In addition, a high-stakes trade war with Canada has paralyzed its largest export market. [2] In 2025, approximately 30% of wine grapes statewide went unsold, with Sonoma growers among the hardest hit. [9]Trade war, Canadian collapseA central driver of the crisis is the deteriorating trade relationship between the Trump administration and Canada. [5]The fallout has been devastating:Market disappearance: Canada was previously the anchor of the U.S. wine export economy, with $460 million in annual wine shipments representing 36% of all U.S. wine exports. [11]Brand stigma: Industry experts note that the trade war has created a “fiercely pro-Canadian” buy-local movement, stigmatizing American brands among northern consumers.

On Tuesday, CNN’s X account tweeted this narrative: “Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. Then, on Tuesday’s edition of “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip erroneously stated the bomb-throwers carried out “an attempted terror attack against New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani” while heading into a commercial break. The only mention of her name came from Pazmino about the bomb incident: “I should mention that both Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the First Lady Rama Duwaji were safe. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

How oil price spikes could impact AfricaOil price spikes triggered by the war with Iran could have a catastrophic impact on African nations. These countries should start preparing now, one economist from the Institute of Economic Affairs in Kenya told CNN’s Larry Madowo. Even Africa's most advanced economy, South Africa, is exposed to the oil price shocks, which could cause higher fuel costs, rising inflation and renewed pressure on currencies.

The Energy News Beat has several podcasts about the refinery, lawsuits, and energy policy overreach coming out in the next few days. Newsom’s Regulatory Overreach: From EVs to Gas BansUnder Governor Newsom, California has pursued an ambitious zero-emissions agenda, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2045. Even Democratic lawmakers have reconsidered refinery rules, warning of gas price hikes and supply shortages. California’s gas prices are double the national average—over $1 per gallon in state taxes alone—due to regulations that have chased refineries out, reducing supply and spiking costs. However, supply chain disruptions from California’s rules could inflate regional fuel prices, as seen in Nevada’s opposition to refinery regs.

At this point, it is undeniable that wholesale regime change is the most desirable outcome for the conflict in Iran. The pursuit of regime change as a goal unto itself is often now disparaged, coming in the aftermath of the failed neoconservative boondoggles earlier this century. But it’s entirely possible full-scale regime change won’t happen. And some experts predict that such an arrangement will characterize the regime in Iran a year or two from now. AdvertisementThe cleanest solution to the Iran quagmire at this particular juncture — and the one that most clearly fulfills Trump’s “unconditional surrender” victory criterion — is indeed full-scale regime change.

ROME — It was a spotlight moment for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to defend her warm ties to President Donald Trump. “Senator Calenda, frankly, I don’t consider your assessments of President Trump far-fetched,” she said. “This war is very unpopular.”Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a center-left socialist, has made headlines by standing up to the Trump administration on the war in Iran. “Nothing has changed in the relationship between Italy and the U.S., Meloni and Trump,” Procaccini said. The optics of a Meloni-Trump friendship played mostly well here — an example of how Italy’s first female prime minister, and its most stable since Berlusconi, was elevating Italy’s stature and importance.

And detailed further by CNN that Russia was providing Iran with satellite intelligence about US movements. Russian intelligence sharing with Iran has until now been reported as general assistance with targeting, but specific tactical advice is a new level of support. “I can tell you that yesterday, on the call with the president, the Russians said they have not been sharing,” Witkoff said. Ushakov, in that call, “reiterated the same,” that Russia is not sharing intelligence with Iran, Witkoff said. Wednesday, as service members continue to risk their lives in Trump’s illegal war, Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev met in Miami to discuss business deals.

This story is part of Image’s March Outside issue, a celebration of the Los Angeles outdoors and the many lives to be lived under its unencumbered sky. My New Year’s resolution is to walk in Griffith Park once every other week. It seems that every year the thing I’m missing and striving toward is to be outside more. This issue celebrates the Los Angeles outdoors, the many lives to be lived under its unencumbered sky. We’re still picnicking under piñatas, and some of us still gather at newsstands to flip through artful magazines and meet like-minded strangers.

Katherine Heigl at a charity event at Mar-A-Lago last week Michele Eve Sandberg/ShutterstockFormer Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl has spoken out after facing backlash for attending an event held at Donald Trump’s estate. AdvertisementThe Emmy winner went to the event with her mum, Nancy, at the Mar-a-Lago beach resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which is owned by the US leader. “Just curious… what do you do that really matters?” she wrote in one such retort. Just keep screaming your virtue signaling bullshit while doing nothing that really matters. Good on you!”Grey’s Anatomy fans will best know Katherine for her six-season stint as Izzie Stevens.

The average adult only gets three night’s good sleep a week, research from the Mental Health Foundation found. But what is good sleep to begin with, and how can we improve ours? AdvertisementWhat is “good sleep” anyway? The two most common sleep mistakes Dr Bostock sees are from “either ends of the ‘sleep worry’ spectrum,” she said. Luckily, Dr Bostock said that getting better sleep is usually easier than most of us imagine.

One of the first priorities is to protect and reinvigorate civic education in public schools — particularly those serving the most diverse and historically marginalized populations. Amid systematic attacks on public education, basic and sound civic education is no longer a guarantee, and local leaders must be held accountable to ensure access to strong curricula. Out-of-school time civic education and participatory engagement programs need to be designed and run all over the country. Young people need to rally around the idea of representative democracy. I’ve said before, the entire youth civic ecosystem must be reformed — a project that is decades of work in the making.

The videos, not unsurprisingly, often end with a plea for donations to support further investigations into nefarious plots. They are fables posing as journalism, just the sort of propagandistic misinformation that their purveyors pretend to be uncovering. Meanwhile, real journalists are reporting real stories about real situations that officialdom is really trying to conceal or minimize, as a few recent examples demonstrate. Abridged discovered that Caltrans had kept secret the reason for a two-year delay in the completion of a project to improve Highway 50, one of Saramento’s busiest freeways. These are examples of real journalism, not the phony YouTube videos, and the public should understand and value the difference.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident U.S. Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. AdvertisementIn a statement, U.S. Central Command said it was carrying out rescue efforts after the U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft went down. “The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury,” the statement said, using the military name of the U.S. operation against Iran. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) JACK GUEZ via Getty ImagesThe Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, claimed responsibility for downing the U.S. military refueling aircraft. The group said in a statement it had shot down the KC-135 aircraft “in defense of our country’s sovereignty and airspace”.

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Sheehy has been in the news lately for killing a decades-old solar energy tax credit when his own home uses solar power. Sheehy’s spokesperson declined to tell reporters if he had used the tax credit for 26% of the system’s cost. The arm of Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran who was wearing his dress uniform, was stuck behind the door. And yet by the end of 2025, he had already given $20 million to Republicans to prepare for the 2026 elections. In contrast, Trump promised billionaires he would extend the 2017 tax cuts that benefited the wealthy and corporations.