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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
ThinkCareBelieve: Week 19 of President Trump's American Leadership
Washington, DC, May 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Link to ThinkCareBelieve's Article: has published an article on America's 19th week under the leadership of the Trump Administration. Week 19 rode in on strong momentum and just kept on building stronger. While honoring our men and women bravely serving our country, we renewed our confidence in our tenacity to rise above and overcome all odds. Grocery prices saw their largest drop in over 5 years, with the lowest inflation in that same span. Gas prices fell for the third straight month, the trade deficit has already been cut in half and consumer confidence is at an all time high. America is getting stronger, we are a shining nation of possibility again, and our hope is rising. The article covers the Rally in Pittsburgh, PA accouncing the deal to reinvest in U.S. Steel in partnership with Nippon Steel of Japan. This had been a contentious situation with a potential devastating loss of jobs and closing of the plant, but the Trump Team got involved to negotiate a win-win for everyone. 'We don't want America's future to be built with shoddy steel from Shanghai—we want it built with the strength and the pride of Pittsburgh.' President Trump told America. Hope is being restored to families of the Mon Valley Pittsburgh area who didn't know if they would be able to pay their mortgages or send their children to college and now they are celebrating. ThinkCareBelieve's article also describes Elon Musk receiving the Golden White House Key during the Oval Office Press Conference marking his transition from Special Government Employee to friend and advisor, at the President's service. Elon says that most of the DOGE team are staying on with the White House and their whose work will only get stronger from here. DJT: 'He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation and we appreciate it. Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations.' The various Cabinet Leaders will take Elon's place heading DOGE. Also covered in the Week 19 article is a significant list of DOGE's achievements from the recent White House article, as well as the increase of ICE's efforts to step up arrests while they dismantle the networks that have been trafficking drugs, guns, children and more. Per the White House, arrests are planned to increase to 3000 per day. The article also shows Palestinians receiving food in Gaza from President Trump while they tell reporters that Hamas was starving them. It also has an explanation of how wasteful lawfare is, and marks this week's tariff wins. More extensive progress on trade deals happened this week, with a report by CNBC announcing that at 130 days of the Trump Administration, America's trade deficit has been cut in half! America is fast approaching a rebirth of The American Dream as the One Big Beautiful Bill is now in the hands of The Senate for approval. ThinkCareBelieve's article shows the incledible leaps forward that the One Big Beautiful Bill will provide with a reduction in regulatory red tape and appropriations for booming new energy projects, America will be fueled to truly burst forth into the Golden Age. The OBBB helps American Farmers, Seniors, jumpstarts new infrastructure projects and gives Americans the largest tax relief ever. 'Anyone who has total earnings of $75,000 a year or less is going to be made completely whole, so all the low-income and middle-income seniors on Social Security will be paying zero on Social Security in the long run.' -Representative Jason Smith is an outlook. ThinkCareBelieve's mission for Peace advocacy facilitates positive outcomes and expanded possibilities. To achieve Peace, we will find the commonalities between diverse groups and bring the focus on common needs, working together toward shared goals. Activism is an important aspect of ThinkCareBelieve, because public participation and awareness to issues needing exposure to light leads to justice. Improved transparency in government can lead to changes in policy and procedure resulting in more fluid communication between the public and the government that serves them. America needs hope right now, and Americans need to be more involved in their government. ### CONTACT: CONTACT: Joanne COMPANY: ThinkCareBelieve EMAIL: joanne@ WEB: in to access your portfolio
Axios
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Orchestra's Opera & Humanities Festival focuses on reconciliation
Opera, art and community dialogue take center stage in Cleveland over the next 10 days. Why it matters: The Cleveland Orchestra's annual Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival is the celebrated ensemble's signature spring event. It features various performances, art exhibitions and public forums in partnership with other local cultural institutions, starting Friday and running through May 25. The intrigue: The theme of this year's festival is "Reconciliation," inspired by the early 20th-century opera "Jenůfa" and its themes of trauma, forgiveness and redemption. The Cleveland Orchestra, led by conductor Franz Welser-Möst, will perform the opera three times at Severance Music Center on May 17, 22 and 25. State of play: The full lineup of festivities begins at 8:30am Friday with a symposium on immigration at Severance. Other highlights include performances by Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet and pianist Michelle Cann, as well as forums and exhibitions hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ideastream and The City Club of Cleveland. Flashback: The Opera & Humanities Festival began in 2023 as the brainchild of André Gremillet, president and CEO of the Cleveland Orchestra. The inaugural theme was "The American Dream" followed by "Power" in 2024. What they're saying:"The goal was to use our annual opera performances to feature not just the Cleveland Orchestra but the incredible cultural scene we have in Cleveland," Gremillet tells Axios. "The festival is based on music first and foremost, but we also want to stimulate some interesting conversations on topics that are timely and important to the community." If you go: The festival features a mix of ticketed and free events.
RTÉ News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Book Of The Week: The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
A title like The Emperor of Gladness conjures images of grandeur, or indeed of a utopian state, writes Conor Hanratty. In fact, Ocean Vuong's new novel is set in East Gladness, a fictionalised small town in Connecticut. It begins with a tense, observant tour through the town, leading to a bridge on its outskirts. Our narrator, as yet anonymous, is planning to jump from it. Before he does, he sees a woman below, losing her laundry to the wind. In a tiny act of kindness, he tries to tell her where her blanket has gone. The elderly woman then convinces the younger man not to end his life. She coaxes him off the bridge, and shares some bread with him. Thus Vuong brings together his two protagonists, Hai and Grazina. Without much ado, in mutual desperation, they agree that Hai will move in and ensure she takes her medicine. Watch: Ocean Vuong discusses the inspiration behind The Emperor of Gladness Much of Hai's story is based on Vuong's own experiences, as the child of Vietnamese war refugees in Connecticut, as a drug user, and as a live-in carer for a real-life Grazina, acknowledged in the novel's end papers. Hai's circle expands further when, desperate for money, he gets a job at a restaurant, joining some other remarkable characters: they include Hai's cousin Sony, Maureen, Wayne, Russia and BJ, their manager. They become what Vuong has elsewhere described as a "circumstantial" family, united by their day-to-day collaboration in the physical labour of reconstituting food. Vuong - speaking again from personal experience - is at his most subversive when describing the mythology behind these "freshly" prepared meals. (His descriptions of the acceptable levels of rat or human remains in processed food are hair-raising.) Vuong's prose is as poetic and luminous as we have already come to expect. Myths are woven through the tapestry of these lives - mythologies as varied but essential as Star Wars, college education, the efficacy of rehab, "customer service" and, most pernicious, The American Dream. In this little pocket of New England, these people live lives far from what they wanted. But even in the strangest, most violent and challenging circumstances, they help each other. Despite a debilitating lack of hope, despite bleak glimpses into their lives outside work, this circumstantial (if not "chosen") family proves generous, supportive and tolerant. This is Vuong's point: even in this hopeless life in a hopeless town, people are good to each other. While he skewers the corporate concerns of the industries behind food production, incarceration and care for the elderly, Vuong shows with no small grace how ordinary people, despite cruel adversity, continually tend toward kindness. In the world today, this feels like a revolutionary observation. Vuong's prose is as poetic and luminous as we have already come to expect. He can - and does - make anything seem delicate and special, from a suicidal walk through East Gladness to a ladies' wrestling match in a biker bar. It is a long book, but Vuong rewards close attention with surprises, belly-laughs and resolutions to almost all the tiny observations that he makes. The novel begins and ends with kindness without any hope of reward. It might not inspire many to visit these corners of Connecticut, but it left this reader with more than a little faith in humanity restored.
The Independent
04-04-2025
- Business
- The Independent
‘Hulk' Trump has smashed through the global economy and wiped out trillions overnight
Like something out of a The Incredible Hulk movie (except orange, not green), Donald Trump has burst out of his metaphorical shirt, let out an almighty roar, unleashed his strength and has set about smashing up the world trade system. This week has witnessed a range of economic destruction on a scale unmatched by anything since the Second World War: almost comically random tariff schedules, deranged reasoning – are they a mere tactic or a permanent fixture? – and a certain satisfaction in punishing 'friend and foe' alike. No one – not even the countries that have a trade deficit with America – were spared. Cowering in a corner we find the world's economists, consumers, great companies and investors, all terrified by what The Incredible Tariffing Hulk of Washington might do next. The World Trade Organisation ran from the scene long since. Something like $3 trillion of value has been wiped off the world stock markets, and even that may only be the start. The sheer speed and scale of what Trump is doing – if he's serious and keeps smashing through the guardrails – threatens to tip the world into recession, and America with it. The markets, distressed as they are, have not yet fallen into a full-on crash. But only because they assume that such erratic policy-making will in due course be corrected and the tariffing watered down. If not, then the valuations attached to the world's largest corporations will have to fall, for the simple reason that they can no longer make things in the most efficient manner, and thus generate the returns they need to justify anyone buying their shares. There will be a tsunami of profit warnings in the months ahead. The Incredible Trump has not only upended the post-war rules-based international trading system, but the very concept of globalisation and the operations of every manufacturing, transportation, logistics and resources company on earth. Not far behind them will be the banks and investment houses that finance and are invested in them. And when the rest of us next see a valuation of our pension pots we will see the immediate and colossal harm he's done. This is where it hits home. It's at times like these that the markets panic. It could be, as reported, that investors can't quite believe what is happening, and that any American president could abandon free market-based economics for eighteenth-century mercantilism, and set about making America look like the 1960s again. But what if he means it? What if he doesn't care about markets and the world economy in his deluded zero-sum world? What if he ramps the tariffs up again if counties retaliate? What if it escalates? Would the Tariff Hulk care? He fundamentally thinks trade is bad and the US is better off aiming for self-sufficiency. It's the one thing he thinks he knows. It is a dangerous belief. Trump has an atavistic picture of The American Dream that he grew up in, and it's of sweaty guys knocking out Buicks in Detroit. It's all about factories, workshops, textile mills, the New York rag trade, coal mines and nodding donkey oil wells, like a montage of Norman Rockwell paintings. Those are the low-paid, exhausting, dangerous jobs that Trump wants to take back from China, Vietnam and Cambodia. He has zero interest in services – despite his tech bro friends – and seems to imagine that America is better off sending its young people to make Maga hats ragwort than learn how to code AI. It's nuts. At the end of the TV episodes of The Incredible Hulk, the monster's anger would subside, his civilised side would return and he'd stroll back to something like normalcy – albeit always living with the jeopardy of that destructive persona erupting again. It's where we are with Trump now. Hoping he relents. Uncertain times.
New York Times
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Corrections: March 19, 2025
A picture caption with an article on Saturday about Robert Indiana misstated the closing date of an exhibition. It closes March 29; it does not open on March 29. Another picture caption with the article also misidentified the gallery exhibiting an artwork. 'The American Dream,' from 1992, is in the Pace exhibition, not the Kasmin exhibition. A picture caption with an article on Monday about the Broadway play 'Othello' incorrectly described what fans were doing outside the Ethel Barrymore Theater. They were waiting to see Denzel Washington after the performance, not waiting to get into the show. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.
