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When Donald J. Trump championed the idea of a 10 percent blanket tariff during the campaign, many people, whether for or against, were taken aback by how radical the idea was.Alarms sounded about higher inflation, lost jobs, slower growth or recession. The prospect seemed so outlandish that most economists and Wall Street analysts who gamed out the possibilities tended to treat a 10 percent tariff simply as a bargaining tool.Now, after a rapid-fire series of announcements from the White House that promised, imposed, reversed, delayed, decreased and increased tariffs, the 10 percent solution is looking like the most temperate choice…

China has warned its people to think twice before visiting the United States, citing trade tensions. It also told its students to be careful about studying there and accused two American universities of hacking. And it has vowed to cut down on the number of Hollywood films that can be shown in China.The trade war between the United States and China is already eroding far more than just economic ties. The rapid expansion of the battlefield, from trade to culture and education, underscores how fragile the relationship between the United States and China has become.The United States, for its part,…

‘1000-Lb. Sisters’ Star Tammy Slaton Gets Heartbreaking News in Weight Loss JourneyTammy Slaton has come a long way.  The 1000- Lb. Sisters star, who has detailed her weight loss journey with sister Amy Slaton on the TLC show since 2020, looked back at where she started in the latest episode of the series.  “I’m down 500 pounds now, around 500,” Tammy said in a confessional of the April 15 episode. “When I was at my heaviest, I was 700-plus pounds. Right now, I’m weighing in at 238.”  And the 38-year-old admitted that it has been surprising for her to surpass…

AUGUSTA, Ga. — A concoction of sweaty bodies and long-lens cameras was deadlocked in the upper left-hand corner of the No. 15 grandstand at Augusta National as Rory McIlroy’s 7-foot eagle putt slid underneath the cup. At that point in the day, the phoneless Masters Tournament patrons were not unfamiliar with the sound of thousands of simultaneous groans. Hearing and participating in them repeatedly, however, was not getting any easier.A Green Jacket stood up out of his plastic bleacher seat in a frenzy.“I can’t take much more of this,” the gentleman uttered. He bee-lined toward the steep downward staircase, his…

TL;DR: UV printers are typically used by businesses to print designs onto a wide range of surfaces, but eufyMake aims to bring similar capabilities to individual users. Early-bird pricing for the company’s new Direct-to-Film (DTF) printer is now available, with a Kickstarter campaign launching at the end of this month. The UV Printer E1 from Anker’s eufyMake brand allows non-business customers to print detailed color designs onto cups, tiles, paper, canvas, and numerous other materials. It supports 3D textures and AI-based image editing tools. UV printers can print onto surfaces such as wood, metal, acrylic, leather, glass, rock, and ceramics…

The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities. A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool will made up of the following group: One print journalist who will serve as the “print pooler,” each day, one additional print journalist, a crew from one of the major television networks, a crew from a secondary television network or streaming service, one radio journalist,…

The percentage of American children estimated to have autism spectrum disorder increased in 2022, continuing a long-running trend, according to data released on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Among 8-year-olds, one in 31 were found to have autism in 2022, compared with 1 in 36 in 2020. That rate is nearly five times as high as the figure in 2000, when the agency first began collecting data.The health agency noted that the increase was most likely being driven by better awareness and screening, not necessarily because autism itself was becoming more common.That diverged sharply from the rhetoric…

A retrial of the yearslong defamation case brought by Sarah Palin against The New York Times got underway before a Manhattan jury on Tuesday.Ms. Palin, the former Alaska governor and onetime Republican vice-presidential nominee, sued The Times in 2017 over an editorial that erroneously linked her campaign’s language to a mass shooting, which she claimed defamed her.A federal judge and a jury both ruled against her in a 2022 trial of the case, but Ms. Palin successfully appealed and a new trial was ordered. The same judge, Jed S. Rakoff, is hearing the case again. The arguments are largely the…

In March, Kat Bolstad returned from an Antarctic expedition where she had used a new camera system specially built to search for the elusive colossal squid.No one had captured footage of one of these animals swimming in the deep sea. She didn’t spot one on this voyage either.On the day she left the ship, though, Dr. Bolstad, a deep sea cephalopod biologist, learned about a recent video taken on March 9 from the South Sandwich Islands. fA dive team searching for new marine life, in a Schmidt Ocean Institute submersible, had happened upon a young cephalopod, and people wanted Dr.…

atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon. atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus is orbited by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. calcium: A chemical element and alkali metal common in minerals of the Earth’s crust and in sea salt. It is also found in bone mineral and teeth, and can play a role in the movement of certain substances into and out of cells. calcium carbonate: The main chemical compound in limestone, a rock…