WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were almost uniformly opposed to President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him. Mr. Trump’s latest threat to impose 5 percent tariffs on […]
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Image copyright Marty Perez / Getty Images Image caption Jim DeRogatis: “I know the names of 48 women, I believe there are many more.” It started with a fax. “Dear Mr DeRogatis,” it began. “I’m sending this to you because I don’t know where else to go.” Mr DeRogatis, Jim to his friends, was the
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Beauty chain Sephora are closing its US shops for diversity training, a month after a singer said she had been racially profiled. RnB star SZA said she had been targeted while shopping at a branch in California. The firm told Reuters it was aware of the incident but said the training was not “a response
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About half of all of the plastic waste that ends up in the oceans comes from just five countries: China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand, according to a 2015 Ocean Conservancy report. As images of plastic-choked rivers in Indonesia and dead whales washed onto the shores of the Philippines circulate on social media, individuals
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Michelin announced its California restaurant ratings on Monday night, tied to the release of the French company’s first statewide guide, and no new restaurants received its top rating of three stars. Los Angeles was left out of that category, with only restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area and the wine country receiving the highest
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This house is designed to be installed in less than a day, and so well insulated that it only needs solar power to heat or cool it. The man who made it says it provides everything you need for a wilderness retreat – or to hide from heat-sensing monsters. This is part of the BBC’s
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Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Andrew McCutchen has a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season. Phillies manager Gabe Kapler made the announcement before Tuesday night’s game at San Diego. McCutchen injured his left knee during a rundown Monday and exited the game against the Padres. The 32-year-old McCutchen was hitting .256 with
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LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the president on Monday for his first state visit to Britain, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony. Later, at a state banquet, Eric Trump posed for photographs. During dinner, Donald Trump Jr. tucked into a menu including lamb and halibut as Tiffany Trump
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Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is prepared to respond if it decides the Trump administration’s trade conflicts are threatening the U.S. economy. Investors read his remarks as a signal that the Fed will likely cut interest rates later this year. Powell’s remarks helped drive up stock prices, with the Dow Jones
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Positioned in mid-kill, the Tyrannosaurus rex towers over the prone body of its prey, a similarly huge triceratops. Even in simulation millions of years later, it’s a moment of unmistakable savage violence and an embodiment of the meaning of the word dinosaur: Greek for terrible lizard. The massive skeleton is the culmination of a decadeslong
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