The Trump administration cut about half the work force of the agency, saying it would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the move “reckless and illegal.”

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When President Trump hosted Elon Musk and his electric vehicles this week, it recalled a visit years earlier to the Communist Party’s leadership compound.

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The former transportation secretary, who moved to Michigan from Indiana in 2022, had been seen as the most prominent potential candidate in next year’s marquee contest.

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Kurt Sullivan was unable to see his nephew for around 20 years, after his stepmother reportedly pushed him and other relatives away for asking too many questions.

Even though there were spicy comments before the game from Mikal Bridges about minutes and Tom Thibodeau’s rotation, it all felt dissolved when Mikal Bridges buried a buzzer beater.

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Fans have been wondering where Clarkson has been, as celebrity guest hosts have taken her place for most episodes since Feb. 28.

Disney didn't roll out the red carpet for "Snow White" star Rachel Zegler in Segovia, Spain.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Senate Democrats said they'll oppose the six-month GOP government spending bill and want a one-month CR instead.

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A race that reverts back to handicap status after 10 years as a level-weights contest, including most recently as a Grade One. The switch has definitely had the desired effect on the field size, as 20 are due to go to post after meagre turnouts of eight, four, seven and 11 in the last four years as a Grade One, but the flip-side for punters is that while four of the last five winners were at single-figure odds, there is much more chance of an upset today. Gordon Elliott’s Firefox, who has raced in Grade One company in two of his last three starts, has emerged from the pack as the likely favourite, but he is giving weight to every runner bar Springwell Bay, a winner over course and distance at the New Year’s Day meeting. Caldwell Potter is another interesting runner, not least as a result of his price tag - £632,000 – when he was bought by a syndicate including Sir Alex Ferguson and the late John Hales at a major dispersal sale in Ireland in February 2024. He has been the beaten favourite on his last two starts but makes his handicap debut on what could yet prove to be a decent mark. Elsewhere in the field, Ireland is well represented and Terence O’Brien’s Answer To Kayf is one that caught my eye. He was a very impressive winner of his handicap debut at Naas in January, and while that race was on heavy ground, he has enough form on a sounder surface to suggest that today’s going will not be an issue.

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The group Parents Defending Education is hoping the Trump Education Department will reverse course on Biden era guidelines they say recommends disciplinary actions based on race.

The retired engineer and NHS worker chewed over social housing and strong leaders. Could they find common ground on Covid?

Bob, 67, Newton Abbot, Devon

Occupation Retired businessman, used to run a small tool-making company

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With the NWSL season just days away from starting, Gotham FC locked in a deal with MSG Networks to be their local broadcasting partner for the third straight year. As part of the one-year deal, announced Thursday, fans will have a chance to watch eight of this season’s Gotham FC matches on MSG Networks from...

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A document proposes that Russia prolong the Ukraine war and drag out peace talks so that “a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis cannot happen before 2026."

The "Baywatch" actress was found dead in her Los Angeles home on March 5. She shared two daughters, Taylor and Hayley, with Hasselhoff.

US president aims latest trade war salvo at Europe, threatening its alcohol industry after the EU imposed levies on American whiskey on Wednesday

Luxury Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari says it is ready for countermeasures if US President Donald Trump imposes hefty tariffs on European auto imports.

“We are ready with some countermeasures,” Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna told Cnbc’s Converge Live in Singapore. “We are waiting for the official number to be published,” he added, referring to Trump’s threat of duties “of around 25%” on EU carmakers.

He added:

We will watch what happens over the next month, in the next few weeks. We are in the same boat in terms of tariffs.

The customer is at the centre of our attention.”

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The Kansas City Chiefs player's brother and "New Heights" co-host, Jason Kelce, joked that Tribeca sounds like "a tequila brand."

Putin’s foreign policy adviser says Moscow wants long-term settlement taking its interests into account

Twenty minutes after arriving on holiday in Italian city, Yanis Tereshchenko drew on experience of war to intervene

A Ukrainian soldier who insists on always carrying a first-aid kit – even on holiday – has been praised for saving the life of a stabbing victim during a trip to Venice, Italy.

Yanis Tereshchenko, a 32-year-old teacher who enlisted in the Ukrainian army’s third assault brigade immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, was on his way to his hotel with his wife and his five-year-old son in the Rialto district when he witnessed an altercation between two young men.

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President demands bloc removes duty on US whisky

Coterie -- the Lenox Hill facility where Williams has been staying -- has accused her niece of breaching the law by taking the former talk show host out to dinner Wednesday night.

Former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte was seen boarding a plane boarding a plane with a cane at Villamor Airbase on March 11, where a number of supporters had gathered. His daughter Sara Duterte, who is Vice President of the Philippines, said her father was being “forcibly” taken to The Hague. He is being accused...

President Donald Trump is floating a “gold card" that would allow foreign nationals to enter U.S., replacing a controversial visa scheme for rich investors.

Warren Zeiders transitioned from a college athletic career to country music stardom and is now headlining Rodeo Houston and releasing a double album, "Relapse, Lies & Betrayal."

The GOP has identified Georgia’s U.S. Senate race in 2026 as a chance to widen its margin over Democrats in the U.S. Senate after Democrat Jeanne Shaheen announced she won't run.

"We knew it. We reported it. Not a damn thing was done," the principal said.

A former FBI special agent says investigators can use lessons learned from previous missing person's cases like Natalee Holloway's to find Sudiksha Konanki.

The 60-year-old Minnesota governor claimed America "wouldn't be in this mess" if he and former Vice President Kamala Harris won the 2024 election in November.

Maria Branyas Morera, US-born supercentenarian who died in Spain last August, found to have microbiota of an infant

The US-born woman who was the world’s oldest living person before she died in Spain last August at age 117 once attributed her longevity to “luck and good genetics”. And, evidently, Maria Branyas Morera was right.

A study of Branyas’s microbiome and DNA that scientists began conducting before her death reportedly determined that the genes she inherited allowed her cells to essentially feel and behave as if they were 17 years younger than they actually were. And Branyas’s microbiota – which primarily refers to the bacteria in people’s guts that has a role in keeping them healthy – mirrored that of an infant, according to the research led by University of Barcelona genetics professor Manel Esteller, a leading expert on ageing.

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Performers can fight cynicism in age of Trump, says Nicola Benedetti as she announces 2025 programme

Musicians and artists should challenge disinformation and cynicism in global politics by standing up for fundamental truths, the violinist Nicola Benedetti has said.

Benedetti, the director of the Edinburgh international festival, said the arts played an essential role during periods of turmoil by showing the best of human achievement.

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Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressed

Veteran journalist Kevin Fagan spent decades covering homelessness for the San Francisco Chronicle, reporting on a crisis that persists despite billions poured into housing and services and years of political debate.

The issue is personal for him. Fagan was episodically homeless in his youth, sleeping in his car and camping outside while he attended college and later in doorways abroad as a traveling musician.

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Forty years into their career, this family band deliver their debut – and it’s a life-affirming album full of spontaneity and seemingly telepathic harmonising

The saga of Annie & the Caldwells’ debut album is lengthy and convoluted. The record probably wouldn’t have existed at all had crate-digging record collectors not chanced upon Waiting for the Trumpet to Sound, a 1974 single by gospel group the Staples Jr Singers, released on a Mississippi label so obscure that only one copy has ever been sold on Discogs. It came to the attention of Greg Belson, a British-born, LA-based soul DJ, who has carved out a niche playing recherché dancefloor-friendly gospel (if you want to hear the Lord’s praises being sung amid the sweatily hedonistic environs of Glastonbury’s gay club NYC Downlow, then he’s your go-to guy). He included its B-side on a 2019 compilation, The Time for Peace is Now: Gospel Music About Us.

The song’s author, Annie Caldwell, has recalled receiving “a call from a man, I think his name was David”. It was former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, whose Luaka Bop label released the compilation and then the Staples Jr Singers’ solitary album. Caldwell’s surprise at being contacted about records she had made in her early teens didn’t deter her from suggesting Byrne’s label might also be interested in the band she had been leading for the last 40 years, comprised of her husband, children and goddaughter. They were, and you can see why.

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DDT use nearly wiped out the raptor by the 1970s. Now peregrine numbers are collapsing again in many countries and no one is quite sure why

For the past six years, Gordon Propp, who builds sets for British Columbia’s film industry, has kept a close watch over 13 peregrine falcon nests in and around Vancouver, including 10 on the city’s bridges.

A self-described wildlife enthusiast and citizen scientist, Propp has had a lifelong fascination with these raptors. “To see a creature that high up the food chain adapting to an urban environment, to me, that’s quite remarkable,” says Propp.

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Hera spacecraft takes photos of red planet’s second moon, Deimos, while en route to asteroids 110m miles away

A European spacecraft has taken photos of Mars’s smaller and more mysterious second moon during its flight past the planet en route to a pair of asteroids more than 110m miles (177m km) away.

The Hera probe activated a suite of instruments to capture images of the red planet and Deimos, a small and lumpy 8-mile-wide moon, which orbits Mars along with the 14-mile-wide Phobos.

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“The View" co-host Sunny Hostin lamented the news about Washington D.C. removing its Black Lives Matter street paint while speaking on the “Behind the Table" podcast.

Meta to launch its community notes program next week. Meta officer Joel Kaplan says content with community notes won't be limited in distribution to users nor have penalties imposed.

Joshua Steven Riibe, 24, has been identified as the man seen hugging and walking hand-in-hand with the 20-year-old student just hours before she vanished in the Dominican Republic.