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CNN — Every year, about one billion tires around the world reach the end of their life according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Many of them end up piled in landfills posing potential health and environmental risks. In Africa, one Rwandan entrepreneur has found a way to upcycle the rubber to create fashionable footwear. While studying creative design at the University of Rwanda, Kevine Kagirimpundu felt she had limited employment options, so she took matters into her own hands. She began researching how to make her own products and stumbled upon the idea of using old tires…
New York CNN — President Donald Trump has said that automakers can avoid his tariffs by simply moving production to American plants. But it’s not that easy. Not by a long shot. A wide variety of tariffs have either already hit, or are about to hit, the auto industry, potentially adding thousands of dollars to the cost to build and buy a new car. Duties of 25% on steel and aluminum imports went into effect this week, and levies on cars from Asia and Europe are set to go into effect next month. Perhaps most damaging to automakers, import taxes…
New York CNN — Perhaps there’s no better example of where the newly applied 25% tariffs on aluminum and steel will be felt than craft brewers, an industry that uses both materials in all facets of production and sales. And for Wesley Keegan, owner and founder of Nashville-based TailGate Brewery, the implementation of the tariffs will have swift effects on his business. “Everything costs more,” he told CNN. “We get a price increase letter just immediately from every supplier.” On Wednesday, President Donald Trump enacted a new round of tariffs on the raw metals. Since much of it comes from…
CNN — A cross-country storm will explode in strength as it moves over the central United States Friday, delivering extreme weather to millions through the weekend, including the chance of multiple strong tornadoes. The storm’s main event is shaping up to be a widespread severe thunderstorm outbreak across the Mississippi Valley and the South from Friday afternoon, with the threat of tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and large hail. On the storm’s northern side, its winds could whip up snow into blizzard-like conditions in the Midwest. But before those dangers take the stage, the storm will bring powerful, hurricane-strength wind gusts…
CNN — President Donald Trump rarely stops bragging about his “great relationship” with Vladimir Putin. A skeptical world will soon find out whether the supposed mind-meld counts for anything. The Russian president, author of an unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine, responded in time-honored Moscow fashion Thursday to the US plan for an immediate ceasefire that the administration forced Kyiv into supporting. Putin produced a long set of obfuscations and new demands that would be unacceptable to Ukraine. But they may have been designed to tempt a US president who is desperate for the kind of win a truce would…
CNN — Mindfulness is one of the most popular concepts in the wellness industry right now — there are hotels, spas and classes all dedicated to its pursuit. But the Himalayan nation of Bhutan is taking the idea 20 steps further by building an entire mindfulness city. Gelephu, in southern Bhutan near the border with India, has been selected as the site of this city, although details have been scant about the project. Until now. The Bjarke Ingels Group architecture firm has unveiled its design for the upcoming Gelephu airport, offering the most insights into the city and its overall…
CNN — Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top Senate Democrat to lead them into their first big battle against President Donald Trump — and instead have been left fuming. Schumer’s declaration Thursday night that he would vote for Republicans’ stopgap spending bill, backing down in the party’s first big leverage point in President Donald Trump’s second term has confirmed a dire political reality for his caucus: Democrats had no good options left to avert a government shutdown with just hours to go until the deadline. “If we go…
CNN — On-again, off-again tariffs, mass government layoffs, funding cuts and immigration crackdowns have seriously spooked Wall Street, which is emphatically rejecting President Donald Trump’s chaotic economic agenda. The market that embraced Trump for most of his first term and in the lead-up to his second has turned on the president. The S&P 500 closed in correction territory Thursday, falling 10% from the all-time high it set just three weeks ago. The Dow is approaching correction too. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell into a correction more than a week ago. And the Russell 2000, made up of smaller businesses, which are…
CNN — The ceasefire proposal put forward by the United States on Tuesday and accepted by Ukraine is part of a plan, said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “to end this conflict in a way that’s enduring and sustainable.” It’s a promise fraught with risk for Ukraine. The last time it signed a peace accord with Russia, 10 years ago this February, it brought only sporadic violence, mounting distrust, and eventually full-scale war. “I told President Trump about this,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview last month with CNN affiliate CNN Turk. “If you can get Putin…
CNN — Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government. The bulk of the layoffs at the top research university will impact its international employees. 1,975 employees across 44 countries have been cut, the university said in a statement, with another 247 jobs terminated in the US. Roughly 100 additional workers will be furloughed with reduced schedules. “This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of…