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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.

Nature, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00970-yThe sunflower star, which can be bigger than a hubcap, escapes a wasting disease by hunkering down in fjords.

Nature, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08923-1Author Correction: Record sea surface temperature jump in 20232024 unlikely but not unexpected

After signing a superstar but losing a pop star, the Mets aim to make Citi Field twist again like it did last summer.

Sunday's Manchester derby will be the lowest-key edition in some time. How did we get here, and when might it get back to the thrilling matchup it once was?

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.

Chicago never fails to go all out on St. Patricks Day, and this year was no different. Between the Windy Citys famous parade and dyeing the river green, everyone was celebrating, but it was the people at Sidetrack in Chicago who were having the sexiest time. On March 15, thousands flocked to the famous gay club for Jameson, sexy dancers, and drag to kick off Sidetracks annual St. Patricks destination weekend. With shirtless men, muscles, and themed costumes as far as the eye could see, everyone was getting lucky.Keep scrolling for a peek at the holiday festivities!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? Check out how Sidetrack celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? Check out how Sidetrack celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? Check out how Sidetrack celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? Check out how Sidetrack celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? 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Check out how Sidetrack celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? Check out how Sidetrack celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve!The destination weekend was thrown by Sidetrack in Chicago, which was once called one of the worlds top gay bars and a second home to members of the LGBT community by the Chicago Sun Times.Sidetrack is a Boystown institution, and the boys were definitely in town for this fab party!Need more queer joy in your life? 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Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01024-zThousands of leaders and staff are being purged at US agencies such as the NIH. Plus, the months best science images and how to clean up forever chemicals.

Outside of dirt races, Corey Day's schedule used to be wide open. That's not the case now that he's in NASCAR.

From kicked ball violations to memorizing plays, Jokic has become one of the league's best defenders.

President Donald Trump arrives at the Trump International Golf Club, Friday, April 4, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-04T15:44:23Z WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Two days after sending the global economy reeling by announcing tariffs on foreign imports, President Donald Trump insisted his trade policies will never change as he remained ensconced in a bubble of wealth and power in Florida.He woke up on Friday morning at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, and headed to his nearby golf course a few miles away after writing on social media that THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH. Several supporters stood across the street as Trump, wearing his signature red campaign hat and white polo shirt, glided down a street lined with palm trees. They waved to him and he waved back, part of a ritual that plays out every weekend that hes in town. The Republican president was not expected to appear publicly, although hes scheduled to attend a candlelit dinner for MAGA Inc., an allied political organization, on Friday evening. He also spent Thursday in Miami at a different one of his golf courses, where he attended a Saudi-funded tournament. He landed in Marine One and was picked up in a golf cart driven by his son, Eric. Trump has often proved impervious to the kind of scandals or gaffes that would damage another politician, but his decision to spend the weekend at his gilded properties could test Americans patience at a time when their retirement savings are evaporating along with the stock market. The tariffs are expected to increase prices by thousands of dollars per year and slow economic growth, and there are fears about a potential recession. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday that the tariffs were significantly larger than expected and are highly likely to cause more inflation at least in the short term but possibly in the long term as well. However, Trump has described his policies as a painful yet necessary step to encourage companies to relocate their operations to the United States, and he spent the morning defending himself on Truth Social, his social media platform, vowing he is sticking with his policies. Although experts have harshly criticized Trumps tariffs, hes found support on TikTok. He shared a video that said Trump is crashing the stock market and hes doing it on purpose as part of secret game hes playing, and it could make you rich. The goal, the video said, is to push the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, something that Trump explicitly called for later in the morning. This would be a PERFECT time for Powell to cut interest rates, he wrote. CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!With foreign leaders scrambling in response to Trumps announcement this week, the president lashed out and looked to cut deals. He said he spoke with Vietnamese leader To Lam and claimed Vietnam wants to eliminate its tariffs on U.S. goods if it can make a deal with the U.S.He also criticized China for announcing its own tariffs on U.S. imports.CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED - THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO! he wrote.Trump also celebrated a new report showing the U.S. added 228,000 jobs in March, beating expectations. Although the numbers were a snapshot of the economy before the tariff announcement, Trump claimed vindication, saying they already show his moves are working. HANG TOUGH, he wrote. WE CANT LOSE!!!___ Megerian reported from Washington. FATIMA HUSSEIN Hussein reports on the U.S. Treasury Department for The Associated Press. She covers tax policy, sanctions and any issue that relates to money. twitter mailto CHRIS MEGERIAN Megerian covers the White House for The Associated Press. He previously wrote about the Russia investigation, climate change, law enforcement and politics in California and New Jersey. twitter mailto

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the Trump International Golf Club, Friday, April 4, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-04T16:02:32Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate dived into contentious debate Friday on a budget plan critical to Republican efforts to pass trillions of dollars in tax cuts and boost border security and defense spending through what President Donald Trump calls one big beautiful bill.Passage of the plan would give Republicans the chance in coming months to muscle a tax cut bill through both chambers of Congress even if Democrats are unanimously opposed, just as they did in Trumps first term.Democrats are intent on making the effort as politically painful as possible, beginning with all-night votes on dozens of proposals that GOP senators will have to defend before next years mid-term elections, including on Trumps tariff policies and the administrations efforts to shrink the federal government.Republicans are framing their work as preventing a tax increase for most American families. Unless Congress acts, the individual and estate tax cuts that Republicans passed in 2017 will expire at the end of this year. Republicans believe fundamentally that Americans know best what to do with their money, said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. Democrats accused Republicans of laying the groundwork for increasing deficits and cutting key safety net programs such as Medicaid and nutritional assistance to help pay for tax cuts they say disproportionately benefit the wealthy. The investments that affect Americas future are hanging by a thread, and Republicans are about to cut it, said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York. The debate early Friday was generally one-sided. Senate Democrats are taking full advantage of 25 hours of their available debate time, while Republicans yielded much of theirs in order to get to an all-night voting frenzy referred to as a vote-a-rama. Once lawmakers have exhausted their list of amendments and themselves, theyll move to a final vote on the plan itself, most likely sometime Saturday morning. The Senate is expected to approve the measure. The House will also have to pass it to unlock the process that Republicans can use to pass legislation with a simple majority and avoid a Democratic filibuster.And thats just the beginning.Developing a final bill will take weeks, if not months, with the GOP leadership and Trump needing virtually every Republican vote to get a package over the finish line. The GOP leaders will confront concerns from fiscal hawks in deep red states and congressional districts who want trillions of dollars in spending cuts to help pay for the tax breaks. And they will confront dozens of lawmakers in swing districts and states worried about what those cuts will mean for their constituents, and their reelection chances.It will be a delicate task with no guarantee of success, particularly as economic gyrations from Trumps tariff policies test his ability to keep Republicans united.The Senates budget plan allows for extending the individual and estate tax cuts under a scoring method that treats them as not adding to future deficits, even though the Congressional Budget Office has projected the extension would cost more than $3.8 trillion over 10 years, not including higher interest payments. On top of that, the budget plan instructs the Senate Finance Committee to expand deficits by up to $1.5 trillion more over that same timeframe. That would give senators room to include some of Trumps campaign promises, such as no tax on tips, Social Security benefits and overtime. Republicans are also looking to increase the $10,000 deduction for state and local taxes, something that lawmakers from states such as New York, California and New Jersey say is necessary to get their support.The budget plan also allows the Senate to increase the debt ceiling by up to $5 trillion. Final approval of such an increase would allow the federal government to continue to finance its debts and push any further votes on the matter until after next years mid-term elections. Trump is wary of giving Democrats the chance to extract concessions on a debt ceiling vote. The plan also instructs four Senate committees to find at least $1 billion each in budget reductions. Thats just a small fraction of the more than $5 trillion in potential tax relief. But the leadership is emphasizing that the instructions purposefully set a low floor for spending cuts to provide maximum flexibility and that committees will be on the hunt for far more.Committees are also given authority to pursue as much as $521 billion to boost border security, defense and the Coast Guard, though Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has said the final spending total will be closer to $345 billion.The House budget plan provided for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks over 10 years, though the amount for tax breaks would shrink if the spending cut totals dont get to $2 trillion in savings. The GOP leadership has encouraged members to just get a budget plan over the finish line, saying they have time to work out the tough questions of which tax breaks and spending cuts to include.Throughout the debate, Democratic have focused on framing the tax cuts as helping out the wealthiest at the expense of average Americans. Sen. Jeff Merkley, the lead Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, spoke with a sign behind him that read Republican Plan: Families Lose, Billionaires Win.Thats a terrible plan, Merkley said.Extending the the 2017 breaks would cut taxes for about three-quarters of households but raise them for about 10 percent. In 2027, about 45% of the benefit of all the tax cuts would go to those making roughly $450,000 or more, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, which analyzes tax issues.Sen. John Barrasso, the No.-2 ranking GOP senator, said voters gave Republicans a mission and a mandate in November, and the Senate budget plan delivers. It fulfills our promises to secure the border, to rebuild our economy and to restore peace through strength, Barrasso said.

Its almost that time of year! GLAAD and Ty Herndons annual Concert for Love & Acceptance is right around the corner! To kick off Pride Month, on June 2nd, The Concert for Love and Acceptance is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Today, country icon Ty Herndon has announced the first round of performers who will take [...]The post Dasha, David Archuleta, Brooke Eden, and more to Perform at GLAAD and Ty Herndons Annual Concert for Love & Acceptance first appeared on GLAAD.

Dylan Efron has the gays melting downagain!The 37-year-old The Traitors star just posted a new shirtless selfie, and its making everyone drool.Efron posted a carousal of photos to Instagram on Friday morning, and while most of the pics are tame shots of him camping, the first and last photo show off his delicious abs. The first photo is a shirtless photo of him coyly smiling while sitting in a makeup chair. And the last photo shows off his glistening chest and tight abs while staring directly into the camera.See on InstagramWhen Pop Crave reposted the pic on X (formerly Twitter) the gays in the comments started going into a tailspin and offering themselves up for hiswell, you'll see. (@) The post is full of comments like, Im just a hole, He can top me, Oh I know its huge, and He wants to kill us! We love it! Keep going. (@) But this isnt the first time Efron has inspired lust in the gay community, his back arch has been putting in the work.While starring on The Traitors, fans went feral when they found out Zac Efrons younger brother loves a good thirst trap and had posted a photo of himself lying on the beach and arching his back with his butt up in the air.It was truly something to behold!And just this week, Efron dished to PRIDE about loving the repose his back arch pic got."I hid [the arch pic] in the back of a carousel, and that thing resurfaced with a storm! That's why I'm here. I love how inclusive this community is. That's the best feeling in the world to be accepted like that," Efron said.We also love a self-aware king, and Efron admitted he plans to take more sexy photos because it's what I'm good at.Hopefully, that means today's thirst-worthy shirtless photo is just the first of many. Bring it on!

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti does not believe the decision to allow Barcelona's Dani Olmo and Pau Vctor to continue playing for the club will taint any competition, with his team potentially facing Bara for three trophies.

Mikel Arteta has claimed Arsenal "have the resources to cope" with Gabriel Magalhaes' season-ending injury, hinting both Ben White and Jurrin Timber could soon return to action.

The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)2025-04-04T17:48:20Z WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) President Donald Trump on Friday said is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.Congress had mandated that the platform be divested from China by Jan. 19 or barred in the U.S. on national security grounds, but Trump moved unilaterally to extend the deadline to this weekend, as he sought to negotiate an agreement to keep it running. Trump has recently entertained an array of offers from U.S. businesses seeking to buy a share of the popular social media site, but Chinas ByteDance, which owns TikTok and its closely-held algorithm, has insisted the platform is not for sale.My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress, Trump posted on his social media platform. The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days. Trump added: We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal.TikTok, which has headquarters in Singapore and Los Angeles, has said it prioritizes user safety, and Chinas Foreign Ministry has said Chinas government has never and will not ask companies to collect or provide data, information or intelligence held in foreign countries.

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)2025-04-04T16:59:39Z NEW YORK (AP) The huge swings rocking Wall Street and the global economy may feel far from normal. But, for investing at least, drops of this size have happened throughout history.Stomaching them is the price investors have had to pay in order to get the bigger returns that stocks can offer over other investments in the long term. Heres a glimpse at whats behind the markets wild moves and what experts advise investors young and old to consider: HOW BAD IS THE MARKET?Wall Streets main benchmark, the S&P 500, has lost more than 16% since setting an all-time high on Feb. 19, mostly because of worries about President Donald Trumps tariffs. Any kind of uncertainty around the economy will give Wall Street pause, but the trade war is making it more difficult for companies, households and others to feel confident enough to invest, spend and make long-term plans. The tariffs announced on Liberation Day sent stocks reeling to their worst day since since the COVID crash of 2020 because they were much harsher than investors had been expecting. They also raised the fear that Trump may push through with them to win long-term gains, such as more manufacturing jobs in the United States. The hope among investors had been that Trump was using tariffs merely as a bargaining chip to win concessions from other countries. Some big names on Wall Street still think thats the case, and a moderation of tariffs would help stocks recover, but its less of a certainty now. STOCKS DO THIS OFTEN?Regularly enough. The S&P 500 has seen declines of at least 10% every year or so. Often, experts view them as a culling of optimism that can otherwise run overboard, driving stock prices too high. Before this recent downswing, many critics were saying the U.S. stock market was too expensive after prices rose faster than corporate profits. They also pointed to how only a handful of companies drove so much of the markets returns. A group of just seven Big Tech companies accounted for more than half of the S&P 500s total return last year, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. SHOULD I SELL AND GET OUT? Anytime an investor sees theyre losing money, it feels bad. This recent run feels particularly unnerving because of how incredibly calm the market had previously been. The S&P 500 is coming off a second straight year where it shot up by more than 20%, the first time thats happened since baggy pants were last in style before the millennium. Selling may offer some feeling of relief. But it also locks in losses and prevents the chance of making the money back over time. Historically, the S&P 500 has come back from every one of its downturns to eventually make investors whole again. That includes after the Great Depression, the dot-com bust and the 2020 COVID crash. Some recoveries take longer than others, but experts often recommend not putting money into stocks that you cant afford to lose for several years, up to 10. Emergency funds, for things like home repairs or medical bills, should not be invested in stocks. Data has shown, historically, that no one can time the market, said Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of WalletHub. No one can consistently figure out the best time to buy and sell. SHOULD I CHANGE ANYTHING WITH MY INVESTMENTS?For years, the U.S. stock market was the best by far to invest in worldwide. Now, more investors are questioning wither U.S. exceptionalism is dead. But it could all be a reminder that investors often do best when they have a mixed set of investments rather than going all-in on just a few. And investors may no longer be as diversified as they thought after years of sheer dominance by the Magnificent Seven over the U.S. stock market and by Wall Street over global markets. It is hard to roll with the punches when some days you feel like your portfolio is being pummeled, said Brian Jacobsen, chief economist at Annex Wealth Management. But those moments should pass. A diversified strategy that is thoughtfully adapting to changing circumstances cant prevent the punches, but it can help soften the blows.Phil Battin, CEO of Ambassador Wealth Management, advises investors to make sure they diversify their investments across regions and sectors to reduce risk. He says to lean towards resilient sectors such as consumer staples, utilities and health care, which are less reliant on international trade. I JUST STARTED INVESTING IN STOCKS. WHAT SHOULD I DO?The proliferation of online trading platforms and the ease of smartphones has helped create a new generation of investors who may not be used to such volatility. But the good news is younger investors often have the gift of time. With decades to go until retirement, they can afford to ride the waves and let their stock portfolios hopefully recover before compounding and eventually growing even bigger. Stephen Kates, financial analyst at Bankrate, says now is not the time to make emotional decisions. Young investors should re-anchor to your (long-term) goals, and consider using a financial advisor to help navigate uncertain times. Investors with ample time to stay invested should remember how lucrative patience has been over the last 15 years, Kates said. WHAT IF IM NEAR RETIREMENT?Older investors have less time than younger ones to allow their investments to bounce back. But even in retirement, some people will need their investments to last 30 years or more, said Niladri Neel Mukherjee, chief investment officer of TIAA Wealth Management.People who have already retired may want to cut back on spending and withdrawals after sharp market downturns, because bigger withdrawals will remove more potential compounding ability in the future. But even retirees, at least in the early part of retirement, should still be invested in stocks to prepare for the possibility of decades of spending ahead. You may want to slow that down and pick that back up once the market recovers, Mukherjee said, but it all comes down to having that conversation with your adviser and your portfolio manager.HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST?No one knows, and dont let anyone tell you otherwise. CORA LEWIS Lewis is an Associated Press business reporter based in New York. twitter mailto

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss learning from civilizations past and learning to drive.JASON: I mentioned this on a podcast a few weeks ago, but I have been falling asleep lately to the Ancient Americas YouTube channel. Made by a guy in the midwest named Pete, Ancient Americas makes 30-minute to hour-long videos about indigenous American civilizations: The Mayans, the Incans, the Aztecs, the Nazca, sure. But also the Calusa, the Toltecs, the Tarascans, the Marajoara, the Cahokia, and lots of other civilizations / peoples / cities / ruins that I had never heard of and never learned about in school.I didnt have any specific interest in thisAncient Americas started autoplaying one night at 3 AM when I couldnt sleep, and Petes monotone voice put me back to sleep very quickly. I started listening more often, and it has quickly become my go-to thing to fall asleep to. Pete says he is not an archaeologist or an anthropologist, but each of his videos is insanely well researched, and he includes a Google Doc bibliography with each one. His recent video about the Mayan Collapse sources 10 books and academic papers, and includes 16 pages of single-spaced image credits and licenses. I have seen Pete go on the channels of historians and archaeologists with PhDs and more than hold his own. In short, he is the real deal.

I'm not sure how you say "gay rights" in Simlish, but I'm happy that SimNation is all in for it!In a trailer released this week, Electronic Arts's The Sims 4 teased upcoming free content for the game. And it is jam-packed with Pride-related content, including a 'Pride Rocks! Collage' with variations of Pride flags to makeup, beds, tattoos, and clothing referencing colors from various flags. The trailer ends with 'Show Your Pride Everyday' and encourages fans of the life simulation to play.This isn't the first time the game has included LGBTQ+-related content. In 2016, the game overhauled gender customization and added gender-neutral bathrooms and its first Pride-related content in 2019. That same year, they redesigned The Sims 4 key art to include its first lesbian couple. In addition to adding trans and non-binary NPCs into the game over the years, in 2022, they released new options for players who wanted to explore sexual identities. Working with GLAAD and It Gets Better, the updates were an effort to reflect the diverse identities of gamers within the simulated world. The equally queer-affirming Sims Community has also added mods and custom content into the game, bringing to Sims lifeand perhaps the lives of those who play itsome much-needed queer joy. Since President Trump's return to office, many companies have scaled back on LGBTQ+ and other DEI initiatives. But some companies have doubled down on their commitments, determined to amplify the diverse voices of their employees and reflect the diversity of their customers.No word yet on when the content will be released.

Nature, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01071-6Decision comes amidst mass layoffs plus, administration instructs US biomedical agency to study regret after transgender people transition.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is in a trademark dispute with NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. over the right to use a stylized version of the No. 8.

The NBA has fined Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant $75,000 mimicking shooting a gun with his finger twice while on the court, the league announced Friday.

Duke forward Cooper Flagg (2) motions during the first half of an Elite Eight round NCAA college basketball tournament game against the Alabama, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)2025-04-04T17:01:18Z 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) Cooper Flagg and his Duke teammates were days away from clinching a spot in the Final Four, and the Blue Devils freshman star was planning ahead.It wasnt about anything on the court, though. It was to be ready the next time teammates Khaman Maluach and Patrick Ngongba broke out water guns at the cold tubs.Im definitely ordering one as well, Flagg said with a grin, a nod to the fact that hes still just being a kid.Maybe so, but the the 18-year-olds game has been far more advanced than his age from the opening tip of his college debut. Scoring. Rebounding. Setting up teammates as a playmaker, then aiding them as a defender. He did it all amid high expectations as the potential No. 1 overall NBA draft prospect, the driving force with a relentless competitive edge and mature focus for a team now two wins from a national championship. It is why Flagg was named The Associated Press mens college basketball national player of the year on Friday, becoming only the fourth freshman to win the award in its 64-year history.The 6-foot-9, 205-pound forward from Newport, Maine, won a two-man race with Auburn star Johni Broome. Both players were unanimous first-team AP All-Americans with teams at the Final Four, and they were the only two to receive player-of-the-year votes, Flagging 41 of the 61. Flagg joins Dukes Zion Williamson (2019), Kentuckys Anthony Davis (2012) and Texas star Kevin Durant (2007) as freshman winners. Each went either No. 1 or No. 2 overall in the NBA draft a few months later. Flagg is the eighth Duke player to win the award, most of any program.He plays so hard, hes competitive, a great teammate, Duke coach Jon Scheyer said after the Blue Devils home finale, and obviously his ability is special. High standard, high expectationsFlagg was just 17 when he arrived at Duke after reclassifying to graduate early from high school. Yet he has exceeded all hype as the nations top-ranked recruit, with Flagg leading Duke in scoring (18.9 points per game), rebounding (7.5), assists (4.2) and steals (1.4) while ranking second in blocks (1.3) entering Saturdays national semifinal against Houston.I hold myself to a high standard, high expectations, Flagg told the AP. Just because I know how much work Ive put in and how many hours Ive spent grinding and putting that work in. ... Its those expectations of just trusting what you do and just doing it to the highest level. And he repeatedly did that.He scored an Atlantic Coast Conference freshman-record 42 points against Notre Dame. There was his highlight-reel transition dunk against Pittsburgh. The big game to help the Blue Devils beat Broomes Tigers, along with going for 30 points in an NCAA Sweet 16 win against Arizona that Scheyer called one of the best tournament performances Ive ever coached or been a part of.Cohesive play is the hallmark of this Blue Devils team, the only one ranked in KenPoms top five for both adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency. It has offered ways for Flagg to improve in his first and possibly lone college season as he learned the level of the details required to thrive. It was ensuring he got in for pre-practice recovery sessions. Or listening when graduate transfer Mason Gillis and junior Tyrese Proctor pushed the importance of sleep, prompting Flagg to nix a high-school habit of late-night phone scrolling. As far as outside expectations, I couldnt really care less, Flagg said. For me, its more about following the expectations of my teammates, my coaches, my family. Everybodys human so Im going to make mistakes. Im not going to be at my best all the time. But thats what having great teammates and great coaches does for you. They just always have my back and are always there for me.Support within reachHis mother, Kelly, almost envies how her son handles that.I think he sees it but he really doesnt let it bother him, she told the AP. And I wish I was more like that. Hes so comfortable with who he is, and hes always been that way. Thats why he doesnt get rattled easily, because he believes in himself and it doesnt really matter to him what other people think. Thats a special ability to be able to drown out the noise when the noise can be overwhelming at times for somebody like him. Im really proud of him for being able to do that.She and husband Ralph have kept a close eye on how hes been doing after moving to North Carolina for this year while Ace, Coopers twin brother, completes his final season of high school basketball in Greensboro, an hour away. Flagg said it helped to have family close, including when he visited for a few days around Christmas and got multiple days in the gym with his father and brothers.When you are able to step back and just take a break, it can be really good to just get your mind clear and kind of refocus, he said. It showed up on the court, notably as he elevated his scoring (20.1 points, up from 16.9), assists (4.5, up from 3.7), shooting percentage (51%, up from 43.8%) and 3-point percentage (.434, up from 27.1) after Jan. 1.Indeed, Flagg seems wired for big moments when the stakes rise, something his mother has seen going back to his childhood. There was his hatred of losing from early on, such as demanding to keep playing after losing in a driveway game of H-O-R-S-E with Kelly who played in college at Maine or a board game like Trouble.He always wanted to be first to do anything even when it seemed a bit much, such as the family working with eldest brother Hunter to ride a bike without training wheels only to have the then-3 Cooper announce I can do it, Momma and back it up.When it came to basketball, he tested his parents nerves by constantly dribbling on the hardwood floors at home. But success came quickly, too, with whispers soon spreading around Maine about the prodigy playing up several grade levels.When he was younger, if somebody stole the ball from him or he turned it over or got fouled or did something (wrong), we would say it was a 50/50 shot whether he was going to pick up a crazy foul or he was going to do something spectacular, Kelly said. And as hes gotten older, it was more the chances of something really good was about to happen.Savoring this momentFlagg noted multiple times how much he has enjoyed Duke. He has talked about making connections and fitting in with other students he called elite in their own respects.Thats offered a respite from the spotlight, even as hes featured in ads and commercials as a leading-man star for college basketball with players permitted to profit from their athletic fame. He is now used to requests for autographs and selfies, shrugging that there could be worse problems to have.Flagg has avoided saying he is making the expected jump to the NBA after the season. For now, there are more pressing things to deal with, from the Final Four to ordering that water gun.I have to, Flagg insisted. What am I going to do? Im going to be unarmed?___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. AARON BEARD Beard covers sports in North Carolina for The Associated Press with an emphasis on college basketball. His coverage includes ACC sports and the NHLs Carolina Hurricanes. twitter mailto

In this image from video provided by SpaceX, a Dragon capsule carrying four space tourists prepares to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday, April 4, 2025. (SpaceX via AP)2025-04-04T16:21:26Z CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.Bitcoin investor Chun Wang chartered a SpaceX flight for himself and three others in a Dragon capsule that was outfitted with a domed window that provided 360-degree views of the polar caps and everything in between. Wang declined to say how much he paid for the 3 1/2-day trip. The quartet, who rocketed from NASAs Kennedy Space Center on Monday night, returned off the Southern California coast. It was the first human spaceflight to circle the globe above the poles and the first Pacific splashdown for a space crew in 50 years. The Chinese-born Wang, now a citizen of Malta, invited Norwegian filmmaker Jannicke Mikkelsen, German robotics researcher Rabea Rogge and Australian polar guide Eric Philips, all of whom shared stunning vistas during their voyage. It is so epic because it is another kind of desert, so it just goes on and on and on all the way, Rogge said in a video posted by Wang on X while gazing down from orbit. Mikkelsen packed the capsule with camera equipment and spent much of her time behind the lens.All four suffered from space motion sickness after reaching orbit, according to Wang. But by the time they woke up on day two, they felt fine and cranked open the window cover right above the South Pole, he said via X. Besides documenting the poles from 270 miles (430 kilometers) up, Wang and his crew took the first medical X-rays in space as part of a test and conducted two dozen other science experiments. They named their trip Fram2 after the Norwegian sailing ship that carried explorers to the poles more than a century ago. A bit of the original ships wooden deck accompanied the crew to space.SpaceX said its decision to switch splashdown sites from Florida beginning with this flight was based on safety. The company said Pacific splashdowns will ensure that any surviving pieces of the trunk jettisoned near flights end falls into the ocean.The last people to return from space to the Pacific were the three NASA astronauts assigned to the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission. ___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.

Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend. 1.) A Nice Indian Boy hit theaters today! In Roshan Sethis third feature, the modest yet charming doctor Naveen (Karan Soni) introduces his white-artist boyfriend Jay (Jonathan Groff) [...]The post The GLAAD Wrap: A Nice Indian Boy in Theaters, Teasers of Star Trek: Strange New World and Doctor Who, New Music by Kali Uchis, The Beaches, and More! first appeared on GLAAD.

After more than a decade playing pro ball, queer seven-time-all-star Elena Delle Donne is retiring from the WNBA.The 35-year-old MVP and Olympic gold medal winner announced her departure from the league in a heartfelt Instagram post, in which she discussed the injuries that forced her to sit out the 2024 season.One of my favorite childrens books asked, How did it get so late so soon? Delle Donnes announcement read. I have asked myself that over and over again in the process of coming to the decision to retire from playing basketball. Being able to say that out loud was one of the hardest parts of my career. My body seemed to make this decision before my mind accepted it but I now truly know this is the right thing for me at the right time.See on InstagramIn 2019, the Washington Mystics player led the team to its first and only league championship but has only played 51 games since then due to injuries and back surgeries.Delle Donne spent her rookie year with the Chicago Sky, earning rooking of the year, and eventually taking the team to the WNBA finals in 2014, and scoring her first MVP award in 2015, before requesting a trade to the Mystics before the start of the 2017 season, the Washington Post reports.Delle Donne came out in a Vogue profile in 2016, just three years after she was drafted second overall behind fellow queer MNBA star Brittney Griner. She and wife Amanda Clifton tied the knot in 2017, telling People that she was happy to "be able to live in a world now where Amanda and I are able to be out and hopefully inspire others just to live their truth.See on InstagramAfter joining the Mystics in 2017, Delle Donne was a centerpiece of the team, increasing their win total and helping the team improve every year until they took home the teams only championship in 2019.But after years of dealing with ongoing injuries, including a pair of back surgeries limited her to playing just three games in 2021, in 2023 she made her final all-star team but ankle and hip injuries made her miss play time, and then she had to sit out the 2024 season altogether. Despite being offered a one-year super-max offer which allows teams to pay more than the normal salary cap to retain veteran player Delle Donne opted to leave the game behind.Words cannot adequately express how thankful I am to my family, all of my incredible teammates, friends, executives, sponsors, staff and most importantly the amazing fans that have accompanied me on this journey, her Instagram statement continued. This game has been my life and I am grateful for the memories and how much its given me. It feels good to close this chapter knowing I gave it my all and I cant wait for whats next!Delle Donne may be leaving the sport in the rear view mirror, but not only did she bring the Sun and the Mystics to glory on the court, but living her life out and proud, inspired other athletes to do the same.You sparked pride in my lesbian athlete identity by having the bravery to simply exist as yourself, runner Susie Poole wrote in an open letter to Delle Donne for Outsports during Pride Month 2022. Thats something Ill be celebrating every month of the year for the rest of my life. Thank you for being the person I needed when I was young.

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This combo of filer photos show from left, St. John's coach Rick Pitino, left, and Auburn coach Bruce Pearl, the The Associated Press coaches of the year in men's college basketball. (AP Photo/File)2025-04-04T16:02:30Z 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. Bruce Pearl has turned Auburn into a basketball school and may have his best team yet. Rick Pitino has done what he does best at St. Johns, ushering in a quick turnaround.Their successes this season led to the first tie in the 58-year history of The Associated Press mens college basketball coach of the year award.Pearl and Pitino each received 20 votes in balloting released Friday from the national media panel that picks the AP Top 25 during the season. Louisvilles Pat Kelsey received eight votes and Dukes Jon Scheyer got five. Dennis Gates (Missouri) and Tom Izzo (Michigan State) each received three and Drakes Ben McCollum and UC San Diegos Eric Olen each got one vote.Pitino is the first St. Johns coach to be named AP coach of the year and the sixth in Big East Conference history. Marquettes Shaka Smart won the award two years ago. When Pitino was hired in 2023, the Red Storm had been mired in mediocrity. St. Johns hadnt been to the NCAA Tournament since 2019 and the March Madness trips had been sporadic since the late 1990s.Pitino led the Red Storm to 20 wins his first season and back into into national prominence this year. St. Johns won the Big East regular-season title by going 18-2 and took its first Big East Conference Tournament title since 2000. The Red Storm matched a school record with 31 wins marks set in the 1980s under Lou Carnesecca and had their highest ranking in the AP Top 25 in in 34 years by reaching No. 5 in the final regular-season poll. St. Johns was a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and opened with a win over Omaha before losing to Arkansas in the second round. Pitinos quick success follows a pattern he set in previous stops at Boston University, Providence, Kentucky, Louisville and Iona. He is the first coach to lead six different programs to the NCAA Tournament.I have been blessed for a long period of time fifty-plus years of coaching, Pitino said. Its going to stop, so why not have a blast? Why not get the most out of it? Laugh, have fun, get great experiences. Pearl has certainly been doing that since taking over at Auburn in 2015. The Tigers had not been to the NCAA Tournament since 2003 and Pearl got them back into the bracket by his fourth season. Auburn took a huge leap the following year, earning the programs first trip to the Final Four in 2019.The Tigers have been close to unstoppable this season.Led by All-American Johni Broome, Auburn spent eight straight weeks at No. 1 this season, earned the SEC regular-season title and has won a school-record 32 games. The Tigers were the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and bulled their way through the bracket, beating Michigan State 70-64 to reach the Final Four for the second time.Pearl joins Cliff Ellis in 1999 as the only Auburn coaches to win AP coach of the year honors. He is first SEC coach to win the award since Kentuckys John Calipari 10 years ago.You want to be on a great team, youve got to make sacrifices, Pearl said. Youve got to share and youve got to hold each other accountable. I think thats a big part of what this locker room is all about. This is a team of faith.With a national coach of the year just like St. Johns.___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.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at the Federal Reserve in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)2025-04-04T15:31:56Z ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) The Trump administrations expansive new tariffs will likely lead to higher inflation and slower growth, and the Federal Reserve will focus on keeping price increases temporary, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Friday. Powell said that the tariffs, and their impacts on the economy and inflation, are significantly larger than expected. He also said that the import taxes are highly likely to lead to at least a temporary rise in inflation, but added that it is also possible that the effects could be more persistent. Our obligation is to ... make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem, Powell said in remarks being delivered in Arlington, Virginia. Powells focus on inflation suggests that the Fed will likely keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at about 4.3% in the coming months. That is likely to disappoint Wall Street investors, who now expect five interest rate cuts this year, a number that has increased since President Donald Trump announced the tariffs Wednesday. Trump, separately, urged Powell to cut rates, citing lower inflation and energy prices. This would be a PERFECT time for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut Interest Rates, Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social. CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!Economists forecast that the tariffs will weaken the economy, possibly threaten hiring, and push up prices. In that scenario, the Fed could cut rates to bolster the economy, or it could keep rates unchanged or even hike them to combat inflation. Powells comments suggest the Fed will mostly focus on inflation. Powell emphasized that the full impact of the tariffs on the economy arent yet clear, and the Fed will likely stay on the sidelines until it has more clarity about the economy. It is just too soon to say what the appropriate ... response will be, Powell said. Powells remarks come two days after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs that have upended the global economy, prompted retaliatory moves by China, and sent stock prices in the U.S. and overseas plunging. Weaker growth and higher prices are a tricky combination for the Fed. Typically the central bank would reduce its key interest rate to lower borrowing costs and spur the economy in the event of slower growth, while it would raise rates or keep them elevated to slow spending and combat inflation. The Fed is in a tough spot with inflation set to accelerate and the economy poised to slow, said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide. Powell said the economy and hiring remain solid, for now, but he noted that consumers and businesses have become more pessimistic about the outlook.He also said inflation has fallen sharply from its peak in 2022, but said that recently progress toward the central banks 2% target has slowed.Some positive news arrived Friday when the government reported that hiring accelerated in March, with 228,000 jobs added, though the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%, from 4.1%. Yet those figures measure hiring in mid-March, before the scope of the duties became clear. The tariffs have also raised uncertainty about how the economy will fare in the coming months, which could limit businesses willingess to invest and hire. CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Rugaber has covered the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy for the AP for 16 years. He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb award for business reporting. twitter mailto