President Donald Trump promised tariffs that would raise U.S. import taxes high enough to mirror what other assess as trade penalties on American goods. What he’s actually imposing is based on far more complicated math. Here’s a look at how the White House got its numbers: Why do the new tariff rates often differ by country? The Trump administration has declared an “economic emergency” to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tariff on nearly all countries and territories. It has set even higher levies for about 60 nations that it says are the “worst” offenders. The 10% global tariffs take effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The higher tariffs set for specific countries are due to kick in at one minute past midnight on April 9.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services, under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has removed Christine Grady—wife of Anthony Fauci—from her position as head of the bioethics division at the NIH Clinical Center, according to recent reports.

Hagaon HaRav Shlomo Machpud, a member of the Moetzes Chachmei Hatorah of Shas, baking Matzos. Photos for YWN by Shuki Lerer.

Stephen A. Smith thinks former President Barack Obama would have difficulty beating President Trump in a hypothetical third-term matchup, Breitbart reports.
On a recent episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show, the ESPN hot-take artist delved into the debate swirling around Trump seeking a third term and the counterargument liberals have raised to that discussion, saying that such a situation would mean Obama, too, could run.

The U.S. Senate voted down a pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday that would have blocked nearly $9 billion in arms sales to Israel.
Just 15 senators, all Democrats, voted in favor of the measures—fewer than voted for similar resolutions that Sanders put forward in November.
Speaking on the Senate floor before the vote, Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) said that the resolutions were “misguided” and would “reinstate the failed policies of the Biden administration.”
“Worse, they would abandon Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East, during a pivotal moment for global security,” Risch said. “No one in the world is coming to the support of Hamas. No one with the exception of some misguided people in this organization.”

Due to a critical shortage of corrections officers, New York state will begin releasing some prisoners ahead of schedule, just weeks after more than 2,000 guards were terminated for participating in a strike over poor working conditions.
Corrections Commissioner Daniel Martuscello issued a directive to prison officials instructing them to compile a list of inmates who were convicted of lesser offenses and are already scheduled to be released in the next 15 to 110 days, so they can be evaluated for early release.
According to the state’s Department of Corrections, individuals found guilty of sex offenses, violent crimes, or serious felonies—such as arson, terrorism, or murder—will not qualify for the early release initiative.

A Brooklyn woman who described herself as “haunted inside” was arraigned Thursday from her hospital bed on manslaughter charges following the high-speed crash that left a Jewish mother and two young daughters dead — and a young boy fighting for his life. Miriam Yarimi, 32, a wigmaker with a troubling history and a social media trail riddled with paranoia, was behind the wheel of a 2023 Audi A3 when she barreled through a red light on Ocean Parkway at more than double the speed limit. Her car slammed into a Toyota Camry Uber, flipped, and struck the Saada family as they crossed the street — killing Natasha Saada, 35, and her daughters Diana, 8, and Debra, 5 A”H. Their 4-year-old son, Philip, remains hospitalized in critical condition after losing a kidney.

A former top aide to former President Biden’s 2020 campaign declared she felt “lied to” over bombshell revelations that Biden was “fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged” in the days leading up to Biden’s disastrous performance in the June presidential debate, where he squared off against Donald Trump. Ashley Allison, who served as a senior official on the Biden-Harris campaign, voiced her fury on CNN Wednesday, following the release of excerpts from journalist Chris Whipple’s forthcoming book. The most damning of those excerpts includes testimony from former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who reportedly said he was “startled” by Biden’s exhaustion and that the president seemed “out of it.” “Do you feel lied to?” host Abby Phillip asked. “Yes,” Allison responded.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged lower for the second week in a row, a modest but welcome boost for prospective home shoppers in the midst of the spring homebuying season. The rate fell to 6.64% from 6.65% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.82%. The average rate has mostly trended lower since reaching just over 7% in mid-January. When mortgage rates decline, they boost homebuyers’ purchasing power. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, also fell this week, pulling the average rate down to 5.82% from 5.89% last week. A year ago, it averaged 6.06%, Freddie Mac said.

The Metropolitan Police revealed on Thursday that two men suspected of being Hezbollah operatives were arrested earlier this week in connection with a sweeping investigation into terrorist activity and funding. The suspects, aged 39 and 35, were apprehended in coordinated operations by the Met’s elite Counter Terrorism Command in west London. The older suspect is accused of being deeply involved in the planning of terrorist acts, membership in the proscribed organization, and financing terrorism. The younger man, also from west London, was arrested solely on suspicion of membership in the Lebanese terror group.

A firestorm of outrage has erupted across social media after veteran “60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl asked a question that many are calling shocking—and even sympathetic to terrorists—during a Sunday night segment with American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, recently released from nearly 500 days in Hamas captivity. In the emotional interview, Siegel recounted being starved, beaten, and humiliated by his Hamas captors. He recalled how, after his wife Aviva was released, “they became very mean and very cruel and violent.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s common-sense proposal to increase penalties for masked agitators who harass or threaten violence is facing a surprising roadblock in the state Senate, where lawmakers are balking—out of what sources describe as “heightened concern” for student demonstrators, even as threats against Jewish communities continue to rise. The governor’s measure, which would target individuals who purposely conceal their faces while engaging in menacing behavior, was introduced during closed-door budget negotiations in a bid to finally take action on an issue long demanded by Jewish leaders, civil rights groups, and public safety advocates.

By Miranda Devine
New chat logs released by the House Judiciary Committee this week show the extraordinary lengths the FBI went to behind the scenes to shut down any discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 after the New York Post broke the story.

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Yale Law School has fired an Iranian scholar, accusing her of refusing to cooperate as it probed allegations that she is involved with a group that the U.S. calls a “sham charity” for a designated terrorist organization. But Helyeh Doutaghi, an outspoken critic of Israel who worked at Yale on a visa as an associate research scholar and deputy director of the school’s Law and Political Economy Project, denies being uncooperative. She believes she was fired because of her criticism of the war in Gaza, as colleges around the country face financial pressure to crack down on antisemitism from the Trump administration.

Former Speaker of the House and Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich stopped by Hannity Wednesday night to chat with Sean about the party crazy vs. the party of common sense.

Gingrich also commented on Cory Booker’s 25-hour floor speech.

Ralph Nader, a former candidate in multiple U.S. presidential elections, recently alleged—without providing any substantiating proof—that the Israeli military has killed over 400,000 people in Gaza since the war began in October 2023. His claims appeared in an article published Monday by the left-leaning digital outlet CounterPunch.

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He’s been saying it for almost 40 years…
A clip of a 1980s Donald Trump talking to Oprah Winfrey went viral this week for its relevance to President Trump’s recent actions on tariffs.
In the clip, Trump tells the talk show host that he’d “make our allies pay their fair share” if he had any control over the matter.
“We’re a debtor nation. Something is going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can’t keep losing $200 billion, and yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets — it’s not free trade,” Trump said. “If you go to Japan right now and try to sell something, it’s impossible. They don’t have laws against it; they just make it impossible.”

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