Tracey Mumford
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The average ticket price for Taylor Swift's Heiress tour was $1,000. That hasn't necessarily stopped people from going to concerts, though. A survey by one marketing agency found that Gen Z's been breaking their budgets to make it work. 86% of respondents admitted they had overspent on concerts. A top reason? FOMO. Fear of missing out.
But what they're really missing out on is just not having been alive in the 1970s when they apparently could have seen Bruce Springsteen for, wait for it, $8. Those are the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracey Mumford. Today's Tuesday, March 4th. Here's what we're covering. Just after midnight, the sweeping new tariffs that President Trump has been threatening against America's largest trading partners kicked in. There's now a new 25% surcharge on products from Canada and Mexico and an extra 10% on goods from China on top of existing tariffs.
President Trump had been framing the tariffs as a national security issue, claiming that Canada and Mexico in particular weren't doing enough to stop migrants and fentanyl from coming into the U.S. Those countries have spent weeks scrambling to show Trump that they were stepping up enforcement. But yesterday, hours before the tariffs started, Trump seemed to move the goalposts.
He suggested that the only way out of the surcharges would be for auto companies and other manufacturers to relocate to the U.S.
The tariffs are already sending shockwaves through the economy. The stock market had its biggest drop-off of the year when it became clear they were about to take effect. And economists say Americans will probably see higher prices on a wide range of products. The first place they're going to feel it is the grocery store.
Much of the fresh produce in the U.S., everything from tomatoes to avocados, is imported from Mexico. Prices could start to climb in the next few weeks. Beef, grain, and maple syrup from Canada will also likely get more expensive. And over time, prices could also go up on cars, toys, smartphones, and a whole range of consumer goods.
In response to Trump's tariffs, Canada immediately slapped its own surcharges on American imports. And China also moved quickly to retaliate, putting tariffs on American food and agricultural products and blocking a number of American companies from doing business in China. In another major move from the Trump administration, the president temporarily suspended all U.S.
military aid to Ukraine, three days after he berated Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. Officials say the suspension will be in place until Trump determines that Ukraine has made a good-faith commitment to peace negotiations with Russia. The order affects more than a billion dollars in arms and ammunition that were on order or even already en route.
Analysts say Ukraine can keep its war effort going for weeks, even a few months, without U.S. support. It did that last year, when Republicans in Congress temporarily blocked assistance. But the cracks did start to show. Without well-stocked air defense systems, more Russian missiles got through, hitting cities and power plants.
And without enough supplies on the front lines, Ukrainian commanders told The Times they had to ration ammunition. Effectively, Trump's new pause is an ultimatum for Zelensky. Either get on board with ceasefire terms that Trump dictates, or prepare to face larger battlefield losses without U.S. support.
In the meantime, analysts say the pause will help Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose troops could make gains against a weakened Ukraine. On the heels of his aid freeze and the new tariffs, President Trump will give his first big address to a joint session of Congress tonight. It's at 9 p.m. Eastern, and it'll be his largest televised event since he returned to office.
Presidents usually use this moment to lay out their plans for their time in the White House. Trump's expected to tick through his work on immigration, spending cuts, and a host of executive orders. Many Democratic lawmakers say they plan to protest Trump's actions so far by inviting fired federal workers as their guests to the speech.
The Times will have live coverage of Trump's comments at nytimes.com.
Ashley Southall covers cannabis legalization for The Times. She's been reporting on the rise and fall of an ambitious program in New York state that the governor once said would, quote, write historical wrongs. After recreational cannabis was legalized there in 2021, the state backed a $200 million fund to give people who'd been prosecuted for drug offenses a leg up in the new market.
It was supposed to launch 150 small cannabis shops, providing property and loans. Only 22 have gone up, and Ashley says many of the participants in the program told her they feel they've been caught in a debt trap.
Connor and others told Ashley that the loans they got from the fund were so tightly restricted, they had almost no say in how their stores were designed and built, and no oversight of construction costs. That effectively handcuffed them as they were trying to compete with a flood of new illicit cannabis shops that started popping up across the state.
For his part, Conner ended up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
In response to questions from the Times, a publicist for the fund said criticism of the program was, quote, absurd, claiming it had given opportunities to people other lenders wouldn't have taken a chance on. Recently, Conner and other participants in the program asked the governor to shut the program down altogether and refinance their debt.
And finally, who's the sweatiest person on the rugby team?
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