Rather than ushering in a "Golden Age," President Donald Trump's tariffs and his war with Iran seem to have played a significant role in killing a North Carolina tire factory. The Goodyear Rubber and Tire Co. announced this week that it would be shuttering its Fayetteville, North Carolina, plant that currently employs more than 1,700 workers. The decision to close the plant was made to "strengthen Goodyear's ability to compete in today's marketplace and support the longterm health of the business," a company executive told City View, a Fayetteville-based news and lifestyle magazine. Translating that P.R.-speak is a bit easier when you look at what company executives have been telling investors. Goodyear lost $249 million during the first three months of the year"after earning a $115 million profit during the same three months last year, just prior to Trump's tariffs being announced.
President Donald Trump returned home from China to a politically-fraught domestic policy challenge that has vexed top aides for months: sky-high beef prices. The White House must now decide how to proceed with an executive order to temporarily ease tariffs on imported beef " a move that was delayed earlier this week amid intense backlash from farm-state lawmakers and industry allies. The executive order could help lower prices for consumers, though by how much remains uncertain. Doing so would simultaneously drive up competition for American ranchers as they face a host of higher costs brought on, in part, by the Iran war.
Kash Patel can't stop living the good life. The FBI director reportedly went on a VIP snorkeling trip while on a visit to Hawaii last summer that the bureau stressed was not a vacation. Patel was officially in the state to tour the FBI's Honolulu branch and meet with local law enforcement, or at least that's what the bureau's news releases said. But the Associated Press obtained government emails showing that Patel took part in the snorkeling excursion, coordinated by the military, near the USS Arizona, which was sunk in the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor. That wasn't mentioned in the bureau's public releases, nor was Patel's return to Hawaii for two days after initially visiting the state. read more
Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, was one of two men arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to buy sex from Larimer County Sheriff's Office investigators who posed as minors as part of an operation targeting child predators. After news of Rivera's arrest broke late Friday, multiple prominent Republicans denounced Rivera and called for his immediate resignation from the party position. The sheriff's office said in a news release that "several dozen people" responded to investigators who posed as minors offering sexual acts for sale on local websites and online forums.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month -- his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office -- in what the White House describes as an annual physical and regular preventive care. read more
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