内容摘要：However, Lai’s controversial proposal to completely remove tariffs on U.S. goods “on the basis of reciprocity,” in addition to bumping up procurement of U.S. products, triggered protests last week by Taiwanese farmers.

However, Lai’s controversial proposal to completely remove tariffs on U.S. goods “on the basis of reciprocity,” in addition to bumping up procurement of U.S. products, triggered protests last week by Taiwanese farmers.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Albert Stumm writes about travel, food and wellness. Find his work atWASHINGTON (AP) — A baby

clung to the back of an older male monkey, its tiny fingers grasping fur. But they’re not related and not even the same species.Scientists spotted surprising evidence of what they describe as monkey kidnappings while reviewing video footage from a small islandwere seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023.

“This was very much a shocking finding,” said Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany. “We’ve not seen anything like this in the animal kingdom.”The monkeys’ motivations remain under investigation. Capuchins are house cat-size monkeys found in South America and Central America. They are long-lived, clever and learn new behaviors from each other. One group of capuchins in Panama has even learned to use stone tools to crack open nuts and seafood.

Goldsborough and other researchers at Max Planck and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute had set up more than 80 cameras to study capuchin tool use, but were surprised to see the first howler babies appear in early 2022.

The footage showed the capuchins walking and pounding their stone tools with baby howlers on their backs. But cameras did not capture the moments of abduction, which scientists said likely happened up in the trees, where howlers spend most of their time.Contact AP’s global investigative team at

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz had the hardest-hit ball since Statcast started tracking in 2015, a home run off Milwaukee’s Logan Henderson on Sunday that left the bat at 122.9 mph and splashed into the Allegheny River.Cruz’s leadoff drive to right in the third inning on a 92.2 mph fastball traveled 432 feet and cut the Pirates’ deficit to 3-1 in a 6-5 loss.

“I connected really well. It feels even better just to know that it’s the hardest hit ball in the history of Statcast,” Cruz said through an interpreter. “It doesn’t matter how hard the ball was hit. I just go out and make good contact. Sometimes, I don’t even try to make the hardest contact.”Cruz had the previous hardest-hit ball, a 122.4 mph single on Aug. 24, 2022. Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton had the prior hardest-hit home run at 121.8 mph, a drive off Gio Gonzalez at Washington on Aug. 9, 2017.