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America’s craft beer brewers already have enough problems including lower sales, Millennials and Gen Z not drinking as much as their elders and lingering impacts from the pandemic downturn.Now there’s a new threat: President Donald Trump’s tariffs, including levies of 25 per cent on imported steel and aluminium and on goods from Canada and Mexico.”It’s going to cost the industry a substantial amount of money,” said Matt Cole, brewmaster at Ohio-based Fat Head’s Brewery.Trump’ trade war “will be crippling for our industry if this carries out into months and years”.The tariffs, some of which have been suspended until April 2,…

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has tried and failed three times to become president. Now, even as her popularity rises, she may be barred from taking part in an election to lead France if she is found guilty of embezzlement on Monday.Such a verdict, far from certain, has been equated by Ms. Le Pen with a “political death” sentence and a “very violent attack on the will of the people.” It would ignite a major political storm at a time when the French Fifth Republic has appeared increasingly dysfunctional.On the one hand stands the principle, as Nicolas Barret,…

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to a letter President Trump sent earlier this month over the country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. It was Tehran’s first official response to Mr. Trump’s letter.”Although the possibility of direct negotiations between the two sides has been rejected in this response, it has been emphasized that the path for indirect negotiations remains open,” Pezeshkian said, adding Iran’s response was delivered via the sultanate of Oman. President Masoud Pezeshkian Iranian Presidency Office via AP It’s unclear, however, whether Mr. Trump would accept…

Mr. Chamberlain made his film debut in “The Secret of the Purple Reef” (1960), a crime drama set in the Caribbean. He agreed to exploit his Kildare image by playing a young doctor in “Joy in the Morning” (1965), a lightweight drama about newlyweds, with Yvette Mimieux. That did not call for (or yield) a particularly complex characterization. But he went on to give several memorable — and, at that time, surprising — film performances.They included Julie Christie’s dangerous husband in “Petulia” (1968), Octavius in “Julius Caesar” (1970), Tchaikovsky in “The Music Lovers” (1971), Aramis in “The Three Musketeers” (1973)…

From America’s largest bank to its biggest asset manager, Wall Street investment strategies once reserved for private banking clients are increasingly being offered to Main Street investors.In the midst of a market correction and ongoing uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. stocks and the global economy, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock are among major players in the ETF space making bets that private strategies will continue to see greater adoption. That includes private credit as a mainstream bond portfolio holding, as well as equity income strategies that involved more complicated trading than traditional dividend equity funds.”Across our business we are looking…

Last fall, on the second-floor stage of a cramped tavern called Neck of the Woods in San Francisco, Kat Moss was throwing elbows, shoving men twice her size into a packed circle pit and screaming into a microphone.Moss, the frontwoman for the Bay Area hardcore band Scowl, held her own. In the tight-knit circle of Northern California punks, this sweating, pulsing, tattoo-covered cluster of bodies were her people. Just before midnight, the crowd streamed out of the swampy bar into the cold air, bruised and smiling. In this crowd, stage diving, moshing and the occasional foot to the face all…

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that he had opened an investigation into Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the latest attempt under the Trump administration to halt such efforts.In a letter to Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of Disney, Brendan Carr, the chairman, said the company’s programs to increase diversity in hiring and to promote race-based affinity groups appeared to violate equal employment opportunity regulations.“I want to ensure that Disney ends any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just name,” Mr. Carr said in the letter, which was sent on Thursday. “For…

Raul De Lara’s Transcendent Takes on Household ThingsThe Mexican-born, Ridgewood, Queens-based sculptor Raul De Lara is aware of the irony of his choice of medium: wood. The most rooted of materials is a contrast to the precarity of his upbringing — he came to Texas at 12 with his parents, and remains here under DACA.A meticulous carver who often uses traditional American and Mexican techniques, De Lara, 33, reimagines banal household items — snow shovels, chairs and spades, as well the Monstera deliciosa plant, a south Mexican native that has become an American houseplant cliché — as commentaries on labor…

Before stepping foot on Howard University’s campus, Skylar Wilson knew she would see more women there than men. But just how many more stunned her: Howard, one of the most elite historically Black colleges and universities in the nation, is only 25 percent men — 19 percent Black men.“I was like, ‘Wow,’” said Ms. Wilson, a 20-year-old junior. “How is that possible?”Howard is not unique. The number of Black men attending four-year colleges has plummeted across the board. And nowhere is this deficit more pronounced than at historically Black colleges and universities, or H.B.C.U.s. Black men account for 26 percent…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 30, 2025 10:02 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size More than 200,000 Ontarians are without power as this weekend’s ice storm moves east, threatening parts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Hydro One, Ontario’s provincial utility, says it’s already restored power to more than 100,000 customers over the weekend, but nearly 225,000 are still in the dark.Hydro One says in most cases, the accumulation of ice on tree branches caused them to snap, bringing down power lines with them. Get breaking National news For news impacting…