World & Nation
Starting just past midnight, imports from Canada and Mexico are now to be taxed at 25%, with Canadian energy products subject to 10% import duties.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s absence follows a boycott of a G-20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Business
The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information in assessing borrowers.
In the U.S., most states now are below the 95% vaccination threshold for kindergartners — the level needed to protect communities against measles outbreaks.
Responding to a journalist’s question on whether he’d trade his office for peace, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, ‘I can trade it for NATO.’
The measure underscores Russia’s need for military personnel in the nearly 3-year war, even as it launches a new intermediate-range ballistic missile.
The agreed-upon framework deal is a preliminary step toward a comprehensive agreement that will be subject to ratification by Ukraine’s parliament.
Roki Sasaki has the talent to be an instant sensation the way Fernando Valenzuela or Hideo Nomo were in previous generations. But he could just as easily become the Japanese Bobby Miller.
On June 2 Mexican voters are almost sure to elect their first female president from among frontrunners Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez. Why haven’t we?
Politics
A mechanic and a political outsider, Dan Osborn ran as an independent and almost won a U.S. Senate seat last year. He’s started a Working Class Heroes Fund to get other blue-collar workers to run for office.