Link to videoNew York vocal coach Matt Goldstein never anticipated a gathering of his friends singing pop songs would become a viral sensation.
But that 2021 meetup evolved into Gaia Music Collective, which organizes pop-up singing groups across the country, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to an intimate warehouse space in Los Angeles.
“There’s a hunger for this,” Goldstein said of Gaia. “It’s going to go so much further than we’ll ever know.”
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LayoffsThese layoffs at Whirlpool in Iowa aren't the result of the tariffs, but it certainly does make one wonder. How many companies will bring manufacturing back to the US?
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Whirlpool Corp. will lay off 651 workers from its Amana manufacturing facility effective June 1.
The company cites reduced consumer demand for its refrigeration products as the reason for the layoffs.
Iowa Senate Democratic Leader Janice Weiner blames Republican policies for economic turmoil and criticizes cuts to unemployment compensation.
Whirlpool CEO Marc Bitzer stated in January that the company would seek to cut costs and prepare for a housing market recovery.
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Among those Trump has targeted with new tariffs: Lesotho, the tiny landlocked country that was slapped with a 50 percent tariff rate — the highest rate, shared also by the French territory of St. Pierre and Miquelon — and only has a trade imbalance with the U.S. because of a law that allows sub-Saharan African countries to ship thousands of goods duty-free; an overseas territory whose only inhabitants are workers at a military base operated jointly by U.K. and U.S. forces; and the Heard and McDonald Islands, home to no human, and mostly penguin, residents.
The tariffs could be devastating for some of those small countries. Lesotho has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world and the clothing factories the tariffs target are a key source of access to HIV medicines in the country.
“This could have really tragic implications for that country,” Gresser said.
The Republicans in Congress could stop this disaster if they could just grow a pair...
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Keeping more threats out of the USThe former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, says his US visa has been revoked.
Arias, a Nobel laureate, said he was informed of the decision weeks after he had publicly criticised Donald Trump, comparing the behaviour of the US president to that of a Roman emperor.
The 84-year-old, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering an end to conflicts in Central America, said US authorities had given no explanation.
Arias hinted, however, that it may be due to his rapprochement with China during the time he was president from 2006 to 2010.
Speaking at an news conference in the Costa Rican capital, San José, Arias said he had "no idea" what the reason for the cancellation was.
He said he had received a "terse" email "of a few lines" from the US government informing him of the decision.
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Merlin manuscriptGood thing somebody in the 13th century was into reuse.
Afragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur.
The manuscript, first discovered at Cambridge University Library in 2019, has now been identified as part of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur. The story was part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle, a medieval best seller but few now remain.
There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes. This latest discovery has been identified as having been written between 1275 and 1315.
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World's smallest pacemakerWorld’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light
Tiny device can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it’s no longer needed
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TariffsThe world's remotest corners couldn't hide from US President Donald Trump's global tariffs onslaught Wednesday -- even the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Australian territory in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean was slapped with 10 percent tariffs on all its exports, despite the icy archipelago having zero residents -- other than many seals, penguins and other birds.
Strings of ocean specks around the globe, including Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the Comoros off the coast of Africa, were likewise subjected to 10 percent new tariffs.
Another eye-catching inclusion in the tariffs list was Myanmar, which is digging out from an earthquake that left nearly 3,000 people dead, and whose exports to the United States will now face 44 percent in new levies.