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President Donald Trump has enacted sweeping new double-digit tariffs on 60 trading partners, including Europe, China, and India, impacting nearly all U.S. imports. While Trump claims some tariffs target forced labor practices, the move has sparked widespread criticism from affected nations like the European Union, Brazil, and Australia.
A massive wildfire in France's popular Gironde region has forced the evacuation of over 43,000 people and consumed more than 8,700 hectares since Wednesday. This devastating blaze, described as the largest of the season, underscores France's increasingly severe wildfire problem amidst rising temperatures and prolonged dry conditions.
The EU has hit Google with a hefty €890 million fine for anti-competitive practices, specifically for unfairly promoting its own services in search results and imposing restrictions in its Google Play app store. This substantial penalty highlights Europe's unwavering commitment to reining in tech giants' market dominance and fostering fair competition under the Digital Markets Act.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, supported by a broad coalition, has launched a lawsuit against the Trump administration to prevent it from unlawfully leveraging federal funds to coerce states into altering their election processes. The suit specifically challenges unconstitutional conditions placed on counterterrorism and disaster relief funding, which demand states share voter lists and change election procedures, arguing these actions illegally dictate state authority.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Beta Pictoris d, adding a third exoplanet to the Beta Pictoris system and making it only the second known to contain at least three directly imaged planets. This previously hidden world was uniquely identified not by a bright point of light, but through its atmospheric chemical fingerprints, a groundbreaking method poised to revolutionize the search for elusive planets in dusty cosmic environments.
China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft has returned unprecedented moon rock samples from the farside, directly challenging the long-held "Late Heavy Bombardment" theory. These unique samples suggest the moon experienced a longer period of less frequent impacts, potentially reshaping our understanding of the early solar system's violent evolution.
