Other than the initial matches on each court in the morning and at night, it is impossible to know when to warm up and ramp up. Tennis isn’t a timed sport, so it’s anyone’s guess when, say, a day’s third or fourth match in a given arena will begin — and as the temperature and weather shifts across the hours, the clay at the French Open can shift, too.
Trump appeared before a crowd of cheering steelworkerson Friday. In a statement, David McCall, president of the United Steelworkers International union, called tariffs “a valuable tool in balancing the scales” but “wider reforms of our global trading system” are needed.
It may be harder to gauge the weight of tariffs on, say, a can of chickpeas versus that of a new car, but consumers are likely to see myriad indirect costs from the levies, says Andreas Waldkirch, an economics professor at Colby College who teaches a class on international trade.“Anybody who’s directly connected to the steel industry, they’re going to benefit. It’s just coming at a very high cost,” Waldkirch says. “You may get a few more steel jobs. But all these indirect costs mean you then destroy jobs elsewhere. If you were to add that all in, you come up with a pretty large negative loss.”Matt Sedensky can be reached at
, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room is Empty,” has died. He was 85.White’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his agent, Bill Clegg, who did not immediately provide additional details.
, Armistead Maupin and others, White was among a generation of gay writers who in the 1970s became bards for a community no longer afraid to declare its existence. He was present at the
raids of 1969, when arrests at a club in Greenwich Village led to the birth of the modern gay movement, and for decades was a participant and observer through the tragedy of AIDS, the advance of gay rights and culture and the backlash of recent years.Based on data from the
, about 200 fires are actively burning in Canada and have consumed about 7,700 square miles (19,900 square kilometers) of terrain, most of it in the last week.Only 2023 saw such high numbers so early in Canada’s fire season, which runs from April through October. That year wildfires burned a record 67,000 square miles — more than twice the surface area of Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes.
Taken together, the hot spots and acres burned mean 2025 is the second-worst start to the season in years.“A warm and dry finish to May and early June has created a significant fire season,” said Liam Buchart, a fire weather specialist with the Canadian Forest Service.