5/7/2025: Global Moving Guide 🌎

PLUS: Antifa Takes UW; Crash at Jenn’s; and Meg’s Mushrooms

Today is Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

It is the 127th day of the year.

238 days remain.

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

WHAT’S ON TAP

NOTABLE & NOTEWORTHY: New reports of turmoil in China amid ongoing tariff battles.

What happens at The Met doesnt always stay at The Met. Find out more in SHOWBIZ.

“ABC News” is working on a daily DIDDY series and BILLY BUSH is leaving “Extra.” Details in CASTING CALL.

MEGHAN SUSSEX dishes on her pregnancy routines in ROYALS.

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As American tariffs continue to clobber China’s economy, its factory shutdowns have triggered worker protests over unpaid wages.

A Goldman Sachs analysis suggests the tariffs could put an estimated 16 MILLION Chinese workers out of a job. American and Chinese negotiators have not publicly admitted to entering negotiations on tariffs, though Chinese diplomats have opened the door to negotiating ways to stem the flow of fentanyl into the United States. [via ZeroHedge]

MEANWHILE: American and Chinese trade officials are expected to meet this week at a World Trade Organization summit in Geneva.

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An Antifa domestic terror group took control of a building on the University of Washington campus Monday night.

Beginning Monday night, radicals cloaked in head-to-toe black occupied a building and blockaded the doors. They then dragged in bike racks and dumpsters as barriers and lit fires around the perimeter. Even Seattle police and state patrol officers were rebuffed by nearly 60 activists standing side by side with shields.

Their main demand was that the state University system reject any money from the BOEING corporation and that its employees be barred from teaching any classes. They blame Boeing for supporting Israel.

Eventually, police with riot gear and tactical armor arrived and were able to resecure the building. [via TPM]

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There won’t be a Triple Crown winner this year, after the owners of Kentucky Derby winner SOVEREIGNTY announced it won’t run in the Preakness Stakes later this month.

Organizers for the Preakness haven’t shared an official reason, but said in a statement that Sovereignty’s team still has its eye on the Belmont Stakes in June.

Following the race, one member of Sovereignty’s management team told media, “[Sovereignty] ran really hard today. And especially when you get a closer from off the pace like that, they have to lay their body on the line a little bit. We’ll see how he comes out of it.” [via NBC Sports]

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UPDATE: With eyes on the skies ahead of the re-entry of an abandoned, Soviet-era spacecraft at some point in the next few days, amateur astronomers think the spacecraft’s parachute has already been deployed.

Cosmos 482 was designed to travel to Venus in 1972 but a glitch during launch left the lander module in orbit around Earth. Since it was designed to survive entry into Venus’ harsh atmosphere, there’s concern it may not just burn up during re-entry.

One satellite tracker out of the Netherlands said his images of the spacecraft “show a weak elongated structure at one particular side of the [craft].”

Until then, Cosmos 482 is expected to begin its descent back to Earth some time Friday or Saturday. [via Space]

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Thanks to its resilient economy, tech savvy students, low crime, and healthy residents, Utah has been named the Best State in the country by U.S. News for the third year in a row.

Rounding out the Top 5 are: New Hampshire (No. 2 for the second year in a row); Idaho; Minnesota (also maintained its spot); and Nebraska.

States are ranked based on eight categories: health care, education, natural environment, opportunity, economy, crime and corrections, infrastructure, and fiscal stability. [via USNews]

MEANWHILE: Copenhagen, Denmark, has been named the happiest city in the world by the Institute for Quality of Life. The only U.S. city that made the Top 20 is NYC at No. 17, according to Happy City Index, which looks at access to public services, education, environmental protection, and inclusive policies for its ranking system. [via HappyCityIndex]

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