“The funeral homes have the best business” in recent years because of the sudden deaths, one resident said. 
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to cushion the impact of his automobile tariffs for domestic carmakers.
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PepsiCo is speeding up its transition away from artificial colors, its CEO said, after the Food and Drug Administration announced it was banning two food dyes.
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Residents in mainland China say that sudden deaths appear to be increasing.
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The debate over what makes a good infant formula is intensifying as American parents increasingly turn to European brands.
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🍵Health: Once abundant in soil-grown foods, a key antioxidant is now harder to come by—but eating certain foods may help raise its levels in your body.
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Workers put engines on the frame of Ford Motor Co. fuel-powered F-150 trucks under production at its truck plant in Dearborn, Mich., on Sept. 20, 2022. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images) |
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to cushion the impact of his automobile tariffs for domestic carmakers.
The measure aims to prevent overlapping duties from applying to the same vehicle or auto part. It blocks the cumulative effect—or “stacking”—of separate tariff regimes such as those targeting steel, aluminum, and drug-related imports, when a 25 percent auto tariff is already in place.
The order applies retroactively to all affected imports entering the country on or after March 4, 2025.
“I have now determined that, to the extent these tariffs apply to the same article, these tariffs should not all have a cumulative effect (or ‘stack’ on top of one another) because the rate of duty resulting from such stacking exceeds what is necessary to achieve the intended policy goals,” Trump wrote.
The 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles took effect earlier this month, part of the administration’s broader strategy to revive U.S. auto manufacturing.
Under the new directive, carmakers will still pay the 25 percent tariff on foreign-built vehicles, but they will be exempt from other overlapping import duties—including a separate 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum components, as well as a 10 percent universal baseline tariff.
The executive order also adjusts how tariffs on foreign auto parts will be handled when they go into effect on May 3. To offset the cost, automakers assembling vehicles in the United States can claim tax credits worth up to 15 percent of the vehicle’s total value, potentially reducing the impact of tariffs on imported parts, according to a presidential proclamation accompanying the executive order. (More)
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President Trump celebrated his 100th day in office with a rally in Michigan, the heart of the U.S. automotive industry, which stands to benefit from his 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, after she was arrested by the FBI on April 25 and accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities.
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Amazon denied reports that it plans to display the cost of U.S. tariffs next to the total price of products listed on the website.
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U.S. immigration officers disrupted an alleged marriage fraud operation in Maryland and brought charges against four of the people involved.
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The House of Representatives approved a rule on Tuesday to block Democrat-led inquiries about the Trump administration’s use of the Signal app.
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The Department of Justice filed charges against a man who allegedly set a Tesla Cybertruck on fire in Arizona.
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PepsiCo is speeding up its transition away from artificial colors, its CEO said, after the Food and Drug Administration announced it was banning two food dyes.
“We obviously, we stand by the science and ... where products are very safe and there’s nothing to worry about this, but we understand that there’s going to be a probably a consumer demand for more natural ingredients, and we’re going to be accelerating that transition,” Ramon Laguarta, the CEO, said during an earnings call last week.
Laguarta said that some brands, such as Lays and Tostitos, will contain no artificial colors by the end of 2025. “In the next couple of years, we'll have migrated all the portfolio into natural colors or at least provide the consumer with natural color options,” he added later. “And obviously, every consumer will have the opportunity to choose what they prefer.” Pepsi owns brands such as Doritos, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, and Cheetos that include artificial colors.
U.S. regulators, who had previously issued a ban on Red No. 3 that takes effect in early 2027, announced on April 22 that they were banning two other dyes, Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B, and planning to prohibit six others. (More) More U.S. News |
- Job vacancies declined sharply in March, but little change in new hires and layoffs signals that the U.S. labor market remains solid.
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Harvard University released two reports detailing findings from its presidential task forces formed to address anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bias, and tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war.
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Harvard’s Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging will be renamed Community and Campus Life, the university said amid a battle with the Trump administration over diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology on campus.
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Amazon launched the first 27 satellites for its Kuiper broadband internet constellation into space from Florida on Monday. The flight marks the start of Jeff Bezos’s delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Residents in mainland China say that sudden deaths appear to be increasing.
A resident in Dalian city of Liaoning Province in northeast China told The Epoch Times that based on his observation, the recent death rate is apparently higher than the death rate during the period from December 2022 to early 2023, when the Chinese communist regime lifted all pandemic control measures after nearly three years of draconian restrictions and lockdowns accompanied by a massive wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths across the country. Mr. Wang, who declined to provide his full name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on April 13 that many people in their 20s to 50s suddenly died. At least two of his relatives have died, he said.
“Four or five of my colleagues have passed away. Those who were vaccinated against COVID-19 suffered more serious conditions. Many of my colleagues’ relatives have also passed away, and they have had to take time off from work to attend the funerals,” Wang said.
Mr. Cao from Huadian City in Jilin Province, who didn’t reveal his first name for safety concerns, also told The Epoch Times that many young and middle-aged people he knew have died, one after another. He said that on April 2, a friend of his in Dongying, Shandong Province in eastern China, died without any warning signs.
“He went to bed at night, and his body was cold the next morning. He was only 53 years old,” Cao said. Another person he knew was a truck driver who died more than a month ago at the age of 56.
Cao said that the younger brother of a man in his village suddenly collapsed and died during work. He was 37 or 38 years old. “The funeral homes have the best business” in recent years, Cao said, because of the sudden deaths. (More) More World News: |
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Retail sales in two of China’s wealthiest cities—Beijing and Shanghai—fell sharply in March, casting fresh doubt on the strength of China’s domestic consumer demand.
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The Chinese regime is increasingly sending groups that pose as nongovernmental organizations to the United Nations in an effort to suppress criticism of its human rights record.
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Issues stemming from drought, population growth, and decades of lax treaty enforcement have come to a head as the United States and Mexico tussle over water deliveries.
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The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to bolster joint efforts to combat an outbreak of New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that infests and feeds on the flesh of living animals.
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A Spanish grid operator ruled out a cybersecurity incident as the cause of Monday’s widespread blackout across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, and pointed to a sudden drop in solar power generation as a possible cause.
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Ergothioneine (ERGO), a potent antioxidant made by fungi and soil microbes, is making waves in the world of nutrition. However, many may wonder what it actually is. Research shows ERGO is important for brain health. When animals are deprived of ERGO, it harms both brain cell growth and cognitive function. People with dementia also tend to have lower levels of ERGO in their blood compared with healthy people of the same age.
Fungi are a vital source of ERGO and typically grow in the rich, healthy soil of forests. However, as farming practices deplete the soil, we lose this source of vitality and nutrients that nourish our food—leaving us reliant on forest-grown mushrooms and improved soil care to help restore healthy ERGO levels. ERGO is primarily produced by soil-borne microbes and fungi. Humans cannot produce it, so it must be obtained through diet. Researchers discovered that mammals have a specific transporter protein for ERGO, enabling its absorption from food into red blood cells.
These cells then distribute it to tissues throughout the body, where it has powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects—emphasizing its biological importance.
In 2018, Bruce Ames, a renowned biochemist, proposed that ERGO could be classified as a longevity vitamin. These vitamins are essential for the function of longevity proteins that support long-term health and aging. Ames suggested that a deficiency in ERGO could harm long-term health.
Robert Beelman, a professor of food science and director of the Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health at Penn State University, has advanced the understanding of ERGO.
“ERGO is actually an amino acid, but not one that’s found in proteins,” Beelman told The Epoch Times. (More)
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