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The Trump administration took steps on Monday that appear likely to result in new tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceutical products, adding to the levies President Trump has put on imports globally.Federal notices put online Monday afternoon said the administration had initiated national security investigations into imports of chips and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Trump has suggested that those investigations could result in tariffs.The investigations will also cover the machinery used to make semiconductors, products that contain chips and pharmaceutical ingredients.In a statement confirming the move, Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said the president “has long been clear about the importance of…

Even when India was staring down the barrel of a 27 percent tariff on most of its exports to the United States, business executives and government officials saw an upside. India’s biggest economic rival, China, and its smaller competitors like Vietnam were facing even worse.India has been pushing hard in recent years to become a manufacturing alternative to China, and it looked as if it had suddenly gained an advantage.Then India and its smaller rivals got 90-day reprieves, and President Trump doubled down on China, boosting its tariff to 145 percent.The sky-high tax on Chinese imports to America presented “a…

The latest warning came 10 days before the deadliest air crash in South Korea.A dozen officials gathered inside a room at Muan International Airport for a meeting of a bird strike prevention committee, where they discussed the number of aircraft being hit by birds, with data showing a jump in incidents over the past couple of years.One official, from one of the country’s aviation training institutes, expressed concern that planes coming in to land often encountered flocks of birds by the coastline, according to a record of the meeting obtained by a lawmaker. To what extent is it possible to…

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide prevention, and addiction treatment, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, has worried people who work on substance use disorders and mental health. “We’ve got some challenges — big ones,” says Keith Humphreys, a psychologist at Stanford University. He has served on the SAMHSA National Advisory Council and as a senior policy adviser at the White House Office of National Drug…

From Billie Eilish to LL Cool J to Peso Pluma, here’s everyone who made an unexpected appearance in the desert this weekend So much of what makes Coachella exciting is the element of surprise, and the festival wouldn’t be what it is if performers didn’t pack their sets with unexpected guests for fans who high-tailed to the desert this weekend. The big reveals started on Day One: Three 6 Mafia shocked the crowd with a rolodex of artists, including Project Pat, Travis Barker, Machine Gun Kelly, and Wiz Khalifa. Punk legends The Go-Gos extended a stage invite to Green Day’s…

It wasn’t just a gold Pontiac Trans Am with a painted bird on the hood. It was the car that Texas A&M gave to Eric Dickerson in 1979, when he was a top high school running back prospect, in the hope that he would become an Aggie. Instead, he drove from his hometown, Sealy, Texas, to Dallas and Southern Methodist University.At the time, Mr. Dickerson’s cars (S.M.U. gave him one, too) were a symbol of the wretched excess of big-time college sports. It was a time when boosters in the Southwest Conference doled out “$100 handshakes” and the S.M.U. faithful…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Balancing the paradox of protecting one of the world’s leading travel, software and services businesses against the accelerating threats of AI illustrates why CISOs need to be steps ahead of the latest adversarial AI tradecraft and attack strategies.     As a leading global B2B travel platform, American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) and its security team are doing just that, proactively confronting this challenge with a dual focus on cybersecurity innovation and governance. With deep roots in a bank holding…

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The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with conditions so dire they needed immediate care — like a heart attack — got seen immediately.One man had had enough. He pounded on the glass window in front of the receptionist before storming out. As he left, he assaulted a nurse taking a smoking break. “Hard at work?” he called, as he strode off.No, the event was not real, but it was art resembling life on “The Pitt,” the Max series that will stream its…

In a career spanning more than 30 years, John Pettigrew has seen big changes in the electricity industry. He started out in 1991, working to introduce natural-gas-fired power plants to the grid, gradually replacing polluting coal plants.Now, once again, he is managing a tectonic shift to an electrified economy that runs on renewable energy like wind and solar power. But these sources of power generation are far trickier to manage than their coal and gas predecessors.“Effectively, what we’re doing is reconfiguring the whole network,” said Mr. Pettigrew, chief executive of National Grid, which owns and operates the high-voltage electricity grid…