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PODCAST: How one small CT business is bracing for tariff impact
The Connecticut Mirror
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July 7, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. With tariff news swirling, one small business in Litchfield, Connecticut, is prepared to pivot to serve its community. WSHU’s Molly Ingram spoke with CT...
How one small CT business is bracing for tariff impact
WSHU Public Radio - Connecticut
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With tariff news swirling, one small business in Litchfield, Connecticut, is prepared to pivot to serve its community. WSHU’s Molly Ingram spoke with CT Mirror’s Jan Ellen Spiegel to discuss her article, “For CT small business, Trump’s tariffs...
EU expands support for Ukraine with new financing of almost €600 million for energy, transport and business resilience
European Investment Fund
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July 10, 2025
Unveiled by EIB Group and European Commission, package covers hydropower plants, district heating for communities, roads, bridges, border crossings and small companies. Ten Member States – Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Romania,...
Freeloader Friday: 115 Free Things To Do This Weekend
Racket - Minneapolis
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July 11, 2025
Freeloader Friday is your weekly guide to having fun no matter what your budget looks like. Each week we have a list of 100% free events like gallery parties, music, and films in the park, as well as free admission events like special happy hours,...
Berlin-based CarOnSale raises €70 million to develop their used car platform
EU Startups
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July 7, 2025
German CarOnSale, a digital B2B marketplace for used car trading, has successfully closed a €70 million Series C round to expand across European markets, with the target to scale toward annual sales of 1 million used cars through their platform....
News digest: Military training kicks off – with anti-war politicians in uniform
The Slovak Spectator
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July 10, 2025
Greetings. This is the Thursday, 10 July edition of Today in Slovakia. Let’s dive in. Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement GERMANY CALLS, FICO STALLS: Thursday saw German Chancellor Friedrich Merz...
The British youths and gangsters being groomed by Russian mercenaries to turn saboteurs - but could face a gruesome end should they change their mind
Daily Mail
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July 11, 2025
Scrambling out of a crammed Kia Picanto, two hooded men slink through the darkness towards a warehouse with one goal in mind: to burn it to the ground. After dousing the front of industrial unit with petrol, one of the thugs lobs a lit rag on the...
Power In Action: Delta Sigma Theta Host 57th National Convention
The Seattle Medium - Washington State
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July 11, 2025
International President Elsie Cooke-Holmes Thousands Convene in Washington, DC, Celebrating 112 Years of Public Service, Empowerment, and Impact Washington – More than a century of sisterhood, scholarship, service, and social action will take...
Local craft beer … and beyond
BizTimes - Iowa
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July 10, 2025
The lasting appeal of breweries might need no explanation, and yet it’s worth noting that their endurance can be attributed to numerous factors: social, creative, healthful (to a degree) and, of course, tastiness (in all of its wide varieties)....
USPS stamp prices rise to 78 cents as postal service battles financial challenges
The Corry Journal - Pennsylvania
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The U.S. Postal Service will raise the price of Forever stamps from 73 cents to 78 cents on July 13, marking the sixth price increase in just four years as the agency battles mounting financial losses and plummeting mail volumes. The 6.8% hike...
The San Francisco band that’s been in survival mode for 143 years
Mission Local - California
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July 6, 2025
Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. This is part of a series on small businesses in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Park Band, as musical director German Gonzalez puts it, has been...
Unleash Youth Potential Through Technical Skills
Modern Ghana
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In Ghana, education has long been synonymous with academic degrees. Parents dream of seeing their children graduate from university, clad in gowns, degree certificates in hand. Success, in the minds of many, begins and ends with a bachelor’s or...
Why over 500,000 Afghans were forced out of Iran in just 16 days and what’s next?
The Indian Express
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July 11, 2025
The dusty border town of Islam Qala in western Afghanistan has become a holding pen for the displaced, families huddled under tarpaulins, children too young to understand why their lives have been upended, and elderly men with sunburnt faces...
Five Caribbean countries to participate in CCRIF’s new microinsurance initiative
The Gleaner
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July 11, 2025
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, CCRIF SPC, says it has entered into partnership with CelsiusPro and its subsidiary, Global Parametrics, to launch two initiatives for the administration of microinsurance products. The CCRIF...
Real and fake antidotes to Trump's latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
CADTM
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July 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base –...
Missouri embraces the American Beer Act
The Drinks Business
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July 11, 2025
Missouri has signed a law that will cut taxes on US beer in a bid to support the state’s brewing and farming sectors. This week, while at AB InBev’s St. Louis Brewery, Republican Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed the bill to slash taxes on...
THE THIRD DEGREE: Love at first sight leads to family restaurant venture
Donegal News
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July 10, 2025
By Paul Bradley Hi Natasha. How has your restaurant, Nonna’s, been going for you since opening in Letterkenny? We just celebrated our first anniversary in Letterkenny, four doors up from our first place here in 2007-2010, Little Italy. It’s been a...
The EU reported a new package of agreements to support Ukraine worth over €2 billion
Babel
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On July 10, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented a new package of agreements worth €2.3 billion with financial institutions to support Ukraineʼs recovery at the International Conference on Ukraineʼs Recovery in Rome. This...
Poland's border checks: Beginning of the end of Schengen?
Deutsche Welle
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When Poland introduced border checks with Germany and Lithuania this week, it wasn't the first time that a Schengen country took such a step. These measures are typically justified as necessary to curb irregular migration, combat human smuggling,...
Poland's new border checks: The beginning of the end of free travel in Europe?
Deutsche Welle
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July 7, 2025
When Poland introduced border checks with Germany and Lithuania this week, it wasn't the first time that a Schengen country took such a step. These measures are typically justified as necessary to curb irregular migration, combat human smuggling,...