Rosalind Adams

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rosalind Adams

In the days leading up to the A Million Lives book festival, things already seemed amiss. Grace Marsceau, the event organizer, messaged an attending author that the DJ was in the hospital and the company had no replacement. She owed the hotel “six figures” because the room block hadn’t sold out, according to messages. “Oh my gosh that’s awful!” author Sarah Zane responded. The excuses seemed unusual, but as a veteran of book events, Zane expected to deal with some mismanagement.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rosalind Adams

Chang Chang, a Sichuan restaurant in Washington DC, was already noticing that some of its business had dropped off after tens of thousands of federal workers living in the area lost their jobs. But the recent tariff rate hikes mark an even greater blow for the restaurant.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rosalind Adams

After a chaotic week of flip-flopping tariff policies, cheap clothes from China are nearly certain to face a steep price hike soon – prompting concern among fast fashion retailers and potentially pushing consumers to look for other alternatives. As part of a package of global tariff policies announced on “liberation day” last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order that ended a duty-free exemption for low-priced goods to enter the US from China and Hong Kong.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Rosalind Adams

The federal government has cancelled dozens of grants to study how to prevent new HIV infections and expand access to care, decimating progress toward eliminating the epidemic in the United States, scientists say. Over the last month, more than 300 research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been terminated – 65 of them were specifically related to researching advancements in HIV care. Some scientists were notified about losing funding as recently as last Thursday.

2 months ago | thecity.nyc | Rosalind Adams

Protesters rallied outside of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn residence early Friday morning fueled by growing outrage with the Democrats’ tepid opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda of slashing federal jobs and critical services as the government faces the possibility of a shutdown at midnight. Organizers planned the demonstration quickly over a text thread on Thursday evening after the Senate minority leader abruptly announced he would vote to keep the government running.