The penguins have been offered some relief. The people of Switzerland, Laos and Syria, not so much. This is the unlikely jumble of winners and losers of President Donald Trump’s finalized list of tariffs, which governments, markets and businesses across the globe were scrambling to make sense of Friday. Some countries, such as Canada and…
A recall of around 192,000 play kitchens has been issued after a toddler died of strangulation in Oregon while playing with one. Backyard Kids, LLC, of Plano, Texas, announced the recall of the KidKraft Farm to Table Model Play Kitchens on Thursday. The company is offering to replace the hooks on all units, which are…
Chances are, you’ve heard Julia Whelan’s voice. She’s the award-winning narrator behind more than 600 audiobooks by a long list of bestselling authors including Taylor Jenkins Reid,Emily Henry, Michael Crichton, V.E. Schwab and Kristin Hannah. She’s also narrated long-form articles for The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair. You may have read her own…
Traders bet that the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the tech-focused Nasdaq would each decline about 1% today over fears that the new import taxes Trump was imposing would cause global economic growth and corporate profits to decline, while possibly reining in inflation. Among the hardest hit were Taiwan, which will now…
Anthony Hopkins reprised his iconic “Silence of the Lambs” character, Hannibal Lecter, for an audience of one: Kim Kardashian. On Thursday, Hopkins posted a video on Instagram sporting the new face wrap from Skims, Kardashian’s shapewear and clothing company. Since the release of Skims’ Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap — made for “targeted compression for shaping…
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple shook off a thicket of tariffs and a botched entry into artificial intelligence to accelerate its revenue growth during its springtime quarter, but the trendsetting tech company still faces a bumpy road ahead that could lead to higher iPhone prices. The April-June results released Thursday came against a backdrop of adversity…
More fans than have ever watched a Major League Baseball game are set to show up Saturday to a field that didn’t exist 32 days ago, in a state that has never previously hosted an MLB game. The baseball itself will be the only thing familiar about Saturday’s matchup at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway between…
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup that’s designed to give consumers more choices. The unanimous ruling issued Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivers a…
In one of the most consequential non-Olympic races in years, all-time swimming great Katie Ledecky could face an unprecedented challenge Saturday from Canadian teen Summer McIntosh in an event the American has owned for more than a decade. The pair will compete in the 800-meter freestyle final of the swimming world championships, in a race…
MOKOPANE, South Africa — A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents. Under the collaborative project involving the University of the Witwatersrand, nuclear energy officials and conservationists, five rhinos were…
