Trump’s New Canada Tariff Threatens Toilet Paper Supply
EDMONTON, CANADA – MARCH 2: A customer is looking for a 30-pack of toilet paper from a store shelf in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on March 2, 2025. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The Trump administration’s latest tariff promise on softwood lumber may disrupt the supply chain of toilet paper and paper towels, Bloomberg reported. The U.S. relies heavily on Canadian northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp to make these bathroom and kitchen staples, with about 2 million tons imported last year. But now the administration plans to double duties on Canadian softwood lumber to 27 percent, with the possibility of additional levies pushing the rate to over 50 percent. These tariffs not only risk higher prices and supply constraints, but they could even result in toilet paper shortages. Not to mention a cascading effect on the supply chain. In fact, NBSK constitutes about 30 percent of standard U.S. toilet paper and half of a typical paper towel. “Some of these mills in the United States, some of the big branded products, not only want softwood pulp from Canada, they want softwood pulp from this particular mill—they’ve been using it for 30 years and they will not change,” Brian McClay, chairman of TTOBMA which tracks the global pulp market, said. “If Canadian pulp mills close because they don’t have the fiber supply, I can’t think of any other option for them—they just can’t switch the recipe around.”
Hugh Jackman Caught in Messy Divorce Drama as Ex Demands More Money
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Tensions are high between Hugh Jackman, 56, and ex Deborra-Lee Furness, 69, as the pair clash on who should get what in their messy divorce, according to a new report from the Daily Mail. Although the Hollywood couple were lovebirds for nearly 30 years and said they would navigate their split with gratitude, the post-breakup negotiations proved to be a lot more difficult for Furness. The actress reportedly wants a bigger chunk of Jackman’s estimated $250 million fortune, but the Wolverine star refuses to cough up more change. Things are even more strained because of Jackman’s sudden romance with theater icon Sutton Foster, 50, who met Jackman on the set of the 2022 Broadway revival of The Music Man. She was married to Ted Griffin at the time and Jackman was still with Furness, although the Daily Mail reported that their marriage was already starting to crumble. Jackman and Foster appeared to confirm their relationship in January as they left an L.A. restaurant holding hands, right around the time that Jackman and Furness officially filed for divorce and slightly over a year after the Australian couple announced their separation. The Daily Beast has reached out to representatives for both Jackman and Furness for comment.
Merrell’s New Shoe Lineup Is the Perfect Way to Kick Off Hiking Season
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Kristi Noem Appears to Have Worn $60K Gold Rolex During El Salvador Prison Stunt
Sleuths believe that Kristi Noem was wearing a luxury timepiece when she visited a prison camp. ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Online sleuths believe that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was wearing a gold Rolex watch worth nearly $60,000 when she visited a prison camp in El Salvador on Wednesday. The watch—which appeared on Noem’s wrist while she filmed her latest publicity stunt, this time in front of a cell full of Venezuelan prisoners—looks a whole lot like a Rolex Daytona, as observed by the online media outlet MeidasTouch. The variant of the luxury timepiece matching Noem’s watch sells for just under $60,000 on the site Chrono24. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately answer the Daily Beast’s request for comment. Commentators on social media wondered how Noem, who was until this year the governor of South Dakota, would be able to afford such a watch on a government salary. Noem was at the Terrorism Confinement Center to send a message to America’s undocumented immigrants, whom President Donald Trump has vowed to deport en masse. “If you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face,” she said in the video. “This facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.”
Johnny Depp Allegedly Got ‘The Goonies’ Star Fired From Hit Movie 
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Corey Feldman claimed Wednesday that Johnny Depp sabotaged his chance at filming the 1993 movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? While on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast, The Goonies star recalled how he was “originally cast” to play the part of Arnie, a role which ultimately went to Leonardo DiCaprio who earned an Oscar nomination for his performance. According to Feldman, Depp landed the part of Gilbert after he was already cast and allegedly “whispered to the producers’ ear that he wasn’t fond of me.” The actor claims: “He said I was a junkie and that he didn’t work with junkies.” “I never saw the film because I’m still bitter. Bitter leaf in that one,” Feldman told Corgan. The Gremlins star dealt with drug and alcohol abuse early on in his career, having to go to rehab for 10 months for his heroin addiction. But he clarifies to Corgan that when he was cast for the film, he “had just gotten sober,” and was turning his life around. He also remembers trying to help River Phoenix at the time, who later overdosed at Depp’s nightclub in 1993 at only 23-years-old. “Had I not been pushed out and done that role, who knows what would have happened from that point forward,” he said. The actor also remembered how a few years after the incident, “ironically,” he and DiCaprio were up for the same role in The Titanic, “so there was kind of a double banger with Leo.” DiCaprio ultimately snagged the part of Jack, but Feldman didn’t feel much bitterness about that since he wasn’t “as close.”
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US-Canada Flight Bookings Down 70% Amid Trump’s Trade War
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Flight bookings between Canada and the United States have “collapsed” amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, according to an analysis by aviation data tracker OAG. John Grant, the company’s chief analyst, wrote that future passenger bookings are “down by over 70% in every month through to the end of September” compared to last year. “Unfortunately, the law of unintended consequences is once again impacting the airline industry adding to what had already become a softening market,” Grant wrote. Preliminary data from Statistics Canada released last week showed Canadians took 13 percent fewer trips to the United States by air in February than they did the same month in 2024. Trump launched the latest salvo in his trade war Wednesday, announcing a 25 percent tariff on auto imports beginning April 2. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the announcement a “direct attack” during a press conference.
‘Adolescence’ Creator Teases ‘Possibility’ of a Season 2
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Netflix’s surprise hit show Adolescence was always intended to be a finite limited series. But with all Hollywood successes come the potential for more. And now, the show’s co-creator Stephen Graham has admitted it’s something he’s thinking about. Graham, who also plays Jamie’s father, Eddie, in the four-episode tour-de-force series, answered a question from Variety about the chances of a second season by saying, “Possibly, let’s see how the figures are. But yeah, there’s the possibility of developing another story.” The site noted that Graham “smirked” when he mentioned the show’s ratings, which have been among the best in Netflix history. Graham’s wife and producing partner, Hannah Walters, added, “A prequel to Adolescence, that’s certainly not going to happen. But there’s so much mileage in the one-shot and so much mileage in investing into human nature again and looking at something else. But yeah, everything’s looking good… everyone’s happy, shall we say?” So while there almost certainly won’t be any continuation of the narrative at the center of the show, it’s looking likely that viewers will get to see another grisly crime story told through dazzling one-shot episodes.
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Doctors tried for 30 minutes to revive the son of former New York Yankee Brett Gardner but weren’t able to save the teen. Miller Gardner, 14, died in his sleep Friday during a family vacation at a luxury resort in Costa Rica. He was unresponsive when doctors arrived Friday morning, the director of a local urgent care clinic told the New York Post. The medics performed CPR for half an hour but couldn’t bring back his vitals. The Gardner family had gotten sick after dinner the night before and was treated for vomiting, but the doctors who responded the next morning were baffled by Miller Gardner’s death. Investigators have ruled out death from asphyxiation—or choking—and now officials are trying to determine whether he had an allergic reaction either to something he ate or to the medication he was given for food poisoning. Either scenario would be extremely unusual, according to the doctors who tried to save him. Usually, patients with food allergies have an immediate reaction, and allergic reactions to gastrointestinal medications—which are usually over the counter—are very rare.
WATCH: Mini Four-Wheeler Driver Busted After Tesla-Ramming Spree 
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A Texan man’s Tesla-ramming spree came to an end after he allegedly drove a mini four-wheeler into multiple vehicles on Tuesday. Demarqeyun Marquize Cox was caught in the act and arrested after a Tesla recorded him battering vehicles, police in Texarkana, Texas announced. A witness eating lunch in the parking lot of a Golden Palace Chinese buffet first observed the 5-foot-2, 449-pound man backing his vehicle up, then driving head-on into the side of a red Tesla, which a nearby camera caught on video obtained by KTBS. Cox caused further damage to cars at a Lowe’s nearby before Texarkana police stopped him a mile south of Golden Palace. Cox attempted to evade police with a false name but was apprehended and charged with felony criminal mischief and failure to identify himself.
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At Least Six Dead After Submarine Carrying 45 Tourists Sinks in Egypt
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At least six people are dead and nine others are injured after a tourist submarine sank in the Egyptian Red Sea. Some 45 Russian tourists, including children, were onboard the Sindbad submarine when it crashed and sank about half a mile away from the shoreline on Thursday morning. Of those injured, four are said to be in critical condition, while a further 29 people were rescued without serious injury, the Red Sea Governorate said in a statement. It is not yet clear how many crew members were onboard the vessel or what caused it to sink. “Most of those on board were rescued and taken to their hotels and hospitals in Hurghada”, the statement added. “The fate of several tourists is being clarified.” The incident is not the first time a nautical tragedy has taken place in the region—back in November a tourist boat called the ‘Sea Story’ capsized in the same area and killed 11 people.
New Trump Plan Could Ban Foreign Students From Some Colleges
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President Donald Trump’s administration is considering rolling out plans to block specific colleges from taking in any foreign students if it deems too many of them are “pro-Hamas,” according to a report in Axios. The proposal, revealed to the news outlet by senior Justice and State Department officials, would see schools decertified from the Homeland Security program that permits them to accept people with student visas. The move would likely target schools where students have protested Israel’s 18-month siege of Gaza, which has led to the deaths of 50,000 Palestinians, according to the local Hamas-run health ministry. Axios reported that the schools Trump administration officials have most discussed are New York City’s Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles—both were the site of significant pro-Palestinian demonstrations by students last year. The inspiration for the idea, the news outlet said, was Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s so-called “Catch and Revoke” program, which has canceled the visas of roughly 300 foreign students who the government claims have shown support for Hamas. Free speech critics are already out in full force. “Deemed ‘pro-Hamas’ by whom? This kind of explicitly viewpoint-driven decision-making is ripe for abuse and risks arbitrary enforcement,” Will Creeley, the legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told Axios. “Everyone is fair game,” an administration official told the publication, referring to the 1.5 million people with student visas in the U.S.
