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Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump Tariffs Get Personal for the Harris Tweed Makers of the Hebrides
In December 1957, Reverend Murdoch MacRae traveled from his parish on Lewis and Harris, one of the Outer Hebridean islands off the north west of mainland Scotland, across the Atlantic Ocean to confront the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's tariffs on woolen imports were threatening an exodus of the island's workers whose hand-woven tweed jackets, trousers and caps — beloved by Americans from Wall Street bankers to the Kennedys and Hollywood actors — were the lifeblood of the local economy. Little did MacRae know that his successful mission to shield islanders from US protectionism would be undone almost 70 years later by the son of a fellow Lewis native, Donald Trump. 'Trump might portray himself as a man of Scottish heritage, he might have used the family Bible at his inauguration,' says Iain Martin, a fourth-generation weaver, but 'that man doesn't care. He's out for himself, nobody else.'
CNN
05-05-2025
- Business
- CNN
Former VP Mike Pence accepts award from Kennedys for Jan. 6
Former VP Mike Pence accepts award from Kennedys for Jan. 6 Former Vice President Mike Pence accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his actions on January 6. Pence refused to overturn the election after President Trump's repeated pressure. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and grandson Jack Schlossberg presented the award. 00:36 - Source: CNN Vertical Politics of the Day 15 videos Former VP Mike Pence accepts award from Kennedys for Jan. 6 Former Vice President Mike Pence accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his actions on January 6. Pence refused to overturn the election after President Trump's repeated pressure. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and grandson Jack Schlossberg presented the award. 00:36 - Source: CNN Trump supporters on third term Comedians Davram Stiefler and Jason Selvig regularly attend Trump rallies, speaking with the President's supporters for their podcast, 'The Good Liars Tell the Truth.' They tell CNN's Laura Coates there was 'constant forgiveness for anything' that President Trump does, including a possible third term. 01:31 - Source: CNN How businesses are waiting out tariffs With Trump's new tariffs in place on products from countries like China, many businesses are looking at bonded warehouses as a way to legally avoid paying the extra dues, for now. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones explains how they work. 01:01 - Source: CNN Van Jones speaks with Black Trump supporters CNN senior political commentator Van Jones speaks with a group of African Americans in South Carolina who explain why they voted for and continue to back President Donald Trump. 02:44 - Source: CNN Vanessa Yurkevich explains Trump's big move that could raise prices President Trump ended the de minimis exemption, a major shipping loophole that allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to come into the United States duty-free, often more or less skipping time-consuming inspections and paperwork. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich explains what this move will mean for US consumers and prices. 01:01 - Source: CNN How much the Trump family stands to earn from $2B crypto deal CNN's Erin Burnett and chief data analyst Harry Enten look at how much money the Trump family stands to make from a major crypto deal. 01:52 - Source: CNN Fareed's take on Trump's executive order record Fareed Zakaria breaks down President Donald Trump's first 100 days executive order record and compares it to that of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 00:58 - Source: CNN Fighting Trump's transgender military ban Lt. Nic Talbott is a member of the US Army Reserve and the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's ban of transgender people serving in the military. CNN's MJ Lee spoke to Talbott about his military career being in limbo. 02:01 - Source: CNN HHS releases controversial report on transgender children The US Department of Health and Human Services has released a 400-page review of treatment for gender dysphoria in children but did not disclose who authored or reviewed the report. CNN's Ben Hunte explains. 00:57 - Source: CNN Would you date someone with a different political POV? Can you separate the political context from your romantic life? CNN's Audie Cornish speaks with her show crew and with Orna Guralnik, a psychoanalyst and star of Showtime's Couples Therapy. 01:17 - Source: CNN Manu Raju breaks down Senate vote on Trump tariffs CNN's Manu Raju reports on the Senate rejecting a resolution that would have effectively blocked the president's global tariffs by revoking the emergency order Trump is using to enact them. 01:19 - Source: CNN Anderson on the exodus from DOJ's civil rights division CNN's Anderson Cooper examines the fallout of a massive number of workers leaving the Department of Justice civil rights division in the wake of the Trump administration outlining its agenda for the department's priorities. 03:56 - Source: CNN Trump says he won't bring back Abrego Garcia President Donald Trump acknowledged that he could secure the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, but refuses to do so. The comments appear to contradict previous remarks made by him and his top aides who say the US does not have the ability to return Abrego Garcia because he is in the custody of a foreign government, despite the Supreme Court's ruling that the Trump administration must 'facilitate' his return. 00:56 - Source: CNN Republicans share views as Trump's poll numbers sink CNN's Manu Raju asks Republican lawmakers about their thoughts on President Donald Trump's policies amid his sinking poll numbers. 02:05 - Source: CNN Trump details call with Jeff Bezos over tariff charges US President Donald Trump told reporters about his call with Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos saying he was 'a good guy,' following a spat earlier in the day between the White House and e-commerce giant. Two senior White House officials told CNN that Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that the company was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs on its website, a move that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called a 'hostile political act.' Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle said in a statement, 'The team that runs our ultra-low cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen.' 00:13 - Source: CNN
CBS News
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Book excerpt: "I Am Maria" by Maria Shriver
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In her new memoir, "I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home" (to be published April 1 by The Open Field), Maria Shriver – the daughter of Kennedys, broadcast journalist, and former first lady of California – uses poetry to explore a woman in search of herself. Read some selected poems below, and don't miss Lee Cowan's interview with Maria Shriver on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 23! "I Am Maria" by Maria Shriver Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. Beyond a shadow Beyond the words Beyond the picture of what a loving nurturing mother Is supposed to look like Act like Talk like Touch like There is you I couldn't find anyone like you in my picture books No mothers looked like you Dressed in pants like you Had hair like you Played football like you Smoked cigars like you Yet I knew you loved me I knew you wanted more for me than you had been given I knew you wanted for me everything you had been denied Beyond a shadow I know you loved me The way you smiled at me and cheered for me The way you pushed me I know you loved me Do you know how much I loved you Beyond a shadow you were my everything I understand so much more about you today You too were scared You too longed to be seen You too longed to be held My heart breaks for you As I've come to learn we cannot give what wasn't given to us As you grew older you softened You allowed me in My heart breaks for my mother But no one let her in But no one held her No one comforted her No one told her she was enough Her journey was relentless Her energy unbridled I understand now and I'm so sorry Beyond a shadow I know you loved me Beyond a shadow I loved you I've been wanting to talk to you lately to tell you You are not what I planned You may not give a damn but I thought you should know You are not what I expected I thought as long as I had my compass pointing north All would be good But I learned that my heart doesn't know north My life has led me on a path written in invisible ink Longing for more from a soul I didn't know yet So here we are Life Without a compass without a map Only my heart guiding me forward It wonders Am I ready to be known in a new and deep way? Am I strong enough to open my heart and divulge what lies within? Life you say that's what you are all about Let's see how the universe responds When I pull back the curtain on my soul They are everywhere The fragments of me In the closet in the drawer in the ceiling looking down The fragments of me are all over the land They are in Chicago In Maryland In the hall at my school In my bedroom Where I broke into two What about you Are you shattered Are you fragmented In pieces as well Is your life here on earth A heaven or hell Do you vacillate Between power and impotence Wanting nothing or wanting it all Do you stare down on yourself dissociated from life When you close your eyes do you pray for the relief of a knife Tell me tell me Are you the coward the hero a player of hearts Do you know who you are or have you vanished from your life Stand up show yourself stop hiding here and there Go pick up the pieces They're everywhere It's a mess it's a shambles You are here and you are there Don't you see Don't you care that you're everywhere It's up to you Up to you to piece together your life Up to you to make sense Up to you to go back Back to where it began Go back to your birth Go back if you can Go back to Hyannis Go back to your room Go back Tell him you know and no longer feel shame Tell her you love her and pray for her pain Go back pick up the pieces Make yourself whole Go back to the fragments They're the key to your soul Excerpted from "I Am Maria" by Maria Shriver, published by The Open Field, an imprint of Penguin Life, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2025 by Maria Shriver. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Get the book here: "I Am Maria" by Maria Shriver Buy locally from For more info:
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'There isn't a definitive version' - the changing face of Irish America
"There is no such thing as one, definitive, version of Irish America." This phrase, or a variation of it, comes up time and time again when speaking to people who broadly fit under the umbrella of being 'Irish-American'. Some come from the Republic of Ireland, some from Northern Ireland, others have families who emigrated more than 150 years ago, some have been in the United States for less than 12 months. They all say the vision of Irish America that is still common in the popular imagination - of corner bars in Boston, Cork-accented cops in Chicago, the Kennedys, Catholicism, work on the railroads - is just one part of a patchwork of identities across the US. Josh Taggart from Ballymoney in County Antrim is one of the newer generation, although he follows in the footsteps of the Ulster-Scots emigrants who provided so many early US presidents. Studying for a masters degree at Georgetown University and interning on Capitol Hill at a major Congressional committee, the 28-year-old was drawn to the US by the familiar lure of better opportunities. 'My girlfriend and I were doing this cost/benefit analysis, looking at the state of the UK and public services, cost of childcare, cost of housing, salaries,' he says. 'If I did the same job I was doing in London but I did it in Washington DC where would I be five years from now? "She's a nurse and it's just night and day with the salaries. That kind of made the decision for us.' But he feels unlike previous generations who perhaps felt they had no choice to leave a weaker economy behind, he made a more proactive decision. 'Part of what made it so easy is that our generation is a global generation, we're not afraid of jumping on a flight or living in another country for a couple of years and that is the way we've grown up,' he says. Roisin Comerford is also a first-generation immigrant and spent time in Portland, Oregon, before putting down roots in Washington DC. She is the chairperson of Irish Network DC, one of a number of affiliated groups across the US which provide cultural and social networking opportunities for their members, whether they are Irish or just have an interest in Irish culture. She says a lot of Irish in DC are drawn to the universities or work in international relations, healthcare and politics. 'It is too difficult to sum Irish America up as one group - you could probably divide it into three or four," she says. 'I know a lot of people my age who moved over here for opportunities, who are happy to live here and have a life here and they have one view of Ireland. 'Then there are people who moved in the 80s and they would have a different view of it and then there are more old school Irish-Americans who have another view, people whose parents or grandparents emigrated from Ireland. 'They are generally very proud to be Irish and very interested in Irish culture.' In the 2020 census 38.6m people in the US claimed full or partial Irish ancestry - 11.6% of the population. But levels of immigration have fallen as the US has strengthened entry requirements at the same time that the Republic of Ireland's economy has dramatically improved and Northern Ireland's society has become more peaceful following the end of the Troubles. The 1930 US census recorded 923,600 residents who were born on the island of Ireland. By the turn of the century that had fallen to 169,600. There was a time when Irish immigration was not universally seen as a positive thing, with job adverts routinely stating 'Irish need not apply'. Roisin says she feels privileged to be an Irish immigrant in a country that today feels very welcoming to people of her background. It is a sentiment shared by Kevin Tobin, who moved to the US from County Tipperary 14 years ago. He ended up in Baltimore in Maryland - a city with a long-standing Irish community - where he is chairman of Baltimore GAA club. On a chilly Saturday morning where the misty weather is a visible reminder of home, he organises two dozen players as they play hurling and football in an urban park. 'The Irish accent would travel very well in America, it's a very welcome thing. People are very fond of it and it certainly doesn't do you any harm when, for example, you turn up for a job interview,' the father-of-two says. 'We're not necessarily protective of Irishness, we don't need to defend it, it defends itself. 'Therefore your version of Irishness and my version of Irishness, whether they're different or not doesn't really matter. 'People are very proud to be Irish but we don't have to act a particular way or spend time with a particular person or eat a particular type of food to be Irish. "It's not necessarily an identity on an ID card, it's a way of life, a way of carrying yourself, a way of being warm and being welcoming. 'There is no one definitive Irish America.' Of the 80 or so members at the club, a handful were born in Ireland, about a third consider themselves Irish-American and the rest simply fancied giving Gaelic games a try. One of the handful is Ciarán Quinn from Belfast, who is taking part in the session wearing his Antrim county jersey. 'We moved here and we didn't know a single person, but GAA is a community,' he says. 'Having that community and people who can help you with jobs, help you with whatever, it has been very helpful and great to meet the locals because lots of them play too.' Joyce Eierman on the other hand has Irish roots which go back much further than just a few years. Three sets of her great-grandparents moved to the US in the mid-19th Century and she is part of Baltimore's historic Irish community. Four generations of her family worked on the railroads, including her son who is an engineer. She is secretary of the Friendly Daughters of St Patrick Maryland - the only surviving Friendly Daughters group in the US. It is a social and charitable organisation for women of Irish heritage, and Joyce stresses that it is open to those of all religions and none. 'The men were breadwinners for a long time in the Irish community but the women held everything together and we carry that forward because we want to help others, that is the most important thing about what we do," she says. 'Having fun is good and we want to use that to raise money for those in need, especially women and children. 'For the most part the people I know from the Irish community they learned from their grandparents and their own parents, and it is our job to pass that pride in our heritage on to that generation." 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BBC News
17-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Irish America's changing face: 'There isn't a definitive version'
"There is no such thing as one, definitive, version of Irish America."This phrase, or a variation of it, comes up time and time again when speaking to people who broadly fit under the umbrella of being 'Irish-American'.Some come from the Republic of Ireland, some from Northern Ireland, others have families who emigrated more than 150 years ago, some have been in the United States for less than 12 all say the vision of Irish America that is still common in the popular imagination - of corner bars in Boston, Cork-accented cops in Chicago, the Kennedys, Catholicism, work on the railroads - is just one part of a patchwork of identities across the US. Josh Taggart from Ballymoney in County Antrim is one of the newer generation, although he follows in the footsteps of the Ulster-Scots emigrants who provided so many early US for a masters degree at Georgetown University and interning on Capitol Hill at a major Congressional committee, the 28-year-old was drawn to the US by the familiar lure of better opportunities.'My girlfriend and I were doing this cost/benefit analysis, looking at the state of the UK and public services, cost of childcare, cost of housing, salaries,' he says.'If I did the same job I was doing in London but I did it in Washington DC where would I be five years from now? "She's a nurse and it's just night and day with the salaries. That kind of made the decision for us.'But he feels unlike previous generations who perhaps felt they had no choice to leave a weaker economy behind, he made a more proactive decision.'Part of what made it so easy is that our generation is a global generation, we're not afraid of jumping on a flight or living in another country for a couple of years and that is the way we've grown up,' he says. Roisin Comerford is also a first-generation immigrant and spent time in Portland, Oregon, before putting down roots in Washington is the chairperson of Irish Network DC, one of a number of affiliated groups across the US which provide cultural and social networking opportunities for their members, whether they are Irish or just have an interest in Irish says a lot of Irish in DC are drawn to the universities or work in international relations, healthcare and politics.'It is too difficult to sum Irish America up as one group - you could probably divide it into three or four," she says.'I know a lot of people my age who moved over here for opportunities, who are happy to live here and have a life here and they have one view of Ireland. 'Then there are people who moved in the 80s and they would have a different view of it and then there are more old school Irish-Americans who have another view, people whose parents or grandparents emigrated from Ireland. 'They are generally very proud to be Irish and very interested in Irish culture.' In the 2020 census 38.6m people in the US claimed full or partial Irish ancestry - 11.6% of the levels of immigration have fallen as the US has strengthened entry requirements at the same time that the Republic of Ireland's economy has dramatically improved and Northern Ireland's society has become more peaceful following the end of the 1930 US census recorded 923,600 residents who were born on the island of the turn of the century that had fallen to 169, was a time when Irish immigration was not universally seen as a positive thing, with job adverts routinely stating 'Irish need not apply'.Roisin says she feels privileged to be an Irish immigrant in a country that today feels very welcoming to people of her background. It is a sentiment shared by Kevin Tobin, who moved to the US from County Tipperary 14 years ended up in Baltimore in Maryland - a city with a long-standing Irish community - where he is chairman of Baltimore GAA a chilly Saturday morning where the misty weather is a visible reminder of home, he organises two dozen players as they play hurling and football in an urban park.'The Irish accent would travel very well in America, it's a very welcome thing. People are very fond of it and it certainly doesn't do you any harm when, for example, you turn up for a job interview,' the father-of-two says.'We're not necessarily protective of Irishness, we don't need to defend it, it defends itself.'Therefore your version of Irishness and my version of Irishness, whether they're different or not doesn't really matter. 'People are very proud to be Irish but we don't have to act a particular way or spend time with a particular person or eat a particular type of food to be Irish. "It's not necessarily an identity on an ID card, it's a way of life, a way of carrying yourself, a way of being warm and being welcoming.'There is no one definitive Irish America.' Of the 80 or so members at the club, a handful were born in Ireland, about a third consider themselves Irish-American and the rest simply fancied giving Gaelic games a of the handful is Ciarán Quinn from Belfast, who is taking part in the session wearing his Antrim county jersey.'We moved here and we didn't know a single person, but GAA is a community,' he says.'Having that community and people who can help you with jobs, help you with whatever, it has been very helpful and great to meet the locals because lots of them play too.' Joyce Eierman on the other hand has Irish roots which go back much further than just a few sets of her great-grandparents moved to the US in the mid-19th Century and she is part of Baltimore's historic Irish generations of her family worked on the railroads, including her son who is an is secretary of the Friendly Daughters of St Patrick Maryland - the only surviving Friendly Daughters group in the is a social and charitable organisation for women of Irish heritage, and Joyce stresses that it is open to those of all religions and none.'The men were breadwinners for a long time in the Irish community but the women held everything together and we carry that forward because we want to help others, that is the most important thing about what we do," she says.'Having fun is good and we want to use that to raise money for those in need, especially women and children.'For the most part the people I know from the Irish community they learned from their grandparents and their own parents, and it is our job to pass that pride in our heritage on to that generation."
