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Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
"Denmark hasn't done a good job at keeping Greenland safe," U.S. Vice President JD Vance told servicemembers at the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday. Vance said the island was key because Pituffik would be the first to alert the U.S. if a missile was fired from an enemy country or enemy submarine at the U.S. Following Vance's visit, Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said his country was ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Lawyers are arguing that Trump's vengeful orders amount to an assault on the foundations of the legal system and are an unconstitutional retaliation by the president. Two federal judges have blocked virtually identical executive orders targeting two prominent law firms linked to the investigation by ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's arrives Wednesday as he prepares to unleash his most significant round of tariffs yet after already slapping duties on imports that have shaken markets and ignited a global trade war. Two months into his White House return, Trump has imposed tariffs on goods from , all imports, and . He's threatened several other countries including traditional allies in the European ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military-led government says more than 1,000 have now been reported dead from a devastating earthquake that struck near the country's second-largest city. According to the latest figures, 1,002 people have been found dead since the Friday earthquake that hit Mandalay, the military government said in a statement. Another 2,376 have been reported injured and 30 more are missing, it ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
The president's order called for curbing the independence of the sprawling network of museums and urging it to promote "American greatness." President Trump issued an executive order this week criticizing the Smithsonian Institution for peddling what he described as a "divisive, race-centered ideology," and calling to restore it to "its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness." Here's what ...
Source: nytimes.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
BANGKOK (AP) — La cifra de muertos por un poderoso terremoto de magnitud 7,7 en Myanmar aumentó a más de 1.000 el sábado, luego de que se recuperaron más cuerpos de los escombros de numerosos edificios que se desplomaron cuando el sismo azotó cerca de la segunda ciudad más poblada del país. El gobierno militar declaró en un comunicado que se han ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
Elon Musk announced Friday on his X platform that the social media site has been acquired by xAI in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including $12 billion debt. "The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)," Musk wrote in the post. The companies have officially taken steps to combine data, models, computing power, distribution and talent, he wrote. He believes the ...
Source: mediapost.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
Both parties have plenty of reasons to look forward to next year's midterm elections. Republicans can test out the MAGA hypothesis that Donald Trump is building a new majority coalition that will last for decades. Democrats will rely on the more plausible historical precedent that the president's party almost always loses ground in midterms. But you don't have to wait until 2026 for some electoral tests of Trump ...
Source: nymag.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
There will be no totality, but the first solar eclipse of 2025 may bring the famed devil's horns. Today's the day: A solar eclipse will darken the skies in the northeastern US and Canada in the early hours of Saturday. Unlike the "Great American Eclipse" of 2024 , however, this will not be a total eclipse. Instead, this event will be a partial eclipse visible in parts of the northern hemisphere. While this one will ...
Source: engadget.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
The powerful voice of Tejano music superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is still an indelible staple in Latino households and parties nearly 30 years after her death. The grief that engulfed fans immediately after Selena's life was cut short has morphed over the years into a celebration of the cultural icon every spring on the days leading up to her April birthday. But this year, the memorial is accompanied by ...
Source: cnn.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
The USGS analysis said there was a 35 percent chance that possible fatalities could be in the range of 10,000-100,000 people. Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modelling suggesting thousands could be dead. Automatic assessments from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the shallow 7.7-magnitude quake ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
The judge ordered the CFPB not to delete any data, to reinstate terminated workers and to allow work to resume A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying the court "can and must act" to save the agency from being shut down. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed to issue a preliminary injunction to keep the agency ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
Environmental groups were outraged this week after the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under orders from President Trump, invited coal plants and other industrial polluters to seek to bypass key provisions of the Clean Air Act that limit hazardous emissions by . "EPA has set up an electronic mailbox to allow the regulated community to request a Presidential Exemption under [a provision] of the Clean Air ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
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Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
A Delta Air Lines flight departing Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., experienced a close call with an Air Force jet just after takeoff Friday afternoon, authorities confirmed. Both flights ultimately continued to their destinations without incident. The situation occurred just after Delta Flight 2983, an Airbus A319, had taken off from Reagan International at around 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time bound ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Mar 29th, 2025 -
Utah became the first state to prohibit LGBTQ+ pride flags from being flown at government buildings and schools in a move that also bans political flags such as those with President Donald Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again." Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, announced he was allowing the ban on unsanctioned flag displays to become law without his signature. Although he continues to have serious concerns about ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk , an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Happy Friday! In today's edition, we take you behind the scenes of President Donald Trump's sudden move to withdraw Elise Stefanik's U.N. ambassador nomination. Plus, Kristen Welker writes that the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
OpenAI's latest image generator has sparked a social media trend where users upload images and ask ChatGPT to transform them into a specific anime style pioneered by Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli. Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the viral use of ChatGPT for Studio Ghibli-style images has become so popular that it is overwhelming the company's AI servers . The trend started on Tuesday, when OpenAI ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
King Charles III was admitted to the hospital amid his cancer battle. "Following scheduled and ongoing medical treatment for cancer this morning, the King experienced temporary side effects that required a short period of observation in hospital," a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace told The Sun on Thursday. "His Majesty's afternoon engagements were therefore postponed." The hospitalization period was short, ...
Source: harpersbazaar.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump and issued by the White House late Thursday aims to end collective bargaining with Federal government unions for vast swaths of the civilian workforce. This includes all cabinet-level Federal agency chief information officer (CIO) offices and substantial portions of 20 large agencies and component organizations. order says that it is "using authority granted by ...
Source: meritalk.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Over the past several weeks, a handful of student visa holders and other legal residents have faced deportation for nebulous allegations that they supported terrorism—often being detained and taken away by immigration officials with seemingly no due process, or even an allegation of criminal wrongdoing. Shockingly, the number of affected individuals has reached into the hundreds. On Thursday, Secretary ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
BEIRUT, Lebanon , March 28 (UPI) -- Israel carried out an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs Friday in a first such attack since the Nov. 27 cease-fire agreement that ended the war with Israel. The strike targeted a building in a densely populated residential and commercial area in which two schools are nearby. Residents and schoolchildren rushed to evacuate the area in panic, with cars clogging the streets, ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
With the release of Upwind GenAI Security, cloud security teams can now have purpose-built protections that evolve with the complexity of AI workloads , a next-generation cloud security provider, announced today the release of Upwind GenAI Security, a first-of-its-kind solution that empowers security teams to proactively detect and respond to threats targeting AI workloads in real time. "GenAI won't reach its full ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman tells CNN that Trump 'does not want to fire' officials involved in the Signal group chat leak reporter Maggie Haberman said she believes that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and other officials embroiled in the Signalgate security breach will not be fired. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado. Organizers announced their decision Thursday after a yearlong search in which numerous U.S. cities vied to host the nation's premiere independent film festival. The other finalists were Cincinnati, Ohio, and a combined Salt Lake City and Park City bid . Festival leaders said ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act , the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The emergency appeal , which asks the justices to overturn an order from US District Judge James Boasberg blocking further deportations under the act, further thrusts the Supreme ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Tariffs are looming, inflation is still sticky and US consumers are bracing themselves for the impact. That's according to data released Friday from the Commerce Department: Americans socked away money into savings, pulled back on discretionary purchases, and, when accounting for inflation, increased their spending ever so slightly after taking a breather in a frigid and post-holiday January. At the same time, ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Final results show consumer sentiment fell 7.7 points in March to 57, down 22.4 points from one year ago, according to final results of the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The Current Economic Conditions Index edged down 1.9 points from the previous month to 63.8, 18.7 points lower than year-ago-levels. The Consumer Expectations Index fell 11.4 points to 52.6, 24.8 points lower than the March 2024 ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation to and make other sweeping changes to public colleges and universities in Ohio. Students, teachers and civil rights groups had called for a veto by DeWine, whose office announced the signing Friday without further comment by the governor. The American Historical Association, American Civil Liberties Union, the American Association of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
March 28 (UPI) -- The State Department on Friday formally notified Congress of the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development with the remaining operations and programs now run by the diplomatic agency. Later Friday , the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., allowed Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency to resume efforts to dismantle the agency. The three-panel decision ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Hillary Clinton said the Trump administration officials who discussed a forthcoming strike on a Houthi target in a Signal chat to which a journalist was accidentally added "put our troops in jeopardy." Clinton, a former secretary of state in the Obama administration, made the comments in an opinion piece for The New York Times that was published on Friday. Why It Matters Her use of a private email server for ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
An appeals court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire two officials at independent workforce agencies, at least temporarily, delivering a legal win to the White House as it tries to expand executive power. In a 2-1 ruling , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a stay blocking the reinstatement of the two fired officials, Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Utah just became the first U.S. state to ban fluoride in public water systems. Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed a bill into law on Thursday that prohibits any person or government entity from adding the mineral, which can prevent tooth decay, to water systems in the state. The bill was introduced in January, then passed in the state Senate on Feb. 21. It will go into effect May 7. Cox's signature was the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Senate overturns rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5 Senate Republicans hand 'biggest banks billions in profits from overdraft fees that kick working people when they're down,' Elizabeth Warren says The Senate voted early on Thursday to overturn a rule that limited most bank overdraft fees to $5 ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Fueled by the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, cases in the United States this year now exceed 500, according to NBC News' tally of state health department data. The 523 cases recorded in less than three months represent the second-highest annual total the country has seen in a decade. In the only year with more cases, 2019, the United States nearly lost its measles elimination status. Since the Texas outbreak ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
News , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons New York county clerk refuses $100K Texas judgment against doctor in abortion lawsuit The acting clerk of Ulster County, New York rejected on Thursday to file a $100,000 judgment against a doctor who is accused of unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman. Refusing to file the summary judgment, Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck invoked the SHIELD Act . He further ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
A federal judge sided with silenced Voice of America journalists on Friday, the latest setback for President Trump's push to shut down US government-funded international broadcasters. US District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken issued a temporary restraining order meant to block any further efforts to terminate VOA. The judge found that the executive branch "is usurping Congress's power of the purse and its legislative ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
PORTLAND, Maine — The administration of President Donald Trump is investigating Maine with a claim that dozens of school districts in the state violate federal law by withholding information about students' gender transitioning from parents. The U.S. Department of Education said it launched the investigation on Friday, the day after it began a similar investigation into the California Department of Education ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday stressed the importance of an independent judiciary and fealty to the rule of law amid harsh rhetoric from the Trump administration against judges who have impeded its policies. Sotomayor, speaking to students at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, said it was vital that everyone "ensure that the courts are fearlessly independent, that we ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton, who was convicted of fraud over misrepresentations about the electric-truck maker's financial progress, was pardoned by President Donald Trump . Milton, who said on social media Thursday that he spoke with Trump over the phone, was facing four years in prison for securities and wire fraud. A jury in 2022 found him guilty of falsifying key details about the development of Nikola's ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
The former Barcelona player has been cleared upon appeal of raping a woman in a bathroom at an upscale Barcelona nightclub early on New Year's Eve in 2022. Former Brazilian football player Dani Alves has had a rape conviction against him quashed upon appeal. The top court in Spain's Catalonia region said it overturned the original ruling in Alves' case saying it had presented "inconsistencies and contradictions". ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded Yemen overnight into Saturday, reportedly killing at least one person as the American military acknowledged earlier bombing a major military site in the heart of Sanaa controlled by the Houthi rebels . The full extent of the damage and possible casualties wasn't immediately clear. The attacks followed a night of airstrikes early Friday that ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
The Olympic skier Berkin Usta and his father have died in a fire at a shut-down ski resort in Turkey . Berkin, 24, and his father, Yahya, 57, were killed after a blaze broke out on Thursday at the Kervansaray hotel in the country's north-west. Berkin represented Turkey at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, finishing 43rd in the giant slalom, while Yahya was president of the Turkish Ski and Snowboard Teachers ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
FRIDAY, March 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A Michigan resident has died after receiving an organ transplant infected with rabies, state health officials said Wednesday. The patient got the transplant at an Ohio hospital in December and passed away the following month. The exact type of organ and the patient's identity have not been shared, according to NBC News , which also reported that the organ donor did not ...
Source: insidenova.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
KYIV — More than a month after Washington and Kyiv first haggled over a deal to grant the United States a major stake in Ukraine's mineral, oil, and gas development projects, the two sides are back to square one in the negotiations. Washington has sent Kyiv a new proposal that restates the sweeping financial demands from an initial draft agreement rejected by Ukraine, and adds new ones that could burden the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Mar 28th, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson, a White House official said Friday, just before Watson was due to report to prison for a nearly 10-year sentence in a financial conspiracy case. Watson was convicted last year in a closely watched case that showcased the implosion of an ambitious startup company at a time of turmoil in the media ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Mar 27th, 2025 -
A man suspected of setting fire to several Tesla vehicles at a repair facility in Las Vegas last week has been arrested, authorities announced Thursday. Police took a man identified as Paul Kim, 36, into custody on Wednesday evening, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said during a news conference. Kim is facing multiple felony counts including third-degree arson, unlawful ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Mar 27th, 2025 -
Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his administration's attempts to fire them violate the FTC Act and Supreme Court precedent. The lawsuit , filed in the District Court for the District of Columbia, asks the court to declare the president's actions unlawful, affirm the statutory rights of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter to ...
Source: cyberscoop.com