picture of how they see conditions.Worries about a potentially stagnating economy and high inflation knocked down all kinds of stocks, leading to drops for four out of every five that make up the S&P 500. Best Buy fell 17.8% because the electronics that it sells are made all over the world. United Airlines lost 15.6% because customers worried about the global economy may not fly as much for business or feel comfortable enough to take vacations. Target tumbled 10.9% amid worries that its customers, already squeezed by still-high inflation, may be under even more stress. In other trading early Friday, the U.S. dollar rose to 146.05 from 145.93 Japanese yen. The euro gained to $1.1068 from $1.1052.

Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson celebrates his team's victory over Tennessee in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)2025-04-03T21:19:35Z Follow APs full coverage of March Madness.Get the AP Top 25 mens college basketball poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. SAN ANTONIO (AP) A decade ago, Bruce Pearl of Auburn and Kelvin Sampson of Houston were emerging from exile two coaches who had been handed the harshest sanction imaginable by the NCAA and were looking to resurrect their once-successful careers. This week, theyre both coaching at the Final Four, the show-cause penalties that once stood as a scarlet letter in college sports now barely visible in their rearview mirrors. Their ascension from pariahs to the cusp of a championship Auburn plays Florida in one semifinal Saturday, while Houston faces Duke in the other look different, but no less impressive when viewed through the lens of the shifting priorities that have overtaken college sports over the last four years. The recruiting misdeeds that nearly submarined their careers seem almost quaint now in a cash-saturated world of name, image, likeness endorsement deals for players who can move around as freely as the coaches while the coaches worry as much about what the schools can pay them as the players they recruit. I can make a case that its easier if you have the funds to compete at the NIL level, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes told The Associated Press recently. If you dont, it makes it really difficult. I think thats where administrators have to realize: Are we giving coaches what they need to be at the level we want to? Coaching carousel brings questions about players, tooTheres nothing new about the college coaching carousel kicking into full swing this time of year. Whats unusual about 2025 is the nature of some of the moves. Five high-profile changes were made by coaches who won at least a game in March Madness. That was two more than last year, four more than in 2023 and two more than 2019, two years before NIL started.But while virtually all those moves were seen as steps up for the coaches taking new jobs nobody blinked when, say, Dusty May went from Florida Atlantic to Michigan or Nate Oats left Buffalo for Alabama this year seems different. In a move dripping with recriminations, bad feelings and a departing athletic director, Kevin Willard left a Power Four school at Maryland to coach a non-P4 school, albeit one with a better hoops resume, at Villanova. The next domino had Buzz Williams departing the SEC and the Texas A&M program he built to fill the opening at Maryland. One of the more traditional moves involved Will Wade, also a show-cause casualty from a now seemingly bygone era, parlaying success at McNeese to return to the big time, at North Carolina State of the ACC.Wades involvement in paying for recruits cost him his job at LSU and wrapped him in an FBI investigation that sent coaches to jail and, he said, ruined a lot of peoples lives for very little reason. That none of what he did would be considered wrong in todays world of above-the-table NIL payments to players is no excuse for him, he said. It wasnt right to do then and, you know, I paid for it, Wade told the AP after his hiring at NC State. Pearl, Sampson had recruiting tussles that would barely register todayThe stumbling blocks for both Sampson and Pearl also had to do with recruiting. Sampson made too many phone calls to a player who had already given verbal commitments to another school. Pearl invited a recruit to a barbecue at his house, then lied about it. Decades before that, Pearl was an assistant at Iowa when he recorded a call in which he asked a player, Deon Thomas, if an Illinois assistant had offered him a car as a recruiting enticement. Pearl didnt get in trouble for that one, though his reputation suffered and it took him nearly 15 years before hed get another chance in the big time.All that feels antiquated these days, when headlines about Dukes Cooper Flagg making $4.8 million or BYU star recruit AJ Dybantsa making $7 million in NIL raise eyebrows not because its against the rules, but simply because it lays out the vastly different stakes involved in college sports. A resource grab at schools that need footballPearl and Sampson are creatures of basketball at schools and conferences that need football to succeed. Neither of their athletic departments could be blamed for pushing their NIL resources heavily in the direction of the sport that produces the most revenue.Pearl remains confident that the Southeastern Conference, which placed a record 14 teams in March Madness this year, is on solid footing.Im sure in the SEC were going to be committed to being excellent in everything across the board men, women, all sports, Pearl said, while acknowledging the reality that the rulebook for this new era is still being written. Even with the Big 12s perennial success in basketball the conference has had a Final Four team in seven of the past 10 seasons Houston still has strides to make with a football program that went 4-8 last year. The question there, and many other places, is whether the Cougars have the resources to rebuild football while staying great at hoops. If one school decides to give 70% of its money to football, another school decides to give 75% to football, that 5% is a big number, UMass coach Frank Martin said of the calculations driving athletic department, coaches and players these days. We all want to be in a fair game. Itd be like asking one team to play in the NCAA Tournament with four players, instead of five.___AP Sports Writers Teresa Walker and Aaron Beard contributed. ___AP March Madness bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here.

The Reds lost 1-0 to the Brewers on Thursday to become only the second team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to lose three consecutive 1-0 games.

Chattanooga became the first team from the Southern Conference to win the NIT championship after beating UC Irvine 85-84.

South Carolina had to rally (twice) to reach the Final Four. Can the reigning champs still run it back?

With playoff positioning on the line, the Lakers and Warriors squared off in a Western Conference showdown.

Luka Doncic was short and to the point in describing his cold shootingin the Lakers' 123-116 loss the Warriors on Thursday, calling it an "unacceptable" performance.

A 50-year-old Georgia businessman was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for scamming former NBA players Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons out of millions of dollars.

President Donald Trump, center, arrives on Air Force One at Miami International Airport, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)2025-04-04T03:42:02Z WASHINGTON (AP) Top congressional Democrats on Thursday protested the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision makes all of us less safe.The Washington Post reported late Thursday that Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, had been dismissed from those roles. Haugh also headed U.S. Cyber Command, which coordinates the Pentagons cybersecurity operations. The Post report cited two current U.S. officials and one former U.S. official who requested anonymity.Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement: General Haugh has served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for more than 30 years. At a time when the United States is facing unprecedented cyber threats ... how does firing him make Americans any safer? Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said he was deeply disturbed by the decision.I have known General Haugh to be an honest and forthright leader who followed the law and put national security first I fear those are precisely the qualities that could lead to his firing in this Administration, Himes added. The Intelligence Committee and the American people need an immediate explanation for this decision, which makes all of us less safe. Earlier Thursday, President Donald Trump said he had fired some White House National Security Council officials, a move that came a day after far-right activist Laura Loomer raised concerns directly to him about staff loyalty. Loomer during her Oval Office conversation with Trump urged the president to purge staffers she deemed insufficiently loyal to his Make America Great Again agenda, according to several people familiar with the matter. They all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive personnel manner. Always were letting go of people, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he made his way to Miami on Thursday afternoon. People that we dont like or people that we dont think can do the job or people that may have loyalties to somebody else.The firings come as Trumps national security adviser Mike Waltz continues to fight calls for his ouster after using the publicly available encrypted Signal app to discuss planning for the sensitive March 15 military operation targeting Houthi militants in Yemen. Warner said Thursday night, It is astonishing, too, that President Trump would fire the nonpartisan, experienced leader of the National Security Agency while still failing to hold any member of his team accountable for leaking classified information on a commercial messaging app even as he apparently takes staffing direction on national security from a discredited conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office.Haugh met last month with Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has roiled the federal government by slashing personnel and budgets at dozens of agencies. In a statement, the NSA said the meeting was intended to ensure both organizations are aligned with the new administrations priorities. Haugh had led both the NSA and Cyber Command since 2023. Both departments play leading roles in the nations cybersecurity. The NSA also supports the military and other national security agencies by collecting and analyzing a vast amount of data and information globally.Cyber Command is known as Americas first line of defense in cyberspace and also plans offensive cyberoperations for potential use against adversaries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered the office to pause some offensive cyberoperations against Russia, in another sign of how Trumps administration is transforming the work of the nations intelligence community.__Associated Press writers Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller and David Klepper contributed to this report.

The interior of the destroyed Gordon-Hardy building after a severe weather passed through an industrial industrial park on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Jeffersontown, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)2025-04-04T05:35:30Z LAKE CITY, Ark. (AP) Parts of the Midwest and South faced the possibility of torrential rains and life-threatening flash floods Friday, while many communities were still reeling from tornadoes that destroyed whole neighborhoods and killed at least seven people.Forecasters warned of catastrophic weather on the way, with round after round of heavy rains expected in the central U.S. through Saturday. Satellite imagery showed thunderstorms lined up like freight trains to take the same tracks over communities in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, according to the national Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.The bulls-eye centered on a swath along the Mississippi River and included the more than 1.3 million people around Memphis, Tennessee.More than 90 million people were at risk of severe weather from Texas to Minnesota to Maine, according to the Oklahoma-based Storm Prediction Center. Those killed in the initial wave of storms that spawned powerful tornadoes on Wednesday and early Thursday were in Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana. They included a Tennessee man and his teen daughter whose home was destroyed, and a man whose pickup struck downed power lines in Indiana. In Missouri, Garry Moore, who was chief of the Whitewater Fire Protection District, died while likely trying to help a stranded motorist, according to Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Clark Parrott. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said entire neighborhoods in the hard-hit town of Selmer were completely wiped out and said it was too early to know whether there were more deaths as searches continued. He warned people across the state to stay vigilant with more severe weather predicted. Dont let your guard down, he said during a Thursday evening news conference. Dont stop watching the weather. Dont stop preparing yourself. Have a plan.With flattened homes behind him, Dakota Woods described seeing the twister come through Selmer.I was walking down the street, Woods said Thursday. Next thing you know, I look up, the sky is getting black and blacker, and its lighting up green lights, and its making a formation of a twister or tornado. Flash flood threat looms over many states By late Thursday, extremely heavy rain was falling in parts of southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky and causing very dangerous/life threatening flash flooding in some spots, according to the National Weather Service.Heavy rains were expected to continue there and in other parts of the region in the coming days and could produce dangerous flash floods capable of sweeping away cars. The potent storm system will bring significant, life-threatening flash flooding each day, the National Weather Service said.Water rescue teams and sandbagging operations were being staged across the region, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ready to distribute food, water, cots and generators.Water rescues were already underway in flooded parts of Nashville, Tennessee, where the rain could persist for days after an unnerving period of tornado warnings that drained the batteries of some city sirens, the fire department said. Western Kentucky prepared for record rain and flooding in places that normally do not get inundated, Gov. Andy Beshear said. At least 25 state highways were swamped, mostly in the west, according to a statement from his office Thursday.Flash flooding is particularly worrisome in rural areas of the state where water can quickly rush off the mountains into the hollows. Less than four years ago, dozens died in flooding across eastern Kentucky.Extreme flooding across the corridor that includes Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, which have major cargo hubs, could also lead to shipping and supply chain delays, said Jonathan Porter, chief meteorologist at AccuWeather.Forecasters attributed the violent weather to warm temperatures, an unstable atmosphere, strong wind shear and abundant moisture streaming from the Gulf. Tornadoes leave path of damage, and more could be comingUnder darkened skies Thursday morning, the remains of a used car dealership in Selmer stood roofless and gutted, with debris scattered across the car lot and wrapped around mangled trees. Some homes were ripped to their foundations in the Tennessee town, where three tornadoes were suspected of touching down.The Tennessee Highway Patrol released video of lightning illuminating the sky as first responders scoured the ruins of a home, looking for anyone trapped.In neighboring Arkansas, a tornado near Blytheville lofted debris at least 25,000 feet (7.6 kilometers) high, according to weather service meteorologist Chelly Amin. The states emergency management office reported damage in 22 counties from tornadoes, wind, hail and flash flooding.The home where Danny Qualls spent his childhood but no longer lives was flattened by a tornado in northeast Arkansas.My husband has been extremely tearful and emotional, but he also knows that we have to do the work, Rhonda Qualls said. He was in shock last night, cried himself to sleep. Workers on bulldozers cleared rubble along the highway that crosses through Lake City, where a tornado with winds of 150 mph (241 kph) sheared roofs off homes, collapsed brick walls and tossed cars into trees.Mississippis governor said at least 60 homes were damaged. And in far western Kentucky, four people were injured while taking shelter in a vehicle under a church carport, according to the emergency management office in Ballard County.___Walker IV reported from Selmer, Tennessee, and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, Seth Borenstein in Washington; Isabella OMalley in Philadelphia; Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Kentucky; Jeff Martin in Atlanta; Hallie Golden in Seattle; and Ed White in Detroit contributed. JOHN SEEWER Seewer covers state and national news for The Associated Press and is based in Toledo, Ohio. twitter mailto

The USMNT remained at 16th in the latest FIFA rankings released Thursday, while Canada climbed to a new all-time high and Mexico moved up two spots following last month's Concacaf Nations League finals.

Angel City FC sporting director Mark Parsons said forward Alyssa Thompson has set the standard in the opening weeks of the 2025 National Women's Soccer League season.

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, left, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot address the media during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)2025-04-04T06:59:11Z BRUSSELS (AP) Britain and France on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet in ceasefire talks to bring a halt to fighting in Ukraine and ramped up pressure on Moscow by insisting that he owes the United States an immediate answer.Russia has effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for a full and immediate 30-day halt in the fighting after a Kremlin official said on Monday that Moscow views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as a drawn-out process.Our judgment is that Putin continues to obfuscate, continues to drag his feet, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told reporters at NATO headquarters, standing alongside his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in a symbolic show of unity.Britain and France are helping to lead a multinational effort known as the coalition of the willing to set up a force to police any future peace in Ukraine. Lammy said that while Putin should be accepting a ceasefire, he continues to bombard Ukraine. Its civilian population. Its energy supplies. We see you, Vladimir Putin. We know what you are doing.Barrot said that Ukraine had accepted ceasefire terms three weeks ago, and that Russia now owes an answer to the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed frustration with Putin and Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he promised last year to bring the war to a swift conclusion. Russia has been flip-flopping, continuing its strikes on energy infrastructure, continuing its war crimes, Barrot said. It has to be yes. It has to be no. It has to be a quick answer. He said that Russia shows no intention of halting its military campaign, noting that Putin on Monday ordered a call-up intended to draft 160,000 conscripts for a one-year tour of compulsory military service.The two foreign ministers pledged to continue helping to build up Ukraines armed forces the countrys best security guarantee since the U.S. took any prospect of NATO membership off the table. Coalition army chiefs were due to meet in Kyiv on Friday. Defense ministers from the group will meet at NATO headquarters next Thursday. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Delia Acarapi, who says her daughter died in an explosive attack, cries near the Hijos de Ingenio gold mine in Yani, Bolivia, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)2025-04-03T17:29:50Z SORATA, Bolivia (AP) A powerful explosion killed at least five people, including a pregnant woman and 1-year-old baby, during a standoff between rival groups of gold miners early Thursday in northwestern Bolivia, police said, a rare instance of territorial disputes between the nations mining cooperatives turning fatal.The blast thundered through the Yani mining camp as two rival mining groups dispute access to the gold mine near the mountain town of Sorata, some 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) northwest of the countrys administrative capital of La Paz, said Col. Gunther Agudo, a local police officer. Several gold deposits straddle the remote area. Agudo had initially reported six people killed but revised the toll to five after firefighters finished recovering the bodies from under the rubble. The dead included three men, a pregnant woman and an infant, he said. Bolivias deputy interior minister, Jhonny Aguilera, said the suspected perpetrator of the attack was killed by the explosion, which was detonated by remote control.The predawn explosion at the mine struck a three-story house and set cars and tractors alight. The fires wrecked several other structures and cut electricity. Bolivias mining industry stands out for its huge sector of cooperatives legal groups of artisanal miners which drive 58% of mining production, according to the latest government figures. The thousands of groups also wield political clout in the resource-rich country where they have representation in Parliament. Cooperatives historically emerged in Bolivia as more established mining operations dismissed legions of workers in the risky, boom-and-bust business, compelling miners to organize themselves when commodity prices slumped and lay-offs loomed. Over the decades, cooperatives have increasingly fought over the chance to extract minerals hurling rocks and dynamite sticks at each other and against unionized, salaried workers from Bolivias state-run mining company, Comibol. Comibol came to dominate the crucial industry under former President Evo Morales, a socialist leader who governed the landlocked Andean nation from 2006 to 2019 and barred foreign companies from having a controlling stake in mineral extraction.In Thursdays clash, the struggle for control of certain veins of the gold reserve between two rival cooperatives had simmered for years, said Jhony Silva, a legal adviser to one of them. Gold remains one of Bolivias main mineral exports, with almost $2.87 billion worth of the mineral shipped out of the country in 2023. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Here's how each team can win Saturday's semifinals, plus their potential flaws and predictions for both games.

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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.