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Forbes Media chairman Steve Forbes analyzes what President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff announcement means for U.S. businesses on ‘The Bottom Line.’ The U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned in a new letter to the Trump administration that small businesses need automatic exclusions from tariffs that could undermine their ability to survive. The Chamber wrote Thursday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to convey their concerns about small businesses’ ability to handle the financial hit of tariffs and call for small businesses to be excluded from the tariffs, as well as other tariff relief…
CNN — Texting on the Moon? Streaming on Mars? It may not be as far away as you think. That’s the shared vision of NASA and Nokia, who have partnered to set up a cellular network on the Moon to help lay the building blocks for long-term human presence on other planets. A SpaceX rocket is due to launch this year — the exact date has yet to be confirmed — carrying a simple 4G network to the Moon. The lander will install the system at the Moon’s south pole and then it will be remotely controlled from Earth. “The…
CNN — The body of a young Ukrainian woman who died in Russian captivity after being held incommunicado for months was returned to Ukraine showing signs of torture, Ukrainian prosecutors have said. Kyiv said the remains of journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who went missing during a reporting trip, were returned as part of a body exchange between Ukraine and Russia in February. Yuriy Belousov, who heads the war crimes department at the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, said that forensic examination found “numerous signs of torture and ill-treatment… including abrasions and hemorrhages on various parts of the body, a broken rib and…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The sports governing body for soccer in England has banned transgender athletes from competing in the women’s sport on Thursday, a policy change that comes weeks after a UK Supreme Court ruling defined a woman as someone born biologically female. The Football Association (FA) announced its policy change on Thursday, calling the issue “a complex subject.” Campaigners take part in a rally organized by trans rights groups, trade unions and community organizations following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equalities law, at Parliament Square in central London on…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tom Cruise takes on a variety of dangerous stunts for the eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise.In “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” Cruise debuts one stunt he’s been wanting to try since he was a child: wing-walking. For this, he actually moves about on the wing of an airplane while in flight. To complete daring stunts like wing-walking, the action star makes sure to fuel his body for the intense training.”I actually eat a massive breakfast,” the 62-year-old actor told People. “The amount of energy it takes – I train…
WASHINGTON – As many Americans across the nation are rushing to obtain their REAL ID license, some are choosing to opt out – by either using their valid passport as their preferred form of ID for travel or waiting until their current driver’s license expires and then renewing it. The REAL ID requirement takes effect on May 7, when Americans must have a new form of identification in order to fly domestically.The costs of obtaining the identification vary from state to state. Costs also vary according to whether travelers are obtaining a first-time REAL ID or looking to renew their existing license. MARRIED WOMEN…
CNN — Britain’s military launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Tuesday with US forces, its defense ministry said – the first public acknowledgment of a joint operation since the Trump administration escalated the US campaign against the militant group. The strikes targeted “a cluster of buildings” south of the capital Sanaa used by Houthis to manufacture drones, which the group uses to attack ships at sea, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement released Wednesday. The Royal Air Force sent Typhoon fighter jets to target those buildings, dropping precision bombs after dark following “very careful planning ……
CNN — The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to those two countries, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks. The proposals mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s push to deter people journeying to the United States and remove some of those already here to countries thousands of miles away, some of which have checkered pasts. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing top officials to facilitate international cooperation and agreements to send asylum seekers elsewhere. In addition…
CNN — On his 100th day in office, President Donald Trump crowed to a rally of supporters about a dawning “golden age” for the American economy, made possible by his new tariffs. On his 101st, he warned in a different setting that children may have to shrink their toy chests as the tariffs raise the price of dolls from China. For Trump, an uncertain economy and a long-term plan to restore US manufacturing come with a messaging challenge: how to explain to Americans who elected him on a promise to lower prices that, in fact, it is higher prices they…
After tumbling in the morning, US stocks pushed into the green to close out the day following the release of an economic report from the Commerce Department, which revealed that the US economy contracted in the first quarter. The S&P 500 and Dow notched a seven-day winning streak, their best continuous rally this year. However, the indexes closed out April in the red as the stock market has been trying to recover from a steep slump caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) registered at an annualized rate of -0.3%, the department reported. This marks a…