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Trump Increases Tariffs on Chinese Goods by 100%

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Key Takeaways President Donald Trump said he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China starting Nov. 1, reigniting a trade war between the world's two largest economies.China has leveraged its dominance of the rare earth market as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with the U.S., which relies heavily on rare earths for its high-tech industries. The U.S.-China trade war flared up again on Friday when President Donald Trump announced an increase in import taxes as part of a dispute over critical "rare earth" minerals that China exports.In a lengthy social media post early on Friday, Trump…

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

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Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has confirmed to TechCrunch that a U.S. investment group has acquired the company. NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.” Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech news website Calcalist reported Friday that a group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds agreed to purchase the surveillance tech maker in a deal valued in the tens of millions of dollars. Hershowitz declined to specify the amount invested, as well as who the…

‘RIFs have begun.’ Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

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A spokesperson for the budget office said the reductions are “substantial” but did not offer more immediate details. WATCH: ‘Do your damn job,’ federal worker union leaders tell Congress mired in shutdown The Education Department is among the agencies hit by new layoffs, a department spokesperson said Friday without providing more details. The department had about 4,100 employees when Trump took office in January, but its workforce was nearly halved amid mass layoffs in the Republican administration’s first months. At the start of the shutdown, it had about 2,500 employees. Federal health workers were also being fired Friday, though a…

TV tonight: Sally Wainwright’s furious drama about a menopausal punk band | Television & radio

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Riot WomenSunday, 9pm, BBC One“Do you think women of a certain age become, you know, invisible?” Teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) gave her best years to her family – and now both her husband and son have left her feeling disposable. She’s also caring for her mother, who has dementia. But Beth’s world is about to be shaken up by a group of fellow menopausal women who want to start a punk band for the local talent show: “And you thought the Clash were angry?” Sally Wainwright’s new comedy drama feels her most personal and urgent. It’s wonderfully warming and wickedly…

Homeland Security reassigns ‘hundreds’ of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump’s deportation crackdown

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reassigning hundreds of employees across several of its agencies to assist in the Trump administration’s broad immigration crackdown and will dismiss staffers who refuse to comply, according to news reports. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the department moved staffers from the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, many of whom focus on issuing cyber guidance to help U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure defend from cyber threats, to other agencies within the federal department, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Both Bloomberg and Nextgov reported that many of the affected…

Welsh Rugby Union: Jamie Roberts hopes right decision will be reached on game’s future

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The three other options tabled by the WRU include two proposals suggesting a reduction in one side by keeping three teams. These choices are now seriously being considered by the WRU board. Cardiff are owned by the WRU after the side temporarily went into administration in April.With WRU chief executive Abi Tierney having already said she can not see a situation where professional rugby would not be played in the Welsh capital, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets will be nervously watching what happens. Reddin says he hopes a consensus could be reached if regions needed to be cut, with mergers an…

Stocks End Sharply Lower as U.S.-China Trade Tensions Resume; Major Indexes Post Weekly Losses

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Noteworthy S&P 500 Movers on Friday October 10, 2025 06:05 PM EDT Decliners Chip design software firm Synopsys (SNPS) and Teradyne (TER) each dropped about 9%, while Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Microchip Technology (MCHP) tumbled roughly 8% as semiconductor-related stocks were among the S&P 500's biggest decliners. AI favorite Nvidia (NVDA) finished nearly 5% lower after climbing to a fresh intraday record ahead of Trump's comments. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) and Amazon (AMZN) also dropped about 5% amid broad-based declines, with the tech sector taking the heaviest hit. Consumer staples marked the only sector in the S&P 500 to post…

acsandmann/rift: a tiling window manager for macos

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Rift is a tiling window manager for MacOS that focuses on performance and usability. multiple layout styles Tiling (i3/sway-like) Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like) Menubar icon that shows all of the workspaces and the layouts within click to see the menu bar icon MacOS-style mission control that allows you to visually navigate between workspaces click to see mission control Focus follows mouse with auto raise Drag windows over one another to swap positions Performant animations (as seen in the demo) Switch to next/previous workspace with trackpad gestures (just like native macOS) Hot reloadable configuration interop with third party programs (ie Sketchybar)…

Trump threatens more tariffs after China restricts key exports

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea and threatened additional tariffs after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry. The Republican president suggested that he was looking at a “massive increase” of import taxes on Chinese products in response to Xi’s moves. It’s possible that could amount to either posturing by the United States for eventual negotiations or a retaliatory step that could foster new fears about the stability of the global economy.…

My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’ | Kate Bush

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It wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World, the eponymous track on what Kate Bush described as her “most female album”. The song was intended to be a rejection of the masculine influence that had unwittingly shaped the artist’s previous work, and an ode to something taboo within the female experience. Based on Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in James Joyce’s Ulysses – a stream of consciousness in which the character reflects on her experiences of nature, sex and love – Bush wanted to celebrate the experience of life inside a woman’s body, and the ways it gives her spiritual and…