Dem gov asks world leaders to exclude state’s exports from retaliatory tariffs

EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans Friday morning directing the state to pursue “strategic” relationships with countries announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., urging them to exclude California-made products from those taxes, Fox News Digital exclusively learned first.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” Newsom said in a video announcement posted to X. “And on behalf of 40 million Americans that live in the great state of California, the tentpole of the U.S. economy … the dominant manufacturing state in America, our state of mind is around supporting stable trading relationships around the globe.”

Sources in Newsom’s administration told Fox News Digital Thursday night the announcement was a direct response to President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff plan, which sets out a baseline duty of 10% on all imports to the U.S. and some higher percentages for other top traders. 

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Newsom added he’s directed his administration to seek out new opportunities to “expand trade” and “remind trading partners around the world that California remains a stable partner.”

The Newsom administration is worried that California’s almond industry, a major agricultural exporter, will lose billions of dollars as nations like China, India and the European Union move to impose retaliatory tariffs.

“Gavin Newsom should focus on out-of-control homelessness, crime, regulations, and unaffordability in California instead of trying his hand at international dealmaking,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Fox News Digital Friday morning.

Individual states do not have the legal authority to independently negotiate or make global trading deals regarding tariffs, according to the Constiution. Trade policy, including tariffs, is a power reserved for the federal government. Specifically, the Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations in Article 1 Section 8, and this includes the power to impose tariffs and negotiate trade agreements.

Almonds, California’s most valuable food export, account for about 20% of the state’s $23.6 billion in agricultural sales abroad and 2.5% of its total exports, according to the California Department of Food & Agriculture. The state produces 80% of the world’s supply and exports the majority of its almond crop. Other top agricultural exports include dairy products, pistachios, wine and walnuts.

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California boasts of being the fifth-largest economy in the world, a vital engine for much of U.S. economic growth, with a gross domestic product of $3.9 trillion — 50% larger than Texas, the nation’s second-largest state. The Golden State is the largest importer and second-largest exporter among U.S. states, with more than $675 billion in two-way trade supporting millions of jobs, state officials said.

Trade with Mexico, Canada and China are also key partners for California, as nearly half of the state’s imports come from these countries, totaling $203 billion of the more than $491 billion in goods imported by California last year. 

A Newsom official said the new Trump tariffs also will affect access to critical supplies, like construction materials, needed to rebuild after the Los Angeles wildfires. The U.S. currently imposes a duty of over 14% on Canadian lumber, with the rate potentially rising to nearly 27% in 2025. 

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State officials charged the retaliatory tariffs will cause “major disruptions” to cross-border supply chains in the California-Baja region, arguing that if component goods are taxed each time they cross the border, the final price of the finished product will increase and be passed onto Californians.

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“The markets are going to boom,” Trump said Thursday leaving the White House. “The stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, and the rest of the world wants to see is there any way they can make a deal.”

“This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It’s our declaration of economic independence. For years, hardworking American citizens were forced to sit on the sidelines as other nations got rich and powerful, much of it at our expense,” Trump said. “But now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt, and it’ll all happen very quickly.”

Dem silent as aide attempts to intimidate, block FOX News’ question about violence

Far-left Democrat Jasmine Crockett of Texas watched silently as an aide got into a Fox News Digital reporter’s face and attempted to intimidate him from asking a question about whether Democrat rhetoric has contributed to the ongoing spate of violent attacks against Tesla owners and dealers.

After weeks of Democrats condemning Elon Musk for his role at DOGE, there have been at least 80 acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles in the U.S. and Canada and at least 10 incidents of vandalism and arson against Tesla dealerships, charging stations and properties. 

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said the Justice Department is treating the incidents as “domestic terrorism.”

Bondi warned Crockett in particular to “tread very carefully” after she called for Elon Musk to be “taken down” during a “Tesla Takedown” event.  

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In light of this, a Fox News Digital reporter asked, “What’s your response to the attorney general saying you’re threatening lives with your rhetoric against Musk and Tesla?”

Crockett, who was surrounded by aides and security personnel, did not answer the question, but an aide approached the reporter, getting right into the camera, prompting the reporter to ask, “Why are you in my face?” to which he responded, “I’m not.”

“[I’m] just asking her a question, she’s an elected member of Congress,” the reporter said, to which the aide responded, “Talk,” without moving any farther away.

“Congresswoman, do you see any connection to you saying you want to take down Musk to the violence that’s going on in the streets?” the reporter asked.

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Crockett did not respond or make eye contact, but her aide continued to stare intently at the reporter as they walked away.

Notably, Crockett, whose recent controversial statements have attracted a great deal of attention and criticism, appeared to be escorted by a Capitol police officer despite previously advocating for the “defund the police movement,” calling it a movement of “healing.”

Crockett’s remarks came during a nationwide call with the Tesla Takedown movement, a self-described “peaceful protest platform” calling for Tesla owners to sell their vehicles and for all to dump their stock in the EV provider.

“On March 29, it’s my birthday,” Crockett told the group in reference to a “Global Day of Action” intended to hit back at the company. 

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“All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down,” she added. “I have learned, as I serve on the DOGE Oversight committee, that there is only one language that the people that are in charge understand right now, and that language is money.”

Crockett went on to clarify that her calls to action are “nonviolent” and are about figuratively “fighting” for democracy.

“We know that we are peaceful, loving people, and this is not about violence,” she added.

However, the continuing incidents of firebombing, vandalism and even a shooting at Tesla dealerships bring the peaceful nature of the anti-Tesla movement into question.

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Amid the Justice Department’s crackdown on the violence, three people accused of damaging Teslas and EV charging stations now face up to 20 years in prison for alleged “domestic terrorism.”

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“People need to know that the three people in custody right now … will receive severe and swift consequences. … We are not coming off these charges. We are looking at everything, especially if this is a concerted effort. This is domestic terrorism,” Bondi said.

Brown University student may face charges for using AI to expose ‘bulls— jobs’

A sophomore at Brown University is facing the school’s wrath after he sent a DOGE-like email to non-faculty employees asking them what they do all day to try to figure out why the elite school’s tuition has gotten so expensive.

“The inspiration for this is the rising cost of tuition,” Alex Shieh told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“Next year, it’s set to be $93,064 to go to Brown,” Shieh said of the Ivy League university. Brown’s website estimates the total charges to attend the school for the 2025-2026 school year is even higher at $95,984.

“‘And I think that’s crazy,” he added. “I don’t understand why it costs that much. And I never understood why it cost that much, but then I did some digging and I discovered that the reason why the price of college in general across the nation, but also particularly at Brown, has been rising over the past few decades. Far outpacing inflation is because we’re adding on administrative staff faster than we’re adding students, faster than we’re having professors, administrators.” 

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The total cost of attending Brown University for the 2019-2020 school year was $78,706.00, a 3.62% increase from the previous year. It’s risen steadily since then and is projected to be nearly $96,000 in the 2025-26 school year.

Using AI during some free weekends in March from a common room in his dorm’s basement that routinely floods whenever it rains – making plastic tarps for the shared work and leisure space a necessity for a school that charges students around $90,000 per year -Shieh set out to determine what Brown employees did and why the school was so expensive.  

He formatted his site to identify three particular jobs: “DEI jobs, redundant jobs, and bulls–t jobs.” 

Shieh said he wanted to look into DEI because of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and his administration threatening to withhold federal funds to universities with DEI policies. 

Shieh created a database of the 3,805 non-faculty employees of Brown University. He also emailed them asking them, “What do you do all day?” Shieh wrote that he identified myself as a journalist for The Brown Spectator, a dormant on-campus libertarian journal that a group of students is planning to relaunch.

“I used AI to sort of give them rankings to see how useful or not useful they might be,” Shieh said. 

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“But the thing about AI is that it always works better when you have more data,” Shieh said. “So I decided to email all these administrators so that I could get more data, in their words, about what they do, what their job is. Simple questions like that, because I thought that could just help make my model even more accurate.”

The response to his query was not what he expected. 

“People seemed to get very upset,” Shieh said. “Brown told the administrators not to respond to my email. And instead, I just got a lot of hostile replies.” 

In an op-ed published Tuesday in Pirate Wire, Shieh said that only 20 of the 3,805 people emailed responded, with some replies allegedly saying, “f–k you,” and another directing Shieh to “stick an entire cactus up [his] a–.”

“I had my social security number leaked by somebody who I imagine is probably a rogue administrator, because I don’t know who else would have my social security number,” Shieh said. 

Shieh said he is facing several possible disciplinary charges as part of a preliminary review from the school, including claims of emotional and psychological harm, invasion of privacy, misrepresentation, and violation of operational rules.

Just the News published a redacted version of the Preliminary Review Notification, which accused Shieh of accessing “proprietary University data system which maintains confidential human resources, financial, and student information and used this information to produce a publicly available website, resulting in emotional distress for several University employees.” 

Dominic Coletti, student press program officer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), is working with Shieh on the matter.

“There is not yet a clear allegation the firm has given of exactly what the information is, that is, confidential,” Coletti added. “There’s not a clear allegation of exactly how these emails or this database invade an employee’s privacy or inflicted emotional or psychological harm.” 

Coletti said the charges of psychological harm are unclear. 

“The misrepresentation charge is actually particularly galling from FIRE’s perspective as advocates for free speech and free press because the allegation there is maybe the most substantiated, but it’s also the most specious in my opinion, which is that by requesting or by representing himself as a reporter for the Brown Spectator, Alex was misrepresenting himself because Brown doesn’t recognize the paper, which is absurd on its face, right?” Coletti said. 

Similarly, Coletti said, the claim of misrepresentation doesn’t make sense. It’s related to The Brown Spectator no longer being a student group.

“Brown doesn’t recognize the New York Times or Fox News or any number of other outlets because they’re not student groups, but that doesn’t make a student who reports for those outlets any less legitimate a reporter than Alex was here,” Coletti said. 

For Shieh, he just hopes that his story will help bring reform to the education system.

“I would say that I think the charges are ridiculous. And I think people agree. I mean, like, Elon Musk just reposted this,” Shieh said. “I think people across the country realize that the price of education is out of control. And I think the fact that Brown is telling people not to respond, that they’re doing all this other action against me, shows they’re trying to hide something, and I think that people can see right through that.” 

Fox News Digital reached out to the university about whether Shieh is facing any punishment, but did not immediately receive a response. 

In a previous statement to Fox News Digital, an university spokesperson said, “In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 18, emails were sent to approximately 3,800 Brown staff members noting the launch of a website that appeared to improperly use data accessed through a University technology platform to target individual employees by name and position description. 

They added, “The website included derogatory descriptions of job functions of named individuals at every job level. While the emails were framed as a journalistic inquiry, the supposed news organization identified in the email has had no active status at Brown for more than a decade, and no news article resulted. We advised employees, many of whom expressed concerns, not to respond, and evaluated the situation from a policy standpoint. That review has informed the steps we’ve taken since. Due to federal law protecting student privacy, the University cannot provide additional details, even to refute the inaccuracies and mischaracterizations that have been made public. We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness.” 

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Rescued astronauts reveal Boeing Starliner malfunctions were worse than reported

NASA astronauts revealed that the Boeing Starliner came dangerously close to failing its docking attempt at the International Space Station.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams described the moments before the Boeing Starliner docked to Ars Technica, revealing that they almost had to abort the docking attempt on June 5, 2024.

Wilmore said that as the Starliner approached the International Space Station, they lost the first thruster. As the Starliner got closer to the space station, a second thruster was also lost. Typically, Wilmore said, these kinds of events would trigger an abortion of the docking attempt. According to Wilmore, NASA waived the flight rules to allow the mission to continue.

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“And this is the part I’m sure you haven’t heard. We lost the fourth thruster. Now we’ve lost [Six degrees of freedom] control. We can’t maneuver forward. I still have control, supposedly, on all the other axes. But I’m thinking, the F-18 is a fly-by-wire. You put control into the stick, and the throttle, and it sends the signal to the computer. The computer goes, ‘OK, he wants to do that, let’s throw that out aileron a bit. Let’s throw that stabilizer a bit. Let’s pull the rudder there And it’s going to maintain balanced flight. I have not even had a reason to think, how does Starliner do this, to maintain a balance?” Wilmore said.

While the pair attempted to dock, Williams said there was “a lot of unsaid communication.”

“Hey, this is a very precarious situation we’re in,” Williams said. “I think both of us overwhelmingly felt like it would be really nice to dock to that space station that’s right in front of us. We knew that they [Mission Control] were working really hard to be able to keep communication with us, and then be able to send commands. We were both thinking, what if we lose communication with the ground?”

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Wilmore remembered a point in the docking process when his optimism about aborting the mission and returning to Earth was dwindling.

“I don’t know that we can come back to Earth at that point. I don’t know if we can. And matter of fact, I’m thinking we probably can’t. So there we are, loss of 6DOF control, four aft thrusters down, and I’m visualizing orbital mechanics,” Wilmore said.

Eventually, NASA Mission Control decided to take control of the spacecraft for its final approach to the space station after it recovered the failed thrusters.

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“Oh, phew, let’s just take a breather and try to understand what happened,” Williams remembered thinking when the Starliner docked.

While the Starliner returned to Earth on Sept. 7, 2024, it was without astronauts inside in order to minimize risks. The astronauts finished their unexpected 9-month trip to the space station on March 18, when they returned to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule.

Transgender activist tells Dr Phil ‘trans women are not males’

A transgender activist grew visibly angry with talk show host Dr. Phil after he used charts to show that biologically-male athletes have physical advantages over biological women.

America has been in a long political battle over whether athletes born as biological males should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Most recently, politicians have feuded over the Save Women’s Sports Act that would ban trans athletes from women’s sports. 

Dr. Phil spoke with a transgender activist named Blossom, who argued in favor of transgender women being included in women’s sports. The activist argued that even people of the same biological sex may vary in terms of chemistry and bone density, and that all in all, this entire controversy is being stirred up over a statistically tiny number of transgender athletes.

“I think it’s very dangerous when we put all women in a position to be tested to prove that they’re not trans, and that executive order that Donald Trump signed is nothing more than waste and fraud, in my opinion,” the activist said.

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“You’re only signing for 0.002% of the population. You are subjecting all women, whether they’re cis or trans, to rigorous tests to prove that they are not trans in order for them to play,” Blossom added.

Dr. Phil replied, “I don’t think it’s so much the number of trans athletes, because there can be one athlete that can come into a conference like the Big Sky Conference, for example, and when they come into the Big Sky Conference, that one athlete can really erase a lot of really hard work and devotion and sacrifice that dozens, hundreds of women have spent years working on to achieve athletic heights.”

The host then noted that scientific fact is “not a matter of opinion,” showing how men on statistical average have attributes such as superior grip strength, superior total upper body strength, and higher vertical jumps. 

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“Respectfully Dr. Phil, I’m gonna need you to have several seats. Let’s be clear, trans women, again, are women,” Blossom said, appearing to grow frustrated. “What you’re showing me are male statistics and trans women are not males. Everything that I say can actually be proven, it’s scientifically proven, and I would inquire you to do research on what you’re saying, because again it’s almost like you’re trying to call trans-women men and that is not what trans-women are.”

The activist went on to criticize Dr. Phil, claiming of his statements, “It sounds like conservative propaganda, and I think you have drunk the Kool-Aid and have gotten lost in the sauce.”

Blossom went on to suggest instead that Dr. Phil should show statistics comparing transgender women with cis-women, otherwise, “I think that it is baloney and propaganda.”

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USA Fencing responds to female fencer’s refusal to face trans player

USA Fencing has come under fire after a viral video of women’s fencer Stephanie Turner kneeling in protest of a transgender opponent. 

Prominent figures, including J. K. Rowling and Martina Navratilova, have weighed in on social media, alongside thousands of women’s sports rights activists.

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USA Fencing addressed the controversy with a public statement on Thursday, defending its trans-inclusion policies. 

“USA Fencing remains committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful community for everyone in our sport. We believe in the principle of creating a safe communities where all athletes, and community members, have a place,” the statement read. 

“While we understand there are a range of perspectives, USA Fencing will continue to engage in respectful, research-based dialogue and review as policy evolves in the Olympic and Paralympic movement as well as domestic law, hate speech of any kind is not acceptable—online or in person. Let’s keep the conversation respectful and the strip welcoming to all.” 

How did USA Fencing get to this point?

The organization first enacted its current trans-inclusion policy in 2023. It allows transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category at both the junior and senior level after completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment. Proof of compliant hormone therapy must be provided prior to competition, but the organization has taken even further steps to prioritize its trans competitors. 

In November 2022, it announced a policy to give preference when selecting host cities for national tournaments to states without laws that “harm members of LGBTQ communities” and states that do not “have laws undermining the reproductive health of women.” That policy went into effect in the 2023 season, the same year it changed its gender policy.

“We’ve heard from a number of members, including members of the Board and members of our elite athlete community, asking whether continuing to place events in areas with either anti-LGBTQ laws or anti-abortion laws aligns with our core values as an organization,” said USA Fencing CEO Phill Andrews in the policy page. “After a robust discussion with our Board and our staff team, USA Fencing has moved to give preference to those states without these laws.”

In November 2023, the organization released a list of states that it intended to “avoid where possible” and the states that it flat out would not allow hosting major events. The states on the “do not allow” list were Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. 

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The states on its “avoid where possible” list include Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

This combination of polices preceded an influx of biological male fencers competing in women’s and girls’ USA Fencing-sanctioned events over the last two years. Some of those competitors previously competed in the men’s category. By September 2023, four biological male fencers, who previously competed in the men’s category, achieved USA Fencing podium finishes in the women’s category. 

Turner told Fox News Digital the quantity of trans competitors is even higher than that. 

“In fencing, personally, I see it quite often,” Turner said. “I have witnessed transgender fencers in women’s tournaments and girls tournaments in different age categories, specifically Y-14 (the youngest age group).” 

The trans athlete Turner refused to compete against last weekend, Redmond Sullivan, competed in men’s events up until June 2023, according to Sullivan’s profile page on Fencing Tracker. The page shows no competitions for Sullivan from June 2023 until a return on Sept. 28, 2024 – the athlete’s first competition in the women’s category at an event in Newtown, Connecticut. Sullivan then went on to win two gold medals, one at the Connecticut Division Junior Olympic Qualifiers on Dec. 8 and one at the Connecticut Division Summer National Qualifiers on March 16.

This past December, a nonprofit fencing organization, the Fair Fencing Organization, penned an open letter to USA Fencing Board Members urging the re-evaluation of its stance on several issues, including transgender inclusion.

“Politics aside, it is a reasonable request to form a task force to do a deeper dive on this issue in fencing and create a safe space where the voices of all women are heard without ridicule and abuse,” the letter said.

Just days later, however, board members voted against several motions to approve an all-female task force to re-evaluate and revise the current transgender policy, in an 8-3 vote. Now, after siding against women fencers seeking protection from trans inclusion, USA Fencing finds itself plunged into a global controversy after Turner’s viral protest. 

USA Fencing provided a statement to Fox News Digital addressing the incident. 

“USA Fencing enacted our current transgender and nonbinary athlete policy in 2023. The policy was designed to expand access to the sport of fencing and create inclusive, safe spaces. The policy is based on the principle that everyone should have the ability to participate in sports and was based upon the research available of the day,” the statement said.

“We respect the viewpoints on all sides and encourage our members to continue sharing them with us as the matter evolves. It’s important for the fencing community to engage in this dialogue, but we expect this conversation to be conducted respectfully, whether at our tournaments or in online spaces. The way to progress is by respectful discussion based in evidence.” 

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A USA Fencing spokesperson also told Fox News Digital Turner was not penalized for her stance against trans inclusion, but simply for refusing to fence. 

“In the case of Stephanie Turner, her disqualification was not related to any personal statement but was merely the direct result of her decision to decline to fence an eligible opponent, which the FIE rules clearly prohibit,” the spokesperson said.

“According to the FIE (International Fencing Federation) Technical Rules, specifically Article t.113, a fencer is not permitted to refuse to fence another properly entered fencer for any reason. Under these rules, such a refusal results in disqualification and the corresponding sanctions. This policy exists to maintain fair competition standards and preserve the sport’s integrity.” 

Office coffee machines may be brewing a recipe for disaster, according to new study

Maybe it’s wise to think twice about using coffee machines at work or in some buildings these days?  

A study investigated the levels of certain substances in coffee that’s prepared in workplace coffee machines versus coffee made through traditional brewing techniques.

Researchers concluded that drinking poorly filtered coffee such as the kind often found in workplace machines could be an overlooked factor in heart health issues due to certain cholesterol concentrations.

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The substances – cafestol and kahweol – are linked to elevated levels of LDL cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, sometimes called “bad cholesterol”). 

High levels of this cholesterol can cause plaque build-up in the arteries and lead to heart disease, stroke and other health problems by narrowing arteries and restricting blood flow, according to the Cleveland Clinic website.

Researchers from Uppsala University examined 14 different coffee machines in workplaces in Sweden, in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology. 

They compared the coffee from these machines to coffee produced using home-brewing methods such as with paper filters and French presses.

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Published recently in the journal Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, the study concluded that coffee from most office coffee machines contains high levels of the two cholesterol-elevating substances relative to the amount found in regular drip-filter coffee setups.

“From this, we infer that the filtering process is crucial for the presence of these cholesterol-elevating substances in coffee. Obviously, not all coffee machines manage to filter them out,” lead researcher David Iggman said in a news release.

“But the problem varies between different types of coffee machines, and the concentrations also showed large variations over time.” 

Machines in the study used five regular brands of ground coffee. 

In the case of high variations between tests from the same coffee machines, a possible factor could be the way cleaning schedules impact how porous the machine’s filters are. 

Cleaning the metal filters could wear them down and make them less effective in filtering out certain substances, the study said.

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Machines in the study used five regular brands of ground coffee. 

Researchers took samples from the coffee made by the machines on a number of separate occasions and analyzed the contents.

There was a big difference between the machines in terms of the levels of cafestol and kahweol in the coffee they made — but the levels could also differ at different times.

“For people who drink a lot of coffee every day, it’s clear that drip-filter coffee, or other well-filtered coffee, is preferable,” Iggman said.

“Most of the coffee samples contained levels that could feasibly affect the levels of LDL cholesterol of people who drank the coffee, as well as their future risk of cardiovascular disease.”

While the researchers also examined espresso from varying machines, there was a considerable and unexplained variation in cafestol and kahweol concentration between four samples tested.

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“This needs further study but may be of importance for regular espresso consumers,” according to the published findings. 

Pro golfer recalls playing with Trump, his experience with LIV Golf

Phil Mickelson admitted Friday that the tensions between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have not completely dissolved, despite ongoing negotiations between the two circuits. 

However, the six-time major winner remained adamant that the rival golf league is not going anywhere because of what it offers to golf fans. 

Ahead of the first tournament of the year on U.S. soil, Mickelson appeared on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning to discuss the stark differences between the two circuits and how LIV’s unique structure taps into a market the PGA Tour has previously been unable to. 

“I wouldn’t say it’s gone,” Mickelson said of the tension. “We’re about growing the game globally, and the PGA Tour has always been about growing the game nationally. So if you look at it like that, there’s a lot of criticism that we take in the United States, but if you look globally the way LIV Golf is received, it’s incredible.” 

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The Saudi-backed golf league launched in 2022 and was met with serious backlash after shaking up the golf world by drawing away many of the Tour’s biggest stars with lucrative signings. 

The fractured relationship between the two circuits appeared to be on the mend after the PGA Tour, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) and the DP World Tour signed a framework agreement in June 2023. However, the parties involved failed to come to any agreement before that deal expired at the end of the year. 

Since then, President Donald Trump has gotten involved with the goal of reuniting golf.

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“There’s always a need for traditional golf and traditional competition and the historical events, but we are not appealing to the younger crowd, historically, until now,” Mickelson added. “LIV is appealing to a younger crowd and making golf cool again and enjoyable to watch. And when you come out and watch, you have a much more relaxed feel and people are enjoying that vibe. 

“There’s a need and demand for what LIV Golf provides.” 

Trump is working to facilitate negotiations with the PGA Tour and PIF in the new commercial PGA Tour Enterprises. 

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“Ultimately, hopefully, the two tours are going to merge. That’ll be good. I’m involved in that too,” Trump said Thursday. “But hopefully we’re going to get the two tours to merge. You have the PGA Tour and the LIV Tour. And I think having them merge would be a great thing.”

The PGA Tour reportedly rejected PIF’s latest bid to invest into PGA Tour Enterprises. ESPN reported Friday, citing sources, that the tour rejected the $1.5 billion investment bid.