Tuesday, June 25, 2019

U.S. tech giant Apple has reportedly asked its major suppliers, mainly China-based manufacturers, to consider moving 15 to 30% of their production outside of China to avoid higher tariffs imposed on U.S.-bound exports. The production migration, which analysts say is already ongoing, will hurt the tech giant’s profit margin, but also lead to massive job losses in China.
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On June 24, 1953 Jacqueline Bouvier and Senator John F. Kennedy announce their engagement. The two met at a dinner party two years earlier and were married on September 12, 1953, in a ceremony St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. John F. Kennedy, of course, would go on to become president, ushering in what some called the “Camelot” era, named after the fictional court and castle of King Arthur. That era came to a crushing end on November 22, 1963, when John F. Kennedy was tragically gunned down in Dallas, Texas. Jacqueline Kennedy would go on to marry Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. She died in 1994.
A Oregon bill requiring polluters to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions seemed poised to clear the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature this week. But as the measure headed to a vote in the northwest U.S. state’s Senate, Republican members left the state, leaving the chamber short of a quorum and grinding legislative business to a halt. 
Turkey’s opposition won decisively in the controversial re-vote in the Istanbul mayoral election. The victory is a significant defeat for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who lost his Istanbul power base of 25 years. 
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and is contemplating its contents, North Korean state media reported Sunday. The official Korean Central News Agency posted a picture of a pensive Kim holding a letter, apparently with White House letterhead. The report quoted Kim as praising its “excellent content.”
The Taliban has given radio stations and television channels in Afghanistan one week to stop broadcasting government-funded advertisements against the Islamist insurgent group.

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