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The United Kingdom could be the first G7 nation not to manufacture its own steel, with a major steel firm blaming President Donald Trump's tariffs for the planned closure of its two blast furnaces. British Steel, which is owned by Jingye, the Chinese steel group, announced plans to close its two blast furnaces in England, The Telegraph reported. The closures put 2,700 jobs at risk and the end of steel production in the United Kingdom after 150 years. Jingye bought British Steel in 2020. Jingye said the "imposition of tariffs" had made the blast furnaces and steel-making operations "no longer financially sustainable". THE

Wisconsin superintendent Jill Underly, who is running for re-election on Tuesday, says she wants to see school choice eliminated in her state. "So, school choice actually sounds like a pretty nice thing, doesn’t it?" Underly said at a school event in mid-March, according to PBS Wisconsin. "Like, who shouldn’t have a choice, right? But really, what it is in Wisconsin is, it’s privatization of public schools."PBS’s Steven Potter pressed Underly on her stance on school choice on Friday, asking, "So where do you stand on the voucher school system? Do you want to see it eliminated?"Underly responded, "Ultimately, yes, I would like to see it

Will Friedle is shedding light on the food fights from the hit '90s show, "Boy Meets World."Friedle, who starred as Eric Matthews on the show, claimed a producer had a food "fetish," and that's why there were food fights on the show."We had a producer on the show that had a very strange food fetish. It was almost, like, a sexuality when it came to food. So, that’s where he was going with this," Friedle claimed on his "Pod Meets World" podcast, which he co-hosts with Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) and Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence).The group brought up the season

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday said a "shadow government" is needed to provide Americans with the truth about the Trump administration's actions. Speaking at a town hall in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Walz accused the Trump administration of attacking voting rights, which he argued could be remedied through a new form of government.TIM WALZ SAYS HE WAS JOKING WHEN HE MOCKED TESLA’S FALLING STOCK "We see one of the first things they do is try and restrict the vote," Walz said of the Trump administration. "This is one of the things, though, that this is going to take power industry to —

For the first time in three decades, researchers believe they have identified a new class of antibiotics.Teams at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and the University of Illinois, Chicago — led by researcher Gerry Wright — collaborated in the discovery of lariocidin, which was found to be effective against drug-resistant bacteria.The results were published this week in the journal Nature.SUPERBUGS DUE TO ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE COULD KILL 39 MILLION PEOPLE BY 2050, LARGE STUDY FINDSLariocidin is a lasso peptide, a string of amino acids in a lasso shape that attacks bacteria and keeps it from growing and surviving, according to a

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A lawmaker in Washington on Thursday likened legislation aimed at banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports in the state to racial segregation in the United States, arguing that those across the aisle are "making a lot of the same arguments today."Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves spoke during an executive session of the House Education Committee on Thursday morning where members of the committee introduced SB 5123, a bill that aimed to expand protections for students, including gender expression and gender identity. "I recall a time in our country’s history not that long ago … where people like my grandfather were

Illegal migrant border encounters have plummeted since President Donald Trump took office in January and continue to trend at record lows compared to this time last year under former President Joe Biden.For instance, there were just 32 encounters in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, compared to 1,134 encounters on the same day in 2024, according to Border Patrol sources. That equates to a 97% reduction.In Tucson, Arizona, yesterday, there were 59 apprehensions compared to 1,222 on the same day last year under Biden, a 95% reduction, while San Diego saw 36 apprehensions on Thursday compared to 908 on the same