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Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during a “First Tool-In” ceremony at the TSMC facility under construction in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.Caitlin O’Hara | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhen President Barack Obama asked the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs about making an iPhone in the U.S., Jobs didn’t mince words. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” Jobs said at a dinner with Obama in 2011.The president of the U.S. and the CEO of Apple have changed, but the ambition of a “Made in the USA” iPhone remains. Defending its “reciprocal tariffs,” the White House this week said…

Cronulla coach Craig Fitzgibbon has lauded his team for embracing the ugly work as they halted a two-game skid in an entertaining six-point triumph over Manly in Perth.The Sharks were under fire as the Sea Eagles’ played off the front foot in the first half, but the defacto home side’s dogged defence held for 51 minutes, allowing Sam Stonestreet, alongside William Kennedy, to inspire their offence in the 24-18 victory.“Particularly, in the first half, we were under siege there for a long period of time,” Fitzgibbon said.“Lack of possession, lack of field position, but I thought our defence for the…

United States consumer sentiment plunged in April, marking the fourth month in a row of declines – widely seen as a pointed reaction to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade wars, which have fuelled concerns over potential job losses and rising inflation. The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan’s closely watched consumer sentiment index, released Friday, fell 11 percent in March to 50.8 percent, the lowest since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, sentiment tumbled 34 percent. The decline was “pervasive and unanimous across age, income, education, geographic region, and political affiliation”, Survey of Consumers director…

Thirty-five is the minimum age requirement for the U.S. presidency, but there’s no upward limit. The two last presidential elections, which brought Joe Biden, now 82, and Donald Trump, at 78, to the White House, are proof of this political reality.The Founding Fathers excluded a maximum age limit from the Constitution, giving those in their golden years the ability to run for the highest office in the land. According to Pew Research, 19 inaugurations have involved presidents in their 60s and just four have involved presidents in their 70s. The median age for U.S. presidents on their first day in office is 55. …

This weekend at Augusta National looks like it will be one for the ages.The leaderboard is stacked with golfers who have combined for 10 major championships all within three shots of each other at the top, and the players at even par (eight shots back) or better have a combined 24 major wins.Fifty-four players made the cut Friday, and the playing has been superb. The cut line was a mere 10 strokes back of the lead. It’s a long shot for those guys, but they’re not out of it. Former President Donald Trump follows his tee shot on the third…

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week.Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an off-duty police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina, and a convenience store clerk in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was sentenced to death for the murder of the officer and life in prison for the clerk’s murder. Mahdi had the choice of dying by lethal injection, the electric chair or firing squad – and he chose the latter. The Associated Press reported that he did not give a…

Iran and the United States are holding high-level talks aimed at jump-starting negotiations over Tehran’s fast-advancing nuclear program, with US President Donald Trump threatening military action if there is no deal.Iranian and US delegations arrived in Oman’s capital Muscat on Saturday, Iranian media reported.Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is leading the Iranian delegation, with Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, handling the talks on the US side.Iran is approaching the talks warily, sceptical they could lead to a deal and suspicious of Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran if it does not halt its nuclear program.While each side has…

PATNA: At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India’s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said Saturday (Apr 12). While flash floods and lightning kill thousands of people each year, scientists warn that rising global temperatures are unleashing a cascade of extreme weather events. Bihar disaster authorities said Saturday that at least 61 people had died in strong thunder and lightning storms on Thursday and Friday. Eight more people were killed in neighbouring Nepal, disaster officials told AFP, blaming “lightning strikes” on Wednesday and Thursday. Heavy rain is forecast to hit Bihar…

These are the key events on day 1,143 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Saturday, April 12: Fighting Russia’s defence ministry said air defence units destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones within a span of 30 minutes late on Friday. The ministry said that between 10-10:30pm local time (19:00-19:30 GMT), nine drones were destroyed over Russia’s Rostov region on Ukraine’s eastern border, and four in the Kursk region on Ukraine’s northern border. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the site of a deadly Russian attack on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih, one week after a Russian missile strike killed…