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Dalal Street watch: What to expect on Monday as Trump raises tariffs to 15% - The
- Dalal Street is poised to open Monday amid fresh uncertainity after US President Donald Trump announced increasing temporary global tariffs on nearly all imports, from 10% to 15%. The move came just a day after the US Supreme Court struck down his earlier broad tariff programme, leaving investors questioning whether trade tensions are returning. Earlier this week, Supreme Court had ruled that Trump exceeded his ...

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
USA vs. Canada: Live updates from Olympic gold medal game
- Can the United States' men's hockey team win its first Olympic gold medal since 1980? That is the opportunity in front of them Sunday morning when they take on Canada to wrap up the Milan Cortina Olympics. The game begins at 8:10 a.m. and is being broadcast on NBC. With NHL players back in the Olympics, the two nations seemed destined to meet in the final because of star-laden rosters and two heated matchups in the ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
POLITICS  
Greenland does not need US hospital ship: Danish minister
- Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark's defence minister said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump claimed he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he covets. "The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it's not as if ...

Source: digitaljournal.com
POLITICS  
DHS suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry as partial government shutdown continues
- You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry beginning Sunday as a partial government shutdown continues. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday blamed Democrats for shutting down the government, saying they were causing "serious real world consequences." "This is the third time that Democrat politicians have shut down ...

Source: foxnews.com
WORLD  
Pakistan launches border strikes in Afghanistan, Red Crescent says 18 killed
- ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said early Sunday it carried out strikes along the border with Afghanistan , targeting what it called hideouts of Pakistani militants it blamed for recent attacks inside Pakistan. The Afghan Red Crescent Society said more than a dozen people were killed. Pakistan didn't specify the locations targeted, but the Afghan defense ministry said in a statement "various civilian areas" in the ...

Source: nbcnews.com
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US ambassador's Israel comments condemned by Arab and Muslim nations
- Arab and Muslim governments have condemned remarks made by the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel would be justified in taking over a vast stretch of the Middle East on Biblical grounds. In an interview with conservative US commentator Tucker Carlson, Huckabee was asked whether Israel had a right to an area which the host said was, according to the Bible, "essentially the entire Middle ...

Source: bbc.com
Blizzard warnings send East Coast scrambling to prepare for heavy snow and strong winds
- NEW YORK (AP) — Cities and towns along the East Coast scrambled to prepare for a bout with heavy snow and damaging winds after forecasters issued blizzard alerts for communities from Maryland to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service warned that once the storm intensifies Sunday it could prove significantly more severe than projections made just a few days ago. The weather service said 1 to 2 feet (about ...

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NFL receiver Rondale Moore found dead in his Indiana hometown
- NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Rondale Moore , the NFL receiver who had season-ending training camp knee injuries in each of the last two years after a standout college career at Purdue and a promising start with the Arizona Cardinals, was found dead Saturday, authorities said. He was 25. Police said Moore died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. Moore was found dead in the garage of a property in his ...

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BUSINESS   SCIENCE  
Nasa moon rocket hit by new problem, pushing launch with astronauts into April
- The Artemis II mission, set to be humanity's first lunar flight in decades, is facing a helium flow issue just a day after a successful test Reading Time: 2 minutes Nasa's new moon rocket suffered another setback on Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts' first lunar trip in decades into spring. The space agency revealed the latest problem just one day after targeting March 6 for the Artemis II mission, ...

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'How Many Other Killings Are They Concealing?' ICE Shot Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Last March
- Demands for accountability are mounting after internal records revealed this week that an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations fatally shot Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old US citizen, almost a year ago in South Padre Island, Texas . "While Martinez's death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI involvement or disclose that a federal ...

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Trump administration fires prosecutor hours after he was appointed
- Trump administration fires Virginia prosecutor hours after judges appointed him The Trump administration has fired a top prosecutor in Virginia just hours after judges hired him. A panel of judges announced on Friday that they had unanimously voted to appoint James W Hundley as the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Hours later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote on X: "EDVA judges do ...

Source: bbc.com
UK weighs removing ex-Prince Andrew from succession line amid Epstein probe
- The British government is weighing new legislation that could remove the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, from the line of royal succession, according to reports. Officials in the United Kingdom, speaking on condition of anonymity to the BBC on Friday, said the decision could follow after the police finish their investigation into the ex-prince's ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . "The ...

Source: aljazeera.com
WORLD  
Israeli airstrikes in eastern Lebanon kill 8 Hezbollah members, officials say
- Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon have killed eight members of the militant Hezbollah group , including several local officials, two officials with the group said Saturday. The Lebanese Health Ministry put the death toll at 10, but did not distinguish between militants and civilians. The Hezbollah officials told The Associated Press that the eight militants were killed in strikes near the village of Rayak in ...

Source: nbcnews.com
POLITICS  
More than 1,500 request amnesty under new Venezuela law
- More than 1,500 political prisoners in Venezuela have applied for amnesty under a new law, the head of the country's legislature said Saturday, two days after the measure — enacted under pressure from Washington — came into effect. "A total of 1,557 cases are being addressed immediately, and hundreds of people deprived of their freedom are already being released under the amnesty law," National Assembly ...

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Bill Mazeroski, Baseball Hall of Famer and Pittsburgh Pirates legend, dies at 89
- The man who will forever be known for hitting the greatest home run in baseball history - a game 7 walk-off in the World Series - Bill Mazeroski, has died at 89.  Mazeroski died on Friday, February 20.  "His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history and the 1960 World Series championship, but I will remember him most for the person he was," said Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting. ...

Source: cbsnews.com
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Louisiana schools can display Ten Commandments, appeals court rules
- Court lifted injunction on law requiring display of religious text in every public school classroom A federal appeals court cleared the way on Friday for a controversial Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, allowing the state to enforce a law that was previously found to be unconstitutional. The US fifth circuit court of appeals voted 12-6 to lift a ...

Source: theguardian.com
WORLD  
Ukraine strikes a key industrial site deep inside Russia
- Ukrainian drones struck an industrial site deep inside Russia on Saturday, and a Russian news channel reported the target was a key state-owned missile factory. The attack took place in Russia's Udmurt Republic, leaving 11 injured, three of whom were hospitalized, according to a Telegram post by Sergei Bagin, the local health minister. "One of the republic's facilities was attacked by drones" launched by Ukraine, ...

Source: nbcnews.com
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US military strike kills three in second alleged drug boat attack this week
- Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," ...

Source: theguardian.com