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CNN  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed wariness Tuesday over some of President Donald Trump’s recent policies, including new tariffs from the administration that threaten to raise the prices Americans pay for a wide array of goods. Thune, who represents South Dakota – a state that relies heavily on trade with Canada, said while he thinks the president is attempting to secure “an outcome that addresses a concern that the American people have” with his recently imposed tariffs on the country along with Mexico and China, the economic impacts are an issue. “That’s an issue in my view. I…

AP  —  The Internal Revenue Service is drafting plans to cut its workforce by as much as half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation. The people spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to disclose the plans. The layoffs are part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce through billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency by closing agencies, laying off nearly all probationary employees who have not yet gained civil service protection and offering buyouts to almost all federal…

Beijing/Hong Kong CNN  —  China has set an ambitious target of “around 5%” growth for 2025, maintaining last year’s goal even as it braces for the fallout from escalating American tariffs on its export-driven economy. The target “underscores our resolve to meet difficulties head-on and strive hard to deliver,” Premier Li Qiang, China’s number-two official, said on Wednesday as he delivered the government work report at the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s rubber-stamp legislature. Li gave his state-of-the-union-like speech shortly before US President Donald Trump began his first address to Congress in his second term,…

New York CNN  —  Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen is resigning immediately from the grocery store chain following an investigation that found his personal conduct was “inconsistent” with the company’s ethics policies. Last month, Kroger said it was “made aware of certain personal conduct” of McMullen, prompting the board to conduct an investigation. No additional details about what it discovered was revealed, but the company said his conduct isn’t related to the company’s “financial performance, operations or reporting, and it did not involve any Kroger associates.” Ronald Sargent, who’s been on Kroger’s board of directors since 2006, will serve as its…

A group of disabled veterans were recently brought together to excavate a Revolutionary War battlefield — but it was far from the usual dig.The project, which was organized by the American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), took place over the course of four weeks and ended in February. Fourteen veterans came to Kershaw County in South Carolina to excavate where the Battle of Camden was fought in August 1780, but they weren’t just looking for musket balls. AVAR founder Stephen Humphreys told Fox News Digital that the archaeologists-in-training were using GPS receivers to collect spatial data in order to learn more about the…

Thirty Los Angeles County probation officers have been charged with child abuse for allegedly staging “gladiator fights” between youth detainees being housed at a troubled juvenile detention facility.California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the charges of child endangerment and abuse, conspiracy and battery on Monday, saying the California Department of Justice began an investigation in January 2024 after receiving leaked footage of a so-called gladiator fight between youths sheltered at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. The video shows an unidentified boy being attacked as detention officers stand and watch, Bonta said during a press…

No Senate Democrat on Monday voted in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would keep biological males from competing in women’s and girls’ sports.A procedural vote took place on the Senate floor and Republicans needed at least 60 votes to break the filibuster. They received 51. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted with Democrats. Four senators were absent – Democrats Elissa Slotkin, of Michigan, and Peter Welch, of Vermont, and Republicans Shelley Capito, of West Virginia, and Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming.Read below for the Democratic senators who decided to keep the bill…

A Minnesota state representative insisted that a bill keeping trans athletes out of girls’ and women’s sports was “state-sanctioned genocide” during a hearing on Monday. During arguments for the Preserve Women’s Sports Act in the Minnesota House of Representatives, Rep. Alicia Kozlowski, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, made remarks that have since gone viral and incited backlash for her labeling of the bill as “genocide.””Members, make no mistake that this is just another version of state-sanctioned bullying and genocide,” Kozlowski said. “And I don’t say that lightly.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMFootage of Kozlowski’s comments have spread across various social…

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Forget what you think you know about RVs. This is the Expandable Touchdown, a revolutionary mobile living space from a Dutch company that’s redefining travel. It designed the Touchdown to feel like a panoramic designer mobile home. With its patented retractable chassis that lowers it to the ground and an electric expansion system, the Touchdown promises an off-grid living experience that’s far from roughing it.STAY PROTECTED & INFORMED! GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS – SIGN UP FOR KURT’S THE CYBERGUY REPORT NOW Expandable Touchdown trailer (Expandable)What makes the Touchdown different? It’s all about spaceThe key to the Touchdown’s appeal lies…