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Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Dick Van Dyke turned 99 today. Happy Birthday! In 2013, he also received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2024, he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series, the oldest winner ever. And a massive shout out to the neighbors that rescued him from the latest Malibu fire. Cinema Blend writes: Following a win for the TV special Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic at the Creative Arts Emmys, the movie and TV star was asked how he wanted to be remembered.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shortly after he was reelected last month, Donald Trump announced an economic gambit that was aggressive even by his standards. He vowed that, on the first day of his second term, he would slap 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and boost those already placed on Chinese products by another 10 percent.  The move set off a frenzy of pushback.

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