内容摘要：“It made everything so much more complicated and cumbersome,” said Max Schardt, defense attorney for defendant Shannon Stillwell.

“It made everything so much more complicated and cumbersome,” said Max Schardt, defense attorney for defendant Shannon Stillwell.

later. Another critical time for many species of wildlife is after dark, he said.“You can play music and have fun, but try not to make any loud noises,” he said.

In addition, creating sound buffers by planting dense native trees, evergreens or deciduous shrubs, and switching, including leaf blowers, string trimmers and chainsaws, are simple things homeowners can do to avoid causing harm.Educating and introducing change to local communities is important, too. Munroe suggests working with your homeowners association, schools, businesses and churches to limit loud, destructive activity on their properties.

“Talk to local municipalities about their noise ordinances and (encourage them to) create a sound sanctuary in the neighborhood (to protect) wood thrushes, katydids” and other wildlife, he said.And always observe noise ordinances at home and in public places, like parks.

Wild animals serve as “pollinators, affect pest control and have a positive effect on our agriculture and our economy,” Munroe said. “We want them in our neighborhoods.”

Jessica Damiano writes weekly gardening columns for the AP and publishes the award-winning Weekly Dirt Newsletter. You can sign upTrump’s 25% tariff on autos and parts is specifically designed to increase the cost of German-made automobiles in hopes of causing them to move their factories to the U.S., even though many of the companies already have plants in the U.S. with Volkswagen in Tennessee, BMW in South Carolina and Mercedes-Benz in Alabama and South Carolina.

There’s only so much Merz can achieve on his view that tariffs “benefit no one and damage everyone” while in Washington, as trade negotiations are a matter for the European Union’s executive commission. Trump recently delayed a planned 50% tariff on goods coming from the European Union, which would have otherwise gone into effect this month.One source of strain in recent months is a speech Vice President JD Vance

in February, in which he lectured European leaders about the state of democracy on the continent and said there is no place for “firewalls.”That term is frequently used to describe mainstream German parties’ refusal to work with the far-right