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28+ min ago (588+ words) Combined with other factors, President Donald Trump's big tariffs on Chinese goods are costing Ohio farmers and their counterparts in other states heavily, according to a new report. The report shows Ohio farmers lost nearly $76 million of their exports to China this year compared to one year earlier. Tariffs are taxes on imports, and since the start of his second term, Trump has imposed a shifting array of them on every country in the world " except Russia for some reason, according to the Atlantic Council's Tariff Tracker. Economists have said the unpredictability of the measures has slowed some business investment because decision-makers can't plan. And surveys conducted by the Federal Bank of Cleveland show that regional businesses are seeing higher input costs from them and many are raising prices for their customers. That's not helpful as Republicans struggle to deal…...

36+ min ago (1188+ words) And it's his own fault. If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trump's attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week. Last Thursday, Trump intervened on Peters's behalf, declaring he was "granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election." On its face, this is menacingly authoritarian: the president abusing his powers to protect a woman who literally compromised the integrity of America's vote-counting on his behalf. Yet, Trump's order is also something else: impotent. Trump's actions were reported, in the New York Times and elsewhere, as a "symbolic" pardon. But that framing gives Trump too much credit. If you read his full post on Truth Social, there's no indication that this is anything but a genuine attempt to do something…...

49+ min ago (884+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights'and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so. A Somali-born Minnesota man was alarmed by the practice last Tuesday when immigration agents tackled him, handcuffed him, and arrested him, refusing to accept his REAL ID as proof of his legal residence in a video that was widely circulated on social media. The man, who identified only as Mubashir, was placed into a chokehold and forced to his knees in the snow on his way to get food in Minneapolis" Cedar-Riverside…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago (896+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst America is in or on the verge of a seriously bad recession and the Trump regime is hiding the numbers " the signs are everywhere. His incoherent tariffs, massive tax breaks for billionaires, and gutting the Inflation Reduction Act are kneecapping our economy. In response, Trump visited Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania and tried to pitch himself as a champion for the little guy, the middle class, small farmers, and working people. Which raises the question: who do Trump and the GOP really work for? " Vladimir Putin was furious that the Biden administration had been providing Ukraine with weapons systems, including air defense munitions and HIMARS rockets, so in March of this year Trump abruptly suspended delivery of most…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago (961+ words) We needed to see the world as it was," said Esformes, who is now CEO and operating partner for Pacific. Not how we wanted it to be." Brian Reeves, a fourth-generation farmer in upstate New York who is president of the state's vegetable growers association, told ProPublica that many farmers just want to focus on farming itself without the extra burden of compliance, such filling out paperwork and submitting to audits. There's a little bit of: If it ain't broke, don't fix it," Reeves added. A lot of farmers are just afraid that it's going to be more of a headache than it's worth." Over the next decade and a half, the program would help protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of farmworkers. It would also resolve thousands of the workers' complaints. But its protections would only reach a…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago (1669+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a 90-year-old decision protecting the heads of independent federal agencies from firing by the president " a move more significant in the court's rightward march than the 2022 decision to overturn the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, alarmed legal experts tell Raw Story. "This is the most important case of the decade," said Seth Chandler, professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Following oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter last week, most observers predict the Court will side with President Donald Trump in his firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. That will "further unleash massive corruption by this executive branch," said Lisa Graves, co-founder of Court Accountability and author…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (400+ words) White House officials are steering themselves clear of commenting on the impending health care vote as they "know it could be ugly". An insider has suggested Donald Trump and the administration are keeping quiet on the future of health care as both Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune take on the bulk of the ugliness. Speaking to Politico, an unnamed source close to the White House suggested the Trump administration is in no rush to take the heat off of either Johnson or Thune. They said, "The White House does understand how important this issue is. They want to find some fixes. But they know it could be ugly to get where they need to, and they're letting [Speaker Mike] Johnson and [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune handle a lot of the ugliness." But the White House…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago (207+ words) Dublin-born, London-based Rachel Galvo dreamed of starring in Les Mis, but then her career in comedy took off "Shite Feminist" Rachel Galvo: "I"ve big dreams. I just need Sharon Horgan to answer my emails" Dublin-born, London-based Rachel Galvo dreamed of starring in Les Mis, but then her career in comedy took off Rachel Galvo: "This girl was, like, you"re a comedian? If you need a side job, you can clean my house" The father and son who built an Irish entertainment empire This Uncle Vanya " a quick-witted Riste'rd Cooper " plays it cool in a house of freaks "A hug runs all the way through this": How to Catch a Star, based on the Oliver Jeffers book, returns to the Ark Who are the Bondi Beach shooting suspects, Naveed and Sajid Akram? "My kids idolise their dad. Should I…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago (379+ words) Macron said her remarks were not meant to be shared with the public. PARIS " French President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte apologized for being caught calling feminist activists sales connes " which roughly translates to "stupid bitches" but said she should be able to speak her mind away from the cameras. Interviewed by online news outlet Brut, Macron insisted that her remarks were made in private " she was attending a show by comedian Ary Abittan, who had been accused of rape in a case which was later dismissed " and that she would not have used these words in public. "I'm sorry if I hurt female victims [of sexual assault], Macron said. She then added: "I'm the president's wife, but I'm also myself, and in a private context, I can let myself loose in a way which isn't appropriate " people have the right…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago (480+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump attends a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 15, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein The awful feelings from this week's mass shootings and the twin murders of Rob and Michele Reiner come in waves. Unfortunately, these shootings not so different from violence a year ago on the campus of Florida State University, where our daughter teaches in the dance faculty. The Australian antisemitism matches attacks on a Pittsburgh synagogue and calls of hate in the streets and on the internet. The frustration is that unending mass killings don't prompt successful gun limitations, that despite thoughts and prayers, we refuse to shun hate and its carriers. Indeed, I had not planned to write about these incidents which we are following closely because the shared revulsion is widespread. What changed were remarks…...