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Trump says John Deere will be hit with 200% tariffs if production moves to Mexico
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday said he would apply a 200% tariff on John Deere imports if the agricultural equipment company moves production to Mexico, as planned. “As you know, they’ve announced a few days ago that they are going to move a lot of their manufacturing business to Mexico,” Trump said at an event…
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Scientists Confirm How Japanese Eels Escape a Predator Fish’s Stomach After Being Eaten
Of the 32 eels that were swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish in a recent study, nine of them successfully escaped to safety izumi yokoduka/Getty Stock image of a wild eel Eels are evading becoming supper by slipping out of hungry predators. A study published on Monday, Sept. 9, in the journal Current Biology has found that, while the Japanese eel (or…
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27 Things Retirees Should Do With Their Money Right Now
Ridofranz / Getty Images/iStockphoto Retirement isn’t the end of your financial journey. Though you may have called it quits on retirement planning, you’ll still have to understand how to save and spend money in retirement. This isn’t always easy, as you’re likely living on a fixed income. For You: 8 States To Move to If You Don’t Want To Pay…
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Putin’s visit to Mongolia defies ICC warrant and tests neutral nation’s ‘third neighbor’ diplomacy
Vladimir Putin arrived in Mongolia on Sept. 2, the first time the Russian president has visited an International Criminal Court (ICC) member country since the body issued a warrant for his arrest in 2023. While officially commemorating a Soviet-Mongolian military victory in World War II, Putin’s visit will test the small central Asian country’s policy of neutrality and the reach…
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Unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast peaks provided a hint of winter in August
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ski season is still at least several months away, but the unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast mountain peaks late last week brought a hint of winter in August. The calendar briefly skipped ahead to November as the system dropped out of the Gulf of Alaska, down through the Pacific Northwest and into California. Mount…
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Georgia governor doubles down on Medicaid program with work requirement despite slow start
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Monday defended and doubled down on his signature Medicaid program — the only one in the nation with a work requirement — further dimming chances the state could adopt a broader expansion of the taxpayer-funded low-income health plan without a work mandate any time soon. Georgia Pathways requires all recipients to show that…
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Infamous San Francisco Towing Company Raided By The FBI
Read the full story on Backfire News Infamous San Francisco Towing Company Raided By The FBI Earlier in the year we covered a shocking story out of San Francisco of a tow truck that tried snatching a vehicle sitting at a red light with a family inside. Bystander cellphone video documented the unbelievable incident, including the name of the tow…
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Wife of banker jailed for fraud must hand over luxury house and golf club
The wife of a jailed banker has forfeited her London Knightsbridge home and a golf club in Ascot after spending more than £16 million on shopping trips to Harrods. Zamira Hajiyeva, 61 whose husband Jahangir Hajiyev, 62, is serving a 16-year jail sentence in Baku for fraud and embezzlement, had been pursued by the National Crime Agency (NCA) over the…
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Magnitude 4.9 earthquake shakes Southern California
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck California’s Mojave Desert Monday, sending shaking that was felt all the way to Los Angeles. The earthquake, which occurred at 1 p.m., was centered about 13 miles northeast of Barstow, located roughly halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Seismologist Lucy Jones, an expert in California’s earthquakes, said that many quakes of a similar magnitude…
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Delta Airlines taking steps to ‘make it right’ for customers after global tech outage
Delta employees are “working 24/7″ to get the airline’s global operations back on track after cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike’s faulty Windows update rendered IT systems of companies across the globe inoperable. “We’ve got everyone around the company working around the clock to get this operation where it needs to be,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a video message to employees…
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