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There has been a mantra spreading among weary corporate executives who are becoming resigned to President Trump’s tariffs while still hoping to avoid the worst of their effects: Ten percent is the new zero.The statement refers to the 10 percent tariff that Mr. Trump put in place on most U.S. imports one month ago. Such a significant increase in U.S. tariffs would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But it no longer seems like such a big deal, compared with the truly large tariffs that Mr. Trump has already imposed or threatened elsewhere.Mr. Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement on April…

Airstrikes pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, health officials said, as Israel reaffirmed its plans to capture more land in the enclave and force all two million Gaza residents to live in the south. The single deadliest bombing hit near a popular cafe in Gaza City where young people gathered to use the internet, killing 33, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Hospitals across the Gaza Strip reported casualties caused by other airstrikes throughout the day, said a ministry official, Zaher Al-Wuhaidi. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the target of…

Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island.The report, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, arrives as nations debate whether to pursue industrial mining of the seabed for critical minerals.Some scientists argue that so little is known about the undersea world that more research on the deep seafloor is needed to responsibly move forward with extractive activities.“More information is always beneficial, so we can make more informed and better decisions,” said Katy Croff Bell, a…

René Clément’s “Forbidden Games” (1952) uses a 5-year-old’s wartime ordeal as the basis for a remarkably unsentimental allegory of childhood innocence and adult ignorance. Straightforwardly simple but psychologically complex, the movie is sweet, sardonic, and ultimately shattering.Widely (if not universally) hailed on its release and periodically rediscovered as the most troubling French film made in the aftermath of World War II, it returns for a week at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration.Evoking multiple traumas, “Forbidden Games” unfolds on the eve of France’s surrender to Germany; the opening sequence depicts the panicky exodus of an estimated two million Parisians…

Jim Dent, who was one of the few Black golfers on the PGA Tour — in his day or now — and who became known for his prodigious drives off the tee, died on Friday at his home in Augusta, Ga. He was 85.His grandson Andre Lacey II said the cause was complications of a recent stroke.Mr. Dent was part of a small group of significant Black golfers who preceded Tiger Woods (who identifies as partly Black) into professional golf. Charlie Sifford was the first to play on what became known as the PGA Tour after its former parent, the…

Microsoft has expanded its Copilot+ PC family with two new Surface devices: the 12-inch Surface Pro tablet and the 13-inch Surface Laptop. Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus SoC, they are smaller, thinner, and lighter than their predecessors, prioritizing portability and affordability. 12-inch Surface Pro (2025) The Surface Pro boasts a 12-inch PixelSense LCD with a 2196 x 1464 resolution, 90Hz dynamic refresh rate, and 10-point multitouch. Powered by a Snapdragon X Plus processor, it features an 8-core CPU and an integrated 45 TOPS NPU for on-device processing of AI workloads. The new Surface Pro comes with 16GB of LPDDR5X…

Inter Milan take their Champions League semifinal in record-equalling 7-6 aggregate score against Barcelona at San Siro.Inter Milan substitute Davide Frattesi struck an extra-time winner to send his side into the Champions League final following a barnstorming 4-3 victory over Barcelona after Francesco Acerbi had rescued them from the brink of elimination with a stunning equaliser deep in added time. Frattesi’s goal and a string of stunning saves by goalkeeper Yann Sommer secured Inter a rip-roaring and record-equalling 7-6 aggregate victory in a semifinal for the ages, which finished with the Italian side reaching the Munich final.  They will later…

Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, died on April 5 at his home in Cupertino, Calif. He was 94.His death was confirmed by his daughter Diana Sunshine.Before Dr. Sunshine and a handful of other physicians became interested in caring for preemies in the late 1950s and early ’60s, more than half of these unimaginably fragile patients died shortly after birth. Insurance companies wouldn’t pay to treat them.Dr. Sunshine, a pediatric gastroenterologist, thought…

OpenAI backtracksOpenAI’s decision to scale back its ambitious corporate reorganization has drawn lots of scrutiny, including what the plan means for artificial intelligence safety, potential profits for investors and an ongoing fight with Elon Musk.What’s emerging is that in some ways, how OpenAI operates isn’t changing much. But there are still plenty of questions about the future of the consequential A.I. developer.The latest: OpenAI announced a smaller-scale change to its famously complex structure. Remember that it was founded as a nonprofit. But in 2019, it set up a for-profit subsidiary to start raising money from investors to finance its eye-wateringly…

Tesla sales in Germany and Britain fell to their lowest point in more than two years in April, cementing a wider trend of Europeans shunning the U.S. automaker, despite growing demand for battery-powered vehicles in Europe.Registrations of new Tesla vehicles dropped nearly 46 percent in Germany and 62 percent in Britain from a year earlier, although both countries reported increases in the number of electric vehicles sold in the same period, according to statistics released on Tuesday.Other European countries reported similar drops in demand for Tesla’s products, with new registrations in Sweden plunging more than 80 percent, while demand in…