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

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Winter Olympics men's ice hockey final: Canada v USA – live
- Canada 0-1 USA, 2:57 left, 1st period: It'll be a USA power play. That's a weaaaaak call. Canada 0-1 USA, 4:00 left, 1st period: Acute-angled shot, and Binnington has to smother it. For the most part, the USA have opted for quality over quantity on their shots, but that's a good change of pace to make the Canadian goalie think. Canada 0-1 USA, 4:49 left, 1st period: Canada lay the puck back to Sanheim, and he rips ...

Source: theguardian.com
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Danish military evacuates US submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland
- COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark's military said its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment. The Danish Joint Arctic Command, on its Facebook page, said the crew member was evacuated on Saturday some 7 nautical miles (8 miles; 13 kilometers) off Nuuk — the capital of the vast, ice-covered territory — and ...

Source: apnews.com
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TSA PreCheck Suspended Amid New Government Shutdown
- By A few months after the longest full federal government shutdown in history, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now in the midst of a partial shutdown as lawmakers have yet to agree on a plan to fund the agency. Now, some travelers will be feeling the pain at the airport. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which runs the security checkpoints at the airport, is an arm of DHS. Now, as a ...

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

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

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

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

Source: apnews.com
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NASA rules out March launch for manned moon mission over technical issues
- NASA chief Jared Isaacman says Artemis 2 – the first crewed flyby mission to the moon in more than 50 years – will not launch next month because of technical problems. Workers detected an issue with helium flow to the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will "take the March launch window out of consideration", Issacman said in a post on social media Saturday. Solid helium flow is essential for ...

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

Source: commondreams.org
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DOJ fires lawyer chosen to take over from Trump pick Halligan as Virginia prosecutor
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Halligan resigned from the position last month after judges in the district continued to express skepticism regarding the legitimacy of her appointment A federal prosecutor , recently selected by judges for a key Virginia office that pursued cases against figures critical of ...

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

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

Source: nbcnews.com
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Opposition activists among 1,557 prisoners set for release under Venezuela's amnesty
- CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least 1,557 people held in Venezuela for political reasons have submitted their applications under an amnesty bill that was signed into law this week and are expected to be released from prison, authorities said Saturday. Thursday's measure is expected to benefit opposition members, activists, human rights defenders, journalists and many others detained for months or even years. ...

Source: apnews.com
Bill Mazeroski, known for walk-off home run in 1960 World Series, dies
- Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89. Pirates owner Bob Nutting said "Maz was one of a kind, a true Pirates legend. ... His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
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Bible's Ten Commandments are to be displayed in some Louisiana classrooms, appeals court rules
- A Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom can stand, the 17 active judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled — vacating an earlier preliminary injunction. The court wrote that it's too early for the judges to decide whether it would violate the Constitution to have the Ten Commandments posted in every classroom. "An unripe challenge does not ...

Source: nbcnews.com
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Ukraine strikes Russia: 11 injured as Kyiv targets Moscow's industrial site and gas processing plant - The
- The Ukrainian General Staff said on Saturday that Kyiv carried out a drone and missile strike deep inside Russian territory overnight, hitting an industrial site in the Udmurt Republic and a gas processing plant in Samara. According to Ukrainian authorities, the Votkinsk site in Udmurtia, located about 1,400 km from Ukraine, produces intercontinental and short-range ballistic missiles, including Iskander missiles ...

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

Source: theguardian.com