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An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company’s headquarters in the Brooklyn.Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEtsy is trying to make it easier for shoppers to purchase products from local merchants and avoid the extra cost of imports as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs raise concerns about soaring prices. In a post to Etsy’s website on Thursday, CEO Josh Silverman said the company is “surfacing new ways for buyers to discover businesses in their countries” via shopping pages and by featuring local sellers on its website and app.”While we continue to nurture and enable cross-border…

Police identify gunman as 20-year-old son of local sheriff’s deputy in attack that also wounded five.The 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy opened fire at Florida State University with his mother’s former service weapon, killing two people and wounding at least six others, investigators said. The attack on Friday occurred at approximately 11:50am Eastern Time (15:50 GMT) outside of the Tallahassee school’s student union. The university swiftly issued an active shooter alert, with Florida State’s alert system announcing that law enforcement had “neutralised the threat” soon after. Florida State University Police Chief Jason Trumbower said that the two people killed,…

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pointed out that only half of its D.C. headquarters is being used after the agency’s building was added to a list of federal properties marked for sale by the Trump administration Thursday.HUD’s headquarters became the first major federal agency building to be added to the General Services Administration’s list of “assets identified for accelerated disposition” amid GOP efforts to slim down the government’s real estate portfolio and potentially relocate agency headquarters outside the nation’s capital. Simultaneously, Democrats have taken steps to block these efforts, including through the introduction of legislation in Congress. Last month,…

At least one person was killed and several others were injured, after a school bus traveling back from a field trip outside Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, blew a tire and flipped on a South Carolina highway.Chester County Emergency Management Director Ed Darby told Fox News Digital about 21 students were treated for injuries, of whom roughly 17 were taken to the hospital via ambulance or helicopter.One student died and five others remain in critical condition, Darby said. None of the three adults on the bus were treated for injuries, he said. A school bus flipped after crashing on Highway…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand says his organization feels targeted after Ward 3 city councillor Robert Pearce asked if the province would look into replacing the council as operator of the Emergency Wellness Centre in Fairhaven. Pearce asked the question to Moe and his cabinet during this week’s SUMA Convention Bear Pit Wednesday. Pearce asked if the government will honour its promise to reduce the beds in Fairhaven, now that another has been placed, and to work with the city in order to find replacement beds for those shelters in addition…

Two champions in completely different arenas. United by their ability to push past the mental anguish of past failures to complete their mission.You might not have seen the names Alex Volkanovski and Rory McIlroy in the same sentence before, but it was their respective triumphs that caught my eye over the weekend.In the UFC, Australia’s Volkanovski reclaimed the featherweight title against Diego Lopes in Miami.No one had won an undisputed UFC championship after suffering back-to-back losses and there were plenty doubting whether Volkanovski could bounce back from his pair of knockout defeats, along with concerns over his long layoff and…

A BIFURCATED GLOBAL ECONOMY What we are witnessing is not merely a trade dispute but the acceleration of global economic bifurcation – a process that was already underway but has now shifted into overdrive. The Trump administration reportedly plans to put pressure on trading partners to curb trade with China in exchange for tariff concessions. This new reality is particularly stark for Southeast Asian nations caught in the crossfire. Having prospered by straddling both economic spheres, countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia now face pressure to choose between continued access to American consumers or maintaining deep integration with Chinese supply…

A golf fan got a rather painful souvenir at the RBC Heritage Thursday.The tournament was the first since Rory McIlroy won his first Masters and completed a career grand slam. Despite the mental and physical grind of Augusta, some of the biggest names in golf made the trip to the Harbour Town Golf Links in South Carolina. Billy Horschel plays a shot on the 15th hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage 2025 at Harbour Town Golf Links April 17, 2025, in Hilton Head Island, S.C.  (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)Billy Horschel was among them, but he found himself in an…

Manchester United score twice in the final minutes of extra time to turn quarterfinal against Lyon at Old Trafford.Harry Maguire scored in the dying seconds of extra time to help Manchester United snatch a place in the Europa League semifinals with a sensational 7-6 aggregate victory over Olympique Lyonnais in their quarterfinal. A thrilling second leg tie was taken into extra time after United threw away a two-goal lead on the night to be pegged back to 2-2 after 90 minutes, with goals from Rayan Cherki and Alexandre Lacazette putting Lyon on the verge of the semifinals at a stunned…

The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities.The plans have not been finalized and might need congressional action to fully fund, said the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly. Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, denied that the FDA was making plans to do this.Some FDA employees have been working on a possible shift of the agency’s routine food efforts to states for…