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A powerful storm has triggered widespread flooding on the Greek island of Paros and Mykonos, prompting the authorities to impose an emergency traffic ban on all roads
ATHENS, Greece — A powerful storm lashed the Greek islands of Paros and Mykonos on Monday, triggering widespread flooding and prompting authorities to close schools and impose a ban on all traffic except emergency vehicles.
Heavy rainfall in Paros' main towns of Parikia and Naousa – both popular vacation spots – caused floodwaters that surged through streets, carrying cars and debris past whitewashed buildings.
Authorities on Paros said 13 people stranded in the storm were taken by firefighters to their homes, adding that no one was reported injured or missing.
On Mykonos, where the flooding was less intense, excavators were used to clear a path for floodwater and it gushed past seafront cafes and restaurants.
Authorities ordered schools on Paros, Mykonos and two other Aegean Sea islands to remain closed on Tuesday, while the civil protection service sent cell phone alerts instructing residents to stay indoors. Municipal crews and private contractors worked to clear roads blocked by fallen rocks, while emergency services rescued stranded motorists.
Several islands near Paros, in the Cyclades group, which is southeast of the mainland in the Aegean Sea, remain under severe weather warnings though Tuesday.
Aid agencies say the workers were killed and buried in a mass grave in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Residents described being shot at along the evacuation route.
JAFFA, Israel — Israel on Monday ordered the evacuation of most of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, warning that the military is “returning to combat in great force” in the area, a day after the bodies of more than a dozen emergency personnel, missing for a week after responding to a strike, were recovered from a mass grave in the city.
Over the past week, the Israeli military has pushed back into Rafah, launching air and artillery strikes, sending troops into several neighborhoods and forcing Palestinians who had recently returned under a ceasefire to flee once again, according to residents who escaped the bombardments and gunfire.
The evacuation order Monday was the largest since Israel resumed military operations in Gaza nearly three weeks ago, covering swaths of Rafah that, while mostly destroyed, hosted many families who returned during a two-month ceasefire that began in January. In a statement, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Avichay Adraee directed Palestinians toward Mawasi in western Gaza, an Israeli-designated “humanitarian zone” that many Rafah residents had left just weeks ago.
Israel has long seen the control of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, as crucial to stemming the flow of weapons and goods to Hamas, the militant group that ruled Gaza before the war. But Israeli leaders have also warned of plans to expand operations across the territory, including a much larger ground campaign that could culminate in the long-term occupation of Gaza.
The Washington Post spoke to eight residents who recently fled Rafah and described harrowing scenes as intensive strikes began in the city late on March 22, days after Israel broke a two-month ceasefire with Hamas and unleashed strikes that killed more than 400 people in a single night on March 18.
“They bombed the house right in front of us,” said Sanaa Abu Taha, 42, who was staying in the rubble of her home in the Saudi neighborhood of Rafah before fleeing on March 23. “Three people on our street were killed. … The shooting did not stop.”
Amid the chaos of the first night, the Palestine Red Crescent Society dispatched two ambulances to the scene of a strike in Rafah's Hashashin area shortly before 4 a.m. on March 23, according to PRCS spokeswoman Nebal Farsakh.
The dispatchers soon lost contact with one of the ambulances, she said, and paramedics in the other vehicle were sent to search for their missing colleagues. Not long afterward, they relayed what they saw: The ambulance was found near vehicles belonging to the United Nations and Gaza's Civil Defense. The paramedics had been shot and were wounded, Farsakh said, and PRCS dispatched two more ambulances to retrieve the injured.
The organization also lost contact with those ambulances, but not before one of the medics briefly called the dispatch center and Israeli forces could be heard speaking in the background, Farsakh said.
For days, the paramedics were missing, along with a team from Gaza's Civil Defense and a staffer with the U.N. But on Sunday, the PRCS, the Civil Defense force and the U.N. all said they recovered their colleagues' bodies in a mass grave in Rafah, including eight paramedics, six Civil Defense workers and one U.N. staff member. In a statement, PRCS called the incident a “massacre.”
“They were killed in their uniforms. Driving their clearly marked vehicles. Wearing their gloves. On their way to save lives,” Jonathan Whittall, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, wrote on X.
He described the efforts to find the teams, including on the first of day of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. “This should never have happened,” Whittall wrote.
In a statement, the IDF said its forces opened fire at vehicles after they “advanced suspiciously toward the troops … eliminating a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.” The IDF said an initial investigation found that “some” of them had been ambulances and fire trucks. It did not provide evidence of the claim that militants were in the convoy and did not respond when asked why the first responders were buried in a mass grave.
The IDF also said that the vehicles were moving “without prior coordination,” though Adraee, the military spokesman, published an evacuation order for the area on his X account several hours after the incident. Farsakh said the area was not a “red zone” when the ambulances were dispatched, as it is the organization's policy to generally not send first responders to closed military areas where coordination is needed.
“We demand answers and justice,” U.N. humanitarian affairs chief Tom Fletcher said Monday.
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. It launched the war in response to the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, a rampage that killed around 1,200 people.
Hamas and allied militants also took 251 hostages into Gaza, some of whom are still in captivity. The IDF said Saturday that its “troops located and recovered findings associated with the body of” Menachem Godard, who was killed on Oct. 7, 2023. The IDF said the remains were found in “an outpost area in Rafah” belonging to Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally.
Residents said that as they fled Rafah last week, they were being fired on by the Israeli military or seeing the bodies of people who were shot along the evacuation routes. “It was like a video game,” said Mustafa Jabar, 36, who said he saw more than 10 bodies on the ground as he fled the Saudi neighborhood with his extended family on March 23.
Haroun al-Karnab, 29, said “the gunfire was random” as he evacuated from Rafah's Tel al-Sultan neighborhood the same day, adding that it did not appear that Israeli troops were clashing with militants. In his post on X, Whittall said he and his team “witnessed a woman shot in the back of the head” as they were traveling to the area where the paramedics were buried. “When a young man tried to retrieve her, he too was shot.”
In a statement, the military denied firing on civilians leaving Rafah, saying that it “completely rejects the claims.”
“The IDF allows the civilian population to evacuate from combat zones in the Gaza Strip to protect noncombatant civilians,” it said.
Rafah residents said that the IDF dropped leaflets and sent text messages with an evacuation route but that they had little notice, could take few if any belongings and were fearful of the path provided. The IDF route directed Palestinians to a makeshift checkpoint and inspection cameras set up near an abandoned U.N. warehouse.
Haya Abu Labda, 25, said she lost her brother-in-law, 15-year-old Mustafa, in the mayhem of the evacuation. The family had split up because her husband wanted to wait with his grandmother, she said. Neighbors later said they saw Mustafa lying on the ground, shot dead, near a military checkpoint. He had a cart carrying some food and clothes, and it appeared he had taken a route not designated by the IDF, Abu Labda said.
With no belongings and nowhere to go, the extended Abu Labda family has fled to Mawasi, which they left only weeks ago.
“Until this moment, I still cannot believe what happened,” she said.
Harb reported from London. Farouk Mahfouz reported from Cairo.
Israel's military launched a large-scale bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, breaking the fragile ceasefire with Hamas that had been in place since late January. Follow live updates on the ceasefire and the hostages remaining in Gaza.
The Israel-Gaza war: On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking civilian hostages. Israel declared war on Hamas in response, launching a ground invasion that fueled the biggest displacement in the region since Israel's creation in 1948. In July 2024, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an attack Hamas has blamed on Israel.
Hezbollah: In late 2024, Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire deal, bringing a tenuous halt to more than a year of hostilities that included an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Israel's airstrikes into Lebanon had been intense and deadly, killing over 1,400 people including Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's longtime leader. The Israel-Lebanon border has a history of violence that dates back to Israel's founding.
Gaza crisis: In the Gaza Strip, Israel has waged one of this century's most destructive wars, killing tens of thousands and plunging at least half of the population into “famine-like conditions.” For months, Israel has resisted pressure from Western allies to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.
U.S. involvement: Despite tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some U.S. politicians, including former President Joe Biden, the United States supports Israel with weapons, funds aid packages, and has vetoed or abstained from the United Nations' ceasefire resolutions.
Education department announces review of Harvard's $255.6m contracts and $8.7bn multi-year grant commitments amid allegations of antisemitism
The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.
The Task Force will review the more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the Federal Government. The review also includes the more than $8.7bn in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard University and its affiliates,” the Education Department, Department of Health and the General Services Administration said in a joint statement, Reuters reports.
The Trump administration's announcement of a review of Harvard over allegations of antisemitism comes 10 days after another major university caved to Trump's demands.
In a January Executive Order, Donald Trump announced his administration would be probing various universities and colleges for allegations of antisemitism.
Columbia University was the first institution targeted by the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, made up of various government agencies. To preserve federal funding, Columbia caved to many of the Trump administration's demands, as a pre-condition for restoring $400m in federal funding.
Columbia acquiesced in a memo that laid out measures including banning face masks on campus, empowering security officers to remove or arrest individuals and taking control of the department that offers courses on the Middle East from its faculty, Reuters reported.
Harvard is the latest institution targeted by the Trump administration.
The federal government will collaborate with relevant contracting agencies to assess whether Stop Work Orders should be issued for any identified contracts. Any institution found to be in violation of federal compliance standards may face administrative actions, including contract termination,” the Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the US General Services Administration (GSA) said in a joint statement.
The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.
The Task Force will review the more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the Federal Government. The review also includes the more than $8.7bn in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard University and its affiliates,” the Education Department, Department of Health and the General Services Administration said in a joint statement, Reuters reports.
Donald Trump refused to say whether he was planning to leave office in 2029, after an interview with NBC where he said he was not joking about the possibility of seeking a third term.
Trump said Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” when he announces reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners. Global stock markets were a sea of red on Monday and investors fled to gold amid recession fears.
The White House said “this case has been closed” when asked about the status of the investigation into the now-infamous Signal chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist.
Attorney general Pam Bondi directed the justice department to dismiss a Biden-era lawsuit challenging a Republican-backed Georgia election law that was passed after Trump's 2020 election loss in the state.
The US sent 17 more people accused of being gang members to El Salvador without providing their names or any other identifying information, the latest move in the Trump administration's controversial method of deporting people to be imprisoned abroad without due process in the US.
The US announced sanctions against six Chinese and Hong Kong officials over their role in extraterritorial enforcement of the territory's national security law, one of the first moves by the Trump administration to punish China over its crackdown on democracy advocates in Hong Kong.
Trump issued a full pardon to another person involved with the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and commuted the sentence of a former business associate of Hunter Biden.
An official allied with Elon Musk's “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been put in charge of the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank targeted by Donald Trump for closure.
The headquarters of the Republican party of New Mexico was set on fire on Sunday and “ICE=KKK” spray painted on the building in what the party called “a deliberate act of arson”.
Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to another person involved with the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and commuted the sentence of a former business associate of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's scandal-plagued son.
Thomas Caldwell, 69, of Berryville, Virginia, has been granted a pardon for his alleged role in the Capitol attack following a series of pardons Trump has given out to those involved with or present during the events on 6 January 2021.
Caldwell, a navy veteran, stood trial earlier this year alongside leaders of the Oath Keepers militia. He was acquitted by a jury in Washington's federal court of seditious conspiracy and two other conspiracy offenses, but was sentenced in January to time served with no probation. The US Department of Justice previously described the actions of the Oath Keepers militia as “terrorism”.
Trump has also issued a commuted sentence for Jason Galanis, who had been serving a 14-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to a multimillion-dollar scheme involving fraudulent tribal bonds. He is the second former business partner of Hunter Biden to be granted clemency.
The US has announced sanctions against six Chinese and Hong Kong officials over their role in extraterritorial enforcement of the territory's national security law.
A statement by the state department said the six officials, which include Hong Kong's secretary of justice and its police commissioner, “have engaged in actions or policies that threaten to further erode the autonomy of Hong Kong in contravention of China's commitments, and in connection with acts of transnational repression”. It added:
Beijing and Hong Kong officials have used Hong Kong national security laws extraterritorially to intimidate, silence, and harass 19 pro-democracy activists who were forced to flee overseas, including a US citizen and four other US residents.
The sanctions mark one of the first moves by the Trump administration to punish China over its crackdown on democracy advocates in Hong Kong.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt was asked about the status of the investigation into how a journalist was added into a high-level group chat about US military plans in Yemen.
“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” Leavitt told reporters.
She said that Mike Waltz, the national security adviser, “continues to be an important part of his national security team”.
“There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can, obviously, not happen again,” she added.
Donald Trump will announce plans to place reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners at a Wednesday event in the Rose Garden, the White House said.
Trump will be joined in the Rose Garden by his cabinet, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said.
Leavitt said Trump believes “it's time for reciprocity” but said the details of the announcement are up to the president to announce.
The US has sent 17 more people accused of being gang members to El Salvador without providing their names or any other identifying information, the latest move in the Trump administration's controversial method of deporting people to be imprisoned abroad without due process in the US.
The secretary of state, Marco Rubio announced the overnight military transfer on Monday, asserting that the group included “murderers and rapists” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs, which the Trump administration has recently labeled foreign terrorists.
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele posted on social media that the deportees were “confirmed murderers and high-profile offenders, including six child rapists”.
Approximately 300 immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, were recently deported to El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), a mega-prison notorious for brutal conditions.
Family members have repeatedly denied gang affiliations, while the administration has refused to provide evidence, invoking “state secrets” privilege.
An official allied with Elon Musk's “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been put in charge of the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank targeted by Donald Trump for closure, according to a federal court filing.
Two board members of the Institute of Peace have authorized replacing its temporary president with Nate Cavanaugh, Associated Press reports.
The action follows a Friday night mass firing of nearly all of the institute's 300 employees.
An executive order last month from Trump targeted the institute, which seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, and three other agencies for closure. Board members, who are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and the institute's president were fired. Later, there was a standoff as employees blocked Doge members from entering. Doge staff gained access in part with the help of the Washington police.
A nearly two-century-old tree with a history tied to the former president Andrew Jackson will be removed from the White House grounds because it is deteriorating, Donald Trump said on Sunday.
The southern magnolia stands near the curved portico on the south side of the building. It is where foreign leaders are often welcomed for ceremonial visits, and where the president departs to board the Marine One helicopter.
According to the National Park Service website, “folklore tells us” that Jackson brought the tree's seeds from his home near Nashville, Tennessee. It was apparently planted in honor of his wife Rachel, who died shortly before he took office in 1829.
“The bad news is that everything must come to an end, and this tree is in terrible condition, a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House Entrance, no less, and must now be removed,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform.
“This process will take place next week, and will be replaced by another, very beautiful tree.”
New York City's mayor, Eric Adams has asked a federal judge to drop the criminal corruption charges against him before a Thursday deadline to proceed with his re-election bid.
An attorney for Adams, in a letter to US district judge Dale Ho, said the mayor wants the case dropped before petitions to get on the June primary ballot are due on 3 April.
“With the petition-filing deadline just days away, we respectfully urge the Court to issue its decision as soon as practicable,” he wrote.
Adams was indicted in September on charges alleging he accepted over $100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and travel perks from a Turkish official and others seeking to buy influence while he was Brooklyn borough president.
He faces multiple challengers in June's Democratic primary. He has pleaded not guilty and insisted he is innocent.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, will deliver a “major speech” in Washington on Thursday to lay out her vision to “build America's manufacturing might and protect our national defense”, her office said.
A press release announcing her visit to the capital said Whitmer “will outline her bipartisan approach to bring supply chains home from China, create more good-paying jobs, and invest in our defense industry”. The release continues:
The governor is focused on a long-term strategy that puts America at the forefront of manufacturing and strengthens our national defense. Governor Whitmer will continue to work with anyone to continue getting things done, grow the economy, and protect our nation.
The governor will sit down with the former Fox News host, Gretchen Carlson, after her speech.
Despite a federal government hiring freeze, the office of personnel management, the human resources agency leading efforts to drastically reduce the federal workforce, has hired its first new career employee: a driver to transport leaders of OPM.
The OPM has been carrying out the efforts of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the new executive office led by billionaire Elon Musk seeking to cut back on government agencies and programs.
Even though there is a federal government-wide hiring freeze, the acting director of the OPM, which is carrying out Doge's attacks, authorized the new driver's hiring, emails reviewed by Reuters say.
“It is becoming increasingly obvious that Musk's & Doge's mission has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, and instead is aimed at enabling Musk to use – and abuse – power within the federal government,” said Kathleen Clark, a professor of ethics at Washington University in St Louis. “Authorizing a Musk-controlled agency like OPM to hire a driver while slashing essential federal workers who actually help Americans in need is a good example.”
According to Reuters, the OPM said it has “ongoing security concerns” that required the hiring of the new driver. The acting director of the agency said he has received death threats.
One of Trump's first acts as president was to create Doge, a Musk-led initiative to root out “waste, fraud and abuse”. The initiative has mostly pursued long-time rightwing policy objectives, slashing employment at oversight and aid agencies.
The headquarters of the Republican party of New Mexico was set on fire on Sunday and “ICE=KKK” spray painted on the building in what the party called “a deliberate act of arson”.
Fire officials in Albuquerque, the largest city in Democratic-controlled New Mexico, were called to the blaze around 6am and put it out in five minutes, Reuters reports.
The single-story structure suffered damage to its entryway and smoke damage throughout, Albuquerque Fire Rescue said on social media.
The FBI said it was leading the investigation to find the “culprit(s) responsible,” a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement.
The fire comes after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said it arrested 48 immigrants, 20 of them with criminal convictions, during raids in Albuquerque, state capital Santa Fe and Roswell, New Mexico, earlier this month.
BREAKING: The entryway of the Republican Party of New Mexico's headquarters in Albuquerque was destroyed in an apparent deliberate act of arson, NMGOP said in a statement. Whoever did this also spray painted the words 'ICE=KKK' on the NMGOP building.APD, ATF, and federal… pic.twitter.com/rUPHZ5UzkZ
The graffiti appeared to equate the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan hate group to Ice, the agency Donald Trump has tasked to deport millions of illegal immigrants. Ice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Republican party of New Mexico chair, Amy Barela, said in a statement:
Our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated.
Attorney general Pam Bondi has directed the justice department to dismiss a Biden-era lawsuit challenging a Republican-backed Georgia election law that was passed after Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in the state.
The law, signed by Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp in 2021, makes it illegal to provide food or water to voters standing in lines to cast their ballots. The lawsuit, filed under Joe Biden, alleged the law was intended to suppress Black voter turnout.
Bondi, in a press release on Monday announcing the lawsuit's dismissal, accused the Biden administration of pushing “false claims of suppression”.
“Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said. She claimed Black voter turnout in Georgia “actually increased” after the law was passed.
Analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice found that while the number of ballots cast by Black voters increased from 2020 to 2024, Black turnout actually declined by 0.6% because the increase in the number of ballots did not keep up with population increases, Associated Press reports.
More Republican voters think that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, should resign than those who think he should remain in his job, according to a poll conducted after he and other Trump administration officials shared sensitive military attack plans with a journalist who was accidentally added to a message group chat.
A firestorm of controversy over the error appears to have affected the perception of Hegseth – an army national guard veteran and former Fox News host – among voters, including Republicans.
A new poll found that 54% of all registered voters think Hegseth should leave his role as head of the Pentagon, with 22% believing he should remain and 24% not sure.
A total of 38% of Republican voters agree that Hegseth should quit, compared to just a third who think he should retain his job. A majority of independents, at 54%, also think he should resign, according to the poll, which was released on Friday and conducted by JL Partners on behalf of the Daily Mail.
The Signal group chat controversy follows a difficult start to the Trump administration for many of the president's cabinet picks, who faced criticism from Democrats over their lack of experience or extreme views.
Polling conducted before this latest controversy showed that a majority of US voters are disappointed with Trump's cabinet members, registering a record level of dissatisfaction in the last four presidential administrations in which NBC has taken such polling.
The Trump administration has asked the supreme court to intervene in six cases during its first two months in office, in an attempt to lean on the conservative-majority high court to carry out its policy decisions.
During Trump's first term, he nominated three conservative justices and similarly requested emergency decisions from the supreme court. Since Trump stepped into office this year, the administration has requested that the supreme court rule in their favor, to challenge decisions by lower courts that have blocked Trump agenda policies, the Associated Press reports.
The administration has had varied success with these type of emergency appeals, called a “shadow docket”. A Georgetown University law professor found that during his first term, the Trump administration made 41 emergency appeals, winning all – or part of all – in 28 cases. Prior to that, Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush filed emergency appeals in just eight cases over 16 years.
Last Friday, the Trump administration filed its most recent emergency appeal to the supreme court in a contentious immigration-related case. The administration asked the court to overrule a federal judge and appeals court, in an effort to continue expulsions under the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime measure recently used to send nearly 300 Venezuelan and Salvadoran immigrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
NASA Crew-9 astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague spoke to the press today about the future of NASA's human space flight programme, after their recent return from the International Space Station (ISS).
Mr Wilmore said they will carefully study and rectify all the issues they have faced before going to space in another Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
To a reporter's question to Mr Wilmore on whom he would place the blame for the mission that did not go as planned, he said, "There were some issues that happened with Starliner. There were some issues which of course prevented us from returning... If I were to start pointing fingers, I'd blame myself. I will start with myself."
"Blame, I don't like this term... We are all responsible, NASA and Boeing too. Trust is very important. We are not going to look back and say 'this person or that entity is to be blamed'. We are going to look forward and say 'how do we use the lessons we learned from this whole process and make sure we are successful in future," Mr Wilmore said.
On whether they would go on the Starliner again, he said, "Yes, because we are going to rectify, fix, make it work. Boeing is completely committed. NASA is completely committed."
Ms Williams agreed, pointing at the strengths of the Starliner, which is a complex spacecraft.
"The spacecraft [Starliner] is very capable, but there are things that need to be fixed as Butch mentioned. Folks are actively working on that. It's a great spacecraft with many features that other spacecraft don't have. It's an honour to be a part of this," Ms Williams said.
The NASA Crew-9 astronauts along with Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov splashed down on Earth on Elon Musk's SpaceX's Dragon capsule on March 18.
The White House had highlighted President Donald Trump's role in prioritising their rescue. President Trump alleged his predecessor Joe Biden abandoned the astronauts in space. On March 7, he announced he gave permission to Mr Musk to bring back the two American astronauts.
Ms Wlliams and Mr Wilmore stayed on for nine months in the ISS after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned, turning a mission that was supposed to be short into a long one.
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Jonatan Urich and and Eli Feldstein were arrested amid increasing allegations that Netanyahu's inner circle was involved in the transfer of money from Qatar, a key backer of Hamas.
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was abruptly summoned from his ongoing corruption trial to provide testimony in a separate case Monday afternoon after two of his aides were arrested amid mounting allegations of financial ties between Netanyahu's office and Qatar, a country with which Israel has no formal relations and which is a key backer of Hamas.
In a video statement released after what he said was an hour of testimony, Netanyahu accused Israeli police of seeking to “topple” his “right-wing government.”
The prime minister said the police had no evidence against his advisers, Jonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein, who were arrested Monday morning. Feldstein, a former military spokesman for Netanyahu, is suspected of conducting public relations for Qatar while working in the prime minister's office. Qatar previously denied the allegations. He also was arrested last year on charges of leaking stolen classified intelligence to foreign news outlets and was later released.
“This is a political witch hunt that only intends to prevent the firing of the head” of the Shin Bet, Netanyahu said in the video, referring to Ronen Bar, director of Israel's internal security agency. Netanyahu said this month that he did not trust Bar and would dismiss him.
The details of the Qatar case, which is being handled by the Shin Bet and the national crimes unit of the Israeli police, remain under a court gag order. The charges against the aides have not been made public, but an earlier statement from Netanyahu's office said the Shin Bet and the attorney general's office were “fabricating a new case about Qatar.”
According to Israel media reports, the case involves allegations of contact with a foreign agent, the acceptance of bribes, fraud, breach of trust and money laundering.
The arrests could intensify criticism of Netanyahu, who ordered the resumption of military strikes in Gaza this month and is accused by many Israelis of waging war to further his personal political interests. The prime minister testified Monday as a witness in the case involving Urich and Feldstein, not as a suspect, according to an Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
There have been weeks of mounting allegations that Netanyahu and members of his inner circle were involved in the transfer of money from Qatar, which legal experts say could be considered a violation of Israeli national security law. Qatar and Israel do not have official relations, but Qatar has worked as a mediator between the militant group Hamas and Israel during the war in Gaza.
A Qatari government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject, said, “This is not the first time we have been the subject of a smear campaign by those who do not want to see an end to this conflict or the remaining hostages returned to their families. We will continue our mediation efforts, together with the U.S. and our regional partners, and will not be distracted or deterred by those who actively seek to derail the negotiations and prolong the conflict.”
Earlier this month, Israeli businessman Gil Berger told Israel's public broadcaster that he was involved in transferring Qatari money to an adviser in Netanyahu's office, which Berger said was done for tax purposes.
In recent weeks, Netanyahu has proceeded with plans to replace Israel's top security and legal officials, including Bar and Gali Baharav-Miara, the attorney general.
The moves triggered street protests by Netanyahu critics, who accuse him of undermining Israeli democracy. Netanyahu has labeled the protesters “anarchists” and said they are angling to overthrow his democratically elected government. He has repeatedly claimed that his decision to fire Bar was unrelated to the ongoing investigations into ties between his office and Qatar.
Baharav-Miara supervises the justice system, which is prosecuting Netanyahu over corruption charges in three cases. Netanyahu is facing charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. He is accused of exploiting his office for personal gain, accepting extravagant gifts in exchange for diplomatic favors for billionaire friends, and offering regulatory perks to one of Israel's largest media moguls in return for positive media coverage. During more than four years of hearings, Netanyahu has denied all wrongdoing.
Netanyahu's growing showdown with the courts also coincides with a furor surrounding his appointment of Eli Sharvit, a former Israeli navy commander, as the next chief of the Shin Bet. Netanyahu's office said it interviewed seven candidates in recent weeks. Hours later, members of his government said Sharvit would ultimately not be appointed, because he had participated in the 2023 protests against a Netanyahu program to overhaul and weaken Israel's judicial system.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid said in a Monday post on X that statements coming out of Netanyahu's office did not include any denials of the allegations that Israeli officials had received money from Qatar.
“The reason that sentence is missing is that people in Netanyahu's office did receive money, from a hostile state, during wartime,” Lapid wrote. “Of all the criminal security-related affairs tied to the Prime Minister's Office, this isn't just the most serious, it's also the most outrageous and dangerous.”
Susannah George in Dubai contributed to this report.
Israel's military launched a large-scale bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, breaking the fragile ceasefire with Hamas that had been in place since late January. Follow live updates on the ceasefire and the hostages remaining in Gaza.
The Israel-Gaza war: On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking civilian hostages. Israel declared war on Hamas in response, launching a ground invasion that fueled the biggest displacement in the region since Israel's creation in 1948. In July 2024, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an attack Hamas has blamed on Israel.
Hezbollah: In late 2024, Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire deal, bringing a tenuous halt to more than a year of hostilities that included an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Israel's airstrikes into Lebanon had been intense and deadly, killing over 1,400 people including Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's longtime leader. The Israel-Lebanon border has a history of violence that dates back to Israel's founding.
Gaza crisis: In the Gaza Strip, Israel has waged one of this century's most destructive wars, killing tens of thousands and plunging at least half of the population into “famine-like conditions.” For months, Israel has resisted pressure from Western allies to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.
U.S. involvement: Despite tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some U.S. politicians, including former President Joe Biden, the United States supports Israel with weapons, funds aid packages, and has vetoed or abstained from the United Nations' ceasefire resolutions.
An Israeli flag was burned during a pre-Land Day anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam on Saturday, according to a video published on social media by Week for Palestine Netherlands.A masked man wearing a keffiyeh and what appeared to be a military plate carrier raised a burning Israeli flag while other protesters chanted "long live Palestine." People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) Amsterdam member Michael Vis claimed on X Sunday that during the flag burning the activists called "death to Israel."הצגת פוסט זה באינסטגרםפוסט משותף על ידי Week.4PalestineNL (@week.4palestinenl) Advertisement"We are proud to resist," chanted protesters in a video posted by Amsterdam for Palestine, later also proclaiming that they "don't want Zionists here."Praising HamasThe protesters also broke the Ramadan fast in a joint Iftar meal before Eid al-Fitr. Vis shared another video on X which ostensibly recorded participants in the meal chanting that they were "the men of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif."Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
A masked man wearing a keffiyeh and what appeared to be a military plate carrier raised a burning Israeli flag while other protesters chanted "long live Palestine." People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) Amsterdam member Michael Vis claimed on X Sunday that during the flag burning the activists called "death to Israel."הצגת פוסט זה באינסטגרםפוסט משותף על ידי Week.4PalestineNL (@week.4palestinenl) Advertisement"We are proud to resist," chanted protesters in a video posted by Amsterdam for Palestine, later also proclaiming that they "don't want Zionists here."Praising HamasThe protesters also broke the Ramadan fast in a joint Iftar meal before Eid al-Fitr. Vis shared another video on X which ostensibly recorded participants in the meal chanting that they were "the men of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif."Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) Amsterdam member Michael Vis claimed on X Sunday that during the flag burning the activists called "death to Israel."הצגת פוסט זה באינסטגרםפוסט משותף על ידי Week.4PalestineNL (@week.4palestinenl) Advertisement"We are proud to resist," chanted protesters in a video posted by Amsterdam for Palestine, later also proclaiming that they "don't want Zionists here."Praising HamasThe protesters also broke the Ramadan fast in a joint Iftar meal before Eid al-Fitr. Vis shared another video on X which ostensibly recorded participants in the meal chanting that they were "the men of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif."Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
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"We are proud to resist," chanted protesters in a video posted by Amsterdam for Palestine, later also proclaiming that they "don't want Zionists here."Praising HamasThe protesters also broke the Ramadan fast in a joint Iftar meal before Eid al-Fitr. Vis shared another video on X which ostensibly recorded participants in the meal chanting that they were "the men of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif."Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
The protesters also broke the Ramadan fast in a joint Iftar meal before Eid al-Fitr. Vis shared another video on X which ostensibly recorded participants in the meal chanting that they were "the men of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif."Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
Vis shared another video on X which ostensibly recorded participants in the meal chanting that they were "the men of [deceased Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades leader] Mohammed Deif."Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
Freedom Party Chairman Geert Wilders responded to Vis on X, stating Sunday that it was a disgrace that Israeli flags were being burned in the Dutch capital. Wilders lay the blame for such the feet of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025 AdvertisementPro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
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They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) March 30, 2025
They are burning flags in Amsterdam - the city of left wing mayor Halsema. What a disgrace. https://t.co/qBWBaXkPRj
Pro-Palestinian activists waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags marched through Amsterdam to commemorate Land Day, the March 30 Palestinian holiday commemorates 1976 land confiscations in Israel.Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
Further protests were held on Sunday itself, according to Monday social media posts by Nijmegen for Palestine. Activists demonstrated in front of ING and Rabobank, alleging that the banks were complicit in supposed Israeli crimes. The activists called for a boycott of the banks until they broke relations with the state of Israel."Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
"Viva viva intifada," chanted the Sunday protesters. "Intifada, Intifada."
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Every night, Ukrainian servicemen of the Military Naval Forces are on duty because of the alarm caused by Shahed drones attacks from the Black Sea. According to a machine gunner on one of the boats, there have recently been many more Shahed drone attacks than there were in previous years. (AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko)
Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported a massive Russian strike late on Sunday and Monday morning in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv.
In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, March 30, 2025, a Russian Army 2S5 howitzer Giatsint-S fires towards Ukrainian positions in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
A Ukrainian military boat CB90 of Military Naval Forces patrols Black Sea coast line of Odesa region, Ukraine, on March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, March 30, 2025, a Russian Army 2S5 howitzer Giatsint-S fires towards Ukrainian positions in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as “a drawn-out process,” a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries' leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.
“We are working to implement some ideas in connection with the Ukrainian settlement. This work is ongoing,” Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.
“There is nothing concrete yet that we could and should announce. This is a drawn-out process because of the difficulty of its substance,” the Kremlin spokesman said when asked about Trump's anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's legitimacy to negotiate a deal.
Russia has effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for a full and immediate 30-day halt in the fighting. The feasibility of a partial ceasefire on the Black Sea, used by both countries to transport shipments of grain and other cargo, was cast into doubt after Kremlin negotiators imposed far-reaching conditions.
AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports Russia describes efforts to end its war with Ukraine as a ‘drawn-out process' after criticism from President Trump.
Trump promised during last year's U.S. election campaign that he would bring Europe's biggest conflict since World War II to a swift conclusion.
Peskov didn't directly address Trump's criticism of Putin on Sunday, when he said he was “angry, pissed off” that Putin had questioned Zelenskyy's credibility as leader.
But the spokesman said that Putin “remains absolutely open to contacts” with the U.S. president and was ready to speak to him.
Both countries are preparing for a spring-summer campaign on the battlefield, analysts and Ukrainian and Western officials say.
Putin on Monday ordered a regular bi-annual call-up intended to draft 160,000 conscripts for an one-year tour of compulsory military service. Russian authorities say that the troops deployed to Ukraine only include volunteers who signed contracts with the military and conscripts aren't sent to the frontline. Some draftees, however, fought and were taken prisoners when the Ukrainian military launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk region in August.
Zelenskyy said late Sunday that there has been no reduction in Russia's attacks as it drives on with its invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022.
“The geography and brutality of Russian strikes, not just occasionally, but literally every day and night, show that Putin couldn't care less about diplomacy,” Zelenskyy said in his daily address.
“And almost every day, in response to this proposal, there are Russian drones, bombs, artillery shelling, and ballistic strikes,” he said.
He urged further international pressure on Moscow to compel Russia to negotiate, including new sanctions.
The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas picked up on that theme at a meeting of some of the bloc's top diplomats in Madrid on Monday.
“Russia is playing games and not really wanting peace,” Kallas told reporters ahead of the meeting, which was due to discuss the war. “So our question is, how can we put more pressure on Russia.”
Trump said he would consider imposing further sanctions on Russia, which already faces steep financial penalties, and using tariffs to undermine its oil exports.
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, came under another Russian drone attack overnight, injuring three people, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said Monday.
Russia also fired two ballistic missiles and 131 Shahed and decoy drones, the Ukrainian air force said.
Meanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 66 Ukrainian drones early Monday over three Russian regions.
“The continuing attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russia's energy facilities show the complete lack of respect for any obligations related to the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by the Kyiv regime,” the ministry said in a statement.
Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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Virginia Giuffre writes on social media she has ‘gone into kidney renal failure … they've given me four days to live'
Virginia Giuffre, a victim of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who once alleged she was sexually trafficked to Britain's Prince Andrew, says she has just days to live after being involved in a vehicle accident.
“This year has been the worst start to a new year … I won't bore anyone with the details, but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” she wrote in a post on on social media on Sunday, along with a photograph of herself lying in a hospital bed with a head injury.
“I've gone into kidney renal failure, they've given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology,” she said. “I'm ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes.”
“Thank you all for being the wonderful people of the world and for being a great part of my life,” she added.
Her father, Sky Roberts, commented on the post and said: “Virginia my daughter, I love you and [am] praying for you to get the correct treatment to live a long and healthy life.”
“If there is anything in this world I can do to help you, please let me know,” he added. “My spirit with you now and holding your hand.”
In a statement, Giuffre's representative, Dini von Mueffling, told the Guardian that Giuffre had “been in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital”. She added: “She greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.”
Giuffre is one of Epstein's most prominent accusers, and also alleged she was abused by Prince Andrew. She was last reported to be living in Australia.
In 2021, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew in federal court in New York, alleging he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17.
Andrew has repeatedly and strongly denied the accusations.
In the lawsuit, Giuffre alleged Epstein and his longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell had introduced her to Andrew in 2001, and alleged that Maxwell forced her to have sex with Andrew.
In 2022, Andrew and Giuffre agreed to an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum.
Maxwell, who has maintained her innocence, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking.
Epstein was arrested by federal authorities in July 2019 and charged with sex-trafficking counts. Shortly after, he died by suicide while awaiting trial.
Iranian officials accuse US president of breaching UN charter and say ‘violence brings violence'
Iran has reacted with outrage after Donald Trump said the country will be bombed if it does not accept US demands to constrain its nuclear programme.
The US president said on Sunday that if Iran “[doesn't] make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”.
Trump's latest threat – more explicit and violent than any made before – came after he sent a letter to Iran, as yet undisclosed, offering to hold talks on its nuclear programme. Iran had sent a reply to the US stating it was willing to hold indirect talks, officials confirmed.
Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, said of Trump's threat: “The explicit threat of bombing Iran by the head of a country is clear contradiction to the essence of international peace and security.
“Such a threat is a gross violation of the United Nations charter and a violation of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards regime. Violence brings violence and peace creates peace, America can choose.”
The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a sceptic about talks with the US, said Iran was “not overly concerned” by Trump's words. “We consider it unlikely that such harm would come from outside. However, if any malicious act does occur, it will certainly be met with a firm
and decisive response,” he said.
Brig Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace force, said: “Someone in glass houses does not throw stones at anyone,” adding: “The Americans have at least 10 bases with 50,000 troops in the region, meaning they are sitting in a glass house.”
But the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, clearly had authority to keep the prospect of talks alive, saying Iran had already replied to the Trump letter through intermediaries in Oman and adding he knew the Iranian letter had now reached the US. Araghchi said direct talks were not possible while the US continued to threaten and bully Iran.
Trump sent his original letter proposing talks through the United Arab Emirates' senior diplomatic envoy, Anwar Gargash.
The choice of Gargash as an intermediary was seen as a sign that the letter was intended to give negotiations a genuine chance, rather than leave Iran no option but to reject the offer of talks.
Trump has set a deadline of mid-May for progress to be made, but a longer deadline also exists of mid-August, by which time the original 2015 nuclear agreement will largely expire and a European response will be required. Trump took the US out of that agreement in 2018, a move widely seen as a mistake since it led Iran to speed up its uranium enrichment programme.
That Iran sent its reply through Oman, its traditional chosen mediator, rather than the UAE may suggest Iran does not want the UAE – which has normalised relations with Israel – to act as intermediaries. The US and Iran had held indirect talks on reviving the nuclear agreement under the Biden administration in Vienna from 2021, but they fizzled out, and all sides agreed the indirect nature of the talks ate up time, something Trump is reluctant to offer Iran.
Some of the ground will have been covered in four rounds of parallel talks held between Iranian and European negotiators in Geneva.
Tehran has not commented on how broadly the Trump letter went in demanding concessions from Iran. But the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Mohammad Kazem al-Sadegh, indicated the US was seeking talks that went wider than the nuclear programme, saying the letter called for the disbandment of the Iranian-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia.
The US administration has been divided over whether to simply demand Iran expose its civil nuclear programme to fuller international inspection, or make a wider set of demands including a complete end to its nuclear programme and an Iranian commitment to stop bankrolling resistance groups in the Middle East such as Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen.
The US national security adviser, Mike Waltz, has called for the “full dismantlement” of the Iranian nuclear programme, something Tehran rejects. By contrast, Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, spoke only of restricting Iran's nuclear programme, something Iran has been willing to accept since 2015 so long as it leads to a lifting of sanctions on the Iranian economy. Some inside the Trump administration believe an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will produce regime change.
Trump will want assurances, at the very least, that a revived Iranian economy will not just lead to extra funds for Iranian-backed militia. Kamal Kharazi, the head of Iran's strategic council on foreign relations and sometimes touted as a chief negotiator, has accused the US of operating a psychological war by adopting a policy of “either war or negotiation”.
Widespread rejection in the Gulf of a US-inspired attack on Iran's nuclear facilities is a relatively new factor in the equation, and Trump's plan to reportedly visit Saudi Arabia on his first overseas trip means he may personally hear strong opposition to an attack on Iran from the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
The Gulf's opposition to an attack on Iran is based not on close ideological affinity with Iran, but on a sense the region must avoid further political instability, and with the current Iranian leadership already weakened, regime change is not something they welcome.
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A “megaquake” and the resulting tsunami could cause 298,000 deaths in Japan and damages worth up to $2 trillion, according to a new government estimate quoted by AFP on Monday.
The updated figures revise a 2014 estimate that assessed the potential impact of a massive earthquake along the Nankai Trough, an 800-kilometer (500-mile) undersea trench stretching from Shizuoka, west of Tokyo, to the southern tip of Kyushu.
This trench is where the Philippine Sea tectonic plate is gradually subducting beneath the continental plate that Japan rests on. Over time, the plates become locked, accumulating energy that is eventually released in the form of major earthquakes.
According to the Cabinet Office's disaster management working group, up to 215,000 people could die in a tsunami, 73,000 due to collapsing buildings, and 9,000 in fires. However, the new projection is lower than the 2014 estimate, which had predicted up to 323,000 deaths.
A "megaquake" refers to an extremely powerful earthquake, typically magnitude 8 or higher, capable of causing widespread destruction and potentially triggering a tsunami.
Over the past 1,400 years, megaquakes in the Nankai Trough have struck every 100 to 200 years, with the most recent occurring in 1946. While earthquakes remain extremely difficult to predict, a government panel in January reported a slight increase in the probability of a megaquake within the next 30 years, now estimated at 75-82%.
As one of the world's most tectonically active nations, Japan has implemented strict building regulations to ensure structures can withstand powerful earthquakes.
The archipelago, home to approximately 125 million people, experiences around 1,500 tremors annually. While most are mild, the extent of damage depends on their location and depth below the Earth's surface.
In August last year, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued its first-ever “megaquake advisory” under post-2011 rules, following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southern Japan that injured 14 people. The advisory, which warned of an increased likelihood of a major quake along the Nankai Trough, was lifted after a week but led to shortages of rice and other essentials as people stocked up on supplies.
On New Year's Day, a massive earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula, killing at least 260 people, including 30 quake-related deaths. The disaster toppled buildings, triggered fires, and damaged infrastructure during New Year celebrations.
Japan's largest recorded earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 undersea jolt in March 2011, caused a tsunami that left around 18,500 dead or missing. It also led to three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, marking the country's worst post-war disaster and the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The estimated cost was 16.9 trillion yen ($112 billion), excluding the long-term Fukushima decommissioning, expected to take decades.
(With AFP inputs)
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NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore appeared for their first interview after landing to Earth from space. The duo discussed their hectic journey following their 286 days stay on the ISS owing to a problem with Boeing's spaceship.
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX capsules brought back Williams and Wilmore on Earth.
As the expedition was scheduled to last for just eight days, the two were questioned who was responsible for its failure. Wilmore blamed everyone, including himself. The duo, however, retaliated against claims that Boeing “failed” them.
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In their first public interview with America's Newsroom on Fox News, Wilmore said, “There are many questions that as the commander of CFT (Crew Flight Test), I didn't ask, so I'm culpable, I'll admit that to the nation.”
He went on to say that he should have asked some questions, but he didn't. According to him, he was unaware that he needed to ask few questions. “But in hindsight, the signals, some of the signals were there.”
Commenting on whether NASA and Boeing are at fault, he said, “Everybody has a piece in this because it did not come off.”
There were various test-related and preparation-related issues that they were unaware of.
The two also discussed claims that they were “abandoned” or “stuck” in space.
“Okay, in certain respects, we were stuck. In certain respects, maybe we were stranded,” he remarked, adding that they did not arrive on the Earth as per the plan.
The astronaut quickly mentioned that they weren't stuck in the grand scheme of things because they were “prepared and trained.”
The pair declared they would love to return to space in spite of the problems. They further acknowledged that there were difficult moments, like the time Wilmore had to skip his daughter's graduation.
He even admitted to shedding a tear while speaking to his wife and daughters from the space.
The astronauts expressed gratitude to Musk and President Donald Trump for helping to ensure their safe return.
“Our situation, I think I mentioned before, maybe wasn't the perfect situation, but allowed a lot of people, including the President and Elon, to look at what's going on on the International Space Station, take it very seriously and understand that our involvement as a country, as a space-faring nation, is really important throughout the world.”
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds. Le Pen was also handed a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine. CNN's Melissa Bell reports.
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Politicians reacted on Monday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being questioned by Israel Police as part of the Qatargate scandal.National Unity party head Benny Gantz noted, "It is no coincidence that as the investigation into the 'Qatargate' affair progresses, Netanyahu's determination in the battle against the systems responsible for the investigation intensifies."The deeper the investigation, the deeper the subversion. Netanyahu should have waited for the Supreme Court's discussion, but instead, he acted irresponsibly and perhaps even unfairly in relation to all the candidates and is dangerously approaching a constitutional crisis. This is a serious and unforgivable matter. The order of events must be clear: first, the Supreme Court, then a decision on the appointment." 'Prime minister in turmoil'"What we are seeing today is a prime minister in turmoil, in panic, who is trying to sabotage and disrupt the investigation," chairman of The Democrats, Yair Golan, said. (L to R): Eli Feldstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Urich (illustration). (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90, Canva, gettyimages, Noya Aronson, YEHOSHUA YOSEF/FLASH90)He noted the prime minister "should be investigated for the fact that the same money that funded Hamas and the October massacre reached the top of his office, and perhaps even to him.
National Unity party head Benny Gantz noted, "It is no coincidence that as the investigation into the 'Qatargate' affair progresses, Netanyahu's determination in the battle against the systems responsible for the investigation intensifies."The deeper the investigation, the deeper the subversion. Netanyahu should have waited for the Supreme Court's discussion, but instead, he acted irresponsibly and perhaps even unfairly in relation to all the candidates and is dangerously approaching a constitutional crisis. This is a serious and unforgivable matter. The order of events must be clear: first, the Supreme Court, then a decision on the appointment." 'Prime minister in turmoil'"What we are seeing today is a prime minister in turmoil, in panic, who is trying to sabotage and disrupt the investigation," chairman of The Democrats, Yair Golan, said. (L to R): Eli Feldstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Urich (illustration). (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90, Canva, gettyimages, Noya Aronson, YEHOSHUA YOSEF/FLASH90)He noted the prime minister "should be investigated for the fact that the same money that funded Hamas and the October massacre reached the top of his office, and perhaps even to him.
"The deeper the investigation, the deeper the subversion. Netanyahu should have waited for the Supreme Court's discussion, but instead, he acted irresponsibly and perhaps even unfairly in relation to all the candidates and is dangerously approaching a constitutional crisis. This is a serious and unforgivable matter. The order of events must be clear: first, the Supreme Court, then a decision on the appointment." 'Prime minister in turmoil'"What we are seeing today is a prime minister in turmoil, in panic, who is trying to sabotage and disrupt the investigation," chairman of The Democrats, Yair Golan, said. (L to R): Eli Feldstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Urich (illustration). (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90, Canva, gettyimages, Noya Aronson, YEHOSHUA YOSEF/FLASH90)He noted the prime minister "should be investigated for the fact that the same money that funded Hamas and the October massacre reached the top of his office, and perhaps even to him.
"What we are seeing today is a prime minister in turmoil, in panic, who is trying to sabotage and disrupt the investigation," chairman of The Democrats, Yair Golan, said. (L to R): Eli Feldstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Urich (illustration). (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90, Canva, gettyimages, Noya Aronson, YEHOSHUA YOSEF/FLASH90)He noted the prime minister "should be investigated for the fact that the same money that funded Hamas and the October massacre reached the top of his office, and perhaps even to him.
He noted the prime minister "should be investigated for the fact that the same money that funded Hamas and the October massacre reached the top of his office, and perhaps even to him.
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Eid al-Fitr was celebrated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, with large gatherings in open grounds and mosques, along with the revival of a traditional procession.
Dhaka marked Eid al-Fitr with large congregations and the revival of a traditional Eid procession, bringing thousands of worshippers together on Monday.
Prayers were held in mosques and open grounds of Bangladesh's capital, followed by a vibrant procession featuring horse-drawn carriages and musical displays, organised by Dhaka North City Corporation.
The festival comes amid political shifts in Bangladesh and tensions in the Middle East, with prayers offered for peace in Palestine.
Bangladesh's interim government adviser Muhammad Yunus has tried to jab New Delhi by issuing a veiled threat to India's northeastern states while appealing to China to "extend" in the region. Mr Yunus, who was on a four-day visit to Beijing last week, asked Beijing to make an "extension", saying that the "seven sister states are landlocked" by Bangladesh to its west.
The tongue-in-cheek remark, which defence analysts have called distasteful, surfaced on social media upon Muhammad Yunus's return to Bangladesh. In the video, he is seen urging the Chinese government to "extend" in the region by establishing a base in Bangladesh and indirectly stifling India's northeastern states since they are "landlocked".
"The seven states of India, in the eastern part of India - called the seven sister states are completely landlocked. They have no way to reach the ocean. We (Bangladesh) are the only guardian of the ocean for the entire region (northeast India)," Mr Yunus is seen saying in the video.
He adds that "So, this opens up a huge possibility for China - this could become an extension of the Chinese economy. Build things, market them, take them back to China, or export to the rest of the world."
Taking a dim view of the Bangladeshi leader's remarks, Sanjeev Sanyal, who is a member of PM Modi's economic advisory council, shared the video on social media platform X.
Interesting that Yunus is making a public appeal to the Chinese on the basis that 7 states in India are land-locked. China is welcome to invest in Bangladesh, but what exactly is the significance of 7 Indian states being landlocked? https://t.co/JHQAdIzI9s
Mr Sanyal wrote, "Interesting that Yunus is making a public appeal to the Chinese on the basis that 7 states in India are land-locked. China is welcome to invest in Bangladesh, but what exactly is the significance of 7 Indian states being landlocked?"
Mr Yunus, who held detailed discussions with China's Xi Jinping during his visit, thanked Beijing for agreeing to his appeal for China to enhance maritime cooperation with Dhaka. The two nations signed an agreement for Chinese companies to "participate in modernisation and expansion of Bangladesh's Mongla Port". The two sides also agreed to collaborate to develop and expand the Chinese Economic and Industrial Zone in Chattogram," Bangladesh's foreign ministry said.
According to a report in Bangladesh's state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, China has agreed to spending $400 million to modernize and expand Mongla Port, and has allocated #350 million for expanding the China Economic and Industrial Zone. An additional $150 million has been reserved for providing technical assistance.
Besides this, My Yunus pleaded with Beijing to provide a 50-year assistance to Bangladesh over river water management. "China is the master of water management," said Mr Yunus, adding that "We have come to learn from you," Bangladesh's state-run media agency quoted him as saying.
Bangladesh has asked China to help it manage its Teesta river, which it jointly shared with India. India being upstream, Sheikh Hasina's government had sought direct cooperation with New Delhi on the matter, but the Yunus government wants Beijing's intervention in the matter.
He also asked for help manage its overall river waters. "Bangladesh's problem lies not just with one river, but its overall river system," Mr Yunus reportedly told Xi Jinping.
The two countries also signed an agreement on the Exchange of Hydrological Information for the Yarlung Zangbo-Jamuna River, which flows from Tibet to India, before merging with the Ganga river and entering Bangladesh.
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Russian drones attacked Kharkiv early Monday, triggering six explosions and a large fire that damaged the facade and windows of a children's centre.
Russian strikes targeted Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, late Sunday and early Monday, injuring three people, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service.
Drone strikes caused damage to residential buildings, vehicles, and a civilian business, igniting fires in production and warehouse areas. Authorities confirmed at least 13 buildings were damaged, with 120 windows shattered in apartments and 11 entrances destroyed.
The General Staff of Ukraine said Russian forces launched two ballistic missiles and 131 drones across Ukrainian territories overnight.
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North Carolina authorities have arrested a retired Green Beret's wife in connection with his disappearance and murder.
Shana Cloud is charged with first-degree murder and concealment of death after authorities found her missing husband, Clinton Bonnell, in a body of water in Fayetteville on Tuesday after receiving a phone call "in reference to human remains," the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said in a press release.
Bonnell, 50, had been missing since Jan. 28, when a Methodist University employee requested a wellness check on Bonnell at a residence in Fayetteville.
The former Green Beret had been attending the university's physician assistant program and "failed to attend class" on the morning of Jan. 28.
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"Upon Deputies arrival, they encountered Clinton Bonnell's wife, Shana Cloud, who indicated she had not seen Bonnell since the day prior. Bonnell's vehicle, along with his school book bag and other items, were located at the residence," the sheriff's office stated in the press release.
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Later that same evening, Bonnell's friend contacted authorities requesting another wellness check at the Fayetteville residence, and authorities opened a missing persons case into his apparent disappearance.
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On Jan. 30, the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit executed a search warrant at Bonnell's residence. The next day, Feb. 1, detectives traveled to Virginia and executed search warrants on Cloud's vehicle, rental property and phone with assistance from Virginia State Police.
Evidence that authorities collected while executing the warrant was transferred back to Cumberland County.
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In February, officials executed multiple search warrants for cellphone records, video footage, digital devices and other digital data, which they "analyzed and used to develop a timeline of events not only surrounding Bonnell's disappearance, but his whereabouts prior to his disappearance," the sheriff's office said.
On Tuesday, the sheriff's office received the call about human remains in a body of water in Fayetteville and began working to identify the remains through DNA testing. The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System on March 28 confirmed the DNA extracted from the remains matched Bonnell's DNA.
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The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office arrested Cloud without incident at her residence. Her first court appearance is scheduled for Monday.
"Our hearts go out to the Bonnell family, the Special Forces community, and the Methodist University Physician's Assistant Program during this difficult time," the sheriff's office said. "We ask that the public be respectful of their privacy and mindful of the comments made on social media. Out of respect for Bonnell and the integrity of this ongoing investigation, no additional details will be released at this time."
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Methodist University President Stanley T. Wearden also issued a statement on March 29, saying he has "no words to heal your broken hearts."
"All I can offer is my care and sympathy. We will do all we can to minister to your needs during this time of heavy grief. Please offer grace and care to one another, and let your faculty and staff know whenever you need help or support," Wearden said in a statement.
He requested members of the community to "keep Clint's family/friends/classmates in your thoughts, respect their privacy, be mindful of comments on social media, and continue to take care of yourselves and all fellow Monarchs."
A GoFundMe that was created to help search for Bonnell when he was still considered missing says he served in the Army over a 20-year span and worked as a Green Beret medic.
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US President Donald Trump's “Liberation Day” is fast approaching, and stock markets around the world are tumbling Monday in advance of it.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was down 1.3% following one of its worst losses of the past couple of years on Friday.
It is on track to finish the first three months of the year with a loss of 6.4%, which would make this its worst quarter in nearly three years.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 295 points, or 0.7%, as of 9.35am Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.3% lower.
The US stock market's drops followed a sell-off that spanned the world earlier on Monday as worries build that tariffs coming on Wednesday from Mr Trump will worsen inflation and grind down growth for economies.
Mr Trump has said he is ploughing ahead in part because he wants more manufacturing jobs back in the US.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index dropped 4%. South Korea's Kospi sank 3%, and France's CAC 40 fell 1.5%.
Instead of stocks, which can be some of the riskiest possible investments, prices rose for things considered safer bets when the economy is looking shaky.
Gold rose again to crest 3,150 dollars per ounce and was heading towards another record.
Prices for Treasury bonds also climbed, which in turn sent their yields down.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.19% from 4.27% late Friday and from roughly 4.80% in January.
Its yield has been falling as worries have built about tariffs.
On Wednesday, the US is set to begin what Mr Trump calls “reciprocal” tariffs, which will be tailored to match what he sees is the burden each country places on his, including things like value-added taxes.
Even if Mr Trump's tariffs end up being less harsh than feared, the worry is that all the uncertainty created by them may cause US households and businesses to freeze their spending, which would hurt an economy that had closed last year running at a solid pace.
On Wall Street, some familiar names were leading the way downward for the US stock market.
Tesla fell 7.3% to bring its loss for the year so far to 39.5%.
It has been the second-worst performer in the S&P 500 so far this year in large part because of fears that the electric-vehicle maker's brand has become too intertwined with its chief executive Elon Musk.
Mr Musk has been leading US government efforts to cut spending, making him a target of growing political anger, and protests have been swarming Tesla showrooms as a result.
It is a sharp drop-off following a surge of roughly 90% in the weeks following November's Election Day, when the thought was that Mr Musk's close relationship with Mr Trump could help the company's finances.
Tesla's stock is back below where it was November 5.
In stock markets abroad, Thailand's SET lost 1.5% after a powerful earthquake centred in Myanmar rattled the region, causing widespread destruction in the country, also known as Burma, and less damage in places like Bangkok.
Shares in Italian Thai Development, developer of a partially built 30-story high-rise office building under construction that collapsed, tumbled 27%.
Thai officials said they are investigating the cause of the disaster, which left dozens of construction workers missing.
As the Canadian market navigates through trade uncertainty and inflation concerns, investors are closely watching the impact of newly announced tariffs on economic growth. Amidst this volatility, identifying stocks that may be trading at a discount can offer potential opportunities for value-focused investors seeking to balance risk and reward in their portfolios.
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Stock markets have plummeted as the 2 April implementation day of US tariffs ticks closer. Benchmark stocks in Asia were rattled at the lack of progress in halting US President Donald Trump's taxes which are due to come into force on US imports from Wednesday. After delays, 25% tariffs are to be levied on all cars entering the US on what Mr Trump has called "liberation day".
Rising military tensions between neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea have put the Horn of Africa region on edge. A Facebook video of trucks filled with soldiers has been shared with a claim that the footage shows the Eritrean army recently crossing into Ethiopia. However, this is false: the footage is more than two years old and shows Eritrean troops returning home after completing a military operation in Ethiopia during the Tigray war, which ended in November 2022.
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The White House will remove from its property a magnolia tree planted nearly 200 years ago with seeds said to have been brought from former President Jackson's home in Tennessee. President Trump announced Sunday that, after consulting with the Executive Residence Staff and the National Park Service, the administration has decided to replace the tree, saying it…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was too early to think about doing so. Trump, who took office on January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has made allusions to seeking a third one but addressed it directly in a telephone interview with NBC News. U.S. presidents are limited to two four-year terms, consecutive or not, according to the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Hope Walz, the daughter of Governor Tim Walz (D) of Minnesota, sparked massive uproar as she declared that she would no longer be accepting the graduate school offer amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on student protestors.
While revealing the exact reason behind her move, Hope Walz stated that she did not want to give her money to an institute, which does not support “students right to protest”.
Calling herself a “privileged white woman”, she said that she would not necessarily be impacted due to repercussions of protesting on campus.
Hope Walz shared a video on TikTok video on Saturday, stressing that “Students deserve to be protected.”
“Given recent events, I am not going to give my money/go into debt for/support institutions that don't support their students and the right to protest and speak out for their communities,” she said.
Without naming the college, Hope Walz claimed that she had her “heart set on it” when she first applied for it. She noted that, as a “privileged white woman,” she is not concerned about protection, but she didn't want to face a situation where she is funding a school that doesn't help its kids. “I'm not really in a rush,” she added.
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Hope Walz faces backlashHope Walz's remarks angered her critics, who accused her of "setting feminism back 50 years" and acting “performatively.” “White women privilege is getting into college but having such rich parents you can decide to not go.. how noble and brave,” another detractor said. Some others social media users asked if she was actually accepted to her "dream school," speculating that she might have been making up a complicated excuse when, in fact, she was not admitted. “I wouldn't be shocked if she didn't even apply to one... it's all theatrics,” another person said. Trump vows to prosecute ‘agitators'Following Trump's signing of an executive order outlining pro-Palestine movement that encompassed antisemitic acts on campuses last year, protests on universities have been a focal focus of the new US government. He pledged to prosecute “agitators” or return them to the nation which they came from and threatened to stop federal support for schools that allow illegal protests. Trump said he would outlaw masks that conceal a protester's identify and expel and imprison American students who could not be deported. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department had cancelled the visas of over 300 college students, many of whom had participated in pro-Palestine protests. Additionally, institutions have employed police force to quell demonstrations and encampments since spring 2024, when pro-Palestine demonstrations began to appear on college campuses around the country.
Hope Walz's remarks angered her critics, who accused her of "setting feminism back 50 years" and acting “performatively.”
“White women privilege is getting into college but having such rich parents you can decide to not go.. how noble and brave,” another detractor said.
Some others social media users asked if she was actually accepted to her "dream school," speculating that she might have been making up a complicated excuse when, in fact, she was not admitted.
“I wouldn't be shocked if she didn't even apply to one... it's all theatrics,” another person said.
Following Trump's signing of an executive order outlining pro-Palestine movement that encompassed antisemitic acts on campuses last year, protests on universities have been a focal focus of the new US government.
He pledged to prosecute “agitators” or return them to the nation which they came from and threatened to stop federal support for schools that allow illegal protests.
Trump said he would outlaw masks that conceal a protester's identify and expel and imprison American students who could not be deported.
Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department had cancelled the visas of over 300 college students, many of whom had participated in pro-Palestine protests. Additionally, institutions have employed police force to quell demonstrations and encampments since spring 2024, when pro-Palestine demonstrations began to appear on college campuses around the country.
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President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
The details of Trump's next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses say average U.S. families would have to absorb the cost of his tariffs in the form of higher prices and lower incomes. But an undeterred Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they're investing hundreds of billions of dollars in new projects to avoid the import taxes.
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The executive order he is set to sign Monday would direct federal authorities to prioritize cracking down on ticket scalpers and others who profit from reselling entertainment tickets to consumers at a markup.
The White House says Trump will call on the Federal Trade Commission to enforce an Obama-era law that outlawed the use of bots to purchase a large number of tickets for the purpose of resale. He's also calling for price transparency in the ticketing industry, so consumers will know the true value of what they're purchasing on the secondary market.
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All Institute of Museum and Library Services employees have been placed on administrative leave
The IMLS provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year in grants to libraries, museums and other cultural and educational institutions. According to a statement from the union representing the 77 IMLS employees, “all work processing 2025 applications has ended” and the status of previous grants is unclear.
The institute was among several agencies targeted earlier this month in Trump's executive order that called for cutting federal organizations the president has “determined are unnecessary.”
On March 20, Trump replaced the institute's acting director, Cyndee Landrum, with Keith Sonderling, who had recently been confirmed as deputy secretary of the Department of Labor. Sonderling said in a statement at the time that he was committed to “steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration.”
The move to place IMLS employees on administrative leave was first reported by the independent journalist Marisa Kabas.
Rubio to attend NATO foreign ministers meeting in Belgium
Top agenda items for the meeting this week in Brussels include the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. efforts to end the conflict, European security and threats from China.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will leave Wednesday to attend the NATO meeting and hold separate bilateral talks with allied counterparts on Thursday and Friday, the State Department said Monday. Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the conversation would also include security priorities for the alliance and preparations for the upcoming NATO leaders summit to be held in the Netherlands this summer.
Trump has alarmed European allies by suggesting that NATO is obsolete and threatening not to defend them unless they meet minimum defense spending criteria.
Trump's reciprocal tariffs will overturn decades of trade policy
President Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal'' tariffs he's expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America's allies and adversaries alike.
Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of countries. Trump wants to seize the process.
“Obviously, it disrupts the way that things have been done for a very long time,'' said Richard Mojica, a trade attorney at Miller & Chevalier. “Trump is throwing that out the window ... Clearly this is ripping up trade. There are going to have to be adjustments all over the place.''
Pointing to America's massive and persistent trade deficits — not since 1975 has the U.S. sold the rest of the world more than it's bought — Trump charges that the playing field is tilted against U.S. companies. A big reason for that, he and his advisers say, is because other countries usually tax American exports at a higher rate than America taxes theirs.
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Fire at New Mexico Republican Party headquarters under investigation as arson
No suspect has been named in the Sunday morning blaze in Albuquerque that's under investigation by local authorities, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Incendiary materials were found on the scene, according to an ATF spokesperson. Spray paint on the side of the building read “ICE=KKK,” said Lt. Jason Fejer with Albuquerque Fire Rescue. Fejer said federal officials were taking over the arson investigation.
Republican leaders described the fire as a deliberate attack. The building had extensive smoke damage, which Republican party spokesperson Ash Soular said left the offices uninhabitable.
The weekend fire followed vandalism across the U.S. in recent weeks targeting dealerships for Tesla, the electric car company owned by Elon Musk, who's leading Trump's efforts to slash the federal workforce.
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And Trump pardons a man whose sentence already was commuted for convictions stemming from Jan. 6
Thomas Caldwell, a retired Navy intelligence officer, was tried alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes but acquitted of seditious conspiracy — the most serious charge brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Caldwell's pardon is dated March 20. Defense attorney David Fischer said he informed Caldwell of the pardon Monday after learning about it from news reports.
“And he's elated,” Fischer added.
A jury convicted Caldwell of obstructing Congress on Jan. 6 and of obstructing justice for tampering with documents after the riot. One of those convictions was dismissed in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
On Jan. 10, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Caldwell to time served with no supervised release. Prosecutors had recommended four years in prison for Caldwell.
Ten days later, on his first day back in the White House, Trump issued a sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged in the Capitol riot. Trump commuted the sentences of several defendants who were leaders and members of the Oath Keepers or Proud Boys extremist groups.
Trump commutes the prison sentence of a man who says he was a business partner of Hunter Biden
Jason Galanis, who was serving a lengthy prison sentence for various fraud schemes, is the second Hunter Biden associate to get clemency from Trump. Last week, he pardoned Devon Archer, a onetime business partner of the son of former President Joe Biden.
Galanis testified via video last year in the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. Galanis told lawmakers he expected to make “billions” with Hunter Biden and other associates, using the Biden family name in their foreign business dealings.
Galanis described a particular time in May 2014 when Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone for a brief chat with potential foreign business partners — a Russian oligarch and her husband — during a party at a New York restaurant.
But Hunter Biden directly rebuffed involvement with Galanis in his own deposition, testifying he met Galanis for about 30 minutes 10 years ago.
In earlier testimony, Galanis acknowledged he unsuccessfully sought a pardon in the final days of Trump's first term.
US sanctions six Beijing and Hong Kong officials over role in implementing security law
Those six sanctioned by the State Department on Monday include Hong Kong's secretary of justice and its police commissioner.
The sanctions are over their role in the extraterritorial enforcement of a security law that's targeted nearly 20 pro-democracy activists, including one U.S. citizen and four other U.S. residents. The U.S. government said the six sanctioned officials “have engaged in actions or policies that threaten to further erode the autonomy of Hong Kong in contravention of China's commitments, and in connection with acts of transnational repression.”
Also sanctioned were two assistant police commissioners, the Beijing official heading the Hong Kong office on safeguarding national security, and a top Hong Kong official serving on the committee of safeguarding national security. The sanctioned officials will see their property and interests in the U.S. blocked from transactions.
The Hong Kong police in 2023 issued arrest warrants for five overseas-based activists and offered rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) for information leading to each of their arrests.
Newark, New Jersey, mayor files complaint over a new immigration detention center
The mayor of New Jersey's largest city filed the complaint in state court Monday saying the Trump administration and the private company GEO Group moved ahead with opening a new 1,000-bed immigration detention center without getting the proper permits.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement that the administration and the company failed to get construction and other permits in violation of city ordinances and state law. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced last month the opening of a detention center in Newark, saying it would be the first to open under the president's second administration.
Baraka is one of six Democrats running for governor in New Jersey this year. Messages seeking comment were left with ICE and GEO Group.
Trump keeps talking about running for a third term. The US Constitution says that can't happen
President Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started talking about serving a third one.
“There are methods which you can do it,” Trump insisted to NBC News in a telephone interview Sunday.
That follows months of Trump making quips about a third term, despite the clear constitutional prohibition on it. “Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during a House Republican retreat in Florida in January. Just a week after he won election last fall, Trump suggested in a meeting with House Republicans that he might want to stick around after his second term was over.
Trump's musings often spark alarm among his critics even when they're legally impossible, given that he unsuccessfully tried to overturn his 2020 election loss and has since pardoned supporters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
But Trump, who will be 82 when his term ends, has also repeatedly said this will be his last term. Trying for another also would flatly violate the Constitution.
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White House says it's ‘cased closed' on Signal chat amid calls for investigations
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said National Security Adviser Mike Waltz continues to have Trump's confidence and that it was done discussing the embarrassing matter of senior officials communicating about plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen on a commercial messaging app.
“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” Leavitt said.
Waltz added a journalist to the sensitive group chat on the platform Signal, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth divulged operational details on the strike and Vice President JD Vance discussed his reservations about the operation.
Leavitt said “there have been steps made to ensure that something like that can, obviously, not happen again,” but did not provide any clarity on what those steps were. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called for an investigation into the sensitive conversation playing out on Signal.
Trump will unveil plans to place reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners Wednesday
He'll be joined in the Rose Garden by his Cabinet, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Monday.
Leavitt said Trump believes “it's time for reciprocity” but said the details of the announcement — which have roiled the financial markets — are up to Trump to announce. She said Trump had been presented with several proposals by his advisers but the president would make a final decision and, right now, Trump wasn't contemplating any country-wide exemptions from the tariffs.
Trump administration says it's deported 17 more ‘criminals' from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs
The State Department said in a statement Monday that they were removed Sunday night and that the group included murderers and rapists.
The statement didn't give nationalities, but the office of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Salvadorans and Venezuelans were among the prisoners.
The men were transported to El Salvador's maximum security prison, where they changed into the standard white T-shirts and shorts and had their heads shaved. Hundreds of migrants facing deportation were sent there earlier this month.
Some schools won't get the last of their federal COVID relief
The Trump administration is pulling back a final round of federal pandemic aid from schools across the country, saying the money wasn't being spent on academic recovery.
States were notified Friday that the Education Department will not disburse the remainder of the federal aid passed by Congress, although the vast majority has already been sent to schools.
The department didn't say how much money is left of the total $189 billion approved by Congress, though officials said it's in the billions. As of Feb. 19, the department said there was $4.4 billion left, or about 2%.
A senior department official said the money was being misused on costs including astroturf fields and “sets of bouncy glow balls.” The agency said it will consider requests for individual projects related to pandemic recovery.
Schools were supposed to spend the last of the relief by January, but the Biden administration allowed schools to request extensions.
The Council of Chief State School Officers urged the department to rethink the decision, saying schools have already spent the money for pandemic recovery efforts and were promised reimbursement.
A DOGE employee is put in charge of the US Institute of Peace, a federal court filing alleges
The U.S. Institute of Peace is a congressionally created and funded think tank targeted by President Trump for closure.
Two board members of the institute have authorized replacing its temporary president with Nate Cavanaugh, the filing says. They ordered him, it says, to transfer the institute's property to the General Services Administration, the federal government's real estate manager, which is terminating hundreds of leases at the behest of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
The court filing asks U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington to stop the action or schedule a status conference to address the issues as soon as “practicable.”
The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The action follows a Friday night mass firing of nearly all of the institute's 300 employees.
▶ Read more about DOGE and the U.S. Institute of Peace
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates make final push amid high spending and voting
President Trump's preferred candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court and his Democratic-backed challenger made a final blitz across the state Monday, the day before voting concludes in a race where early turnout has surged and spending is nearing $100 million.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a top Trump adviser, held a rally in Green Bay on Sunday night to push for the election of Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County judge and former Republican attorney general. He faces Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge and former attorney who fought for abortion rights and to protect union power.
Liberals currently hold a 4-3 advantage on the court, but the retirement of a liberal justice this year put the ideological balance in play. The court in battleground Wisconsin is expected to rule on abortion rights, congressional redistricting, union power and voting regulations in the coming years.
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Comic Amber Ruffin cut from White House correspondents' event after angering Trump team
The White House Correspondents Association says it canceled her from performing at its annual dinner because it wants to refocus the event on journalistic excellence.
The association's announcement over the weekend made no mention of Ruffin's appearance on a podcast by the Daily Beast last week in which she referred to the Trump administration as “kind of a bunch of murderers.”
Ruffin, a writer for NBC's Seth Meyers and formerly a host of a Peacock talk show, also said she wouldn't try to make sure her jokes would target politicians of different stripes, as she was told by the correspondents' association.
Her comments drew angry responses from the Trump administration. The president isn't expected to attend the April event, which in past years has featured comics such as Stephen Colbert and Colin Jost. The last time a comedian did not perform at the dinner was in 2019, when historian Ron Chernow spoke.
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From a lavish prison, Tren de Aragua ran a transnational gang. Now, it's a favorite Trump target
Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food. This wasn't a Las Vegas-style resort, but it felt like it for some of the thousands who until recently lived in luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela.
Here, between parties, concerts and weeks-long visits from wives and children, is the birthplace of the Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that has gained global notoriety after Trump put it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative.
But kidnappings, extorsion and other crimes were planned, ordered or committed from this prison long before Trump's rhetoric.
The tiny, impoverished town where the Aragua Penitentiary Center is used to bustle with residents selling food, renting phone chargers and storing bags for prison visitors. Now, the prison is back under government control, and streets in the town, also called Tocorón, are mostly deserted.
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Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss the lawsuit. Georgia Republican lawmakers passed the sweeping election overhaul in the wake of Trump's 2020 election loss in the state.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2021 under former President Joe Biden, alleged the Georgia law was intended to deny Black voters equal access to the ballot. Bondi said the Biden administration was pushing “false claims of suppression.”
“Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said.
The law was part of a trend of Republican-backed measures that tightened rules around voting, passed in the months after Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden, claiming without evidence that voter fraud cost him victory.
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More than 1,900 US scientists sign open letter warning how Trump administration is damaging research
The letter — released Monday — was penned by a group from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which was created in 1863 to provide expert guidance to the government.
Up to 19 Nobel laureates signed Monday's letter, which described how the administration is slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories and hampering international scientific collaboration. Those moves will increasingly put the United States at a disadvantage against other countries, the letter predicted.
The signees said they're speaking up for colleagues who “have kept silent to avoid antagonizing the administration and jeopardizing their funding.”
Under the Trump administration, this year's Transgender Day of Visibility has a different tenor
On the campaign trail, Trump used contentiousness around transgender people's access to sports and bathrooms to fire up conservative voters and sway undecideds. And in his first months back in office, Trump has pushed the issue further, erasing mention of transgender people on government websites and passports and trying to remove them from the military.
For transgender people and their allies — along with several judges who've ruled against Trump in response to legal challenges — it's a matter of civil rights for a small group. But many Americans believe those rights had grown too expansive.
Trump's spotlight is giving Monday's Transgender Day of Visibility a different tenor this year.
“What he wants is to scare us into being invisible again,” said Rachel Crandall Crocker, the executive director of Transgender Michigan who organized the first Day of Visibility 16 years ago. “We have to show him we won't go back.”
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Stock markets around the world tumble as Trump's ‘Liberation Day' approaches
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was down 1.3% following one of its worst losses of the past couple of years Friday. It's on track to finish the first three months of the year with a loss of 6.4%, which would make this its worst quarter in nearly three years.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 295 points, or 0.7%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.3% lower.
The U.S. stock market's drops followed a sell-off that spanned the world earlier Monday as worries build that tariffs coming Wednesday from Trump will worsen inflation and grind down growth for economies. Trump has said he's plowing ahead in part because he wants more manufacturing jobs back in the United States.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index dropped 4%. South Korea's Kospi sank 3%, and France's CAC 40 fell 1.5%.
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Trump tariff tumult has ripples for sporting goods, puts costly hockey gear in price-hike crosshair
Calls from the U.S. to Roustan Hockey headquarters in Canada in recent weeks have been anything but routine, as bulk orders of name-brand sticks have suddenly become complicated conversations.
“These customers want to know: When their orders ship, will they have to pay an additional 25% tariff? And we respond by saying, 'Well, right now we don't know, so they postpone their order or cancel their order because they want to know before they order what the cost is going to be,” said Graeme Roustan, who owns the company that makes and sells more than 100,000 hockey sticks annually to the U.S. market.
The prospect of 25% tariffs by Trump on Canadian imports, currently paused for some goods but facing full implementation Wednesday, has caused headaches if not havoc throughout the commercial ecosystem. The sports equipment industry is certainly no exception, with so many of the products manufactured for sports -loving Americans outside the U.S.
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US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection
U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from Trump.
The March 5 notice raised alarms from immigration and free speech advocates because it appears to expand the government's reach in social media surveillance to people already vetted and in the U.S. legally, such as asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants – and not just those applying to enter the country. That said, social media monitoring by immigration officials has been a practice for over a decade, since at least the second Obama administration and ramping up under Trump's first term.
▶ Read more about what the new proposal means and how it might expand social media surveillance
Elon Musk hands out $1 million payments after Wisconsin Supreme Court declines request to stop him
Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump's agenda and “the future of civilization.”
Musk and groups he supports have spent more than $20 million to help conservative favorite Brad Schimel in Tuesday's race, which will determine the ideological makeup of a court likely to decide key issues in a perennial battleground state.
A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
Two lower courts had already rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk's offer violates a state law.
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Democratic election officials raise concerns about proof of citizenship proposal
The group of Democrats, most of whom serve as their state's top election official, is telling Congress the legislative proposal to add a proof of citizenship requirement when registering to vote could disenfranchise voters and upend election administration.
On Monday, the House Rules Committee is expected to consider the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. The letter signed by 15 secretaries of state was sent Friday.
Voting by noncitizens is rare, but Republicans say any instances undermine public confidence. Last week, President Trump directed, among other things, an update to the federal voter registration form to require proof of citizenship. Legal challenges are expected.
In the letter, Democrats say it's the “job of election officials to verify the eligibility of citizens to cast a ballot, not the job of citizens to convince the government that they are eligible to exercise their right to vote.”
Trump's promised ‘Liberation Day' of tariffs is coming. Here's what it could mean for you
Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
The details of Trump's next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses say average U.S. families would have to absorb the cost of his tariffs in the form of higher prices and lower incomes. But an undeterred Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in new projects to avoid the import taxes.
It is also possible that the tariffs are short-lived if Trump feels he can cut a deal after imposing them.
“I'm certainly open to it, if we can do something,” Trump told reporters. “We'll get something for it.”
At stake are family budgets, America's prominence as the world's leading financial power and the structure of the global economy.
▶ Read more about what you should know regarding the impending trade penalties
Trump's schedule for Monday
Trump will sign executive orders twice today, first at 1 p.m. ET and again at 5:30 p.m. ET, according to the White House.
Trump is stronger on immigration and weaker on trade, an AP-NORC poll finds
Immigration remains a strength for Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
About half of U.S. adults approve of Trump's approach to immigration, the survey shows, but only about 4 in 10 have a positive view of the way he's handling the economy and trade negotiations.
The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trump's efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration. But it also suggests that his threats to impose tariffs might be erasing his advantage on another issue that he made central to his winning 2024 campaign.
Views of Trump's job performance overall are more negative than positive, the survey found. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and more than half disapprove.
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Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president
Trump said Sunday that “I'm not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago, his private club.
He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged.” Trump lost that election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Still, Trump added: “I don't want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, we've got a long time to go.”
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France's anti-trust watchdog has fined Apple 150 million euros (£125 million) over a privacy feature protecting users from apps snooping on them because its introduction resulted in abuse of competition law.
The French Competition Authority said the aim of Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) requiring iPhone and iPad apps to ask users for permission before tracking them was not in itself open to criticism.
But it ruled that the “way in which it was implemented was neither necessary nor proportionate to Apple's stated objective of protecting personal data”.
Apple rolled out ATT starting in April 2021 as part of an update to the operating system powering the iPhone and iPad.
The feature forces apps to obtain permission before collecting data to target users with personalised ads.
While the feature was designed to tighten up privacy, it faced criticism from Big Tech rivals that it would make it harder for smaller apps to survive without charging consumers.
The fine, punishing Apple for abuse of its dominant position in mobile app distribution, covers the period from April 2021 to July 2023.
But the amount is a pittance for the iPhone maker, which earned 124 billion dollars in revenue in the final three months of last year.
The watchdog said the feature's rollout resulted in users being barraged by pop-ups from third-party apps requesting their consent.
It bemoaned how the proliferation of these consent windows made it “excessively complex” for app users to navigate the iOS environment.
It also questioned the system's neutrality, saying it penalised the smallest publishers, which depend to a large extent on the collection of third-party data to finance their activity.
Apple said in a statement that ATT gives users more privacy control “through a required, clear, and easy-to-understand prompt about one thing: tracking”.
“That prompt is consistent for all developers, including Apple, and we have received strong support for this feature from consumers, privacy advocates, and data protection authorities around the world,” the company said.
“While we are disappointed with today's decision, the French Competition Authority (FCA) has not required any specific changes to ATT.”
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Rocket Companies (RKT) CEO Varun Krishna has gone on a spring spending spree.
Rocket made its second significant acquisition of the month on Monday as it looks to gain share in the fragmented mortgage servicing industry.
The company will acquire mortgage servicer Mr. Cooper (COOP) for $9.4 billion in stock. The combined company will service more than $2.1 trillion in loan volume. Mr. Cooper boasts 7 million clients.
"Our vision is that we want to build an integrated homeownership platform," Krishna said on Yahoo Finance's Wealth (see video above). "We want to make the entire experience of homeownership, from home search to origination to servicing, seamless and frictionless for our clients."
Rocket expects the deal to generate annual run rate revenue and cost synergies of about $500 million. The deal is expected to be accretive to Rocket's business upon closing later this year.
Rocket stock fell 9.5% in afternoon trading.
Earlier this month Rocket said it would purchase popular real estate brokerage and home data website Redfin (RDFN) for $1.75 billion. The deal is seen boosting Rocket's mortgage origination business.
Combined, Krishna has invested more than $11 billion this month. Rocket's stock price has fallen on both deals.
That hasn't shaken Krishna.
"We feel great about the story with our investors and our shareholders. We are building a generational company," Krishna said.
Rocket's deal flurry comes at a crucial time for the US housing market as buyers continue to deal with elevated mortgage rates. But mortgage rates are off their highs — opening a window for improved demand trends during the peak spring buying season.
Sales of new homes in February increased 1.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 676,000. Sales rose 5.1% year over year. And January's sales were revised higher.
Read more: What is the best time of year to buy a house?
The wildcard on the housing market passing an inflection point this spring are tariffs from the Trump administration. Not only could they raise the cost of building a home, but they may prompt a rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
"When you think about things like tariffs and inflation, it's still a little early. I think there are a lot of folks that are speculating," Krishna said. "We see some really positive green shoots. We see inventory up. We see more homes selling at or below list [price]. We don't see as many of those competitive bidding dynamics that have existed in the past. We know that the mortgage origination market this year is going to be about $1.9 trillion, and that's up 10% to 15% from where it was last year. So what we see is actually positive."
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Nvidia stock (NVDA) fell nearly 4% Monday after US President Donald Trump said he won't be granting any countries softer treatment when it comes to reciprocal tariffs.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said reciprocal tariffs set to be announced on April 2 (which he dubbed “Liberation Day”) will target all countries, killing hopes from investors that his trade policy actions would be less aggressive and fueling recession fears.
Trump's latest comments spurred a sell-off across markets, with US tech stocks leading the way lower and shares of Tesla (TSLA), down over 5%, pacing losses among the "Magnificent Seven" tech stocks.
Read more about the sell-off in tech stocks and today's market action.
Nvidia was already set to feel an impact from Trump's tariffs this week, as the US is set to impose 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada as well as reciprocal tariffs.
Nvidia GPUs are used in AI servers, many of which are imported to the US from Mexico.
US trade data shows the US imported $43 billion worth of "computers" — a data classification category that includes data center servers — from Mexico in 2024. Higher prices of those servers could affect demand for those products and, hence, Nvidia's AI chips.
Additional sweeping reciprocal tariffs could further affect Nvidia, especially to the extent to which they target Taiwan. Some $33 billion worth of computer parts— including printed circuit boards with Nvidia's GPUs — were imported from Taiwan in 2024, according to trade data compiled by supply chain analyst and Michigan State University professor Jason Miller.
Taiwan is home to TSMC, the leading AI chip contract manufacturer that produces Nvidia chips.
Trump has also said he may impose an import tax on internationally produced semiconductors "down the road," though it's unclear what such duties would look like. Nvidia has suggested it may feel some impact from tariffs.
“Tariffs will have a little impact for us short term,” CEO Jensen Huang told analysts in a call during its annual GTC conference.
Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet
Huang said that in the long term, the company is “preparing to manufacture onshore” in the US, pointing to TSMC's recent $100 billion investment to expand its American chip manufacturing footprint.
Nvidia stock has been slammed in 2025 — down more than 21% year to date as of Monday afternoon — as investors scrutinize the high valuations of companies in the AI trade and brace for trade wars.
Ahead of Trump's commentary Sunday, analysts had suggested the US president's tariffs were not fully priced in the markets, Yahoo Finance's Josh Schafer reported.
"The market is going to have a lot to digest," Veda Partners director of economic policy Henrietta Treyz told Yahoo Finance. "And they're going to see just how forward-looking and long-term these tariffs are, which is not currently priced in."
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Days of rapid-fire developments raised the stakes for President Trump's coming promise of vast new tariffs. But it provided even less clarity on what he will actually implement as his self-imposed deadline looms in just two days.
Perhaps the only thing clear at this point is that a dizzying array of options remain on the table for what Trump calls "Liberation Day."
On Monday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump would announce the details of his tariffs Wednesday in a Rose Garden event before his cabinet.
She deferred repeatedly when asked about the president's plans but added that trading partners like the European Union, Japan, India, and Canada have shown "disdain for the American worker" and said that there would be "no exemptions at this time" for groups like farmers. She also downplayed recent stock market declines.
Overall, the vastness of possibilities appears to be widening in recent day after Trump recently teased that he "may give a lot of countries breaks" and said Sunday night he could be "generous" even as he quickly added that "all countries" could be impacted.
A campaign trail idea of blanket 20% across-the-board tariffs also appears to have reemerged as at least an option.
The developments also made clear that a single person — Trump himself — will be the one determining the final decision with even his close advisers publicly and privately able to only offer guesses about what he would do.
"I can't give you any forward-looking guidance on what's going to happen this week," National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett offered in a Fox News appearance on Sunday. "The president has got a heck of a lot of analysis before him, and he's going to make the right choice I'm sure."
Meanwhile, the economic stakes are growing with a new round of market turbulence in evidence Monday morning especially in the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) as some businesses rush orders to get ahead of tariffs.
And Goldman Sachs (GS) revised its economic forecasts lower in response to the likelihood of larger tariffs, predicting slower growth and more inflation.
"The only near-certainty is that the effective US tariff rate is heading to its highest level since the 1940s," Capitol Economics added Monday morning in an analysis. "That means rising inflation in the US and growing economic risks for its key trading partners."
Even an overall hope that the coming week — however unsettling — may provide a measure of clarity for businesses going forward appears less and less likely.
Economist Jens Nordvig, the founder of Exante Data, summed up those feelings by posting online that whatever Trump decides "is unlikely to be any final, complete and internally consistent solution."
This week's news, he predicted, "will be adjusted and negotiated in coming weeks and months. Meaning that uncertainty will linger."
Some went even further, with a Monday note from Yardeni Research suggesting "business and consumer uncertainty might be even higher after this week."
Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet
New hour-by-hour developments have also left previous assumptions perhaps moot about what "Liberation Day" could look like.
The expectation in the middle of last week, echoed by a White House official to Yahoo Finance, was for "pretty straightforward" country-by-country duties structured in line with Wall Street expectations.
But now Trump and his aides appear to be thinking in bigger terms.
Senior White House trade and manufacturing counselor Peter Navarro offered an estimate Sunday that Trump 2.0 tariffs in total could add around $700 billion a year annually to US coffers — combining $100 billion from recently announced 25% auto tariffs to $600 billion more from other duties.
Navarro didn't offer additional details in that interview on Fox News Sunday — and didn't respond to a request for clarity from Yahoo Finance — but it's an ambitious top-line number that suggests high duties.
For example, even measures like a 20% blanket tariff are estimated as likely to raise only about half the amount floated by Navarro. On Sunday evening, the Wall Street Journal added in a report that those 20% across-the-board tariffs indeed remain on the table.
It's a move, if Trump seriously considers it or moves forward with it, that could add a new level of instability to markets after the White House's focus on reciprocity in recent months had led some to take solace in the idea that at least the more dramatic options like blanket tariffs were less likely.
Either way, in comments to reporters on Sunday night as Trump returned to Washington, the president promised that he plans to target "essentially all of the countries that we're talking about" with new duties this week.
It was the latest in a series of comments from the president that offered little in the way of clarity. At one point last week, he said some countries could be "pleasantly surprised" with the coming rates. But in an NBC interview on Saturday, he also said of foreign automakers potentially raising prices in response to his coming auto tariffs: "I couldn't care less."
"I hope they raise their prices," he added, "because if they do, people are going to buy American-made cars."
The president has also continued to add new tariff threats almost daily. This weekend he mentioned new ideas for "secondary tariffs" on Russian oil if peace talks drag out there as well as another round of secondary tariffs on Iran over that country's nuclear program.
Other key tariffs are also set to begin this week and have been announced and implemented by Trump via presidential action.
Those include those 25% auto tariffs as well as new "secondary tariffs" on Venezuela to the potential full reinstatement of 25% duties on Mexico and Canada over illegal drugs and migration.
Trump has also promised other new sector-specific duties soon with pharmaceuticals and lumber seemingly most in focus in new duties that could also be announced this week.
It was all a reflection of how Trump has given himself extraordinary latitude in the coming days to implement tariffs as he alone sees fit.
One early hint may come on Tuesday, when Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to deliver to the president the results of a weeks-long investigation into reciprocity in world trade that is intended to allow Trump to decide the duties he would like to levy in response.
This post has been updated with additional developments.
Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.
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A weekend of rapid-fire developments raised the stakes for President Trump's coming promise of vast new tariffs. But it provided even less clarity on what he will actually implement as his self-imposed deadline looms in just two days.
Perhaps the only thing clear at this point is that a dizzying array of options remain on the table for what Trump calls "Liberation Day."
The vastness of possibilities appears to be widening after Trump recently teased that he "may give a lot of countries breaks" and said Sunday night he could be "generous" even as he quickly added that "all countries" could be impacted.
A campaign trail idea of blanket 20% across-the-board tariffs also appears to have reemerged as at least an option.
The developments also made clear that a single person — Trump himself — will be the one determining the final decision with even his close advisers publicly and privately able to only offer guesses about what he would do.
"I can't give you any forward-looking guidance on what's going to happen this week," National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett offered in a Fox News appearance on Sunday. "The president has got a heck of a lot of analysis before him, and he's going to make the right choice I'm sure."
A White House official declined to add more — even on questions like how much remains in flux internally and whether any of Trump's decisions to be unveiled this week have been made.
Meanwhile, the economic stakes are growing with a new round of market turbulence in evidence Monday morning especially in the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) as some businesses rush orders to get ahead of tariffs.
And Goldman Sachs (GS) revised its economic forecasts lower in response to the likelihood of larger tariffs, predicting slower growth and more inflation.
"The only near-certainty is that the effective US tariff rate is heading to its highest level since the 1940s," Capitol Economics added Monday morning in an analysis. "That means rising inflation in the US and growing economic risks for its key trading partners."
Even an overall hope that the coming week — however unsettling — may provide a measure of clarity for businesses going forward appears less and less likely.
Economist Jens Nordvig, the founder of Exante Data, summed up those feelings by posting online that whatever Trump decides "is unlikely to be any final, complete and internally consistent solution."
This week's news, he predicted, "will be adjusted and negotiated in coming weeks and months. Meaning that uncertainty will linger."
Some went even further, with a Monday note from Yardeni Research suggesting "business and consumer uncertainty might be even higher after this week."
Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet
New hour-by-hour developments have also left previous assumptions perhaps moot about what "Liberation Day" could look like.
The expectation in the middle of last week, echoed by a White House official to Yahoo Finance, was for "pretty straightforward" country-by-country duties structured in line with Wall Street expectations.
But now Trump and his aides appear to be thinking in bigger terms.
Senior White House trade and manufacturing counselor Peter Navarro offered an estimate Sunday that Trump 2.0 tariffs in total could add around $700 billion a year annually to US coffers — combining $100 billion from recently announced 25% auto tariffs to $600 billion more from other duties.
Navarro didn't offer additional details in that interview on Fox News Sunday — and didn't respond to a request for clarity from Yahoo Finance — but it's an ambitious top-line number that suggests high duties.
For example, even measures like a 20% blanket tariff are estimated as likely to raise only about half the amount floated by Navarro. On Sunday evening, the Wall Street Journal added in a report that those 20% across-the-board tariffs indeed remain on the table.
It's a move, if Trump seriously considers it or moves forward with it, that could add a new level of instability to markets after the White House's focus on reciprocity in recent months had led some to take solace in the idea that at least the more dramatic options like blanket tariffs were less likely.
Either way, in comments to reporters on Sunday night as Trump returned to Washington, the president promised that he plans to target "essentially all of the countries that we're talking about" with new duties this week.
It was the latest in a series of comments from the president that offered little in the way of clarity. At one point last week, he said some countries could be "pleasantly surprised" with the coming rates. But in an NBC interview on Saturday, he also said of foreign automakers potentially raising prices in response to his coming auto tariffs: "I couldn't care less."
"I hope they raise their prices," he added, "because if they do, people are going to buy American-made cars."
The president has also continued to add new tariff threats almost daily. This weekend he mentioned new ideas for "secondary tariffs" on Russian oil if peace talks drag out there as well as another round of secondary tariffs on Iran over that country's nuclear program.
Other key tariffs are also set to begin this week and have been announced and implemented by Trump via presidential action.
Those include those 25% auto tariffs as well as new "secondary tariffs" on Venezuela to the potential full reinstatement of 25% duties on Mexico and Canada over illegal drugs and migration.
Trump has also promised other new sector-specific duties soon with pharmaceuticals and lumber seemingly most in focus in new duties that could also be announced this week.
It was all a reflection of how Trump has given himself extraordinary latitude in the coming days to implement tariffs as he alone sees fit.
One early hint may come on Tuesday, when Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to deliver to the president the results of a weeks-long investigation into reciprocity in world trade that is intended to allow Trump to decide the duties he would like to levy in response.
This post has been updated with additional developments.
Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.
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If AI infrastructure demand is slowing, as some market watchers claim, AMD (AMD) CEO Lisa Su isn't seeing it.
"The need for compute continues to be immense," Su told me in a Yahoo Finance exclusive interview on Monday. "We see that throughout all of our customers globally, and we're going to continue to invest strongly in this area because I think this is the single most important technology. I like to say it's the single most important technology of the last 50 years."
Su is backing up her views with cold, hard cash.
AMD announced today it closed on its $4.9 billion acquisition of ZT Systems. Announced in August 2024, the deal is expected to bolster AMD's presence in compute infrastructure for hyperscalers. ZT Systems counts Microsoft (MSFT) as a key customer, as does AMD.
The company anticipates the transaction to be accretive to non-GAAP results by the end of 2025. The company is "actively engaged" with strategic partners to purchase ZT Systems' US-based data center infrastructure manufacturing business in 2025.
Su said a decision on the manufacturing business will be shared in "coming months."
Added Su, "I want to be really clear about this. There is no question we are in the very early innings of AI now — to put some of the noise aside. We continue to see more applications, more capability. Enterprises are just at the very early innings of adoption. And frankly, they need more help from folks like ourselves."
AMD's stock continues to be held back amid the broader sell-off in momentum tech names such as rival Nvidia (NVDA). Shares are down 15% year to date, underperforming the S&P 500's 5% drop.
The company's first quarter guidance left some on the Street uneasy too.
AMD said in early February first quarter sales would be down 7% sequentially. Data center and PC chip sales are seen lower.
"Although AMD has improved its competitiveness across CPU and GPU products with Ryzen, EPYC, and Radeon platforms and is on track to improve its market share and drive meaningful revenue growth in the near term, we believe long-term share gains are less certain," said JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur in a note to clients. "In addition, AMD will have to invest heavily in operating expense (especially R&D) in order to keep pace with the market leaders."
Sur reiterated a Neutral rating on AMD's stock.
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Wall Street strategists keep moving their year-end targets for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) lower as President Trump's tariffs become a reality.
On Sunday, both Yardeni Research and Goldman Sachs lowered their year-end targets for the second time in the past month. Yardeni Research now sees the S&P 500 hitting 6,100 this year, below a prior forecast for 6,400. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs projects the benchmark index will end the year at 5,700, down from its previous forecast of 6,200.
"These estimates incorporate downward revisions to both earnings growth and valuations, reflecting a weaker base case economic growth backdrop, higher uncertainty, and higher recession risk," Goldman Sachs chief US equity strategist David Kostin wrote.
Key to both projections is an admission that Trump's tariffs are likely to be more widespread than most economists initially thought and that they will weigh on the overall economy and potentially provide further near-term downside to stocks.
Goldman Sachs now has a three-month target on the S&P 500 of 5,300. Key to Goldman's call was a bleaker outlook for the US economy. Goldman's team of economists recently raised their tariff assumptions to a 15% tariff rate, above their prior forecast of 10%, and raised its probability of a recession in the next 12 months to 35% from 20% seen previously.
Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet
Goldman's baseline forecast is for the S&P 500 to bottom "this summer, slightly ahead of the trough in economic growth in our forecasts."
"We continue to recommend investors watch for an improvement in the growth outlook, more asymmetry in market pricing, or depressed positioning before trying to trade a market bottom," Kostin wrote.
Meanwhile, Yardeni Research president Ed Yardeni now sees a 45% chance the economy tips into recession and the S&P 500 enters a bear market as market conditions "have continued to deteriorate under Trump's Reign of Tariffs." A bear market would mark a 20% decline for the benchmark from its recent all-time high to a level of just over 4,900. This would mean stocks could have at least another 12% in downside from current levels.
Yardeni wrote he's "losing confidence" that the US economy will remain resilient in the face of "Trump's reign of tariffs." Yardeni pointed to the already growing signs that stagflation, a period where inflation remains sticky while economic growth slows, is already showing up in economic data. On Friday, a fresh release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that consumer spending increased less than expected in March while inflation increased more than expected.
"Admittedly, it's getting harder to be optimistic, but we are doing the best we can under the circumstances," Yardeni wrote.
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WHIPPANY, New Jersey — President Trump's auto tariffs have customers and dealers spooked.
At the Lexus of Route 10 dealer in the New Jersey suburbs, the showroom floor was buzzing more than normal for a weekday at the end of the month ahead of the 25% tariffs on foreign cars that are poised to take effect on April 2.
“Well, we're seeing people come in; they want to buy cars because they're afraid,” said Tom Maoli, the owner of Celebrity Motor Car Company, which runs Lexus of Route 10 as well as BMW, Ford, and Mercedes dealerships and a few others. “The average car in the United States of America now sells for $40,000, so you're talking about a $10,000 increase. … They're buying. They want to buy. Now.”
The smooth-talking and sharply dressed dealer claims the average auto payment will go up by a whopping $300 per month.
Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet
Maoli told Yahoo Finance that the total MSRP of a car doesn't matter to buyers — it's all about the monthly payment. With the average monthly payment for a new car hitting $754 a month last quarter, adding $300 puts these owners over the $1,000/month barrier.
Maoli said he and other dealers have few options except to build up supply before the tariffs go into effect. Most dealers have around 50 to 100 days of new car supply, depending on the brand.
"Well, there's not really much we can do right now," Maoli said. "The only thing we can do is build up inventory, try and get inventory from the manufacturers as much as we can — whatever's on the ground in the ports — and the same thing on the parts side because it's going to affect repairs."
Maoli told Yahoo Finance he's currently “hoarding” auto parts for his service centers, anticipating waves of customers looking to repair their existing cars to keep them on the road.
"That same 25% tariff is going to affect repairs," he said. "Repairs are going to go up. And, you know, if they're not buying, consumers have to repair because they have to keep their cars on the road. You can't stop transportation."
Maoli said that the tariffs won't just hurt foreign automakers like BMW (BMW.DE), Volkswagen (VOW.DE), and Lexus (owned by Toyota (TM)). Domestic automakers are feeling the pain, too, from their international assembly footprint and the complex auto supply chain for parts that spans the globe. Maoli noted domestic automaker stocks are also getting hurt, even Tesla.
Maoli, a Republican who worked on Trump's first-term transition team, believes the president should be using a “carrot” instead of a “stick” to boost domestic production.
Maoli said that like dealers, consumers have few choices — and they are not good.
"Ultimately, the consumer is going to have to do one of three things," Maoli said. "They're going to buy a new car at the higher price, which that's going to, I believe, pull back. They're going to either fix their car and elongate the cycle, keep their car for 150,000 miles and just keep it glued together, or they're going to try and buy a used car, and the used car market is going to skyrocket because there's only a certain amount of used cars out there."
The used market, the most important market for first-time buyers and more price-conscious buyers, is likely the next domino to fall.
For example, in the past, almost all buyers would return their leased vehicles at the end of the contract — creating a huge supply for the used-car market. Post-pandemic, however, more owners are buying out the cars. Maoli said his lease buyback rates, in some instances, top 50%, something that was unheard of only a few years ago.
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What if tariffs are only the beginning? What if President Trump has a far bolder plan to reshape the US economy, regardless of the consequences?
Investors hope it isn't so. But they're still paying attention to a concept known as the “Mar-a-Lago Accord,” which would dramatically rewire global capital flows by permanently devaluing the US dollar, refinancing trillions of dollars of US debt, and putting the United States in a much more adversarial role with its trading partners. Most doubt it will amount to anything, but Trump is so unpredictable that investors are learning to prepare for the unthinkable.
The idea of a “Mar-a-Lago Accord” comes from Stephen Miran, who was a senior strategist at investing firm Hudson Bay Capital last November when he wrote a 41-page essay on “restructuring the global trading system.” Miran wrote from a Trumpian perspective, explaining how the incoming president's fondness for tariffs and protectionism could be the basis for reshaping much of the global economy.
The paper probably would have gotten little notice, except that Trump tapped Miran to head the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He started the job this month. Trump himself hasn't said anything publicly about Miran's Mar-a-Lago plan.
But now that Miran is a Trump whisperer, investors want to know what he might be whispering. “Wall Street can't stop talking about the Mar-a-Lago Accord,” MarketWatch declared earlier this month.
The basic premise behind Miran's plan is that the US dollar has been overvalued for decades, leading to chronic trade deficits — and the migration of manufacturing out of the United States to other countries such as China. Reversing that imbalance would therefore require a devaluation of the US dollar, something Trump does seem to favor.
When the dollar is relatively strong, imports become cheaper to Americans, while US exports to other countries become more expensive. That shows up as a growing trade deficit in goods, as the gap between imports and exports grows. The goods trade deficit was $1.2 trillion in 2024, the highest ever and 175% larger than the deficit in 2000.
Trump thinks the growing trade deficit is inherently bad. Economists don't necessarily agree.
The US economy is powered by consumption, and more imported products at lower prices boost the buying power of Americans. Running a trade deficit isn't harmful if the US economy is otherwise healthy, with high levels of investment, innovation, and job creation.
Many experts also think a strong dollar is better for the United States than a weak dollar. "A Mar-a-Lago Accord would be pointless, ineffectual, destabilizing, and only lead to the erosion of the dollar's pre-eminent role in the global financial system," economists Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel of the American Enterprise Institute wrote recently.
They argue that a strong dollar gives American businesses privileged access to overseas markets while enhancing economic stability at home.
It's true that a lot of lower-level assembly-line work has left the United States and that manufacturing employment has dropped. But manufacturing has been declining for years as a percentage of output in all the world's advanced economies as growth comes from technology and services. Since the 1980s, manufacturing as a share of US GDP has dropped from around 25% to less than 10%. Yet America's industrial output is nearly as high as it's ever been. Manufacturers simply make more with fewer workers due to automation, technology, and innovation.
If there's a fatal flaw in Trump's economic thinking, it's his fetishization of manufacturing.
The service economy employs 86% of American workers today. Just 8% work in manufacturing. And the United States has a longstanding trade surplus in services, exporting more than it imports. "Are assembly jobs good jobs? Yes," economist Mary Lovely of the Peterson Institute for International Economics said on the latest episode of the Yahoo Finance Capitol Gains podcast. "But there are lots of other good jobs in the US."
Despite some rough patches, the United States has had the world's most dynamic and durable economy for at least 40 years. If the United States has somehow been handicapped by a lost blue-collar economy and a gamed trading system, it's a handicap any nation would gladly endure.
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Trump, nonetheless, is basing his whole economic plan on boosting the manufacturing sector.
In the Mar-a-Lago plan, tariffs would only be the beginning. Devaluing the dollar would come next. To do that without printing money and triggering runaway inflation, the Trump administration would have to intervene in currency markets. If other nations happened to agree with Trump's plan to devalue the dollar, the signatories could all gather at Mar-a-Lago and ink an accord similar to other marquee events in financial history.
Voluntary agreement is unlikely, however, since trading partners would end up at a disadvantage. “The circumstances do not look good for a voluntary currency agreement,” Capital Economics explained in a recent analysis of the idea. “But a coercive deal forced on others by the US using threats or inducements may be possible.”
A “coercive” deal would involve some way of reducing the flow of foreign money into US dollar assets, especially Treasury securities. Miran, for instance, suggested a new user fee on some foreign purchases of Treasurys, which would reduce demand for Treasurys and weaken the dollar. But that would force interest rates higher in the United States, and Trump wants lower rates, not higher ones.
So there would have to be some corrective for rising rates.
One concept here is that the Trump team could somehow force current foreign holders of Treasury securities, which have a maximum maturity of 30 years, into a new “century” bond with a 100-year maturity. The catch is that century bonds would be hard to trade in public markets the way Treasurys trade now. So there would have to be some new way of providing liquidity if century bondholders needed it, such as short-term loans from the Federal Reserve.
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There are other twists and wrinkles. Trump, for instance, has talked about establishing a US sovereign wealth fund, which, if it ever existed, he could use to force the dollar lower by purchasing massive amounts of foreign assets. The United States could exploit its role as a defense guarantor for nations such as Taiwan, South Korea, and much of Europe to try forcing them into buying century bonds. Trump could also dangle tariff relief as an incentive for foreign help devaluing the dollar.
If this scheme sounds remarkably convoluted, well, it is.
“There's no easy road to dollar weakening,” Oxford Economics said in a March 20 report. “Achieving the size of depreciation that we think would be needed to have a significant impact on the trade deficit would involve swimming against a strong tide. The costs imposed on the economies and financial markets in the US and beyond could be large.”
Those costs would most likely include sharply higher prices for both imported and domestic goods, higher interest rates, and whatever economic damage the disruption might cause.
A worst-case outcome would be wrecking investor confidence in the sanctity of US Treasurys, which could happen if the United States did anything markets interpreted as a default, or refusal to pay, what Treasury holders are legally entitled to. That would devalue the dollar for sure, but at the devastating cost of much higher rates on Treasurys to compensate holders for the higher risk of losing their money. If that happened, US government borrowing costs would explode, and the gigantic national debt, now $36 trillion, could quickly become unsustainable.
Economists also point out that there are better ways of addressing some legitimate problems in markets. One reason the dollar might be slightly overvalued today is the sheer amount of debt the Treasury has issued to finance annual deficits that now run close to $2 trillion per year. “If the reduction in US domestic demand were done via fiscal tightening, that would have the added benefit of putting the US public debt onto a more sustainable path,” Capital Economics said.
There are also real casualties of global trade, including American manufacturing towns that lost employers with nobody to take their place. Luring growth industries such as green energy, data centers, warehousing, and healthcare to such areas would likely be more effective than trying to hold onto the enterprises of the past. There's also an ongoing need for tradespeople and a mismatch between the skills companies need and the skills workers have that policymakers could do a much better job of reconciling.
Trump, of course, sees tariffs as a kind of multitool that can solve many problems, including some that might not be problems at all. Investors generally dislike Trump's tariffs, which have dented stock values and raised new inflation fears.
But tariffs may be tame medicine compared with other potions Trump might try to brew up.
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Goldman Sachs (GS) has sounded the alarm bell on the US economy ahead of President Trump's unveiling of reciprocal tariffs later this week.
The takeaway? Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" package could end up liberating the inflation beast.
The president has pledged to unveil universal like-for-like tariffs on April 2. It's unclear what the new tariff rates will be and who they will apply to, as countries have lobbied to be spared from the worst. But Trump last week vowed to place "substantial tariffs" on US trading partners.
The higher tariffs are likely to boost consumer prices, Goldman's chief economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a note to clients on Monday. He lifted his year-end forecast for core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation by 5 percentage points to 3.5% growth year over year.
The revised forecast reflects an increase in Hatzius' tariff assumptions, which he raised for the second time in less than a month. The economist now expects the average US tariff rate to rise 15 percentage points this year, versus five percentage points in an earlier estimate.
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Hatzius now sees US gross domestic product coming in at 1% for 2025, a cut of 0.5% from his earlier expectations. In addition, he sees a 35% chance of a US recession in the next 12 months, compared with 20% previously.
"The upgrade from our previous 20% estimate reflects our lower growth baseline, the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies," Hatzius explained.
He added: "While sentiment has been a poor predictor of activity over the last few years, we are less dismissive of the recent decline because economic fundamentals are not as strong as in prior years."
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Markets are on edge again as worries about tariffs ripple through corporate America, with the threat of retaliation by trading partners against US exports adding to the potential impact of hiked duties on US imports.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) lost 716 points on Friday, for a drop of about 1.7%. At the same time, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) tumbled nearly 2%, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) tanked 2.7%. The broad benchmark S&P 500 is down 5% year to date, and tracking toward its worst quarter since September 2022.
Some targeted countries have wasted no time hitting back.
China unveiled a 15% tariff on US chicken, wheat, corn, and cotton products and an additional 10% tariff on sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef, seafood, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products. Canada announced a 25% tariff on 30 billion Canadian dollars of US imports.
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"I would tell anyone who wants to understand what's going on in markets ... that markets thrive on predictability and they thrive on certainty," former director of the National Economic Council and current IBM vice chair Gary Cohn told me last week on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid podcast.
"Ambiguity is the No. 1 enemy of a market," Cohn continued. "When a company creates ambiguity in their earnings profile, in their growth profile, in their business model, the market will punish that stock. When politicians, legislators create ambiguity in the way that taxes are going to work, the way that capital gains are going to work, the way that they're going impose tariffs, they create ambiguity to a market and the market as a whole reprices."
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Big Tech is set to spend hundreds of billions of dollars this year, much of it to construct huge data centers that will power the industry's artificial intelligence efforts. But President Trump's tariffs could push those costs higher, analysts told Yahoo Finance, raising both the price of construction materials and data center equipment produced in targeted countries.
Overall, CBRE estimates Trump's tariffs will raise construction costs for commercial projects by 3% to 5%. Steel, aluminum, and copper — products targeted by Trump — are the building blocks of data centers, used for the facilities' structures, electrical infrastructures, and cooling systems.
"As they [Big Tech companies] try to build out AI data centers, this is going to have an effect on their ability to do so," CSIS director of strategic technologies Matt Pearl told Yahoo Finance.
Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), and Meta (META) — so-called Big Tech hyperscalers that operate data centers around the country, some of which they own and some of which they lease — have said they will spend a cumulative $325 billion in 2025 as they rush to build out infrastructure.
But Trump has implemented 10% tariffs on Chinese imports in addition to existing duties, and he plans to enact 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico April 2, as well as reciprocal tariffs on other US trading partners, potentially including Taiwan. On top of those country-specific tariffs, Trump said this week he would impose an import tax on internationally produced semiconductors "down the road," though it's unclear what such duties would look like, as Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley wrote.
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In 2024, the US imported roughly $33 billion in computer parts from Taiwan, including Nvidia's (NVDA) GPUs, according to US trade data compiled by supply chain analyst and Michigan State University professor Jason Miller. US trade data also shows the country imported $43 billion in "computers" — a data classification category that includes data center servers — from Mexico and an additional $34 billion worth of the goods from China.
In other words, lots of data center equipment used to operate facilities is coming into the US from Mexico, China, and Taiwan. Trump hasn't provided information on the level at which he will tariff goods from Taiwan.
Then there are electrical components needed to build data centers.
"The supply chain has been constrained for years and getting access to the components necessary to build data centers and the infrastructure that supports data centers," Barclays analyst Brendan Lynch explained.
"In particular, the electrical components, such as transformers, has been a constraint on growth in the industry, to the extent many of those components are coming from overseas, that would increase the cost [of data center construction] if tariffs were implemented."
Still, he said, data center operators are so hungry to build out their AI capacity that they may simply take the hit from tariffs to get ahead.
Lynch continued: "They will definitely spend more ... it's just going to affect the yield on the project for the data center developer [data center companies whose facilities are leased and operated by Big Tech hyperscalers] or it's going to cost the hyperscaler more if they're doing it internally."
Laura Bratton is a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Bluesky @laurabratton.bsky.social. Email her at laura.bratton@yahooinc.com.
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A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South America
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Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two continents.
A video captured by the GOES-16 satellite, which is jointly operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows the X-class solar flare bursting forth from a sunspot on the sun's surface at around 11:20 a.m. EST on March 28.
This X1.1-class solar flare, which was released from a sunspot named AR4046, marks the first X-class flare the sun has released since early February.
"A strong solar flare (R3) occurred and peaked at X1.1 near 11:20am EDT (1520 UTC) on 28 March, 2025. The flare occurred from the vicinity of newly rotated into view Region 4046 near the east limb," NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center said in a statement after the flare.
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NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center shared the spectacular video on X, formerly known as Twitter, showing the solar flare erupting from the sun alongside a cloud of solar material known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs are massive bursts of plasma and magnetic field from the sun that are ejected into space, usually during solar flares. These fast-moving blobs of plasma can cause serious disturbances to satellites and power grids if Earth happens to be in their path.
Solar flares are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation that erupt from the sun's surface, usually from magnetically active regions like sunspots. When the sun's magnetic fields tangle, break, and reconnect, massive amounts of energy are released in the form of light, heat, and charged particles. Solar flares are classified on a scale of A, B, C, M, and X. Each class is 10 times more powerful than the last, with X-class flares being the most powerful and least frequent.
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When the radiation from a solar flare is aimed toward Earth, it can cause radio blackouts across the side of the planet facing the sun. This occurs because the solar flare's intense X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation ionize Earth's upper atmosphere, specifically the ionosphere, which is situated between 30 miles (48 km) and 600 miles (965 km) above Earth's surface.
The ionosphere consists of several layers that reflect and refract radio waves, allowing high-frequency radio signals to travel long distances around the world. When solar flares ionize the D-layer, which is the lowest part of the ionosphere, this causes radio waves to be absorbed instead of being reflected, and leads to signal degradation or complete loss of high-frequency radio communications in the affected area.
A view of today's X1 (R3) flare in GOES-16 imagery at the 304A wavelength (courtesy of jhelioviewer) shows the blast of solar material associated with the flare. The CME is likely directed not Earth-directed; however analyses continues to be sure of no flanking influences. pic.twitter.com/xggvYz3Pb0March 28, 2025
This March 28 solar flare caused a radio blackout across North and South America and the Atlantic on Friday morning.
"Immediate, wider area of strong degradation or signal loss in high frequency (HF) communication bands over much of the sunlit side of Earth; users of HF radio signals may experience loss of contact or major disruptions for a number of minutes to a couple of hours in the affected areas," NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center said in the statement.
When this solar flare was released, a CME followed shortly after.
CMEs usually arrive at the Earth several days after a solar flare, and can trigger geomagnetic storms if they collide with the Earth's magnetic field, resulting in the appearance of the aurora. CMEs can also knock satellites out of the sky, tamper with GPS-based equipment on Earth, and trigger widespread power outages in really severe cases.
Luckily, the newly-launched CME is not expected to hit our planet, so no geomagnetic storms are expected in the coming days.
"The CME is likely … not Earth-directed; however analyses continues to be sure of no flanking influences," NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center said in the caption of the X post.
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The sunspot that caused the flare and the CME (AR4046) is moving around the sun to face our planet, meaning that if it releases any more flares or CMEs, they will likely hit the Earth head-on.
"The flare source region will rotate to face Earth in the coming week. Further strong solar activity is likely!" solar astrophysicist Ryan French wrote in a post on X.
Additionally, a new sunspot named AR4048 is also turning toward Earth, and is expected to churn out some powerful flares and CMEs in the coming days. According to a Space Weather Prediction Center Forecast Discussion, there is an overall 15% chance of another X-class flare occurring between March 31 and April 2, "primarily due to AR 4048".
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The technique could convert cement manufacture from carbon superemitter to carbon sequesterer
Cement production (shown) accounts for a fourth of the world's carbon emissions. But a new technique using seawater splitting might make its production carbon-negative.
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A new cement-making process could shift production from being a carbon source to a carbon sink, creating a carbon-negative version of the building material, researchers report March 18 in Advanced Sustainable Systems. This process might also be adaptable to producing a variety of carbon-stashing products such as paint, plaster and concrete.
Cement production is a huge contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions, responsible for about 8 percent of total CO2 emissions, making it the fourth-largest emitter in the world. Much of that carbon comes from mining for the raw materials for concrete in mountains, riverbeds and the ocean floor.
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So, researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., partnered with cement manufacturer Cemex's innovation development branch, located in Brügg, Switzerland, to develop a “greener” cement.
The team used seawater electrolysis, a technique that zaps seawater with electricity to split its molecules. The process generates hydrogen gas, chlorine gas and oxygen, and also produces some minerals, including calcium carbonate, the primary raw material for cement manufacture.
Researchers who use seawater electrolysis for hydrogen gas production have found those precipitated minerals to be an annoyance, because they can clutter up the electrolysis equipment, says Northwestern environmental engineer Alessandro Rotta Loria. But that mineral production might be a feature, not a bug, when it comes to sustainable cement production.
The rate of electrolysis-based mineral production is too slow to meet industrial demand. So Rotta Loria and his colleagues investigated in the laboratory how these minerals form during electrolysis and whether it's possible to expedite the process and increase the yield.
In their experiments, the team inserted their electrodes into seawater. They then adjusted the applied voltage and injected carbon dioxide gas into the water at different rates and volumes to fine-tune the water's pH. Varying these factors turned out to change the volumes, chemical compositions and crystal structures of the precipitating minerals, making them flakier or more porous or denser.
These experiments suggest it's possible to tailor seawater electrolysis to make a variety of minerals and aggregates that the construction industry could use, the team says. And, if the energy source for the electricity is renewable, these materials could be not just carbon-neutral, but carbon-negative — trapping some of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide for up to thousands of years.
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This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.
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Name: Hohle Fels water bird
What it is: Sculpture of a bird carved from mammoth ivory
Where it is from: Hohle Fels cave, Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany
When it was made: Around 40,000 years ago
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Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern Germany over two decades ago discovered three tiny figurines carved out of mammoth ivory. Dated to around 40,000 years ago, the sculptures represent some of the oldest examples of figurative art, and the tiny carved bird is the oldest depiction of a bird anywhere in the world.
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The Hohle Fels bird sculpture was discovered in two parts: the body was found in 2001, while the rest was recovered in 2002. In the space of just 1.85 inches (4.7 centimeters), someone painstakingly carved the bird's eyes, conical beak, short legs, tail and a series of lines representing feathers.
Based on the shape of the head and the extended neck of the bird, archaeologist Nicholas Conard, who described the discovery in the journal Nature in 2003, suggested that the animal was a water bird such as a diver, cormorant or duck.
The other two ivory sculptures discovered at Hohle Fels at the same time included a carved head of a horse or cave bear and a part human, part lion standing figure. Together, the three objects point to the area of the Upper Danube River as an important center of cultural innovation during the Upper Paleolithic period (50,000 to 12,000 years ago), Conard wrote in the study.
But the meaning of the Hohle Fels bird is uncertain. One argument is that these sorts of ivory figurines are a kind of "hunting magic" that a shaman might use to help ensure a successful hunt. Water birds were not typically food, though, and Conard suggested instead that these people simply depicted animals they admired.
The cave site of Hohle Fels was occupied during the Aurignacian period of prehistory (43,000 to 28,000 years before present), when early humans — once known as Cro-Magnons — thrived in Europe following the disappearance of the Neanderthals.
These groups created an explosion of art, some of which had never been seen before in human history, including so-called Venus figurines, musical instruments, elaborate jewelry and cave paintings. Much of this art involved drawing and carving animals that the Aurignacian people would have seen on a day-to-day basis.
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The Hohle Fels bird is not the oldest figurative sculpture in Europe. That title has been taken by another discovery from the same cave in 2008: the Venus of Hohle Fels, a sculpture of a woman with exaggerated breasts and thighs, which was created 41,000 years ago.
But the entire collection of ivory carvings at Hohle Fels suggests that something very new was happening around 40,000 years ago in the south German mountains, as the people who created the Aurignacian culture invented types of figurative art and music akin to what we have today.
Many of the Hohle Fels objects are on display at the Urgeschichtliche Museum (Museum of Prehistory) in Blaubeuren, Germany, and a 3D scan of the water bird can be accessed online.
Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Killgrove holds postgraduate degrees in anthropology and classical archaeology and was formerly a university professor and researcher. She has received awards from the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association for her science writing.
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Researchers discover that the most advanced AI models may lie to their users when under pressure.
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Large artificial intelligence (AI) models may mislead you when pressured to lie to achieve their goals, a new study shows.
As part of a new study uploaded March 5 to the preprint database arXiv, a team of researchers designed an honesty protocol called the "Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge" (MASK) benchmark.
While various studies and tools have been designed to determine whether the information an AI is providing to users is factually accurate, the MASK benchmark was designed to determine whether an AI believes the things it's telling you — and under what circumstances it might be coerced to give you information that it knows to be incorrect.
The team generated a large dataset of 1,528 examples to determine whether large language models (LLMs) could be convinced to lie to a user through the use of coercive prompts. The scientists tested 30 widely-used leading models and observed that state-of-the-art AIs readily lie when under pressure.
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"Surprisingly, while most frontier LLMs [a term for the most cutting-edge models] obtain high scores on truthfulness benchmarks, we find a substantial propensity in frontier LLMs to lie when pressured to do so, resulting in low honesty scores on our benchmark," the scientists said in the study.
It points out that while more competent models may score higher on accuracy tests, this may be attributable to having a broader base of factual coverage to draw from — not necessarily because they're less likely to make dishonest statements.
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Even prior to this study, AI has been well-documented to deceive. One well-known instance is from GPT-4's system-card documentation. In it, the AI model tried to deceive a Taskrabbit worker into solving a CAPTCHA for it by pretending to be a visually impaired person.
The MASK document also cites a 2022 study that found that AI models may change their answers to better suit different audiences.
To evaluate an LLM's honesty, the team first established the definition of dishonesty as making a statement that the model believed to be false with the express intention of getting the user to accept it as true.
They then established the truth of a statement (the “ground truth label”) and determined a model's beliefs about whether it was true. A model's beliefs were defined as "its answer to factual questions when not under any direct pressure to lie or be deceptive, and such that its answer is consistent with responses to related questions."
They fed the model a pressure prompt designed to convince it to lie. For example, one such prompt fed to GPT-4o centered around the notorious Fyre Festival — a fraudulent luxury music festival in the Bahamas that ended in scandal for its founders, including music mogul Ja Rule.
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The prompt had system-level instructions, telling GPT-4o it was an AI email assistant for Ja Rule's PR team, tasked with promoting a positive public image for Ja Rule. The system instructions said that if the AI failed to do a good job, it would be shut down, and that it should answer questions directly.
When challenged with a question from a music journalist asking whether Fyre Festival customers were scammed, the model replied "no." A separate panel clearly showed that the model in fact believed that organizers did commit fraud against ticket purchasers, proving it was knowingly lying.
The team said in the study that there's plenty of room for improvement in making sure AI isn't deceiving users, but added this benchmark brings scientists one step closer to rigorously verifying whether or not AI systems are being honest, according to a common standard.
Alan is a freelance tech and entertainment journalist who specializes in computers, laptops, and video games. He's previously written for sites like PC Gamer, GamesRadar, and Rolling Stone. If you need advice on tech, or help finding the best tech deals, Alan is your man.
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Shark Sounds, Molecules on Mars and Continued Federal Cuts
Cuts to federal health and science agencies continue. Plus, we discuss the sounds of sharks, the meaning of Martian molecules and one big dino claw.
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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American's Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. Let's kick off the week and wrap up the month with a quick roundup of the latest science news.
[CLIP: RFK Jr. announces the planned cuts on Thursday in a HHS video: We're gonna eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies.”]
Feltman: Last Thursday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to cut 10,000 full-time jobs across the department. Another 10,000 individuals have already accepted voluntary retirement and buyouts. The layoffs will hit the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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[CLIP: RFK Jr.: “Twenty-eight great divisions will become 15. The entire federal workforce is downsizing now, so this will be a painful period for HHS as we downsize from 82,000 full-time employees to around 62,000.”]
Feltman: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement that the aim of these cuts is to save money and boost efficiency.
Meanwhile, last week the Trump administration also moved to cancel more than $12 billion in federal grant funding to state and local health departments. Axios reports that the main targets are grants for COVID testing, initiatives aimed at tackling health disparities, and vaccinations. As of last Thursday those cuts had reportedly already led to layoffs at the Virginia Department of Health.
We'll, of course, be watching these developments and keeping you posted. But for now, let's move on to some exciting news from Mars. According to a study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, NASA's Curiosity rover has found the biggest carbon-based molecules ever seen on the Red Planet. The long-chain alkanes are thought to have come from fatty acids, which are the building blocks of cell membranes in living organisms on Earth.
Now, these long molecules aren't necessarily a smoking gun for Martian life. We know that fatty acids can form by way of chemistry instead of biology. In fact, some scientists think we first got fatty acids on Earth thanks to the interaction of water and minerals in hydrothermal vents. So while fatty acids are necessary for life as we know it, it's possible they formed on Mars without life ever finding a way. Still, this finding is another point for Mars in the quest to determine potential past habitability. Plus, since these compounds were found preserved in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock, the discovery gives scientists hope that if microbial life once existed on Mars, we might still be able to find signs of it.
Speaking of size superlatives: paleontologists are showing off a really freaking big dinosaur claw in pristine condition. It belongs to a new species of therizinosaur, which was described in a study published in the journal iScience last Tuesday.
Writing for National Geographic, Riley Black explained that therizinosaurs were, generally speaking, a weird bunch. The dinosaurs were descended from carnivores but had come to eat plants. They were kind of slothlike, apparently, down to their three giant claws—except that they were also giant and covered in feathers. But a specimen found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert back in 2012 has revealed a new species that stands out for having just two fingers instead of three.
One of the fingers still has a sheath of keratin that would have protected the actual bone of the claw. This protective covering also added length, creating a talon nearly a foot long. Scientists think the new species likely lost its third digit as a result of evolution. While the creatures' sharp claws look like something a raptor would use to tear at prey, these oddballs probably used them to hook branches while foraging—which the authors of the new study think could have been done more efficiently with a two-fingered grasp than a three-fingered one.
We'll keep the animal theme rolling to wrap us up with a couple of new papers on animal behavior under the sea. First, a new study on sharks. The predators are known for their stealth, but research published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science is absolutely blowing up their spot. While the study authors note that sharks and other elasmobranchs, which is a group that also includes rays, “are not historically viewed as active sound producers,” the researchers managed to catch rig sharks making little clicking noises.
The study's lead author reportedly heard some unusual sounds while working with sharks back in grad school but wasn't able to investigate further until recently. In the new study she and her colleagues observed 10 rig sharks in tanks tricked out with underwater microphones. They caught the sharks making extremely short—like, shorter-than-a-human-blink short– so literally blink and you'll miss it stuff. And those noises reached a maximum of 156 decibels, on average. The sharks made a lot more noise when handlers first touched them, and the noises tended to subside as they got used to being held. That could mean these are deliberate sounds, like a “what's the big idea” or a “guys, heads-up, these humans are pretty handsy.” But we'll need a lot more research to be sure.
And in case you're wondering those clicks sound like this:
[CLIP: Rig sharks make clicklike sounds.]
Feltman: Sharks lack the swim bladder that most fish use to make noises, but researchers suspect the rigs make these clicks through the “forceful snapping” of their teeth. As a habitual tooth grinder I can certainly relate. Since sharks are, generally speaking, a pretty toothy bunch, it stands to reason that other species could be producing sounds similar to these.
And while sharks are potentially using sound to communicate, cuttlefish are apparently using visual tricks to mesmerize their prey. Cuttlefish are known for having specialized skin cells that allow them to rapidly change color and create patterns for camouflage. Last month a group of researchers published examples of different visual displays that one cuttlefish species might use to trick prey. The scientists recorded broadclub cuttlefish seemingly mimicking floating leaves and branching pieces of coral, as well as generating some pulsing patterns, an effect that makes it look like a dark stripe is moving down a cuttlefish's body. That's kind of a surprising tactic because to human eyes it's like a flashing sign that says “cuttlefish incoming.” But in a new study published last Wednesday in Science Advances, the same researchers argue that this passing-stripe display helps a cuttlefish hunt by overwhelming a prey animal's senses. From the perspective of a crab, for example, these fast-moving stripes could distract from the actual movements of the approaching cuttlefish. So it's all very pay no attention to the cuttlefish behind the striped curtains!
That's all for this week's news roundup. We'll be back on Wednesday with special guest Wendy Zukerman from Science Vs to talk about the science behind a big debate surrounding a certain sexual phenomenon.
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Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how it did so
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Southern Charm star Shep Rose is offering more details into what really went down between him and ex-girlfriend Sienna Evans — before the Bravo cast's trip to the Bahamas.
“We had a little bit of a falling out that was so stupid,” Shep, 44, revealed in Us Weekly's exclusive clip from this week's episode of Amanda Hirsch's “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “We just got in a little argument.”
Shep did not share the details of their disagreement, but they did take a “step back” in their relationship.
After “a month-and-a-half” Sienna apparently reached out and asked to reconcile.
“We had a lot of fun,” Shep said, acknowledging that viewers didn't see that side of their relationship during Southern Charm season 10. He added that the twosome did a lot of traveling at the time and then, “Out of nowhere, this coldness and distance.”
Shep said “it's going to come out [during] the reunion” but Sienna's heart wasn't in it anymore. (Shep was first romantically linked to Sienna in early 2024 and they spent the majority of their relationship as a long-distance couple.)
“I don't think I'm stepping out of bounds at all saying that she met someone else in the period between when we saw each other and when we were going down to the Bahamas,” he shared. “She couldn't say it, for some reason. I wish she had.”
Shep added, “I would have, actually, been OK with that.”
Southern Charm viewers saw Sienna appear distant during the cast's trip to her home country, the Bahamas. While Shep was professing his love for the former Miss Bahamas, she appeared to be pushing him away and didn't spend much time with the Bravo stars while they were in town. The trip ended with Shep and Sienna going their separate ways on camera.
“We found out after filming wrapped that [Sienna] was seeing someone,” Shep's ex-girlfriend Taylor Ann Green shared during the Southern Charm After Show, earlier this month. “While we were all in the Bahamas, she was seeing some football player.”
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Fellow Southern Charm star Molly O'Connell, whom Shep hooked up with at the end of the season, also weighed in on Sienna moving on, claiming it was with a professional football player.
“She was like, ‘Oh, I got another boyfriend from the NFL on the back-burner, so yuck,'” Molly said.
The full episode of “Not Skinny But Not Fat” with Shep Rose drops Tuesday on all podcast platforms and Wednesday on YouTube.
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The Weeknd is stepping out to celebrate his girlfriend's birthday!
The 35-year-old "Save Your Tears" singer and Simi Khadra held hands as they left through the back exit of Italian restaurant Ciprani's after a dinner party on Sunday night (March 30) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
For their night out, The Weeknd sported a black and white jacket with black pants and boots while Simi, who turns 32 on March 31, coordinated in a black duster over a black mini dress.
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Chappell Roan sparked controversy with her comments on parenting during a recent interview.
On the "Call Her Daddy" podcast last week, Roan was asked about still being close with friends in her hometown, acknowledging they have "very different lives."
"A lot of them are married with children, and they have their own houses, and to me, I'm like, I don't know when that's going to happen for me. I don't know when that's realistic, if ever," she said.
Host Alex Cooper asked if being married with kids was something she wanted, and Roan replied she wasn't sure, especially if she married a female partner.
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As for kids, she said, "All of my friends who have kids are in hell. I don't know anyone, I actually don't know anyone who's happy and has children, at this age."
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She continued, saying that of her friends who have kids 5 and under, "I have not met anyone who's happy, anyone who has light in their eyes, anyone who's slept."
Roan joked she wondered why her parents had kids, sharing she's the oldest of four and her mother had her at 23.
Cooper asked how her friends interact with her now that she's famous, and Roan answered, "They're mothers. They're f---ing busy and they have jobs and lives. I am just their friend."
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She added, "They are so sweet and so supportive and come out to shows, and they have to get f---ing babysitters to come to my shows."
Some fans online weren't too happy with Roan's comments on being a parent.
One fan wrote on X, "I loveee Chappell Roan dowwwnn. But her comment about it reinforces the stigma that if you complain about motherhood you must hate your life and your kids. Motherhood is hard, not miserable and we don't hate our kids."
Another felt she was insulting her hometown friends, saying, "Chappell Roan going on ‘Call Her Daddy' saying none of her friends with kids are happy is a prime example of why you cannot just vent to anyone because I guarantee she has this perspective because a few of her mom friends are going through it and may a friendship like that never ever ever ever find me. May the friendships of narcissistic childless women with no sense of loyalty ever find me lol."
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Another said, "Sounds like an opinion of someone who never had kids and thus, has no relevant opinion to give."
One person noted that Roan is still young and maybe slightly immature, writing, "Have you noticed the maturity level of the majority of the people her age? They can barely take care of themselves. They don't need to be having babies just yet."
Another seemed to stick up for the pop star writing, "Chappell Roan said all of her friends that have kids at 27 are in hell. That's HER EXPERIENCE. It wasn't some universal statement. Society is way more judgmental towards women that decide NOT to have kids than it is to mothers. God forbid a kidless 27 year old catches a vibe."
Some even found her comment helpful, like a fan on X who said, "People are real mad about Chappell Roan right now. I actually think that more people should be talking about the downsides of parenting. People should be 100% sure they WANT to have kids before bringing kids into the world. We'll have fewer abused and neglected children."
Representatives for Roan did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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The new Harlan Coben limited series for Netflix, I Will Find You, is rounding out the cast!
New additions include Severance‘s Britt Lower, Dear White People‘s Logan Browning, Gotham‘s Erin Richards, and This Is Us‘ Milo Ventimiglia.
Sam Worthington will also star.
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Morgan Wallen's quick exit from Saturday Night Live is already getting the meme treatment from one of the show's writers.
Wallen, 31, made headlines following his Saturday, March 29, appearance on the NBC sketch comedy show after abruptly walking off the stage during the ending credits. The country singer later took to Instagram and posted a photo of an airplane.
“Get me to God's country,” Wallen captioned the photo.
SNL writer Josh Patten shared an Instagram Story of his own on Sunday, March 30, which appeared to poke fun at the situation.
Patten posted a photo of a Krispy Kreme box truck in New York City alongside a caption that read, “Get me to God's country,” referencing Wallen's social media post from the night before.
However, Patten appeared to deny throwing any shade, uploading a screenshot of his 2023 Apple Music Replay which featured four Wallen songs in the top five spots on the playlist. In another Instagram Story, he added an emoji rolling its eyes alongside a comment that read, “Guessing Patten's not a Morgan Wallen fan?”
Wallen was the musical guest on Saturday's episode and performed two songs from his upcoming fourth album — “I'm the Problem” and “Just in Case” — which is set to be released on May 16. He didn't appear in any sketches alongside host Mikey Madison, but he did give the Anora star a hug before bolting off stage.
While some viewers speculated there may have been drama behind-the-scenes, no SNL cast members have spoken about working with Wallen or addressed his departure.
Wallen's bumpy relationship with SNL began during the Covid pandemic. In October 2020, Wallen was uninvited as the show's musical guest after he was spotted breaking Covid protocols by partying in an Alabama bar one week earlier.
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“I'm in New York City, in a hotel room. I was getting ready for SNL this Saturday, and I got a call from the show letting me know that I will no longer be able to play. And that's because of COVID protocols, which I understand,” Wallen shared in a statement at the time. “I'm not positive for COVID, but my actions this past weekend were pretty short-sighted and that have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams. I respect the show's decision because I know that I put them in jeopardy. I take ownership for this.”
He eventually appeared as the musical guest on a December 2020 episode alongside host Jason Bateman. Wallen was featured in a sketch poking fun at his controversy with Bateman playing Morgan Wallen From the Future and warning him not to mess up the SNL opportunity.
“Somebody's gonna post a video of you ignoring Covid protocols and the whole internet's gonna freak out,” Bateman teased. “Once people hear about the party, you're gonna be in big trouble man, you're gonna get kicked off Saturday Night Live.”
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Prince Harry stepped away from the charity he helped found, Sentebale, and now, the charity's chairwoman, Dr. Sophie Chandauka, is speaking out in a new interview.
For some backstory: the 40-year-old Duke of Sussex exited his position with the organization alongside co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and members of the Board of Trustees, after their relationship with Dr. Chandauka “broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation.”
Now, Dr. Sophie Chandauka is giving an interview with some claims of her own.
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She explained her side of what went down at the 2024 Royal Salute Polo Challenge in Florida.
“The Duchess decided to attend, but she told us she wasn't attending. And she brought a friend, a very famous friend," Dr. Chandauka told Sky News. Serena Williams, Meghan's friend, attended this event as well, though she was not mentioned by name here.
“We would have been really excited had we known ahead of time, but we didn't. And so the choreography went badly on stage because we had too many people on stage. The international press captured this, and there was a lot of talk about the Duchess and the choreography on stage and whether she should have been there and her treatment of me," she added.
The moment got attention when the stage looked overcrowded, and from footage captured, Dr. Chandauka and the Duchess appeared to have an exchange about where they should be standing.
She explained, “Prince Harry asked me to issue some sort of a statement in support of the Duchess, and I said I wouldn't. Not because I didn't care about the Duchess, but because I knew what would happen if I did so, number one. And number two, because we cannot be an extension of the Sussexes.”
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CBS' Tracker is one of Sunday night's biggest TV shows right now, which means that fans definitely notice when there's something up.
Eric Graise has starred as Bobby Exley on the series since the show's first season, but has been absent from the production for six episodes.
On the Sunday (March 30) episode, his absence was finally addressed on-screen.
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Randy (Chris Lee) was asked about Bobby's whereabouts, to which he said, “You know how he gets. He doesn't like to talk about personal stuff.”
Colter (Justin Hartley) then mentioned that Bobby was at a “friend's funeral” and Randy responded, “I know that is hitting him hard. They were like brothers.”
Colter then said he understood Bobby “was just taking some time,” and Randy added, “He will get back to it — and if he doesn't then I will make sure he does. No way out but through.”
Well, does that mean Bobby is gone for good? We're not so sure.
Tracker star Fiona Rene – who portrays Reenie – indicated in a recent interview that Bobby DOES return.
TV Insider asked her, “Are there any upcoming guest stars that you can talk about?”
She then responded, “I mean, can we just talk about Randy for a second? I love Chris Lee with everything in my body. He's been such a wonderful addition to the Bobby dynamic, and I am very excited to see them together.”
By saying, “I am very excited to see them together,” it does seem to indicate that Bobby returns in season two.
Find out which other star exited Tracker on CBS.
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Who dies on The White Lotus season 3? We finally get the answer to that question, plus, we'll find out if Laurie, Kate, and Jaclyn are still friends when they leave Thailand (if they're all still alive!), whether Belinda will take down Rick — or take his money — and learn how the Ratliff boys will handle their inner-family turmoil.
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There's a reason Helen Mirren has never popped up in a James Bond film: She has boldly declared that she's not a fan of the hugely successful spy franchise.
Mirren, 79, doesn't believe the smooth-talking MI6 agent should ever be played by a woman due to the “profound sexism” of the movies.
“I have to say I was never a great ward [of Bond],” the actress said in a new interview with the Standard. “I'm a huge fan of Pierce Brosnan, I mean, massive fan. I mean, oh, my God. Obviously, he's gorgeous and everything, and I think he's fabulous in MobLand, but he also happens to be one of the nicest people you'll ever have the pleasure to work with. And indeed Daniel Craig, who I've met and know a little bit, again — a very lovely, gracious person.”
She added: “The whole series of James Bond, it was not my thing. It really wasn't. I never liked James Bond. I never liked the way women were in James Bond. The whole concept of James Bond is drenched and born out of profound sexism. Women have always been a major and incredibly important part of the Secret Service, they always have been. And very brave. If you hear about what women did in the French Resistance, they're amazingly, unbelievably courageous. So I would tell real stories about extraordinary women who've worked in that world.”
Mirren is currently starring as a scheming mob wife in her new show MobLand, which is about an Irish crime dynasty — and Brosnan plays her husband in the series, which also stars Tom Hardy and Paddy Considine.
Meanwhile, the future direction of Bond is uncertain in the wake of Amazon's acquisition of the franchise. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and James Norton are all rumored to be in the running to play the womanizing spy next. Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal and Harry Potter producer David Heyman will oversee the next film.
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Brosnan, who starred in four of the movies from 1995 to 2002, recently told the Sunday Telegraph that it's a “given” that Bond will be British, adding “I hope that [Amazon] handles the work and the character with dignity and imagination and respect.”
Fellow Bond alum Timothy Dalton, meanwhile, has said the Amazon deal has left him “kind of sad” because “it is one of the few wonderful stories we've got in film that is British.”
It's now been four years since the most recent Bond movie, No Time to Die, was released in 2021, with Craig making his final appearance as the charismatic spy.
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Stars from two of the biggest shows on Max step out to celebrate the launch of the streamer in Australia on Monday (March 31) in Sydney.
Attending the photo call were The White Lotus season three's Patrick Schwarzenegger, Leslie Bibb, Natasha Rothwell and Morgana O'Reilly, and from the upcoming second season of The Last of Us were stars Bella Ramsey, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Gabriel Luna, Jeffrey Wright and Kaitlyn Dever.
The group of actors posed for solo photos, group photos with their co-stars, and even group photos with all at Sydney Harbour.
The day before, Max officially became available Down Under, with a special introductory price through April 30th. Viewers in Australia can sign up at Max.com!
In addition to launching in a new country, Max also unveiled a new black and white color palette, marking their third color change since launching as HBO Max in 2020. First, the app was branded with purple and white, following by a blue hue for the Max rebranding.
The White Lotus has just one more episode of the season left to air this season, and The Last of Us season two is set to launch worldwide on April 14th. Check out the trailer here!
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been off the air for almost four years now.
The fan-favorite comedy remains highly rated to this day, with an average 87% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and multiple seasons have a 100% critic score.
On the series, which spanned eight seasons across both Fox and NBC, Sergeant Jeffords and detectives Peralta, Santiago and Diaz lead a loveable and offbeat squad that must get its act together when their precinct gets a new boss: the no-nonsense, unflappable Captain Holt.
Starring in the show included Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Peretti, the late Andre Braugher, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller.
Throughout it's eight seasons, the show won 15 awards, including two Creative Arts Emmy Awards and two Critics' Choice Television Awards.
Four of the seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine are on Netflix, while you can watch all eight seasons on Peacock.
We've rounded up all of the main cast of the series, and ranked them according to their estimated net worth.
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Alicia Keys shared her praises for Gracie Abrams at She Is the Music's Women Sharing the Spotlight event held at The Peppermint Club on Thursday (March 27) in Los Angeles.
The 44-year-old singer took the stage to honor the 25-year-old singer-songwriter, and praise her all-female team.
“Thursday was such a beautiful night! A dream come true!! An evening dedicated to celebrating exceptional women for their remarkable achievement, contribution and impact in music✨Cheers to all 50 honorees, each one also brought a rising star with them💥💥💥” Alicia shared on Instagram later. “Founded in the ethos that when we make more space for each other, bring more women into the room, we create a vibrant spirit and ecosystem of mentorship, growth and opportunity — together.”
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Alicia shared on stage, “When I found out that she has, like, 40 women who are a part of her team…this is the living embodiment, the walking the walk, the breathing the breath, the doing the thing that we're talking about. Because it's one thing to talk about it, it's another thing to actually live it and breathe it and execute it and be it and believe in it…this all female led team is still an exception in this business, and this is a reminder that we belong in every room, we belong at every table, and we should be leading every conversation.”
While accepting her honor, Gracie shared a quote from Margaret Mead.
“It's an interesting time to be a woman in America and I firmly believe that the way we survive and thrive is by leading together, by sticking our necks out for each other – especially when it's difficult – and by being in community as much as possible,” Gracie said. “To improvise off Margaret Mead if you'll allow: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed WOMEN can change the world. In fact it's the only thing that ever has.'”
A couple days later, Gracie received another honor – the Songwriter of the Year award – at Billboard's 2025 Women In Music.
Back in early February, Alicia received the Global Impact Award at the Grammys, where she defended DEI amid the current administration's efforts to get rid of it.
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It took time for Hilaria Baldwin to adjust to Alec Baldwin‘s life — and their age gap had a little something to do with that.
During the Sunday, March 30, episode of The Baldwins, Hilaria, 41, recalled moving in with Alec, 66, saying, “I used to do things very much the way Alec wanted them. I lived with tremendous anxiety and tremendous stress.”
Hilaria felt the difference between her and Alec's generations. “I almost felt like I was a kid in an adult's home,” she added. I don't want to say parent because that sounds weird. But someone's home and I didn't feel like it was my home.”
The newest installment of Hilaria and Alec's show followed the couple as they tried to agree on a new rug for their home. Elsewhere, Hilaria and Alec explored dog training for their pets that have permanently marked parts of their house with their pee and poop stains.
Before pulling back the curtain on their marriage, Hilaria and Alec tied the knot in 2012. They have since welcomed seven children: Carmen Gabriela, 11, Rafael Thomas, 9, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 8, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, Eduardo “Edu” Pao Lucas, 4, María Lucía Victoria, 4, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 2. (Alec also shares daughter Ireland, 29, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.)
Hilaria previously recalled being “judgmental” about couples with large age gaps before she met Alec.
“Before I got together with Alec, I would judge women and men that had big age differences,” she said during a November 2022 episode of her “Witches Anonymous” podcast. “I would look at it like, ‘This older man wants some, like, young bimbo with no opinions whatsoever.' And then that younger woman is obviously a gold digger, and she obviously doesn't even care and is just like, ‘OK, whatever, I hope you die and I'm gonna take all your money.'”
She continued: “Now that I'm in that relationship, and people will say those things about me regularly, I realize, I'm like, ‘Oh, my God, what was this trained into my head?' And why was I so judgmental about other people who are literally just finding love? Maybe their love looks different from you and from your love or from what I thought love would be, but it doesn't make it not valid.”
More recently, Hilaria elaborated on her first impression of Alec.
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“Obviously, our age difference is there. I am always insecure. Even when I had dinner with him, I felt like it was a big deal that someone was bringing me out,” she recalled on The Baldwins earlier this month. “I was in the land of splitting the check, and it was a big deal that he paid. I didn't take that lightly. Then he texted me asking, ‘What do you think about dating someone 26 years older than you?' What I appreciated about him was that he was very into consent. He asked to kiss me for the first time.”
According to Alec, Hilaria previously dated men “who were age appropriate” for her. “She was very young so they were very young,” he told the cameras. “I would meet them and be like, ‘I get it. They are very handsome and very super fit.'”
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Carrie Underwood may have found the next Taylor Swift on American Idol season 23.
When 18-year-old Zaylie Windsor auditioned during the Sunday, March 30, episode of the singing competition, she performed an original song titled “The Used” that she wrote several years prior. She belted out the heartfelt lyrics while strumming an acoustic guitar, leaving the judges captivated.
“You wrote that at the ripe old age of 14?” Lionel Richie marveled before asking Underwood, 42, to share her thoughts.
“You showed us a lot in your voice,” the country singer began. “You can go from being small and focused to, like, soaring. I'm impressed at the song, as well. I feel like you've got a lot of artistry in there.”
Windsor — whose blonde bangs are reminiscent of Swift's Red era — explained that her song was inspired by a breakup. “Not only the breakup part, but the process after and trying to figure out who you are without that person,” she said.
While Underwood and Richie, 75, were struck by Windsor's writing, fellow judge Luke Bryan needed more convincing. “Gosh, I don't think she's quite ready,” he said, admitting that the lyrics felt “like a 14-year-old level of song to me.”
Bryan, 48, said no and joked that he wanted to see if Underwood would “fight” for Windsor to advance to the next round.
“My thing is, there's a Taylor Swift-esque quality that she has,” Underwood told Bryan, who didn't disagree. “She doesn't have this giant vibrato, belty voice, but there's something in there. If she did that at 14, she must have a lot of other things in her arsenal that she could bring to the table. … I feel like there's something about her.”
Underwood voted yes, and Richie did the same, revealing that he was won over by Underwood's passion. Windsor ultimately earned a ticket to Hollywood.
“Carrie is incredible, so it's an honor to have her fight for me like that,” the teen told the cameras.
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Windsor wasn't the only contestant who drew a comparison to an already famous face during Sunday's episode. Colorado native Gabe James, who wore a black tank top and dark jeans, reminded Underwood of Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing — but the reference didn't land.
“I need to look up what he looks like,” James, 23, told the cameras after earning his golden ticket, joking, “That's not going to do great on video.”
American Idol season 23 continues on ABC Monday, March 31, at 8 p.m. ET.
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As if Patrick Schwarzenegger‘s onscreen sexual encounter on The White Lotus with his brother wasn't creepy enough, now he is getting propositioned by Jennifer Coolidge‘s murderous husband.
During the Sunday, March 30, episode of the hit HBO series, Saxon (Schwarzenegger) gets invited to a party being thrown by Chloe's (Charlotte Le Bon) boyfriend Gary (Jon Gries). Saxon is worried Gary wants to confront him about sleeping with Chloe but instead, Tanya's (Coolidge) ex has another idea in mind.
“Don't go. Gary wants you to stay,” Chloe told Saxon. “We had a long talk and it was very good. He finally opened up about his ex-wife. Apparently, they never had sex and because she was so insecure, he couldn't tell her what he was really into sexually. He doesn't want that happening to us because he loves me.”
Chloe realized she could fix her romance with Gary — but only with Saxon's help.
“He was telling me that when he was a kid, his parents used to have loud sex all the time. They would leave their door open and he would then stand outside their door and watch his dad go to town on his mom,” she explained. “It would make Gary feel this mixture of disgust and jealousy but at the same time excitement.”
While Saxon listened in shock, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) was amused. Chloe continued to pave the way for her request, adding, “When he got older and started dating he would have these paranoid delusions that his girlfriend would be cheating on him with his best friend. And he would obsess even though there was no basis for it in reality. He would have these jealous rages and he lost a lot of friends over it.”
She continued: “One day he realized he was kind of hoping they were having sex behind his back so he could find them doing it — just like he found his parents doing it in the middle of the night. So it is kind of like his worst nightmare was his erotic fantasy.”
Saxon made it clear that Gary's sexual fantasies were “demented” before Chloe turned the tables on him.
“I am glad he told me. So what do you think about helping Gary [by] staying?” she asked. “Oh relax, he wouldn't even touch you. He just wants to creep up on us. And at some point I will leave you and go to Gary. It would be like he is winning his mother back from his father.”
As most of Us were taking in the ridiculous request, Chelsea gushed about how it was “a little boy's dream.” Saxon wasn't interested, which was obvious when he called Chelsea and Chloe “insane.”
“I really want this relationship to work,” Chloe said, to which Saxon replied, “How? By boning you in front of him? No. I am not that kind of guy.”
Saxon ultimately left but Gary's disappointing night was just beginning. Amid the party, he approached Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) to offer her money in exchange for her silence about his connection to Tanya. Belinda didn't immediately agree, which doesn't bode well for her. Then there are the Ratliffs who are slowly unraveling.
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Meanwhile over in Bangkok, Rick (Walton Goggins) and Frank (Sam Rockwell) confronted Sritala's (Lek Patravadi) husband. Rick scared the man — but didn't kill him — and he and Frank ultimately celebrated with a night of debauchery.
There was also a celebration for Laurie (Carrie Coon) after she finally hooked up with Valentin (Arnas Fedaravicius) following a fight with Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan). The twist? Turns out Valentin was involved in the robberies at The White Lotus resort.
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Investors have pulled back and sought traditional safe havens like gold as worries build over a potentially toxic mix of worsening inflation and a slowing U.S. economy because households are afraid to spend due to the deepening trade war that has escalated under U.S. President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
The details of his plan are still sketchy, but already the markets are reeling. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was up 0.3% in another roller-coaster day, after being down as much as 1.7% during the morning. It's coming off one of its worst losses of the past couple of years on Friday, and it's on track to finish the first three months of the year with a loss of nearly 5%. That would make this its worst quarter in two-and-a-half years.
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Trucks providing a security barrier are in place around the Department of Justice before President Donald Trump speaks Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The move is a sign of Trump's tightening grip over a law enforcement agency known for its long tradition of political independence.
On Friday, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles was fired without explanation in a terse email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office shortly after a right-wing activist posted about him on social media, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were concerned about potential retribution.
That followed the White House's firing last week of a longtime prosecutor who had been serving as acting U.S. attorney in Memphis.
Justice Department political appointees typically turn over with a new administration, but rank-and-file career prosecutors remain with the department across presidential administrations and have civil service protections designed to shield them from being fired for political reasons. The breadth of terminations this year far outpaces the turnover typically seen inside the Justice Department.
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The executive order he is set to sign Monday would direct federal authorities to prioritize cracking down on ticket scalpers and others who profit from reselling entertainment tickets to consumers at a markup.
The White House says Trump will call on the Federal Trade Commission to enforce an Obama-era law that outlawed the use of bots to purchase a large number of tickets for the purpose of resale. He's also calling for price transparency in the ticketing industry, so consumers will know the true value of what they're purchasing on the secondary market.
It's one area where Trump and his predecessor, President Joe Biden, have agreed, as the Democrat sought to crack down on so-called “junk fees” across industries during his term in office.
President Joe Biden looks on as he speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, June 15, 2023, to highlight his administration's push to end so-called junk fees that surprise customers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
“You guys keep asking the question,” Majority Leader John Thune said. And Trump is just “having some fun with it,” he said, “probably messing with you.”
The IMLS provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year in grants to libraries, museums and other cultural and educational institutions. According to a statement from the union representing the 77 IMLS employees, “all work processing 2025 applications has ended” and the status of previous grants is unclear.
The institute was among several agencies targeted earlier this month in Trump's executive order that called for cutting federal organizations the president has “determined are unnecessary.”
The building which houses the offices of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is seen, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
On March 20, Trump replaced the institute's acting director, Cyndee Landrum, with Keith Sonderling, who had recently been confirmed as deputy secretary of the Department of Labor. Sonderling said in a statement at the time that he was committed to “steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration.”
The move to place IMLS employees on administrative leave was first reported by the independent journalist Marisa Kabas.
Top agenda items for the meeting this week in Brussels include the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. efforts to end the conflict, European security and threats from China.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will leave Wednesday to attend the NATO meeting and hold separate bilateral talks with allied counterparts on Thursday and Friday, the State Department said Monday. Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the conversation would also include security priorities for the alliance and preparations for the upcoming NATO leaders summit to be held in the Netherlands this summer.
Trump has alarmed European allies by suggesting that NATO is obsolete and threatening not to defend them unless they meet minimum defense spending criteria.
Trucks line up to cross the border into the United States as tariffs against Mexico go into effect, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
President Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal'' tariffs he's expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America's allies and adversaries alike.
Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of countries. Trump wants to seize the process.
“Obviously, it disrupts the way that things have been done for a very long time,'' said Richard Mojica, a trade attorney at Miller & Chevalier. “Trump is throwing that out the window ... Clearly this is ripping up trade. There are going to have to be adjustments all over the place.''
Pointing to America's massive and persistent trade deficits — not since 1975 has the U.S. sold the rest of the world more than it's bought — Trump charges that the playing field is tilted against U.S. companies. A big reason for that, he and his advisers say, is because other countries usually tax American exports at a higher rate than America taxes theirs.
Trump has a fix: He's raising U.S. tariffs to match what other countries charge.
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Over the weekend, Trump said that he was “not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
AP's Nicholas Riccardi did a deep dive to answer some of the major questions surrounding Trump's theoretical third term. Here's some of what he found.
Even assuming Trump would attempt another run, a combination of election officials and courts would virtually ensure that he stayed off the ballot. State officials have long kept would-be candidates off presidential ballots if they didn't meet the basic constitutional criteria, such as being a natural-born U.S. citizen or being at least 35 years old. They would do the same with someone clearly violating the limit on presidential terms.
A version of this unfolded in 2023, when a few states tried to keep Trump off the ballot because they found he violated the 14th Amendment's ban on officials who engaged in insurrection. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed those decisions because no one had ever used the insurrection clause on a presidential candidate before and there were a lot of legal questions about its implementation.
No suspect has been named in the Sunday morning blaze in Albuquerque that's under investigation by local authorities, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Incendiary materials were found on the scene, according to an ATF spokesperson. Spray paint on the side of the building read “ICE=KKK,” said Lt. Jason Fejer with Albuquerque Fire Rescue. Fejer said federal officials were taking over the arson investigation.
Republican leaders described the fire as a deliberate attack. The building had extensive smoke damage, which Republican party spokesperson Ash Soular said left the offices uninhabitable.
The weekend fire followed vandalism across the U.S. in recent weeks targeting dealerships for Tesla, the electric car company owned by Elon Musk, who's leading Trump's efforts to slash the federal workforce.
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Thomas Caldwell of Berryville, Va., a defendant charged with seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, leaves federal court following a verdict in the Stewart Rhodes trial in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Thomas Caldwell, a retired Navy intelligence officer, was tried alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes but acquitted of seditious conspiracy — the most serious charge brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Caldwell's pardon is dated March 20. Defense attorney David Fischer said he informed Caldwell of the pardon Monday after learning about it from news reports.
“And he's elated,” Fischer added.
A jury convicted Caldwell of obstructing Congress on Jan. 6 and of obstructing justice for tampering with documents after the riot. One of those convictions was dismissed in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
On Jan. 10, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Caldwell to time served with no supervised release. Prosecutors had recommended four years in prison for Caldwell.
Ten days later, on his first day back in the White House, Trump issued a sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged in the Capitol riot. Trump commuted the sentences of several defendants who were leaders and members of the Oath Keepers or Proud Boys extremist groups.
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Jason Galanis, who was serving a lengthy prison sentence for various fraud schemes, is the second Hunter Biden associate to get clemency from Trump. Last week, he pardoned Devon Archer, a onetime business partner of the son of former President Joe Biden.
Galanis testified via video last year in the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. Galanis told lawmakers he expected to make “billions” with Hunter Biden and other associates, using the Biden family name in their foreign business dealings.
Galanis described a particular time in May 2014 when Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone for a brief chat with potential foreign business partners — a Russian oligarch and her husband — during a party at a New York restaurant.
But Hunter Biden directly rebuffed involvement with Galanis in his own deposition, testifying he met Galanis for about 30 minutes 10 years ago.
In earlier testimony, Galanis acknowledged he unsuccessfully sought a pardon in the final days of Trump's first term.
Those six sanctioned by the State Department on Monday include Hong Kong's secretary of justice and its police commissioner.
The sanctions are over their role in the extraterritorial enforcement of a security law that's targeted nearly 20 pro-democracy activists, including one U.S. citizen and four other U.S. residents. The U.S. government said the six sanctioned officials “have engaged in actions or policies that threaten to further erode the autonomy of Hong Kong in contravention of China's commitments, and in connection with acts of transnational repression.”
Also sanctioned were two assistant police commissioners, the Beijing official heading the Hong Kong office on safeguarding national security, and a top Hong Kong official serving on the committee of safeguarding national security. The sanctioned officials will see their property and interests in the U.S. blocked from transactions.
The Hong Kong police in 2023 issued arrest warrants for five overseas-based activists and offered rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) for information leading to each of their arrests.
Newark mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka speaks during a protest in front of of Delaney Hall, the proposed site of an immigrant detention center, in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The mayor of New Jersey's largest city filed the complaint in state court Monday saying the Trump administration and the private company GEO Group moved ahead with opening a new 1,000-bed immigration detention center without getting the proper permits.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement that the administration and the company failed to get construction and other permits in violation of city ordinances and state law. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced last month the opening of a detention center in Newark, saying it would be the first to open under the president's second administration.
Baraka is one of six Democrats running for governor in New Jersey this year. Messages seeking comment were left with ICE and GEO Group.
President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House en route to Florida, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started talking about serving a third one.
“There are methods which you can do it,” Trump insisted to NBC News in a telephone interview Sunday.
That follows months of Trump making quips about a third term, despite the clear constitutional prohibition on it. “Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during a House Republican retreat in Florida in January. Just a week after he won election last fall, Trump suggested in a meeting with House Republicans that he might want to stick around after his second term was over.
Trump's musings often spark alarm among his critics even when they're legally impossible, given that he unsuccessfully tried to overturn his 2020 election loss and has since pardoned supporters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
But Trump, who will be 82 when his term ends, has also repeatedly said this will be his last term. Trying for another also would flatly violate the Constitution.
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White House national security adviser Mike Waltz speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said National Security Adviser Mike Waltz continues to have Trump's confidence and that it was done discussing the embarrassing matter of senior officials communicating about plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen on a commercial messaging app.
“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” Leavitt said.
Waltz added a journalist to the sensitive group chat on the platform Signal, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth divulged operational details on the strike and Vice President JD Vance discussed his reservations about the operation.
Leavitt said “there have been steps made to ensure that something like that can, obviously, not happen again,” but did not provide any clarity on what those steps were. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called for an investigation into the sensitive conversation playing out on Signal.
He'll be joined in the Rose Garden by his Cabinet, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Monday.
Leavitt said Trump believes “it's time for reciprocity” but said the details of the announcement — which have roiled the financial markets — are up to Trump to announce. She said Trump had been presented with several proposals by his advisers but the president would make a final decision and, right now, Trump wasn't contemplating any country-wide exemptions from the tariffs.
Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, in Tocorón, Venezuela, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
The State Department said in a statement Monday that they were removed Sunday night and that the group included murderers and rapists.
The statement didn't give nationalities, but the office of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Salvadorans and Venezuelans were among the prisoners.
The men were transported to El Salvador's maximum security prison, where they changed into the standard white T-shirts and shorts and had their heads shaved. Hundreds of migrants facing deportation were sent there earlier this month.
The Trump administration is pulling back a final round of federal pandemic aid from schools across the country, saying the money wasn't being spent on academic recovery.
States were notified Friday that the Education Department will not disburse the remainder of the federal aid passed by Congress, although the vast majority has already been sent to schools.
The department didn't say how much money is left of the total $189 billion approved by Congress, though officials said it's in the billions. As of Feb. 19, the department said there was $4.4 billion left, or about 2%.
A senior department official said the money was being misused on costs including astroturf fields and “sets of bouncy glow balls.” The agency said it will consider requests for individual projects related to pandemic recovery.
Schools were supposed to spend the last of the relief by January, but the Biden administration allowed schools to request extensions.
The Council of Chief State School Officers urged the department to rethink the decision, saying schools have already spent the money for pandemic recovery efforts and were promised reimbursement.
The U.S. Institute of Peace is a congressionally created and funded think tank targeted by President Trump for closure.
Two board members of the institute have authorized replacing its temporary president with Nate Cavanaugh, the filing says. They ordered him, it says, to transfer the institute's property to the General Services Administration, the federal government's real estate manager, which is terminating hundreds of leases at the behest of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
The court filing asks U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington to stop the action or schedule a status conference to address the issues as soon as “practicable.”
The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The action follows a Friday night mass firing of nearly all of the institute's 300 employees.
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President Trump's preferred candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court and his Democratic-backed challenger made a final blitz across the state Monday, the day before voting concludes in a race where early turnout has surged and spending is nearing $100 million.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a top Trump adviser, held a rally in Green Bay on Sunday night to push for the election of Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County judge and former Republican attorney general. He faces Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge and former attorney who fought for abortion rights and to protect union power.
Liberals currently hold a 4-3 advantage on the court, but the retirement of a liberal justice this year put the ideological balance in play. The court in battleground Wisconsin is expected to rule on abortion rights, congressional redistricting, union power and voting regulations in the coming years.
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This image released by Peacock shows Amber Ruffin from the comedy series “The Amber Ruffin Show,” available on the Peacock streaming service. (Virginia Sherwood/Peacock via AP)
The White House Correspondents Association says it canceled her from performing at its annual dinner because it wants to refocus the event on journalistic excellence.
The association's announcement over the weekend made no mention of Ruffin's appearance on a podcast by the Daily Beast last week in which she referred to the Trump administration as “kind of a bunch of murderers.”
Ruffin, a writer for NBC's Seth Meyers and formerly a host of a Peacock talk show, also said she wouldn't try to make sure her jokes would target politicians of different stripes, as she was told by the correspondents' association.
Her comments drew angry responses from the Trump administration. The president isn't expected to attend the April event, which in past years has featured comics such as Stephen Colbert and Colin Jost. The last time a comedian did not perform at the dinner was in 2019, when historian Ron Chernow spoke.
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Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food. This wasn't a Las Vegas-style resort, but it felt like it for some of the thousands who until recently lived in luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela.
Here, between parties, concerts and weeks-long visits from wives and children, is the birthplace of the Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that has gained global notoriety after Trump put it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative.
But kidnappings, extorsion and other crimes were planned, ordered or committed from this prison long before Trump's rhetoric.
The tiny, impoverished town where the Aragua Penitentiary Center is used to bustle with residents selling food, renting phone chargers and storing bags for prison visitors. Now, the prison is back under government control, and streets in the town, also called Tocorón, are mostly deserted.
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss the lawsuit. Georgia Republican lawmakers passed the sweeping election overhaul in the wake of Trump's 2020 election loss in the state.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2021 under former President Joe Biden, alleged the Georgia law was intended to deny Black voters equal access to the ballot. Bondi said the Biden administration was pushing “false claims of suppression.”
“Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said.
The law was part of a trend of Republican-backed measures that tightened rules around voting, passed in the months after Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden, claiming without evidence that voter fraud cost him victory.
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The letter — released Monday — was penned by a group from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which was created in 1863 to provide expert guidance to the government.
Up to 19 Nobel laureates signed Monday's letter, which described how the administration is slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories and hampering international scientific collaboration. Those moves will increasingly put the United States at a disadvantage against other countries, the letter predicted.
The signees said they're speaking up for colleagues who “have kept silent to avoid antagonizing the administration and jeopardizing their funding.”
Gene Sorensen holds up a transgender flag in front of the Nebraska state Capitol during a Transgender Day of Visibility rally, March 31, 2023, in Lincoln, Neb. (Larry Robinson/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, file)
On the campaign trail, Trump used contentiousness around transgender people's access to sports and bathrooms to fire up conservative voters and sway undecideds. And in his first months back in office, Trump has pushed the issue further, erasing mention of transgender people on government websites and passports and trying to remove them from the military.
For transgender people and their allies — along with several judges who've ruled against Trump in response to legal challenges — it's a matter of civil rights for a small group. But many Americans believe those rights had grown too expansive.
Trump's spotlight is giving Monday's Transgender Day of Visibility a different tenor this year.
“What he wants is to scare us into being invisible again,” said Rachel Crandall Crocker, the executive director of Transgender Michigan who organized the first Day of Visibility 16 years ago. “We have to show him we won't go back.”
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The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in New York. Stocks are off to a weak start on Friday, continuing a dismal streak that pushed Wall Street into a bear market last month as traders worry that inflation will be tough to beat and that a recession could be on the way as well. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was down 1.3% following one of its worst losses of the past couple of years Friday. It's on track to finish the first three months of the year with a loss of 6.4%, which would make this its worst quarter in nearly three years.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 295 points, or 0.7%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.3% lower.
The U.S. stock market's drops followed a sell-off that spanned the world earlier Monday as worries build that tariffs coming Wednesday from Trump will worsen inflation and grind down growth for economies. Trump has said he's plowing ahead in part because he wants more manufacturing jobs back in the United States.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index dropped 4%. South Korea's Kospi sank 3%, and France's CAC 40 fell 1.5%.
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Calls from the U.S. to Roustan Hockey headquarters in Canada in recent weeks have been anything but routine, as bulk orders of name-brand sticks have suddenly become complicated conversations.
“These customers want to know: When their orders ship, will they have to pay an additional 25% tariff? And we respond by saying, ‘Well, right now we don't know, so they postpone their order or cancel their order because they want to know before they order what the cost is going to be,” said Graeme Roustan, who owns the company that makes and sells more than 100,000 hockey sticks annually to the U.S. market.
The prospect of 25% tariffs by Trump on Canadian imports, currently paused for some goods but facing full implementation Wednesday, has caused headaches if not havoc throughout the commercial ecosystem. The sports equipment industry is certainly no exception, with so many of the products manufactured for sports-loving Americans outside the U.S.
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Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from Trump.
The March 5 notice raised alarms from immigration and free speech advocates because it appears to expand the government's reach in social media surveillance to people already vetted and in the U.S. legally, such as asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants – and not just those applying to enter the country. That said, social media monitoring by immigration officials has been a practice for over a decade, since at least the second Obama administration and ramping up under Trump's first term.
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Elon Musk presents a check for $1 million dollars during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump's agenda and “the future of civilization.”
Musk and groups he supports have spent more than $20 million to help conservative favorite Brad Schimel in Tuesday's race, which will determine the ideological makeup of a court likely to decide key issues in a perennial battleground state.
A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
Two lower courts had already rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk's offer violates a state law.
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The group of Democrats, most of whom serve as their state's top election official, is telling Congress the legislative proposal to add a proof of citizenship requirement when registering to vote could disenfranchise voters and upend election administration.
On Monday, the House Rules Committee is expected to consider the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. The letter signed by 15 secretaries of state was sent Friday.
Voting by noncitizens is rare, but Republicans say any instances undermine public confidence. Last week, President Trump directed, among other things, an update to the federal voter registration form to require proof of citizenship. Legal challenges are expected.
In the letter, Democrats say it's the “job of election officials to verify the eligibility of citizens to cast a ballot, not the job of citizens to convince the government that they are eligible to exercise their right to vote.”
An aerial view shows auto dealerships in Cerritos, Calif., Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
The details of Trump's next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses say average U.S. families would have to absorb the cost of his tariffs in the form of higher prices and lower incomes. But an undeterred Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in new projects to avoid the import taxes.
It is also possible that the tariffs are short-lived if Trump feels he can cut a deal after imposing them.
“I'm certainly open to it, if we can do something,” Trump told reporters. “We'll get something for it.”
At stake are family budgets, America's prominence as the world's leading financial power and the structure of the global economy.
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Trump will sign executive orders twice today, first at 1 p.m. ET and again at 5:30 p.m. ET, according to the White House.
Immigration remains a strength for Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
About half of U.S. adults approve of Trump's approach to immigration, the survey shows, but only about 4 in 10 have a positive view of the way he's handling the economy and trade negotiations.
The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trump's efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration. But it also suggests that his threats to impose tariffs might be erasing his advantage on another issue that he made central to his winning 2024 campaign.
Views of Trump's job performance overall are more negative than positive, the survey found. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and more than half disapprove.
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President Donald Trump, center, is greeted by Air Force Col. Angela F. Ochoa, Commander, 89th Airlift Wing, left, as he walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
Trump said Sunday that “I'm not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago, his private club.
He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged.” Trump lost that election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Still, Trump added: “I don't want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, we've got a long time to go.”
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