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How Trump's immigration policies, visa fees, and fuel costs are affecting international artists' US tours; Pollstar: US concert volume in Q1 is down ~17% YoY (August Brown/Los Angeles Times)
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Karol G at Coachella was a global hit. Yet other foreign acts fear touring the U.S.
We love the U.S., but now there is a reality in which we have to cut our losses and stop coming,' one band said. 'A lot of bands are giving up on the U.S., for sure.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories,
whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.
In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East.
He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation.
“The soo…

Trump and Hegseth Cannot Define the Truth of the US-Israeli War on Iran
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated

It's going to be a busy #EGU poster session for our team this year:
🌲 Explainable Machine Learning for diagnosing Data Quality Issues in Dendrometer-Based Tree Growth Time Series https://meetingorganizer.coperni…

Anybody have a non emergency service contact for Puget Sound Energy? They have a contact to report outages and downed wires but not lower priority issues.
We've pretty definitively figured out what's going on at my friends' place: intermittent brownouts on one of the two 120V phases affecting the entire house but not neighbors. Waveforms show glitches in the sine right above and below the zero crossing consistent with series arcing. And it happens more often in windy weathe…

Giants trading Lawrence could be good, or bad, for Cowboys draft plans https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/20/giants-bengals-dt-lawrence-trade-cowboys-draft/89698954007/

Große Teile der Innenstadt frei von Autoverkehr zu kriegen, birgt durchaus das Problem, das eine oder andere Auto an den Zielort¹ zu bekommen, wenn dorthin keine für den Autoverkehr freigegebene Route mehr existiert. Allerdings können wir das so machen, wie mit dem Fahrrad in der Fußgängerzone: absteigen und das Gefährt schieben. Kleinere und leichtere Wagen würden auch gleich viel beliebter.
Vielfach täte es auch ein verkehrs­beruhigter Bereich², und in der Praxis bewegen sich von Zul…

Call for abstracts Sociolinguistics of Emojis: Implications for Customer Psychology and Behavior
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updated: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:42pmfull name / name of organization: Lena Bucatariu RMIT…
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The Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…

Arts panel approves Trump ballroom despite 99% negative public comment
The Commission of Fine Arts unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19.

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.