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Trump adds tariff after Canada runs Reagan ad during the World Series
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Trump adds tariff after Canada runs Reagan ad during the World Series

Oct. 25 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday said he will add a 10% tariff to Canadian goods after the airing of a controversial ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan during the World Series. As the Toronto Blue Jays were on their way to winning the opening game by an 11-4 score over the Los Angeles Dodgers, an anti-tariffs ad featuring edited comments made by Reagan regarding his tariffs on Japanese goods. The ad spurred Trump to follow through on an earlier threat to increase the tariff on Canadian goods exported to the United States. "Canada was caught red-handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan's speech on tariffs," Trump said Saturday in a Truth Social post. "The sole purpose of this fraud was Canada's hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their 'rescue' on tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States," the president said. "Ronald Reagan loved tariffs for the purpose of national security and the economy, but Canada said he didn't," Trump added. The president said Canada was supposed to immediately cease airing the ad and remove it, but "they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a fraud." "Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts and hostile act, I am increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now," Trump added. Reagan made the comments during an April 25, 1987, radio address to defend his tariff policy, but the Ontario government used and edited them without permission from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. The Ontario ad runs for a minute and edits the former president's comments, which Trump and others have called "misleading." Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the ad's intent is to "initiate a conversation" with U.S. officials and to reach "U.S. audiences at the highest levels," CBS News reported. The U.S. imposes a 10% tariff on Canadian energy, energy resources and potash and 35% for all other products that are not exempted by the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, according to the ReedSmith Trump 2.0 Tariff Tracker.

Mike Heuer
Reacher Star Alan Ritchson Stole Jason Momoa's Secret Weapon Filming Fast X
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Reacher Star Alan Ritchson Stole Jason Momoa's Secret Weapon Filming Fast X

"Fast X" is one of the worst "Fast & Furious" movies. It commits the cardinal sin of forgetting this is a franchise about family, splitting the crew for most of the runtime and treating most of the characters as sidekicks. It simultaneously brings back enough characters that death becomes meaningless, while attempting to build emotional tension by leaving most of the team on the verge of death. It's also convoluted and overly long. And yet, it does have something that adds a net positive to the franchise: Jason Momoa's Dante, one of the best villains in the entire "Fast & Furious" franchise. He's a stylish, unhinged, and very dangerous villain that feels like the franchise's answer to Joker. Dante feels like nothing we'd seen before, yet something inevitable. His action scenes are only matched by the moments of gleeful mayhem — like giving mani-pedis to the corpses of dead henchmen. He is the secret weapon of "Fast X," so it makes sense that co-star Alan Ritchson would target Momoa for his own heist in a franchise that's featured some truly ludicrous heists. During an interview with Wired, Ritchson (who plays Agent Aimes) said he stole something crucial to Momoa's performance: his stunt double, Ryan Tarran. "I stole him from Momoa on 'Fast.' I did ask if I could, if he wouldn't mind if I'd used him, and then he never got him back. He's been my stunt double for a very long time. We were working on a movie together recently and he just got pretty injured, not good, demonstrating a stunt for me. And so now I'm working with a guy named Luke Davis, who's also amazingly talented. And Ryan has moved to stunt coordinate. So now we design fights together."

Rafael Motamayor

Ruben Torres Maldonado, whose daughter is battling cancer, being held illegally, judge says

A federal judge on Friday ruled that a Mexican national whose arrest by immigration agents in Niles last weekend disrupted his 16-year-old daughter’s cancer treatment has been detained unlawfully and deserves a bond hearing.U.S. District Judge Jeremy Daniel ordered that Ruben Torres Maldonado should get that hearing by Friday, giving his lawyers a chance to argue for his freedom.However, Daniel did not order Maldonado’s immediate release. Related Elected leaders call for ICE to release father of teen battling cancer “While sympathetic to the plight [Maldonado’s] daughter faces due to...

Jon Seidel
Mansa villagers relieved as drug-addict couple who sold child arrested
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Mansa villagers relieved as drug-addict couple who sold child arrested

Akbarpur Khudal, a nondescript village barely 4 km from Bareta town in Mansa district, is breathing a sigh of relief today. Not just the residents, but even the family members of the alleged drug-addict couple who “sold” their five-month-old son to a Budhlada-based family last month say they finally feel unburdened.Earlier in the day, the Bareta police booked four persons —the alleged drug-addict parents and the couple who “bought” the infant in the guise of adoption — on the charge of human trafficking under Section 143 of the BNS.Three of the accused have been arrested, while the woman from Budhlada is absconding. The accused were produced in a court, which sent them to two-day police custody. Officials said the infant had been shifted to an orphanage at Nathana village in Bathinda.“For long, the couple’s presence had been a blot on this otherwise peaceful village, which takes pride in being blessed by the visit of Guru Gobind Singh ji. Nobody here consumes intoxicants. It was only because of the duo that Akbarpur Khudal couldn’t be declared drug-free,” said Satar Ali, the husband of village sarpanch Parveen Ali, echoing a widely shared sentiment.The infant’s grandfather, who runs a tyre repair shop, said his son and daughter-in-law sold everything they could lay their hands on to fulfil their ‘chitta’ (heroin) craving. “They sold two door frames, a washing machine and even a table they bought after selling the child,” he said, his voice choking with emotion.“My son picked the drug habit from his mother, who now lives separately in Boha, and later dragged his wife into it. My daughter-in-law was once a state-level wrestler with a strong build but, at just 19, she is now frail and unrecognisable…. I am thankful to the police. Had my grandson stayed with them, he wouldn’t have survived,” he said, seated amid rusted tools in his modest shop’s courtyard.The grandfather and his elder brother said despite owning about four acres of land, they were forced to buy wheat flour from market as they were unable to store anything safely at home. “We are over 60 and still working in the fields, repairing tyres, cooking food, doing everything,” the duo said. The elder brother still carries the memory of an arm broken by his nephew. “He fractured my arm when I asked him to mend his ways a year ago. We will not go for their bail,” he said.At the village entrance, a group of men playing cards at the ‘sath’ (common sitting area) recalled how detached the couple was from their child. “They were consumed by ‘chitta’ and showed no affection for their child. Their actions have shamed our village where people from all communities and faiths live in harmony,” said one of them.The Budhlada man, who had been caring for the infant for a month, had been raising four daughters of his own and three of his brother, whose first wife is in jail in a murder case. “Together, the couple was raising seven girls and longed for a son,” said a police officer.District Child Protection Officer Harjinder Kaur said, “It was an emotional scene when the child was separated from the family that had been caring for him for the past month. However, as the adoption was done on a plain paper and not legally, action was unavoidable.” The Punjab State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has sought a report from the Mansa police by October 31.

Archit Watts
Darktide's narrative will be expanded as part of future updates: 'We are definitely going to be adding to the story of the game'
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Darktide's narrative will be expanded as part of future updates: 'We are definitely going to be adding to the story of the game'

When Darktide's Arbites Class DLC arrived, it came alongside a free update called The Battle for Tertium, which added a campaign mode at long last. Rather than the story coming to a halt once the prologue ended, players had the option to be guided through missions with bespoke voiceover, cutscenes, even unique enemy spawns to make it feel like you weren't just grinding maps for gear over and over. We won't find out what Darktide's second class DLC will be until it's revealed on November 11, but Fatshark did confirm the game's story will continue to be expanded. "I wouldn't say it necessarily always will be attached to a new class or anything like that," said design director Victor Magnuson, "but each new piece of the game will add to the overarching story of the game." Magnuson explained that it's been difficult to "beat narrative" into Darktide. Two players might come to a mission having had very different experiences leading up to it, and having different amounts of patience for a game slowing down to drop narrative on them. "Our approach is to just add it piece by piece," Magnuson said, "and build the narrative as little puzzle pieces that slowly fall together and then you see the bigger picture, whatever it is. But yeah, we are definitely going to be adding to the story of the game." Another part of the Darktide challenge has been designing a whole new world for it to take place on. The Vermintide games had a huge amount of material from the Warhammer Fantasy world to draw on, with the team finding the tabletop RPG's adventures particularly useful sources, but the expectation for a typical 40K game is that it will be set on a unique planet. "It was a big difference," Magnuson said. "I remember doing Vermintide 1 and 2, we really did look at the adventures, and took a lot of inspiration from the adventures for different scenarios for the missions and stuff like that." Creating Tertium from whole cloth meant visualizing a lot of things Warhammer 40,000's rarely touched on before, and which then became increasingly important parts of the missions. Trains for instance, are something Magnuson says have "just become something that stuck around, and we keep doing train missions." Chief creative officer Anders De Geer recalls there was initially a reason for that. "I remember a meeting with a lot of Games Workshop people," he said, "and then I asked them, if you got to pick something that you would want to see come to life, what would that be? I remember [artist and miniature sculptor] Jes Goodwin's answer was trains. Trains and train stations."

Jody Macgregor
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