Today is Thursday, April 3, 2025.
It is the 93rd day of the year.
272 days remain.
WHAT’S ON TAP
NOTABLE & NOTEWORTHY: PRESIDENT TRUMP’s “liberation day” arrives.
A new DIDDY accuser name drops some major celebs and KIM DELANEY won’t face any charges. More in SHOWBIZ.
ELLEN POMPEO is a Swiftie and BRAD PITT is set to reprise a past role. Details in CASTING CALL.
MEGHAN SUSSEX’s big launch day arrived on Wednesday. Details in ROYALS.
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TARIFF TALK: The long-awaited “liberation day” promised by PRESIDENT TRUMP arrived yesterday, with a Rose Garden event to sign the Executive Order to implement a sprawling tariff scheme.
– All imports will be subject to a minimum 10% floor.
– Most other tariffs are about half of what other countries charge. (Trump calls this “kind reciprocal.”)
– A minimum tariff of 25% will be implemented on all foreign-made cars.
There is a staggered start to these tariffs, leaving other nations time to lower or abandon their tariffs on American goods. The 10% baseline is expected to begin on April 5 and the reciprocal tariffs on April 9.
Israel has reportedly announced it is ending all tariffs on American goods. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said publicly that he will remove tariffs “in the next minute” if the United States does the same.
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Police in Columbus, Ohio, are searching for leads in the case of a 60-ton crane that disappeared from a construction site over the weekend.
Workers for the Kent Power Company reported the $500,000 heavy machinery missing early Monday morning. Authorities say whoever hijacked the crane would have needed “considerable experience and specialized knowledge of how to operate” it. [via ABC 6]
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FOLLOW UP: A new lawsuit from another SEAN COMBS accuser alleges that he was “drugged,” “transported,” and “sexually maimed” at a “freak-off” event attended by GLORIA ESTEFAN, BEYONCE, JAY-Z, and LEBRON JAMES.
After losing consciousness at the party, the accuser claims Estefan told someone to call an ambulance, but was met with resistance from Combs’ team. The suit also states that James and Beyonce witnessed the situation.
Only Combs is named as a defendant in the filing, however. [via The Mirror]
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FOLLOW UP: The Los Angeles County D.A. won’t be filing charges against actress KIM DELANEY and her husband, JAMES MORGAN, following their weekend arrests due to insufficient evidence.
The couple were arrested after getting into a spat, during which she allegedly tried to run him over with a car.
Neither have publicly commented on the situation. [via Page Six]
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BRAD PITT is set to reprise his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” character Cliff Booth in a new series for Netflix.
No word on how exactly it will tie into the film.
The untitled project is scheduled to begin filming this summer. [via Deadline]
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UP NEXT: MORGAN WALLEN cashes in, the “Grey’s Anatomy” star who’s a total Swiftie, another bizarre lawsuit from top-level Dems against the Trump administration, and the first Pony Express riders depart on this date in history.
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