Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson celebrates after scoring his side’s opening goal during the Europa Conference League final soccer match between Real Betis and Chelsea in Wroclaw, Poland, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
“History and facts have proven that the United States’ increase in tariffs will not solve its own problems,” the Commerce Ministry said Wednesday. “Instead, it will trigger sharp fluctuations in financial markets, push up U.S. inflation pressure, weaken the U.S. industrial base and increase the risk of a U.S. economic recession, which will ultimately only backfire on itself.”New Volvo vehicles waiting for shipment at the Yangtze port, in Nanjing city in east China’s Jiangsu province, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)
New Volvo vehicles waiting for shipment at the Yangtze port, in Nanjing city in east China’s Jiangsu province, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)Associated Press writers Didi Tang and Paul Wiseman in Washington and researcher Yu Bing and video producer Liu Zheng in Beijing contributed to this report.BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A huge economic boost, 40,000 British and Irish visitors in a swathe of red supporter gear, and the combined rugby might of four countries set to take on Australia.
The 10-match British and Irish Lions tour — a once-every-12-year occasion for Australia — kicks off next month and local organizers are already primed for the influx of rugby-loving visitors from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.The first of three test matches is 50 days away, in Brisbane on July 19. The second test is scheduled for July 26 in Melbourne and the third in Sydney on Aug. 2.
“The Lions is something that tends to reach beyond just the rugby union fans,”
said during a visit Friday to Suncorp Stadium, “because it’s such an infrequent tour, people just get interested and we’d love to earn the support of all those folk by being really competitive.Peregrines that made nests among the glass and steel of big cities seem to have avoided the worst of the bird flu outbreak decimating their country cousins.
City falcons, which eat songbirds and pigeons among other birds, haven’t seen the same declines, Clark said. And they’ve successfully added buildings and bridges to the their natural habitats, which include places like the Delaware Water Gap and the Palisades overlooking New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.Some even made a home on the busy George Washington Bridge, where scientists recently fitted chicks with anklets for tracking. New York state conservation officials estimate that the Big Apple has the largest urban population of peregrines around.
“We’re starting to see increases in success so that in New York City, we are at the point where we’re probably the most concentrated, populated peregrine falcon nesting in the whole world at this point. We have about 30 nesting pairs,” Nadareski said.The bird’s popularity, tethered in large part to its status as the world’s fastest, has soared recently, with thousands following live cams of peregrines around the country.