Posts by Amelia Frost
Japan PM Says Trump Tariffs A ‘National Crisis’
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Japanese goods are a “national crisis”, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday ahead of cross-party talks on mitigating the impact. Japanese firms are the biggest investors into the United States but Trump on Thursday announced a hefty 24-percent levy on imports from the close US ally as part…
Read MoreSouth Korea Court Upholds President Yoon’s Impeachment, Strips Him Of Office
[ad_1] South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment over his disastrous martial law declaration, voting unanimously to strip him of office for violating the constitution. Yoon, 64, was suspended by lawmakers over his December 3 attempt to subvert civilian rule, which saw armed soldiers deployed to parliament. He was also…
Read MoreRichard Bernstein Dies at 80; Times Correspondent, Critic and Author
[ad_1] Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by unflinching intellectual curiosity, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 80. His death, in…
Read More‘It’s Gone’: Conservation Science In Thailand’s Burning Forest
[ad_1] Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke. “This beautiful, diverse community of trees and animals is being destroyed as you see it, as you watch it,” she said. Birchenko, a geneticist at Royal Botanic…
Read MoreIrish School Trains Thatchers To Save Iconic Roofs
[ad_1] A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country’s disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape. In a hall in Portnoo students at the Donegal Thatching School clamber over practice roofs under the watchful eye of Brian Lafferty, one of…
Read MoreJohn Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59
[ad_1] John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic mission of reviving local journalism in a time of crisis, by founding The Texas Tribune, a seminal regional nonprofit news organization, and the American Journalism Project, which supports local digital newsrooms around the country, died on Saturday in…
Read MoreF.D.A. Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
[ad_1] Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wide-ranging cutbacks at federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, that would eliminate duplicative services and paper pushers. But in interviews with more than a dozen current and former F.D.A. staff members, a different picture emerged of the far-reaching effects of the layoffs that would…
Read MoreZuckerberg Repeats Trump Visits In Bid To Settle Antitrust Case
[ad_1] Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has made repeated visits to the White House as he tries to persuade US President Donald Trump to settle a major antitrust case before it goes to trial on April 14, US media reported. The case against Meta was filed in 2020 by the Federal Trade Commission and seeks to…
Read MoreE.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
[ad_1] European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation, said four people with knowledge of the plans, a move that is likely to ratchet up tensions with the United States by targeting one of President Trump’s closest advisers.…
Read MoreLawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China
[ad_1] The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the federal government on Thursday over the means by which it imposed steep new levies on Chinese imports earlier this year. The new filing, which the group said was the first such lawsuit…
Read MoreGrocery Shoppers Will Feel the Tariffs First in Produce
[ad_1] Grocery shoppers are likely to feel the impact of the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariffs before April is over. And the first place they’ll feel it is in parts of the store where the inventory has to move fast. In the produce aisle, food analysts said Thursday, expect small price increases on everyday purchases…
Read MoreTrump Purges National Security Team After Meeting Conspiracist
[ad_1] Donald Trump fired several US national security officials after a far-right conspiracy theorist questioned their loyalty in a White House meeting with the president, US media reported Thursday. Influencer Laura Loomer, who is known for claiming that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job, laid out her concerns to Trump on Wednesday, the…
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