Day: April 30, 2025

Trump wagers US economy in high-stakes tariff gamble at 100-day mark

7:30 am April 30, 2025

President Donald Trump campaigned for a second term on pledges to lower prices, create jobs and impose tough tariffs on imports, especially from China. Dubbing himself the “Tariff Man” last fall, he told an audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff.” However, in his […]

Norway raises security concerns over Manhattan-sized Arctic land sale as tensions rise

7:29 am April 30, 2025

A large plot of private land in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago may soon be sold for about €300 million ($330 million), but the deal has raised concerns in Oslo over national security. The property, known as Søre Fagerfjord, covers roughly 60 square kilometers (23 square miles) and is the last privately owned land in Svalbard. […]

DOGE terminates billions in contracts, including $361K for ‘gender non-conforming, non-binary’ BIPOC farmers

7:14 am April 30, 2025

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) terminad $2.5 billion in “wasteful” grants that went toward gender-based causes, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Tuesday. The USDA got rid of 420 grants for a savings of $2.3 billion, according to DOGE. Among the programs the money was used for, $361,000 went toward “gender non-conforming, non-binary, two-spirit” […]

Ominous letter written by ‘prophetic’ Titanic passenger sells for shocking six-figure sum at auction

7:06 am April 30, 2025

A “prophetic” letter written aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic ocean liner has been auctioned in England for a stunning sum. The letter was sold by Wiltshire-based Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. on April 26. It was written by Archibald Gracie IV on April 10, 1912 – just five days before the ship sank on April […]

White House lists dozens of ‘hoaxes’ pushed by media, critics in Trump’s first 100 days

7:00 am April 30, 2025

The White House released a list of the “most egregious hoaxes” perpetuated by the media in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term Tuesday The Trump administration published a press release declaring, “Since President Donald J. Trump took office 100 days ago, it has been a nonstop deluge of hoaxes and lies […]

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