Author: Newark Independent

WASHINGTON — The fallout from President Donald Trump’s aggressive new tariffs has spurred Congress into action, with a growing number of Republicans joining Democrats to express interest in using their power to restrain him. After the GOP-led Senate delivered a rare rebuke to Trump on Wednesday by voting to undo his tariffs on Canada, lawmakers in both chambers are weighing additional steps to rein him in. Senators are eyeing other mechanisms to rescind Trump’s existing tariffs while limiting his ability to impose new ones. And Democrats in the House are exploring ways to force a vote to revoke Canadian tariffs,…

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Wednesday, we wrote about how CEOs were starting to get buyer’s remorse about Donald Trump, the presidential candidate that many of them supported despite his promises to impose what essentially every economist in the world said would be market-crippling tariffs. After we published that post, Trump went through with his promise and announced a huge new system of tariffs, individualized for each foreign country, that will tax almost all goods being brought into the U.S. at rates as…

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Joe Milton III’s brief Patriots tenure came to a close Thursday morning. New England reportedly traded Milton and a 2025 seventh-round draft pick to Dallas in exchange for 2025 fifth-rounder. The Cowboys gained a new backup for Dak Prescott after cutting ties with Cooper Rush and Trey Lance, while the rebuilding Patriots gained some all-important draft capital. Jerry Jones and company received an “A-” grade from ESPN’s Seth Walder for the swap, as they didn’t give up much to acquire a quarterback with rare tools and a very team-friendly contract. Mike Vrabel’s side, meanwhile, garnered a “C-” mark. “If the…

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Anderegg settled on the Carhartts when he was living in Brooklyn, partly out of an adherence to minimalism. “I’m not an equipment guy,” he explains, and at the time he bought his B11s, they were only his fourth pair of pants, period. “I’d bartend in them and then clear brush, and then would go out to dinner, changing my shirt as a low-key way to get the workouts in throughout the day.”Which fits in with an accurate, if antiquated, conception of gym clothes—very simply, whatever clothes people owned and which they also wore to the gym. A century ago, in…

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Mark Zuckerberg has become the latest tech billionaire to establish a presence in Washington DC, purchasing a $23 million mansion in the upscale Woodland Normanstone neighborhood, a report has said. The acquisition, confirmed by Facebook parent company Meta, represents the third-most expensive residential sale in the city’s history.Politico reports that for weeks, the identity of the buyer remained shrouded in mystery as real estate agents were bound by non-disclosure agreements. Shortly after the cash transaction closed in early March, images of the 15,000-square-foot property became pixelated on Google Maps, the report added.Neighborhood residents noted increased activity at the previously vacant…

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Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesYouTube on Thursday announced new video creation tools for Shorts, its short-form video feed that competes against TikTok. The features come at a time when TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is at risk of an effective ban in the U.S. if it’s not sold to an American owner by April 5.Among the new tools is an updated video editor that allows creators to make precise adjustments and edits, a feature that automatically syncs video cuts to the beat of a song and AI stickers.The creator tools will become available later this spring,…

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FILE – New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears before a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., file) New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday that he will not seek reelection through the Democratic primary, instead launching a longshot bid as an independent candidate in the November general election. The decision, unveiled in a six-minute campaign video, comes just one day after a federal judge dismissed the corruption charges against him with prejudice, effectively ending his legal troubles.“More than…

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