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#10 China Says It Will ‘Fight to the End’ After Trump Threatens to Impose Still More Tariffs - AP News, Mario Nawfal, CNBC, WSJ, The Gateway Pundit, and Jim Ferguson on X
China said Tuesday it would “fight to the end” and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. The Commerce Ministry said the U.S.‘s imposition of “so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’” on China is “completely groundless and is a typical unilateral bullying practice.” China, the world’s second-largest economy, has announced retaliatory tariffs, and the ministry hinted in its latest statement that more may be coming. “The countermeasures China has taken are aimed at safeguarding its sovereignty, security, and development interests and maintaining the normal international trade order. They are completely legitimate,” the ministry said...
#9 China Considers Ban on U.S. Films Amid Trade Tensions - Daily Mail, Discussing Film, Visgrad 24, Autism Capital, and George on X
China plans to ban Hollywood movies after saying it will never accept the 'blackmail nature' of the United States following President Donald Trump's escalated tariff threats against Beijing. It will put more tariffs on US agricultural products like soybeans, block all US poultry from entering China, and ban the import of US movies into the country, a Chinese journalist linked to the Communist party told BBC's Radio 4 program. US films grossed $ 585 million in China last year, which is about 3.5 percent of China's $ 17.71 billion box office and among the largest share of foreign films...
#8 Trump Says EU Must Buy $350B of US Energy to Get Tariff Relief, Rejects ‘Zero-For-Zero’ Proposal - MSN, Concerned Citizen, Investing.com, Brunella C., Phuc-Vinh Nguyen, and Mona Paulsen on X
The European Union will have to commit to buying $350 billion of American energy to get a reprieve from Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, the U.S. President said late Monday, as he rejected a proposal for a zero-for-zero deal. "We have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion, and it's gonna disappear fast," Trump said. "One of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they're gonna have to buy our energy from us ... they can buy it, we can knock off $350 billion in one week. They have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy." Trump’s comments came in response to the proposal announced Monday by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, seeking a bilateral tariff exemption for cars and other industrial goods. EU member states will vote on Wednesday over a first round of possible retaliation in response to Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum announced last month...
As the market opened and traders got to work on Wall Street, the Dow Jones quickly plunged 638 points. Did you look at your retirement account on Monday? If so, you know you’re probably taking a steep loss as the financial markets dropped for a third straight day. As the market opened and traders got to work on Wall Street, the Dow Jones quickly saw a steep dive of 638 points. For a third straight day, a trade war, brought on by tariffs from the president, has investors nervous and selling. So how are people feeling? Jill Stone is a retiree living within the many adult communities in Monroe Township. “I’m very frightened about what’s going on right now," she says. “Ya know, I have this money to live on for however long, so I’m concerned.”
The Trump administration has fired Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. military’s representative to NATO, the latest in an ongoing purge of senior officers. The Pentagon had no comment on the dismissal of Chatfield, the former president of the Naval War College and a Navy pilot. Last Thursday, the Trump administration fired Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, the director of the National Security Agency. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has derided diversity efforts as weakening the military, has also fired a series of senior officers, including the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown... A newly released preprint study from the Cleveland Clinic has sparked international attention by reporting that the influenza vaccine for the 2024-2025 season was not only ineffective among a large population of working-age healthcare employees--it was associated with a higher risk of infection. The prospective cohort study, titled "Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season," analyzed health outcomes among 53,402 employees of the Cleveland Clinic Health System in Ohio. The study covered the 25-week period beginning October 1, 2024, and tracked influenza incidence among vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals... High cholesterol has long gotten a bad rap for causing poor heart health — but a new study suggests that the low-carb ketogenic diet may not be linked to cardiovascular disease. The study, led by The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in collaboration with researchers across multiple institutes, assessed 100 participants following a long-term keto diet who developed elevated levels of LDL cholesterol (known as the "bad" type). Other than the elevated cholesterol, all participants were "metabolically healthy" and had followed the key diet for an average of five years, according to an April 7 press release... President Donald Trump has said his administration will raise the Pentagon's budget to $1 trillion, a record high for the U.S. military. "We have to build our military, and we're very cost-conscious, but the military is something that we have to build," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. "And we have to be strong because you've got a lot of bad forces out there now." Newsweek emailed the White House and the Department of Defense for comment outside regular business hours. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide, adding that he’s assembling a task force to focus on the issue. Also on Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it is reviewing “new scientific information” on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water. Kennedy told The Associated Press of his plans after a news conference in Salt Lake City. Utah last month became the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, pushing past opposition from dentists and national health organizations who warned the move would lead to medical problems that disproportionately affect low-income communities...
#7 Retirees Grow Worrisome Over State of Stock Market Amid President Trump’s Tariffs - Chris Keating for News 12 Connecticut, Devon Eriksen/Tim Wise, The Money Cruncher CPA, Lia, Dave Jones, and Jeff Carlson on X
#6 Judge Awards $6.6 Million to Whistleblowers Who Reported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to FBI - Nadia Lathan for AP, Texas Tribune, WHLT 22 Hattiesburg, Taylor Goldenstein, and NEWSMAX on X
A district court judge on Friday awarded more than $6 million combined to four whistleblowers in their lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The whistleblowers were fired shortly after they reported him to the FBI. “By a preponderance of the evidence,” Travis County Judge Catherine Mauzy says in her judgment, the plaintiffs proved liability, damages, and attorney’s fees in their complaint against the attorney general’s office. “Because the Office of the Attorney General violated the Texas Whistleblower Act by firing and otherwise retaliating against the plaintiff for in good faith reporting violations of law by Ken Paxton and OAG, the court hereby renders judgment for plaintiffs,” Mauzy states...
#5 Trump Administration Fires Admiral in Ongoing Purge of Senior Military Officers - Tom Vanden Brook for USA TODAY, Mark Warner, US Homeland Security News, Mario Nawfal, and Beirut Barry on X
#4 Bombshell Study Reveals 27% Negative Efficacy of 2024-2025 Influenza Vaccine Among Working-Age Adults - GreenMedInfo Research Group, Tom Renz, Chief Nerd, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, and Sayer Ji on X
#3 Low-Carb Keto Diet May Not Raise Heart Disease Risk, New Study Suggests - Melissa Rudy for Fox News, Dr Shawn Baker/Dave Feldman, Nina Teicholz, PhD, DoctorTro, Bret Scher MD and Metabolic Mind on X
#2 Donald Trump Announces $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget: 'Have to Be Strong' - Shane Croucher and Khaleda Rahman for Newsweek, Arnaud Bertrand/Ken Klippenstein, B L A K E L E Y LLC, Mario Nawfal, Hodgetwins, and The Sirius Report on X
#1 RFK Jr. Says He Plans to Tell CDC to Stop Recommending Fluoride in Drinking Water - The AP/NBC News, Lee Zeldin, Holden Culotta, The Vigilant Fox, and MAHA Action on X
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