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U.S. President Donald Trump’s many grievances with Canada on trade have begun to focus on the cross-border dairy market — including accusations Canada charges triple-digit tariffs on U.S. products. Trump is set to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign trading partners starting April 2 that will match duties charged on American products. He has made clear that will include Canadian dairy, in response to what he says are Canadian tariffs of at least 250 per cent and beyond.“Canada is absolutely one of the worst … in terms of charging tariffs,” he said in the Oval Office last week, specifically pointing to…

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Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is at a feeding frenzy with presales exploding like the heady days of Pepe (PEPE). An investor who turned $700 into over $233,300 through PEPE in a matter of weeks has instead of re-investing into memecoins, turned his focus onto Mutuum Finance (MUTM), dubbing it a once in a lifetime chance to earn exponential profits. Mutuum Finance (MUTM), which is still in the 3rd phase, has reached 5600 holders raising 3.3 million so far, to allow token holders access at the equivalent of $0.02. The presale is gaining momentum as the time for switch over to phase 4 for Mutuum Finance…

Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers in the United States and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs.The layoffs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for the university, which is based in Baltimore, and an affiliated center. Another 1,975 positions will be cut in 44 countries. They affect the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and an affiliated nonprofit, Jhpiego.Nearly half the school’s total revenue last year came from…

Inside Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan, more than a dozen employees huddled like a football team. It was late February and the gallery’s president, Nick Olney, was giving his staff a pep talk before his version of the big game: the opening of the first New York exhibition of work by Robert Indiana since the artist’s death in 2018. Standing next to his celebrated “LOVE” sculpture, Olney laid out the game plan. The goal: a reboot.Most people know Robert Indiana for only one thing: LOVE. The image of that four-letter word, with its jauntily tilted “o,” has appeared on city plazas,…

It is CERAWeek, the sprawling Texas energy conference, and Sultan al-Jaber, who runs the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), one of the world’s largest oil companies, is in high demand. Interviews with Jaber are vanishingly rare. He has been media-shy since he was named by the UAE as the president of COP28 and then flamed for holding two seemingly contradictory roles: oil boss and leader of global climate change negotiations. And it is a good time to meet. Big Oil has got its swagger back in the Trump era. “We can all feel the winds of history in our…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Simon Gleeson will have known that the High Court clash of heavyweight investment bankers that he ruled on this week could well make his name as a judge. His legal reputation was already solid after many years at Clifford Chance in London as a financial industry specialist before becoming a High Court judge in 2021. But this was different, both in the precedent the case sets and the profile of those involved.The case in front of him concerned three individuals in particular:…

Jessica Simpson has tapped back into her music roots and is shedding some light on her “broken” heart from her split with Eric Johnson.Simpson performed at the Luck Reunion music festival in Spicewood, Texas, on Thursday, which was her first performance in 15 years. She announced that she is a “very single lady” after her split from Johnson in January.Simpson was discussing her upcoming album, “Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1,” with the crowd before she said, “I was out in Nashville and I had my heart wide open,” according to Page Six. Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson split in January after…

Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a post written by an X user about the actions of three 20th century dictators — then quickly deleted it after it sparked a backlash.The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, the communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany; and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, didn’t cause the deaths of millions of people under their watch. Instead, the post said, their public sector workers did.Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it soon after…

BANGKOK: An elevated road being built in Thailand’s capital Bangkok collapsed on Saturday (Mar 15), killing at least five people, officials said. The collapse, which happened in the early morning in southwestern Bangkok, also injured 24 other people at the construction site, said Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit. Suriya offered his condolences and said the victims would be compensated by contractors and relevant agencies. He said four workers and an engineer were killed, and no road users were affected as traffic lanes near the construction were closed at the time. Bangkok police commander Siam Boonsom said authorities were still investigating to…