President Donald Trump’s massive China tariffs are jeopardizing American fireworks shows, threatening to drive up prices and limit supplies. U.S. fireworks wholesalers and distributors say they’ve been canceling shipments from China for this year’s July Fourth holiday. Some are also halting manufacturing in China of fireworks for next year’s celebrations of the 250th anniversary of…
More than 213,000 mainland Chinese visitors flocked to Hong Kong on the first day of the Labour Day “golden week” holiday on Thursday, looking forward to some hiking, treating their taste buds at street food stalls and restaurants, and enjoying a dazzling drone show in the night sky above Victoria Harbour. Immigration Department data showed…
An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday. NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space Station alongside Nichole Ayers. Both military officers and pilots, they launched to the orbiting lab in March to replace NASA’s two stuck…
May 1 (Reuters) – Gold dipped to a two-week low on Thursday, pressured by signals of softening trade tensions and a holiday in top consumer China, while focus was also on Friday’s U.S. payrolls report to gauge the economic outlook. Spot gold was down 2% at $3,222.43 an ounce at 9:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT),…
Vending Photo: The Hershey Company May 1, 2025 Reese’s has introduced a Peanut Butter White Bar in the U.K., combining its signature peanut butter filling with a white chocolate flavored coating. The 90-gram bar, featuring the ridges of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, is designed as a shareable treat, according to a press release. The product…
As its first endeavor the Project will provide foundational support for “Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements,” a retrospective exhibit featuring fashion by Dutch couture designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, which is slated to run at the High Museum from Oct. 10, 2025 until Feb. 8, 2026. Horsting and Snoeren are known for blurring the boundaries between…
You can basically copy and paste that line into countless stories about today’s advanced reactor technology. Molten-salt cooling systems? Invented in the mid-20th century but never commercialized. Same for several alternative fuels, like TRISO. And, of course, there’s thorium. This one research reactor in China running with an alternative fuel says a lot about this…
Rep. Jason Crow on Signal chat leak and more Rep. Jason Crow says Signal group chat put lives of U.S. military personnel at risk 06:16 National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, according to multiple sources familiar with their departure. In March,…
Provisional Met Office figures show the country recorded its brightest April since records began in 1910, with England seeing its sunniest ever, and the other home nations their second sunniest. It was also the UK’s third warmest April on record, with a mean temperature of 9.6C – 1.7C above the long-term average. People enjoy the…
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