The 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.
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Mr Booker goes to WashingtonHe prepared for the marathon.
“Again, I don’t want my doctor to be mad at me, but I really spent time dehydrating myself beforehand, so I did not have to go to the bathroom,” Booker told reporters Tuesday night.
“My challenge was, was that my strategy was to stop eating, I think I stopped eating on Friday, and then to stop drinking the night before I started on Monday, and that had its benefits and it had its really downsides.”
“And so instead of fighting or figuring out how to go the bathroom, I ended up, I think really, unfortunately, dehydrating myself.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5227988-senator-cory-booker-record-speech/
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Mr Booker goes to WashingtonFrom yesterday:
Eventually...
The livestream on Booker's TikTok was viewed by more than 300,000 people at once and had over 350 million "likes," his office said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/cory-booker-marathon-speech-rcna199246
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An administrative errorIf you're a Venezuelan migrant and you have a tattoo, you get deported to El Salvador.
But if you're a nominee for SecDef and you have a tattoo, you get confirmed and get the job.
‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos
Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang memberFor as long as anyone can remember Andry José Hernández Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Day celebrations for which his Venezuelan home town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to remember how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.
At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town’s youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots.
“Most Capacheros get crown tattoos, often adding the name of their father or mother. We’ve lots of people with these tattoos – it’s a tradition that began in 1917,” said Miguel Chacón, the president of Capacho’s Three Kings Day foundation.
The Latin American tradition appears to have been lost on the US immigration officers who detained Hernández, a 31-year-old makeup artist, hairdresser and theatre lover, after he crossed the southern border last August to attend a prearranged asylum appointment in San Diego.
Hernández, who is gay, told agents he was fleeing persecution stemming from his sexual orientation and political views. Just weeks earlier, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, had unleashed a ferocious crackdown after being accused of stealing the presidential election to extend his 12-year rule.
But Hernández’s tattoos were deemed proof he was a member of Venezuela’s most notorious gang, the Tren de Aragua, and a “security threat” to the US.
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They want to have their cake and eat it, tooEU aims to boost local weapons industry, limiting U.S. participation
Rubio warns against excluding U.S. from EU defense procurements
Trump administration seeks open markets for U.S. arms makers
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It survived.I have two jars of starter in the frig. More than once, one of them has gotten lost at the back and remained unfed for as many as three weeks. It's popped back every time.
Hearty souls, those yeast beasties.
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Mayor AdamsA federal judge on Wednesday formally dismissed the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, granting the controversial request from the Justice Department that generated a public outcry and spurred the largest mass resignation of senior federal prosecutors in decades.
The order from U.S. Judge Dale Ho brings an end to the case against Adams, who had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud and other charges following his indictment last year.
Ho said he was dismissing the case with prejudice, meaning the government could not bring the charges again later — contrary to the Justice Department's request to dismiss the case without prejudice.
"In light of DOJ's rationales, dismissing the case without prejudice would create the unavoidable perception that the Mayor's freedom depends on his ability to carry out the immigration enforcement priorities of the administration, and that he might be more beholden to the demands of the federal government than to the wishes of his own constituents," Ho wrote.
"That appearance is inevitable, and it counsels in favor of dismissal with prejudice."
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/g-s1-57386/judge-new-york-eric-adams
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An administrative errorI just feel sick.
The Trump administration is getting blowback for confirmed and potential errors in its rush to deport hundreds of men to El Salvador last month.
On Monday night, immigration officials admitted to deporting a Maryland man to El Salvador due to an "administrative error."
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who lived with his U.S. citizen wife and child, was identified as being on one of the three deportation flights to El Salvador last month that are the subject of several lawsuits. Immigration advocates claim those flown to El Salvador did not receive due process.
The administration used the three flights to quickly deport over three hundred men it accused of being members of MS-13, a gang with connections to El Salvador that originated in Los Angeles, and Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. They were later moved to CECOT, a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.
One of them was Abrego Garcia, who his wife identified through photos released by the El Salvadoran government.
"The government's filing was pretty shocking because they admitted everything that we alleged," Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, the lawyer representing Abrego Garcia and his family, told NPR.
Although Justice Department lawyers acknowledge the mistake in Abrego Garcia's case, they say there is nothing federal officials can do because he is now in custody of another country.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347427/maryland-el-salvador-error
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