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CNN  —  President Donald Trump’s tariffs have been met with alarm and concern about how steep import taxes against the United States’ three biggest trading partners not only could harm the economy in the immediate term but also could set off a devastating trade war. To be fair, the broad-based tariff actions are only a few dozen hours old, and their eventual outcome remains unwritten. Trump, when addressing Congress on Tuesday night, acknowledged they may cause “a little disturbance,” but the end game in his mind is simple: “Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs, they’re about protecting the…

Sign up for CNN’s Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve better sleep. CNN  —  Want better sleep in your older years? Time to grab some weights. Exercise, but particularly those workouts that incorporate resistance to improve muscular strength, can be helpful for older adults with insomnia, according to a new study. Insomnia can be a big problem, especially as you get older. “Between 30% and 48% of seniors complain of sleepiness, while 12–20% have insomnia problems,” said the authors in the study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Family Medicine and Community Health. And…

Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said that law enforcement found no sign of an active shooter and zero injuries at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, despite calls regarding multiple gunshots. However, they are still sweeping the building out of an abundance of caution. There are no details on what occurred at the base.Pensacola Police Department Public Information Officer Mike Wood confirmed to Fox News that “no shooting took place” at Corry Station, which is a sub-installation of NAS Pensacola and located at NAS Pensacola. A general view of Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. (Josh Brasted/Getty Images)NAS PENSACOLA SHOOTING WAS…

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Billionaire Elon Musk polled users of his social media platform X about how they want to approach ending daylight saving time (DST). Musk asked in a post Wednesday, “If daylight savings [sic] time is canceled, do you prefer” an hour earlier or an hour later.About 58% of respondents said an hour later, while nearly 42% said an hour earlier, with more than 1.2 million users having voted as of Thursday morning. That implies respondents would prefer permanent DST to remaining on standard time year-round. Musk’s poll highlighted a debate that has simmered in the U.S.…

A producer for the Oscar-winning film, “The Brutalist,” is defending the production’s use of artificial intelligence.D.J. Gugenheim, one of several producers involved in the film, spoke with Deadline at the Oscars on Sunday night, saying the technology is simply a tool.”If you’re in post [-production] on a film, there’s so many tools that you use, whether it’s lighting, sound, and these are all versions of functions of numbers,” he told the outlet. “What’s important about how we’re making a film is that we’re trusting the actors and the creatives and the talent to make a film. So, if no one is…

Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff has died at 62, Fox News Digital can confirm.Pamela, who died March 5, was married to actor David Hasselhoff from 1989 until 2006. The TV star’s cause of death is being investigated by the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s office.The actress appeared alongside Hasselhoff in “Baywatch” for 10 seasons and also landed roles in “The Young and the Restless,” “The Fall Guy,” “Sirens” and “Knight Rider.”Pamela is survived by the daughters she shares with Hasselhoff; Taylor and Hayley. “Our family is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Pamela Hasselhoff,” David shared on X. “We are grateful…

CNN  —  Special counsel Hampton Dellinger says he is dropping his lawsuit to try to keep his job after President Donald Trump fired him. His decision comes a day after the federal appeals court in Washington temporarily removed him from the position and ends what was poised to be a major test of Trump’s power to fire officials with some independence in the federal government. Dellinger’s case had the potential of rewriting the law around Congressionally approved protections for the federal civil service. But it is no longer going to move forward in the court system, removing the possibility of…

CNN  —  When the Department of Government Efficiency swings an axe, it’s bound to hit a veteran who voted for President Donald Trump. Veterans make up thirty percent of the federal workforce and more than sixty percent of veterans said Trump was their candidate, according to a Pew Research survey conducted two months before the 2024 election. One veteran in Kansas who voted for Trump describes terminations that have upended the lives of many employees in his agency as a sudden military drawdown, poorly executed: “I’m sorry to put it like this: it was like the pull out of Afghanistan,”…

CNN  —  The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month, new data showed Thursday. US-based employers last month announced plans to slash 172,017 jobs, a 103% increase from a year ago and the highest February total since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s latest monthly job cuts report released Thursday. It’s the 12th highest monthly total in the 32 years Challenger has been tracking job cuts. The 11 others (four came during the Covid-19 pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession, Challenger…

New York CNN  —  After Canada pulled American-made spirits off its shelves following President Donald Trump’s implementation of tariffs on Canadian imports, the CEO of Brown-Forman, which makes Jack Daniel’s whiskey and other liquors, blasted the move as “disproportionate.” “That’s worse than a tariff because it’s literally taking your sales away,” said Lawson Whiting in an earnings call Wednesday, noting the “very disproportionate response” to the 25% tariffs applied this week. Provinces across Canada have pulled American-made spirits, beer and wine off their shelves. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario said in a statement that it’s pushing shoppers to seek…