Author: Leslie Stewart

A premium collection of dark, milk and white chocolate.Anna Kurzaeva | Instant | Getty ImagesFrom luxury watches and skincare to artisan chocolate, US buyers of Swiss products could soon face a sharp price rise if negotiators are unable to make a deal to avoid a 39% tariff for it to come into effect on Thursday.Last week, the announcement that Switzerland is facing one of the highest US tariff rates in the world surprised many politicians, analysts and businesses.The US has a massive trade deficit with Switzerland, totaling $38.3 billion in 2024. The Swiss government has pointed out that it is…

Rusi’s Orzala says influencers with Western passports “wander around, take photos and gain online fame,” but these privileges are rejected by Afghan women walking freely in school, work, and even public places without accompanying male parents.She added that there are moral and ethical dilemmas. This is because the benefits from tourism risks indirectly legalize and maintain the government that institutionalized “gender apartheid” and financially.”This should never be satisfying or agreeing with the current reality,” Orzara said of the influencer’s video showing Afghan women smiling in the background.”This is not a cultural exchange. It is a neo-colonial tourism decorated as an…

The warning tape hangs near the stairs in the Federal Hall across from the New York Stock Exchange in New York.Michael Nuggle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThat may be controversial, but the July employment report helped confirm the notion that the US economic engine is sputtering.Non-farm salaries rose to just 73,000 that month. A largely downward revision to the May and June counts reduced the average three-month employment to just 35,000, or less than a third of the same period a year ago.Traditionally, weak employment growth, an indicator of lagging when it comes to recessions, indicates an economy that may…

Comedian Matt Life said he and YouTuber Elton Castee are now legal guardians of Annabelle. “We are the legal guardian and caretaker of all 750 ghost artifacts and items at the Warren Museum, including Annabelle dolls. Please go out on the record and say I don’t legally own the items. Rife, 29, announced in an Instagram post Friday that he and Casty, 35, had purchased the Warrens home and museum in Monroe, Connecticut. Tony Spera, Warrens’ son-in-law and co-director of the New England Psychic Research Association, the late couple’s organization, revealed that he and his wife still own a collection…

US President Donald Trump returned to the White House from his Bedminster mansion on August 3, 2025, speaking with journalists at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Brendan Smirowski | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump plans to name two important vacant alternatives over the next few days. One is to fill in the Federal Reserve spots, and the other is to replace the Director of Labor Statistics.Both spots were open on Friday – the Fed’s position through Gov. Adriana Coogler’s surprise resignation and other positions from Trump’s astonishing decision to fire Erica Mantelfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

According to Goldman Sachs, the housing market will hamper economic growth later this year. Jan Hatzius, the chief economist at Goldman, told his client in a note on Sunday. Affordable prices and lower immigration are one important source of weaknesses in the housing market, he said. “Housing investment is likely to continue to be the biggest drug for growth,” Hatzius wrote. Hatzius said multi-family home construction is likely to continue operating at a level that has fallen until December. At the same time, he said the number of new single family homes being launched will be contracted. The economists pointed…

Police say the woman was charged with negligence of a child in New Zealand after the two-year-old girl was found in a suitcase in the luggage compartment of a bus.New Zealand Police detective inspector Simon Harrison said in a statement that the bus driver was found at a scheduled stop in Kaiwaka, a town in the Northland area.The suspect asked to access the compartment during the stop, said Harrison, acting crime manager for the Auckland Ajacent area of Wort Matter.”The driver became worried when he noticed the bag was moving,” he said. “When the driver opened his suitcase, they discovered…

“We had a fair amount,” Hen said, referring to the ingredients. “It gave us more time to know that we could manufacture and sell a lot of things without customs costs.”Hen said it was an advantage of his company’s workflow, not a customs strategy.But they knew that the leeway would not last forever. Finally, it was time for Heritage Steel to order more ingredients. That first tariff bill is around $75,000, and Hen expects it to be more than doubled next.Who will pay?In the case of Heritage Steel, there was no doubt that the prices would need to be raised…

Two men, known as “companies” of the suspects who committed the quadruple murders in Tennessee earlier this week, were arrested on suspicion of helping a fugitive, authorities said Saturday.Special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested Tanaka Brown on Friday and Jovonte Thomas on Saturday, the agency said.Brown and Thomas, 29, from Jackson, were charged with accessories after the fact of first-degree murder, the department said in a statement. Brown is also facing one count of tampering with evidence. Brown is being held unconfined at the Lake County Jail. Thomas was transferred there from the Madison County Jail, where…

The man accused of killing four people at a Montana bar on Friday morning lived next door, according to the Montana Department of Justice.Authorities have identified the suspect. The suspect said he entered an Anaconda owl bar and fired fire as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown. He remains overall and his search continues through the weekend.”The search will focus on areas off Stomptown Road, both on the ground and in the air, and will include multiple local, state and federal agencies,” the Montana Department of Justice said Saturday morning.The department also confirmed that the victims killed in the shooting were the…