Mouthing Off | Trump tariffs trigger food fights. Consumers everywhere risk being the losers

Mouthing Off | Trump tariffs trigger food fights. Consumers everywhere risk being the losers

These days, it’s very hard to separate food from politics. In fact, when disputes erupt between countries – like those triggered by the wild tariffs that US President Donald Trump is threatening to impose on what feels like everybody – bread and milk often end up on the front lines. Trump, who some commentators say … Read more

GM has plans to mitigate up to 50% of potential North American tariffs

GM has plans to mitigate up to 50% of potential North American tariffs

President Donald Trump greets General Motors CEO Mary Barra (R) prior to a meeting with automobile industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 24, 2017. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images DETROIT — General Motors believes it can mitigate up to 50% of potential tariffs President Donald … Read more

Why more Americans are holidaying on farms, saving farmers in the process

Why more Americans are holidaying on farms, saving farmers in the process

A dead-end dirt road cutting through rural Wisconsin in the US Midwest leads to a pasture dotted with shaggy-coated Highland cattle, fluffy Icelandic sheep and a vintage Airstream trailer that farmer Brit Thompson turned into an Airbnb to capitalise on an explosion of urbanites looking to spend time in the countryside. Her guests, mostly Chicago-area … Read more

Trump says the penny costs too much, orders Treasury to stop making them

Trump says the penny costs too much, orders Treasury to stop making them

The United States has moved into new and uncharted territory after President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Mint to stop striking the lowly penny. Trump was attending the Super Bowl on Sunday night when he took to his Truth Social media platform to declare that the days of the 1-cent copper-colored coin had come to … Read more

Meghan Markle Sparks Outrage for Moving Wheelchair Without Consent at Invictus Games

Meghan Markle Sparks Outrage for Moving Wheelchair Without Consent at Invictus Games

Meghan Markle is facing backlash after footage surfaced of her moving a wheelchair without the user’s permission during the Invictus Games. The clip, which was shared on Markle’s own Instagram before being widely circulated, has drawn sharp criticism from disabled people and their allies, who have condemned the act as ‘rude’ and ‘disrespectful’. The controversy … Read more

Trump To Slap 25% Tariffs on Steel and Aluminium, Halts Minting New Pennies To Cut Waste

Trump To Slap 25% Tariffs on Steel and Aluminium, Halts Minting New Pennies To Cut Waste

US President Donald Trump told reporters yesterday while on his way to the NFL Super Bowl that he will impose new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium US imports on 10th February. The new metals tariffs are in addition to existing metals duties, which marks another escalation in the President’s trade policy overhaul. Furthermore, … Read more

Trump to announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs in latest trade escalation

Trump to announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs in latest trade escalation

President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will introduce new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the US, on top of existing metals duties, in another major escalation of his trade policy overhaul. Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One on his way to the NFL Super Bowl in New Orleans, said he will … Read more

Embarrassing moment hot mic catches Justin Trudeau revealing fears over Trump’s plan to ‘annex Canada’

Embarrassing moment hot mic catches Justin Trudeau revealing fears over Trump’s plan to ‘annex Canada’

CANADA’S Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught revealing his fears that Trump could attempt to annex his country and turn it into America’s 51st state. Trudeau suffered a hugely embarrassing moment when a hot mic caught the Canadian telling business leaders that the American land-grab threats are “a real thing”. 4 Canadian Prime Minister Justin … Read more

My reality TV star neighbour’s noisy home keeps me up at night – there’s ‘constant growling and droning’

My reality TV star neighbour’s noisy home keeps me up at night – there’s ‘constant growling and droning’

REALITY TV star Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland has been accused of “destroying the peace” at her castle home in Kent by furious neighbours. The complaints began after the Real Housewives of Toronto favourite and her husband Dr. Stephen Mulholland installed a “constant growling generator”. 3 Dr. Ann Kaplan Mullholland and her husband Stephen purchased the … Read more

Markets rise on tariff pause, but earnings disappoint

Markets rise on tariff pause, but earnings disappoint

Google’s Munich headquarters on Jan. 31, 2025 in Munich, Germany. The company’s development center is located in Arnulfpark. More than 2,500 employees work for the US company at various locations in Germany.  Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday paused tariffs on Mexico and Canada (but, notably, not … Read more