#political-impact

#political-impact

The attempted assassination jolted a fractured nation and transformed the 2024 campaign, boosting Trump in the polls after inspiring a minutes-later endorsement from the world's richest man.

President Donald Trump's threat to boost import taxes by 50% on Brazilian goods could drive up the cost of breakfast in the United States, significantly impacting coffee and orange juice prices. The announcement is politically motivated and targets the Brazilian Supreme Court trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil's President Lula promised to reciprocate Trump's tariffs as Brazilian exporters and politicians criticize the U.S. move, emphasizing its detrimental effects on agribusiness and trade relations.

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Mamdani's No. 1 campaign promise was to freeze rents, specifically for rent-stabilized units that make up half the rental market.

"After careful review of the latest actions and directives from the federal government... Stanford Medicine paused providing gender-related surgical procedures... for patients under the age of 19."

Their farewell letters came on the heels of grim updates about cuts in the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian Institution.

EV sales in the U.S. just slipped for the first time in 14 months, even though there are generous incentives and improving technology.

I don't want to buy a 'burner' phone just to keep my privacy.

We did observe a softening in bookings to the US between January and April this year - a dip that goes beyond the usual seasonal adjustments,

"It's making our work unsafe, and it's unsanitary for any workplace, but especially an active laboratory full of fire-reactive chemicals and bacteria, one Montlake researcher said."

Hass emphasizes that as financial strains increase, "When people lose their jobs, they come to the library. When they're not sure what's going on, they come to the library."

The SAVE Plan has created this cascading effect throughout the entire federal student-loan system. The courts created questions about whether student-loan forgiveness was legal at all.

We have to balance our budget every year, so we would have to make definite changes. We don't want to go backward and provide less service. We want to provide more service. With this cut, we'd have to raise an additional $1.3 million just to stay where we are. You can't just snap your fingers and do that.