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The Liberal Party has taken aim at Labor’s management of the cost of living crisis through a bizarre Drake-inspired diss track.

China struck back at U.S. tariffs with an export pauseChina has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries. The move is in retaliation after President Trump’s sharp increase in tariffs.The metals and the special magnets made with them can now be shipped out of China only with special export licenses. But Beijing has barely started setting up a system for issuing the licenses. Industry executives said that supplies of minerals and products outside the country could run low.Trump’s rapidly escalating trade war with China has scrambled prospects…

President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to the Houthis by saying it was time for them to hide now that he has removed “dangerous red tape” from the Biden administration, allowing U.S. troops to protect Somalia against terrorists.”Time for the terrorists to hide, but it won’t do them any good. Our Warfighters, the Greatest the World has ever seen, will find them, and bring them to a swift Justice,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “I just got rid of Joe Biden’s dangerous red tape, and empowered our Warfighters, once again, just like I did against our…

New York Helicopter Tours, the company that owned the helicopter that plummeted into the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline last Thursday, killing all six people on board, is shutting down its operations immediately, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).The FAA made the announcement on Sunday, saying it will continue to support the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) investigation into the crash, while also launching an immediate review of the tour operator’s license and safety record.”The FAA is already analyzing airplane/helicopter hotspots nationwide, and we will be hosting a helicopter safety panel on April 22 to discuss the…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Edmonton Police Foundation and the EPS Bomb Squad hosted its fourth annual Beeping Eggs Project – an easter egg hunt designed for kids living with vision loss or impairment. About 200 audible eggs were hidden around Emily Murphy Park Sunday afternoon for participants to find.Sgt. Ryan Kaucher heard about a similar project in the United States and brought it to the local police force.“We were looking for something to help kids be kids,” Kaucher explained. “I’ve never had a stake in the blind community. I just felt it was the right thing…

Authorities released the identities of the six people tragically killed in a New York plane crash on Saturday, including a highly-acclaimed former student athlete.The six victims, most of whom were related, died at around 12:15 p.m. local time on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The aircraft, a Mitsubishi MU-2B, was en route to Columbia County Airport in Hudson, New York, when it crashed into an open, muddy field in Copake, around ten miles south.Karenna Groff, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) soccer player who was named the NCAA Woman of the Year in 2022, was one…

Anthony Albanese has been forced to defend his new housing policies from overnight criticism, but has fallen short of pledging prices would go down under Labor.The Prime Minister was at a housing construction site in Adelaide on Monday morning, where he was spruiking his announcement to extend the five per cent first home-buyer guarantee scheme and spend $10b to build 100,000 new homes to house them.Prominent economist Chris Richardson has expressed concern the policy would fuel inflation and fail to grow revenue, and took aim at both Labor and the Coalition’s new offerings as “a dumpster fire of dumb stuff”.In…

QUIET DIPLOMACY Education is another area where Singapore can play a role. The number of student visas granted to Chinese nationals in the US has dropped 50 per cent between 2019 and 2022. Singapore is well-placed to offer an alternative. An English-speaking environment, safety from racist violence and the opportunity to obtain an education bridging East and West are advantages that can be exploited. Welcoming students from both mainland China and Taiwan could foster deeper ties and mutual understanding. The ties they form will hopefully contribute towards settling the legacy of the Chinese Civil War. China-Taiwan relations are a family…

The US president says there are no tariff exemptions for electronic items, but that they fall under a separate category.US President Donald Trump has said that no one is “getting off the hook” after he appeared to dial down the pressure on China slightly by listing tariff exemptions for electronic products for which Beijing is a major exporter to the United States. In the latest global trade war twist and turn from the Trump administration, the president asserted on Sunday that there was “no Tariff ‘exception’”, as smartphones, laptops and other products remained subject to a 20 percent rate in…

Amid a tumultuous week in the markets, the outlook on President Trump’s trade and tariff policy hinges not just on what Americans think will happen, but when. People split on whether they believe Mr. Trump has a clear plan, and most don’t think the tariffs will be permanent — rather that he’s using them to negotiate. More like his goals regarding trade policy than his approach to it. For those who think he does have a plan — predominantly, Republicans — it’ll take months or longer to judge the impact. Republicans stand apart from the public overall in showing that patience. But in…