Month: May 2025

A major car maker has announced bad news in the billions of dollars.

General Motors believes the tariffs “will cost General Motors between $4 billion and $5 billion this year,” according to CNN.

But that doesn’t mean that car buyers will feel the sting of it.

“We believe …pricing is going to stay at about the same level as it is,” CEO Mary Barra told CNN’s Erin Burnett on May 1, 2025, although she added, “Pricing changes in our industry at least monthly, and sometimes more frequently. We’re going to respond to the market.”

The “lower profit target” was announced in a letter to shareholders as the company, and many others, try to impart realistic guidance on tariffs impact as they grapple with a volatile landscape, CNN reported.

According to CNN, GM is “the largest American automaker” with sales in the United States of 2.7 million cars and trucks, which has kept the company “very profitable,” with “record net income of nearly $12 billion in 2024, excluding special items.”

In addition, GM affects “1 million US workers,” who work as “employees, suppliers or dealers,” CNN reported.

General Motors manufactures some of the most iconic American cars and trucks, including Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, according to its website.

Bloomberg reported that GM is freezing a “share buyback” due to the tariffs.

Barra told shareholders that the company continues to have an open dialogue on tariffs.

“There are ongoing discussions with key trade partners that may also have an impact,” she wrote, according to Reuters. Yet GM cut its profit forecast, Reuters confirmed, due to the tariff concerns.

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Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas dating rumors are alive and well. The two actors arrived in London together on April 29 — just one day before de Armas’ 37th birthday. 

According to photos published by TMZ, Cruise and de Armas were dressed casually as they collected their items from the chopper and headed to their next destination.

The pair has been seen together a handful of times this year, with dating rumors growing each sighting. After being seen together around Valentine’s Day, a source told People magazine that there was nothing romantic going on, despite how things may seem.

“[They were] discussing potential collaborations down the line,” the source told the outlet, adding that the pair “appeared to have no romantic connection, just friends.”

“Tom looked happy as fans approached him for photos, and the group later took home leftovers,” the insider continued.

However, this time around, a source told People that the two were “maybe” celebrating de Armas’ birthday together. 

Cruise has been keeping busy outside of his “maybe”-romance with de Armas. He’s prepping for the release of his highly anticipated new movie, Mission Impossible —The Final Reckoning, which is set to hit theaters on May 23.

In an interview with People magazine that was published on May 1, Cruise, 62, discussed the stunts he did for the film. 

“Everyone will think we did some on green screen on the ground. I guarantee there was not one single shot that was not on a plane flying for real,” he said.

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U.S. travel is down in 2025, to the point where airlines are having to regroup and cancel flights that were once scheduled to take off this year. While multiple U.S. airlines have expressed their concerns about having to lower the number of domestic flights available for the upcoming summer season, it’s not just domestic airlines.

Over the past few months, both tourist and business travel from Canada to the U.S. have fallen. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at the U.S. and Canada border decreased by 12.5% in February and 18% in March, per The Street.

Now, Air Canada is cutting down on San Francisco routes, and this follows earlier cuts to Washington and Miami. According to The Street, Air Canada “has already reduced its flight schedule to the U.S. amid lower demand,” with affected routes including “flights to Washington, Houston and Miami from Vancouver International Airport.”

“If we can de-risk this a little bit and move and be a bit proactive and move capacity into other sectors [where] we see strength, I think that’s the right move right now in this context,” Mark Galardo, Air Canada’s executive vice presidency, revenue and network planning and president of cargo, told investors in March, per The Street.

Canadian airline WestJet has also canceled the start of a new, non-stop flight between Austin and Vancouver, due to a “downward shift in demand” for travel going between the United States and Canada, according to Open Jaw. The YVR-AUS route was scheduled to start May 11 and, according to Texas television station KXAN reports.

A WestJet spokesperson told KXAN, “Due to a downward shift in demand for U.S. travel, WestJet has made the difficult decision to suspend scheduled direct service between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Austin, Texas.”

WestJet added that they will “review opportunities” to offer service on the Vancouver-Austin route in the future.

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LeBron James was asked point-blank whether he is planning to retire.

James responded to the retirement question after the Los Angeles Lakers lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs on April 30, 2025.

“I don’t know,” James told reporters, according to ESPN. “I don’t have an answer to that. Something I’ll sit down with my family, my wife and my support group and kind of just talk through it and see what happens. And just have a conversation with myself on how long I want to continue to play.”

James was asked, “How much longer he planned to play before retiring,” ESPN reported.

“I don’t know the answer to that right now, to be honest. So we’ll see,” he added.

According to ESPN, the season didn’t end well for James. Not only did the Lakers lose, but he “limped out” of the arena, “his left leg swollen from a knee-to-knee collision,” the site reported.

James could return to the Lakers next year via a player option worth $52.6 million, The Sporting News reported. He would become a free agent if he doesn’t opt in by June 29, according to that site.

According to DraftKings Network, James made it clear that he wanted to play with his son Bronny, but now that he’s accomplished that, many are wondering whether he will finally retire.

James has played “a whopping 71,063 career minutes, ” including the postseason, according to Draft Kings.

“Just continuing to play, I don’t know where I’m at,” James told ESPN. “That’s what that is. Not coming back to play here. Just playing, period.”

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On April 30, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs took the field at PNC Park for a regular season match up. During the seventh inning, a fan sitting in the outfield bleachers tumbled from his seat onto the field. According to TMZ, the fall was about 20 feet.

In terrifying video shared by fans on social media, a man can be seen flipping over a few times before landing on the warning track. Within minutes, emergency personnel surrounded the man, whose body laid still on the ground. He was placed on a stretcher and transported to a nearby hospital. Both teams looked on in complete shock.

Fans have reacted to the videos on social media.

“That dude #launched up. At one point has his foot on the railing it appears, as if bracing his body weight for a jump onto the field. Maybe was leaning over, or extra excited and slipped — but all of it looks extremely irregular. Prayers with him. All the way, regardless,” one person commented on a the video shared from the game.

“I’ve seen people fall, that didn’t look like a fall…dude looked like he was ejected from his seat,” someone else said.

Pirates fan falls pic.twitter.com/sgppriM24b

— Bobby K (@Bobbk_) May 1, 2025

In a close up shot, the man lay still on a stretcher with blood on his face and his eyes closed.

“Tonight, during the seventh inning of the game at PNC Park, an adult male fell from the right field bleachers onto the field of play,” the Pirates said in a statement posted on X. “Pittsburgh EMS, as well as the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and other PNC Park personnel reacted and responded immediately and administered care. He was transported to Allegheny General Hospital. No further information is available at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family,” the team’s official statement continued. 

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