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President Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on most of America’s trading partners has governments across the globe racing to schedule phone calls, send delegations to Washington and offer up proposals to lower their import taxes in order to escape the levies.On Monday, European officials offered to drop tariffs to zero on cars and industrial goods imported from the United States, in return for the same treatment. Israel’s prime minister was expected to personally petition Mr. Trump on Monday in meetings at the White House. Vietnam’s top leader, in a phone call last week, offered to get rid of tariffs…

Vice President JD Vance honored his mother, Beverly Aikins, at the White House Monday to commemorate her reaching 10 years of sobriety. “I remember when I gave my (Republican National Committee) convention speech, which was the craziest thing, and I even said during the speech that we would have your 10-year medallion ceremony at the White House,” Vance said in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, according to the Washington Examiner. VANCE’S ‘AMERICA FIRST’ APPROACH GOES GLOBAL, TAKES HARDLINE MESSAGE TO GREENLAND Vice President JD Vance, pictured here with his wife, Usha Vance, outlined his mother’s battle with sobriety and substance abuse in…

A Texas man who threatened to “open fire” on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents if they came to his neighborhood was charged Monday in federal court. Robert Wilson King, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in McKinney, Texas, after he made disturbing threats online on March 29, Homeland Security Investigations said last week. On Monday, King appeared in federal court where he was charged with transmitting interstate threats. A judge ordered him held pending a Wednesday detention hearing. PAM BONDI PUTS FAITH IN ICE AS KEY SOURCE IN DECISION TO DEPORT ALLEGED MS-13 GANG MEMBER Robert King picrtured after his arrest for allegedly threatening immigration authorities. …

As global stock markets continued to plunge on Monday, Canada’s federal party leaders took aim at the trade war launched by U.S. President Donald Trump while pledging support for Canadians to “weather the storm.” The start of the third week of election campaigning was clouded by global financial turmoil as economic uncertainty caused by the U.S. tariffs persists in Canada and across the world.Canada’s main stock index was down more than 500 points in late-morning trading, while U.S. stocks also continued to post big losses after Trump’s tariff announcement last week.Monday’s losses come on the heels of big declines on…

Maine officials filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday following the agency’s decision to freeze funding to the state for its refusal to reverse its transgender athlete participation policy in schools.The state accused the USDA of “withholding funding used to feed children in schools, childcare centers, and after-school programming as well as disabled adults in congregate settings.” The State House is seen in Augusta, Maine, on June 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)”Under the banner of keeping children safe, the Trump Administration is illegally withholding grant funds that go to keeping children fed,” Maine…

Sheffield Shield player of the season Fergus O’Neill enjoyed his debut on the English domestic circuit while Marcus Harris continued his fine start in England.

The assisted-living facility in Edina, Minn., where Jean H. Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Ms. Peters said.Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her in mid-morning.“She wasn’t being toileted, so her pants would be soaked,” said Ms. Peters, 69, a retired nurse-practitioner in Bloomington, Minn. “They didn’t give her water. They didn’t get her up for meals.” She dwindled to 94 pounds.Most ominously, Ms. Peters said, “we noticed bruises on her arm…

Doctors Without Borders raises alarm over child malnutrition in Greece’s migrant facility.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reported the first cases of malnourished children in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, raising fresh concerns over the facility’s conditions. The medical charity said on Monday that its doctors had diagnosed six children from Syria and Afghanistan, aged between six months and six years, with acute malnutrition requiring urgent care. While MSF could not confirm whether their condition was directly caused by life in the camp, it warned that inadequate food and healthcare placed children at serious risk. “No child…

In classical music, we think we know how the great pieces go. We hear these standards so often — they have formed our ears so thoroughly — that it can be hard to imagine why some of them were resisted when they were new. Take Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, which endears us with its graceful lyricism and good spirits.Not when Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays it.Kopatchinskaja, who makes her New York Philharmonic debut on Wednesday, released a recording of the Tchaikovsky in 2016. The performance is bracing and even manic, pressing toward extremes of loud and soft, fast and slow. Kopatchinskaja’s violin…

A view of Final Four merchandise after the Texas Longhorns defeat the TCU Horned Frogs in the the Elite Eight round of the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament held at Legacy Arena at the BJCC on March 31, 2025, in Birmingham, Alabama. Elaina Eichorn/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The madness has reached its peak! March Madness 2025 has delivered incredible upsets, buzzer-beaters and unforgettable performances, and now, only four teams remain in each division. The NCAA basketball tournament’s Final Four is here, setting the stage for an epic showdown in both the men’s and women’s brackets.With powerhouse programs and Cinderella…