Three months after a gunman upended the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, guests at the rescheduled event arrived Friday to markedly tighter security, a much smaller guest list, a more relaxed dress code — and expectations of a confrontational presidential speech teased by ...
BANGKOK — U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest set of tariffs drew immediate objections from America’s trading partners including China and Japan, with Australia’s trade minister slamming them as “completely unjustified” on Friday. The administration announced tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on 60 economies late Thursday, saying the countries had failed to adequately enforce a ban on goods made with forced labor. The new tariffs took effect just as stopgap levies Trump imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court expired at 12:01 a.m. Friday. Countries call labor claims ...
Friday, July 24 As your expectations become your everyday reality, you’ll find yourself eating, sleeping, working, loving and living better. Aries (March 21-April 19) Different interpretations begin to converge. Now people can coordinate their efforts and move forward together. Cooperation will get a little easier each day from here because everyone is working from the same understanding. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Many people enter new social situations trying to fit in. You’ll have more success letting people discover who you already are. Genuine connections form faster when ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 76-year-old Caucasian male who’s in excellent health. (Or so I thought.) Recently, my cardiologist suggested a coronary artery calcium (CAC) test, and my score was a frightening 1,241! I’m now extremely concerned about my heart health. I’ve been extremely active all my life, and I routinely work out — about 10 hours per week. My resting heart rate is about 50 bpm, and my blood pressure has long been about 110/70 mm Hg. Once or twice a week, I’ll raise my heart rate to a measured 162 bpm during a HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workout and feel ...
Dear Annie: My daughter is dating a man who’s an alcoholic and drug addict. Over the past three years, the police have been called multiple times because he’s abused her. She has two children, 8 and 15, who live with her. I’ve tried to talk some sense into her, but she always defends him and even interferes with his arrests. Thankfully, the court stepped in, and he was sentenced to six months in jail for the abuse. Now my daughter wants nothing to do with me and won’t let me see my grandchildren. When I call, she says they don’t want to talk to me and tells me to leave them ...
Amid celebrations of our nation’s 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation’s core institutions. “Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low,” reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions — banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc. — only 27% say they have “a great deal/quite a lot of confidence,” one point above the all-time low for this average. In 1979, the percent expressing “a great deal/quite a lot of confidence” in these 14 core institutions stood at ...
