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President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over a 10-year period while shrinking the economy, raising the inflation rate and reducing the purchasing power of households overall, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office.
The Penn-Wharton Budget Model’s April report predicted that the Republican president’s tariffs would reduce long-run GDP by about 6% and wages by 5%. https://apnews.com/article/cbo-trump-tariffs-cut-deficits-shrink-economy-18a07a73b72a31a164b15835dd34fd61
In 2024, nearly 90 percent of new passenger cars sold in Norway were fully electric. Of the cars sold last month, the EV share was 97 percent.
By comparison, EVs last year accounted for 8 percent of new car sales in the United States, 13 percent in the euro zone and 27 percent in China.
In terms of population numbers, Norway is close to South Carolina. But when it comes to fast EV chargers, the gap is yawning: South Carolina has 633 fast charging ports, according to the federal database — around 11 per 100,000 people. Norway, on the other hand, boasts 174 fast chargers per 100,000.
The lack of charging infrastructure remains a major barrier to EV adoption in the United States. And that hesitancy, in turn, is deterring private investment in infrastructure to support EVs. Building and maintaining chargers is expensive, and in many areas, there isn’t enough driver demand to make stations profitable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/05/30/norway-ev-adoption-electric-cars/
High economic uncertainy has hiring grinding to a halt at US businesses.
Job growth slowed for the second month in a row at private-sector firms, which added just 37,000 jobs in May, according to new employment estimates released Wednesday by payroll company ADP.
May’s job gains, which marked a sharp stepback from the 60,000 jobs added that ADP reported for April, came in significantly below economists’ expectations for 130,000 jobs to be added. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/economy/us-private-sector-hiring-adp-may
Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as representative of U.S. layoffs and have mostly bounced around a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since COVID-19 ravaged the economy and wiped out millions of jobs five years ago.
Even though President Donald Trump has paused or dialed down many of his tariff threats, concerns remain about a global economic slowdown that could upend the U.S. labor market, which has been a pillar of the American economy for years. https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-fab6330cb2c188419a41936c2c10a4cd
The hiring rate, the number of hires as a percentage of total employment, ticked higher in April to 3.5% but remains below pre-pandemic levels, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released earlier this week.
And by ADP’s count (which doesn’t always correlate with the official jobs report) hiring dropped off precipitously in April and May, when the private sector gained 60,000 and 37,000 jobs, respectively.
“The weak numbers we’re seeing now does not point to a labor market that’s collapsing, but there is hiring hesitancy,” Richardson said Wednesday. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/business/us-jobs-report-may-preview
“This measurement will remain a benchmark ... for many years to come,” said Marco Incagli with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy.
By wrangling muons, scientists are striving to answer fundamental questions that have long puzzled humanity, said Peter Winter with Argonne National Laboratory.
“Aren’t we all curious to understand how the universe works?” said Winter. https://apnews.com/article/muon-fermilab-standard-model-physics-cb123cd20bfd8141dbf75de62804b32b
wrangle
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verb
wran·gle ΛraΕ-gΙl
wrangled; wrangling ΛraΕ-g(Ι-)liΕ
Synonyms of wrangle
intransitive verb
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: to dispute angrily or peevishly : BICKER
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: to engage in argument or controversy
transitive verb
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: to obtain by persistent arguing or maneuvering : WANGLE
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[back-formation from wrangler] : to herd and care for (livestock and especially horses) on the range
wrangle
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noun
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: an angry, noisy, or prolonged dispute or quarrel
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: the action or process of wrangling https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrangling
Germany had nominated Schmid for the assembly presidency but replaced her with Baerbock after she lost her job as the country’s foreign affairs chief in the recent election. The decision drew some criticism in Germany.
When Baerbock appeared before the assembly to discuss her candidacy on May 15, Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador Dmitry Polyansky lashed into her, saying: “Ms. Baerbock has repeatedly proved her incompetence, extreme bias and lack of understanding of the basic principles of diplomacy.”
Polyansky accused her of having pursued an “anti-Russia policy,” which he said gave Russia reason to doubt that as General Assembly president she would be “able to act in the interests of peace and dialogue.”
Baerbock will replace current assembly president Philemon Yang, a former prime minister of Cameroon, at the start of the 80th session in September. She will preside over the annual gathering of world leaders in late September and anniversary events marking the founding of the United Nations in 1945.
The one-year presidency of the General Assembly rotates by region.
The assembly, which is the U.N.’s most representative body, has taken the spotlight in reacting to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. That’s because any action by the U.N. Security Council has been blocked by the veto power of Russia on Ukraine and the United States on Gaza. https://apnews.com/article/un-general-assembly-president-election-germany-russia-273a4e9b81064642e1a8142ca4af1d0e
“Be the mayor that makes buses electric; be the CEO who ends fossil fuel dependence; be the school that puts (up) solar roofs,” he said.
“You can’t just sit around and make excuses because one guy in a very nice White House on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn’t agree with you,” he said, adding that attacking the president is “not my style” and he doesn’t criticize any president when outside the U.S.
“I know that the people are sick and tired of the whining and the complaining and the doom and gloom,” Schwarzenegger said. “The only way we win the people’s hearts and minds is by showing them action that makes their lives better.” https://apnews.com/article/austria-schwarzenegger-trump-climate-pollution-45798a896438d934d1430016a49c318c
The museum contacted the researcher who provided the Oort Cloud data for the show, who was also surprised to see the spiral.
“It’s kind of a freak accident that it actually happened,” said David Nesvorny with the Southwest Research Institute.
Realizing they’d stumbled on something new, the researchers published their findings earlier this year in The Astrophysical Journal. https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec
EarthEnable, which seeks to upgrade housing across Africa, has been promoting and installing the clay-based floors in Uganda since 2017. Besides eliminating dust that can irritate breathing, they’re credited with reducing infestations of jiggers — a parasitic flea that can burrow into the skin and lead to pain, itching and infection. Uganda’s health ministry says poor hygiene due to dirt floors contributes to such infestations. https://apnews.com/article/uganda-health-dirt-floors-alternative-clay-b33d1bc948980152f4b13b5055b33350 Combatted by No Natz.
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