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Charlene and Phil Willingham had been thinking for a while about replacing the 20-year-old appliances in their kitchen, but with the sudden prospect of rising costs, they decided that this was the moment. The Willinghams, both retired, turned up at a store in the suburbs of Chicago on Friday with a long shopping list: stove, refrigerator, microwave oven and dishwasher.“We were going to take our time to get new appliances, but now because of these tariffs, I want to get them before any price increases take place,” Ms. Willingham, 64, said while shopping at the Abt Electronics store in Glenview,…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 6, 2025 1:47 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hydro One says the number of customers without power has dropped to 69,000 as the utility makes progress on the prolonged ice storm outages. The day’s total is down by about 33,000 from Saturday.The provincial utility says weather is favourable and its helicopters and drones are back in the air to help survey the damage. 1:59 Peterborough area faces flooding issues in wake of ice storm Trending Now Canadians could face detention if denied U.S. entry, Ottawa warns…

Just when you think you’ve seen everything that football has to offer, along come Ipswich Town.Amid another morale-sapping defeat that all but sealed their relegation from the Premier League, Ipswich, with a little help from their opponents, Wolverhampton Wanderers, served up the maddest two minutes of Premier League action you are likely to see this season.A backpass, a mistake, a save, a free kick, a melee on the goal line, a thudding shot and a point-blank block… there was nothing technically proficient about any of it, but it was memorable. Are you not entertained?For the uninitiated, this was all about…

Fremantle are set to call on the services of star duo Sean Darcy and Hayden Young as the club counts the cost of Sunday’s brave 16-point win over the Western Bulldogs.Luke Jackson (hamstring), Corey Wagner (calf) and Nathan O’Driscoll (ankle) are all set for scans after suffering injuries in the third quarter of the 15.7 (97) to 12.9 (81) win at Optus Stadium.Jaeger O’Meara could also join them after struggling with “soreness” late in Sunday’s match.Darcy (ankle/knee) and Hayden Young (hamstring) missed Fremantle’s first four games of the season, but they both made a successful playing return for WAFL side…

Ozel urges President Erdogan to call early election ‘in November at the latest’ amid the largest antigovernment protests in the country in more than a decade.Ozgur Ozel has been re-elected as leader of Turkiye’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) during an extraordinary convention in the capital, Ankara. Ozel repeated on Sunday that he will keep fighting to free jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and other mayors charged with engaging in corruption, aiding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and leading a criminal organisation. He also called for the presidential election scheduled for 2028 to be brought forward to take…

Democrats are celebrating a larger-than-expected victory in a high-profile and historically expensive election in battleground Wisconsin, in the first statewide ballot box contest since President Donald Trump’s return to power in January.And while the GOP came out on top in Tuesday’s other marquee contests, comfortably holding control of two vacant congressional seats in twin special elections in red state Florida, Democrats are spotlighting that their candidates overperformed in overwhelmingly Republican districts.Democrats are portraying last week’s contests as early referendums on Trump’s sweeping and controversial moves during the opening months of his second tour of duty in the White House, including…

Two people are behind bars after the latest arrests of suspected thieves from Mexico allegedly nabbing millions of dollars of Nike sneakers in elaborate railroad heists in the Mojave Desert. On March 27, the Hualapai Nation Police Department in Arizona pulled over the driver of a maroon Chevy Tahoe “suspected to be involved in train robberies in the area,” according to a statement from the agency. As officers conducted the traffic stop, eight people jumped out of the car and fled. Police said they located stolen Nike shoes nearby, and the driver of the vehicle, a man from Mexico, was arrested.SINALOA CARTEL’S CARGO…

The Liberals have widened their lead over the Conservatives to double digits among voters as the federal election campaign enters its third week, a new poll shows. The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and released Sunday shows 46 per cent of Canadians surveyed would cast their ballots for the Liberals, up two points from last week.The Conservatives, by contrast, fell four points to 34 per cent support among polled voters.“This level of national support firmly places the Liberals in majority-government territory if the election were held today,” Ipsos said.Ten per cent of Canadians in the poll chose the…

Around 30 people have died in flooding in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, the provincial health minister says, as torrential rains over the weekend destroyed homes and roads.”The death toll is provisional, but so far there are around thirty dead,” Patricien Gongo Abakazi told Reuters on Sunday.The Ndjili River, which runs through part of the city of around 17 million, overflowed its banks on Friday night, blocking the main national road and leaving drivers stranded since Saturday evening.”On the way home from the airport last night to welcome a friend, we spent the night in the car because there…

“SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE” The US tariffs threaten to “significantly damage” Vietnam’s current growth model, which relies heavily on exports to the United States, said Sayaka Shiba, senior country risk analyst at research firm BMI. She said that, in the worst-case scenario, Vietnam could suffer a 3 per cent hit to GDP this year. Trump has claimed the Communist country charges the United States a 90 per cent tariff, a figure based on Vietnam’s trade surplus with the United States, worth US$123.5 billion last year. Experts believe the new tariffs will hit hardest in sectors such as seafood, garments, footwear, wood, electronics…