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Trump's tariff deadline looms over world economy
President Trump's self-imposed midnight deadline is rapidly approaching for countries to strike a trade framework with the United States or face significantly higher tariffs. In a new development today, President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on higher tariffs on Mexico.
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Arrest made in Arkansas hiking murders
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US diminished a key weapons stockpile fighting Iran
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Carney says Canada will recognize Palestinian state
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Jury finds James Craig guilty of first-degree murder
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Analysis-US companies spending record amounts to protect executives as threats rise
By Ross Kerber and Isla Binnie (Reuters) -U.S. companies are spending record amounts to keep their executives safe in response to rising threats and the killings of two high-profile corporate officials in separate attacks in Manhattan over the last eight months. Corporations have doubled the number of plain-clothed security teams outside buildings in New York City since a shooting last week in which four people were killed, said Glen Kucera, president of the enhanced protection services unit at Allied Universal, a security and facilities services firm. "It's unspeakable. I never knew anyone who was murdered," said Rich Friedman, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, who previously worked with one of the victims, Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner. Her death shook Wall Street, even though authorities believe her killing was a random event. Police said the shooter was targeting the headquarters of the National Football League, which is housed in the same building in the Midtown area of Manhattan where LePatner worked. The shooter also killed a New York City police officer, building security guard and employee at real estate company Rudin before turning the gun on himself. The attack was "shocking and hits very close to home," Citigroup spokesperson Ed Skyler said in a note to employees a day after the July 28 killings in Midtown. "Understandably, yesterday has also left many of us feeling uneasy," he said, assuring employees that the bank has beefed up security at its Manhattan headquarters over the last year. Threats against executives "have massively ramped up since 2020," said Chris Pierson, the CEO of cybersecurity firm BlackCloak. He noted how the man charged with murdering a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband near Minneapolis in June allegedly kept a target list of mostly other politicians and used online people-search services to find their addresses. Ben Joelson, head of security risk and resilience for the Chertoff Group, a security advisory firm, said threats against executives are higher than at any time in the decade he has worked in the field, with social media posts magnifying complaints against institutional leaders. Artificial intelligence is compounding the problem, leading to an "exponential rise" in realistic phishing attempts, Joelson was cited as saying in a report by research firm Equilar. When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death in New York in December, it seemed to be a very rare "black swan event," Joelson told Reuters in an interview. But targeted attacks have continued, including the killings in Minnesota and the shooting deaths of two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington in May. "It's increasingly acceptable for some bad actors or adversaries to address grievances through violence," which has led many companies to put a new focus on security, Joelson said. Matthew Dumpert, global leader of enterprise security risk management at financial and risk advisory firm Kroll, said a lot of existing and new clients reached out last week following the deadly attack in Midtown. "Several of the outreaches directly to me have been by the executive committees ... whoever owns risk. It's chief legal officers, admin officers, compliance officers, security officers," Dumpert said. He added that several clients that had emergency response projects slated to start later this year have asked him to "put those on the front burner. Start immediately, and let's move forward." 'TREND IS UNSURPRISING' Median spending on executive security for top officers including chief executives, chief financial officers and others rose 16% to a record $106,530 last year, according to new data from Equilar, which reviewed financial filings for the 500 largest U.S. public companies by revenue. Security spending includes surveillance and alarm systems for executives' homes, personal guards and cybersecurity protections. Equilar analysts said the trend is likely to continue as firms grapple with the growing threats to their executives and employees. The percentage of executives at those companies with such protection rose to 33.8% from 23.3% over the 2020-2024 period, Equilar said. Nearly a third of CEOs in the group, 32.4%, received security services last year, up from 21.9% in 2020; the value of those CEOs' security perks reached a median $77,976 last year, up from $40,052 in 2020. Tech companies had the biggest growth in implementing security measures for executives, with a 73.5% jump in those receiving the benefits from 2020 to 2024, but communications companies spent the most, at a median value of $1.2 million a year, Equilar found. Blue-chip companies such as Walmart, General Motors, American Express, and chipmaker Broadcom, previously disclosed new or increased security expenses from previous years following Thompson's killing. "The trend is unsurprising considering the broader concerns about executive safety amid geopolitical instability, increasing cyber threats and the high public visibility of top leadership roles," Equilar said in its report. Errore nel recupero dei dati Effettua l'accesso per consultare il tuo portafoglio Errore nel recupero dei dati Errore nel recupero dei dati Errore nel recupero dei dati Errore nel recupero dei dati
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Once targeted over Trump shoutout in 2016, Gregory Cheadle plans Redding return
Five years after making his fifth California Congressional District 1 election bid, a Redding politician and real estate broker plans to return to Shasta County in a few months, doctorate in hand. Gregory Cheadle said he's still devoted to public service — the impetus behind him going back to school — and is using those failed election runs to foster personal growth. "I didn't earn a PhD to sit in an ivory tower somewhere," said Cheadle, 68, who graduated in June from Loma Linda University with a doctorate in social welfare. 'My time away (from Redding) wasn't an escape … it was preparation" for public service. Cheadle went from long-shot Republican politician to a national pariah after President Donald Trump singled him out as one of his supporters during a 2016 campaign stop. That notoriety that followed and six lost elections hasn't dampened Cheadle's optimism or appreciation for the Redding community. His home is here, he said, and he wants to return. 'Sometimes it takes leaving and returning ... to truly appreciate where you're meant to be." Note to readers: If you appreciate the work we do here at the Redding Record Searchlight, please consider subscribing yourself or giving the gift of a subscription to someone you know. He said he's not sure if he wants to run for local office again or serve his community some other way when he arrives home in Redding, likely around the holidays: "I just have to find out where I fit." That said, he does think Shasta County's political arena could use an overhaul. "The county's grassroots leaders fight culture wars, and dispute election denial and conspiracy theories instead of economic development and infrastructure," Cheadle said. Events that shaped Cheadle's life Cheadle's credits two childhood experiences for his passion for public service and his ability to bounce back from defeat. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1956, Cheadle spent his early years in Oakland with his mother. When he was 8, his father took him from his mother and back to Cleveland, 'a traumatic experience that taught me early about resilience,' Cheadle said. It was a pivotal time for the nation and for Cheadle. He recalled during his childhood seeing military tanks rumbling through the streets during political unrest that marked the 1960s. He clearly remembers meeting the man whose election helped deescalate the violence. It was Cleveland's first Black mayor, Carl Stokes. 'He came walking down the street. He shook my hand. I was on cloud nine," Cheadle said. Cheadle said meeting Stokes taught him celebrities were real people making a difference in their communities and that he could make a difference, too. After graduating from high school in 1975, Cheadle spent the next decade earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at Cal State Hayward. He also received his real estate license, but soon discovered no broker would hire a Black person to sell real estate in the mostly white suburbs of Contra Costa County, he said. By then married and helping support a family, Cheadle drew on his learned resilience. Real estate agents had to work under a broker, so Cheadle got his broker's license in 1988 and became his own boss, he said. After more than a decade selling real estate, the father of three moved his family to Redding in 2000 to give them a better quality of life than he could afford in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was in Redding he discovered his "calling in public service," he said. At first he planned to go into criminal defense. He earned his law degree in 2012 at Cal Northern in Chico, but was one of the 70% of aspiring lawyers who didn't pass the California bar, he said. So Cheadle pivoted to public service through politics. He first threw his hat in the North State's District 1 Congressional ring in 2012, repeating the bid in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 — each time attempting to challenge GOP incumbent Doug LaMalfa. Through 2018, he said he was running as 'an 1856 Republican," the party of Abraham Lincoln, but even in the conservative district he never made it past the primaries against the heavily favored LaMalfa. Cheadle faces backlash after Trump shoutout Bent on making a difference in a county where 80% of the population identified as white and less than 1% as Black, Cheadle said he resolved not to let other people's attitudes about race be his problem. That became impossible when on June 3, 2016, Cheadle — then on his third congressional bid — went to hear then-presidential candidate Donald Trump speak at Redding Regional Airport. When Trump mentioned an 'African American guy who was a fan of mine,' Cheadle told the Record Searchlight, he was just having a bit of fun when he tried to get Trump's attention. 'Look at my African American over here. Look at him. Are you the greatest? You know what I'm talking about? OK,' Trump said in Cheadle's direction. Cheadle appeared on national news saying he couldn't find offense in someone calling him "the greatest," but others did. He stopped campaigning and retreated to his home to ride out a wave of angry phone calls and Facebook messages. By then divorced, the backlash cost him friends and made him feel unsafe going out, he said. The only time Cheadle said he voted for Trump was in the 2016 general election. Cheadle reemerged in 2018 to run for Congress as a Republican, but by 2020 he'd redefined himself as a political Independent. Leaving the Republican Party wasn't waffling, it was "the result of following my conscience," he said. "I watched Republicans weaponize patriotism against a Black man (Colin Kaepernick) peacefully protesting police brutality." Cheadle came under fire again after he defended Kaepernick's decision to kneel, this time from Republicans. 'The venom directed at me was a revelation," he said. "This wasn't the party of Lincoln (who) died alongside enslaved people." But Cheadle faced a conundrum. Running as a Republican gave him an audience unwilling to support racial justice, he said, while running as an Independent meant he kept his principles, but few supporters. So, he reinvented himself again. While a doctoral student at Loma Linda, Cheadle ran for Congressional District 43 in 2024, this time as a Democrat against Democratic incumbent Maxine Waters of Southern California. While Waters won handily, Cheadle placed a distant fifth out of the five candidates in the primary, but said he again learned from the experience. While not a perfect fit, the Democratic Party shares his views on racial equality, while Republicans are caught in a double standard. For example, the GOP considers Black unemployment numbers that are double white unemployment numbers to be the norm, Cheadle said: 'If those numbers were reversed, they'd declare a national emergency." When he gets back to Redding around Christmas, Cheadle — who penned the pro-vegan book 'Milk Madness,' published in 2022 — plans to finish writing three other books he has in the works, he said. One is about the 2016 Trump rally in Redding and the fallout afterward. Jessica Skropanic is a features reporter for the Record Searchlight/USA Today Network. She covers science, arts, social issues and news stories. Follow her on Twitter @RS_JSkropanic and on Facebook. Join Jessica in the Get Out! Nor Cal recreation Facebook group. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today. Thank you. 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I'm a Democrat who left Texas. New GOP maps will silence Latino voters.
I joined my fellow Texas Democrats in leaving the state to deny Republicans the required quorum they need to pass manipulated congressional maps. This summer, Texas tragically lost more than 135 of our neighbors, many of them children, to the devastating July 4 floods. In the wake of that heartbreak, Texans deserved leadership, compassion and action. Instead, Texas Republicans are exploiting the tragedy to launch a blatant and calculated power grab. They've hijacked what should be a special legislative session focused on helping grieving survivors to instead do the bidding of President Donald Trump and push through new congressional maps − a process normally conducted every 10 years after the Census. This isn't just political opportunism. It's an insult to the people who lost their lives and the communities still suffering. This is also a test. In 2024, Democrats nationwide took the Latino vote for granted and paid for it. We can't afford to make that mistake again. We must be clear about what's really happening in Texas now. Republicans are using Latino voters as political pawns. Latino voices, electoral power and ability to fully participate in our democracy are under threat. Democrats must stand up and show that we will not allow them to be silenced without a fight. Texas and national Republicans know the math. They understand that Latinos are now the largest population in our state, and that Texas elections have national consequences for the balance of power in Washington. A redistricting primer: Texas Democrats face their Alamo with new GOP congressional map Rather than work to earn more Latino votes, Republicans, at the direction of President Donald Trump, are instead tactfully carving them out of districts, dividing up their communities and working to silence their influence. Let's be clear:These proposed maps are designed to entrench Republican power, pad the party's slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and rig future elections. They are not a reflection of the will of the people, nor based on any new census data. Republicans' hidden agenda isn't so hidden In Austin, for example, we're seeing the impact firsthand. The maps would eliminate the Latino opportunity district, robbing a diverse, civically engaged city of fair representation at a time when our population has soared. Austin would be forced into a newly drawn Republican district stretching hundreds of miles to east Texas. Similar scenarios would play out across south Texas, Houston and Dallas, where millions of Latinos live. These new Republican maps send a message to Latino voters − and voters in general − that their voices don't matter. As Democrats, we can't wait for an election cycle to speak out and act with conviction. It's not enough to oppose these maps. We must fight for a Texas, and a country, where every voter, in every neighborhood, has an equal voice. After all, a hallmark of a thriving American democracy is that voters choose their elected leaders − not the other way around. Opinion: Texas Democrats know they're fighting a losing cause. At least they're fighting. As chair of the Progressive Caucus' redistricting effort, I've led these fights before, and I'm prepared to do it again. As a Latina and proud daughter of the Rio Grande Valley, I refuse to sit back while Republican leaders silence our communities, try to erase Latino political power and rig our democracy behind closed doors. That's why I joined my fellow Texas Democrats, as I did in 2021, in leaving the state, denying Republicans the required quorum they need to pass these manipulated maps. They've left us no choice. I must do everything in my power to stand up for my constituents and all Texans. That includes not letting these maps get a vote on the floor to begin with. If it can happen in Texas, it can happen elsewhere I believe we have the power − and the people − on our side to stop this shameful scheme. Texans must be willing to show up at hearings, share their stories, and demand transparency and fairness in this process. We need Democrats nationwide to see this moment as a front-line voting rights battle. It's not just another local fight. Because if Republicans make Texas their blueprint, what's to stop them from doing this in other states? Latino voters have seen this play out before. Politicians come around every few years talking a big game about representation, then disappear until the next election cycle. It has to end. The way we fight now with these maps will determine whether we earn the right to ask for Latinos to vote for us later. This moment is how Democrats can start to regain trust with Latino voters, and all communities of color. That means the stakes are high, but so is the opportunity. This is not just a fight about maps. It's a fight about who counts, and who has power in our democracy. History has its eyes on us, and it will remember who met this moment with resolve to win. And who stayed silent. Democratic Rep. Gina Hinojosa chairs the Texas House Progressive Caucus' redistricting effort.
