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Top News Stories for Monday, March 27th 2023
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
The U.S. and NATO on Sunday criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's "dangerous and irresponsible" announcement Saturday that he will transfer tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring ally Belarus, even as they downplayed its risk to the security of Europe. White House national security spokesman John Kirby told CBS's Face the Nation that there's no indication Putin has actually "moved any nuclear weapons ...
Source: theweek.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
The sale of failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) to a regional U.S. peer helped stabilise shares in European lenders on Monday, after the sector was hammered last week by worries about systemic bank stress and a looming credit crunch. The sudden collapse of tech-focused SVB earlier this month triggered the worst banking shock since the 2008 global financial crisis and drew some of Europe's biggest lenders into ...
Source: reuters.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
The Creed III actor's ads were a key element in the army's drive to revive struggling recruitment numbers Ads for the US army featuring Jonathan Majors have been pulled after the actor's arrest. Majors, who authorities said was arrested on Saturday in New York on charges of assault and harassment, was the narrator of two ads at the heart of a broader media campaign that kicked off at the start of the NCAA's March ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
Tornadoes are one of the greatest weather risks facing Mississippi, according to the state's emergency management agency. Friday's tornado caused at least 24 deaths in Mississippi , according to state officials. It touched down near the town of Rolling Fork and continued to Silver City, staying on the ground for more than an hour. The Southern state is hit by an average of 33 tornadoes per year, resulting in an ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
The crowd went quiet when Trump mocked Gov. Ron DeSantis during his rally speech in Waco, Texas. Trump claimed DeSantis begged him for an endorsement in 2018 with "tears in his eyes." The crowd was only responsive when Trump mocked other people, like Stormy Daniels. Former President Donald Trump's jabs at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a , on Saturday were met with a muted response from his usually adoring ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
I. Intro A water wall is a stunning and innovative way to add not just beauty, but also a sense of freshness and relaxation to any indoor or outdoor space. They are becoming increasingly popular in both homes and businesses, offering an opportunity to create attractive and calming focal points. Before installing one, it's important to understand how they work, the types of materials available, and the environmental ...
Source: techbullion.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
Thousands took to the streets on Sunday after Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defence minister for opposing the controversial changes Israel's president has urged the government to halt its bitterly contested judicial overhaul, a day after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defence minister for opposing the move, sparking mass street protests. "For the sake of the unity of the people of Israel , for the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
Elon Musk-owned platform demands that GitHub identifies who posted parts of its code Twitter has revealed some of its source code has been released online and the social media platform owned by Elon Musk is taking legal action to identify the leaker. According to a court filing made on Friday, Twitter is demanding that GitHub, a code-sharing service, identifies who released on the platform parts of its source code ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
BEIJING — Honduras established diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states. Foreign ministers from China and Honduras signed a joint communique in Beijing — a decision the Chinese Foreign Ministry hailed as "the right choice." The diplomatic victory for China comes as tensions rise between ...
Source: npr.org
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
Meet your 2023 NCAA men's basketball tournament Final Four: No. 4 Connecticut rolled through the West Regional, capping this torrid run with an 82-54 destruction of No. 3 Gonzaga . The Huskies are back in the Final Four for the first time since winning the 2014 national championship. No. 5 Miami overcame a double-digit deficit in the second half to beat No. 2 Texas 88-81 and reach the Final Four for the first time ...
Source: usatoday.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
A woman on the plane who saw the incident said flight attendants tried to stop the passenger but he "deployed the slide and jumped out" as it was about to leave Los Angeles International Airport. An "unruly" passenger has been detained after allegedly opening an exit door on a plane, triggering the emergency slide before jumping out. The flight leaving from International Airport and heading to Seattle was still on ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
TAOYUAN, Taiwan Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou departed for a tour of China on Monday, in what he called an attempt to reduce tensions a day after Taiwan lost one of its few remaining diplomatic partners to China. The ex-president is visiting in a private capacity, bringing a delegation of academics and college students for exchanges, as well as members of his family, but the trip is loaded with political ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
SEATTLE — Show over, dream fulfilled, legend enhanced, Caitlin Clark turned mischievous. The greatest artist in college basketball clapped awkwardly from the sideline as the final 10 seconds ticked off the clock, and as soon as Iowa's first women's Final Four appearance in 30 years became official, she lifted her hands and sprinted toward teammate Molly Davis. This was a celebration and a mission. She pointed ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
Startups say Microsoft and its Bing chatbot—not just Google—are stifling competition when it comes to creating better search engines. Google typically gets the blame for the lack of competition in web search . The US government is even suing to block the company from using allegedly monopolistic tactics, like making itself the default search engine in widely used software such as ...
Source: wired.com
Monday, Mar 27th, 2023 -
March 27 (UPI) -- North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea between Korea and Japan on Monday, Seoul defense officials said, hours before the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier conducted exercises with the South Korean navy. The South Korean military detected two missiles fired from the Chunghwa County area in North Hwanghae Province, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text ...
Source: upi.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
TikTokers rallied around the app after a tense congressional hearing that lawmakers said validated their concerns about TikTok and national security. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony before Congress Thursday drew heavy criticism from lawmakers and pundits, who called the app's leader evasive and left the platform's future in America uncertain. But on TikTok, the criticism was directed toward ...
Source: usatoday.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
The 81-year-old Kentucky Republican said in a statement released by his office that he will work from home for the next few days Chuck Schumer offers prayers to Mitch McConnell after hospitalisation Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday he has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this month. The 81-year-old Kentucky ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Phillip Washington, President Biden's nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) , has withdrawn his nomination following lackluster support in the Senate. Washington decided to pull his name from contention over the weekend, Reuters first reported on Saturday. Currently the CEO of Denver International Airport, Washington was nominated by Biden to be the new FAA administrator after ...
Source: theweek.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
The Pine Mountain Animal Safari lost two of its big cats after it sustained weather damage, but found them a few hours later Two tigers briefly went missing from a Georgia zoo after a tornado struck the state on Saturday night and damaged the facility's infrastructure. In a Facebook post on Sunday morning, the Troup county's sheriff's office announced that it received a report from the Pine Mountain Animal Safari ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
March 26 (UPI) -- At least 29 migrants trying to reach Italy died after two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia amid a deadly migration surge in the past week. Romdhane Ben Amor, an official with the Forum for Social and Economic Rights human rights group, said in a statement that 19 people had drowned after a boat sank off the coast of Mahdia on Saturday evening. "Difficult to count the number of victims and ...
Source: upi.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Mar 26, 03:24 PM When an Iranian drone struck a U.S. base in northeastern Syria , killing a contractor and wounding several U.S. troops, it was just the latest in a growing number of attacks on American forces in Syria. But its lethality was rare. In most recent cases, no U.S. forces have been hurt in such attacks. The strike on Thursday — by a small, suicide drone — set off ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Idaho may soon use firing squads to execute death-row inmates if no lethal injection drugs are available, under a new law signed last week. On Friday, Republican Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 186 , which permits state prison officials to carry out executions using a method that hasn't been employed in the U.S. in more than a decade. "For the people on death row, a jury convicted them of their crimes, and they ...
Source: npr.org
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Attorney Joe Tacopina said he's 'not a Trump PR person,' but called Trump's now-deleted Truth Social post showing a composite photo of the former president holding a baseball bat next to Alvin Bragg 'ill-advised' Trump's lawyer suggested his client has taken his social media posts against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg too far. While former President Donald Trump is no stranger to making ...
Source: marketwatch.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
LOS ANGELES -- LeBron James says two doctors recommended season-ending surgery on a torn tendon in his right foot, but he has decided to finish out the season on the court with the Los Angeles Lakers. James returned to the Lakers on Sunday after a monthlong absence with what he revealed was a significant tendon injury. He wasn't in the starting lineup for only the second time in his 20-year NBA career, but he still ...
Source: abcnews.go.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Rep. Ro Khanna confirmed on Sunday he will not join the crowded field of California Democrats vying for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat, instead opting to back a fellow progressive in the race. The congressman representing Silicon Valley announced his decision to stay in the House on CNN's "State of the Union," after much anticipation about whether Khanna, 46, would become the latest Democrat to run for the seat ...
Source: huffpost.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Adele was due to finish her Las Vegas residency on Saturday night - but used the final show to announce surprise new dates. Adele is extending her Las Vegas residency, telling fans that playing 34 shows to 4,000 people a night was "not enough". The singer announced the new shows on what was supposed to be the last night of her Weekends With Adele residency in the Colosseum Theatre at Caesars Palace. The ...
Source: news.sky.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Elon Musk has reportedly told Twitter employees the company which he paid $44 billion to acquire just six months ago is now worth only $20 billion. According to The New York Times , Musk sent an email to Twitter employees Friday night in which he said the company is now worth $20 billion. He argued "radical changes" were necessary to avoid bankruptcy. "Twitter is being reshaped rapidly," Musk wrote. Musk made the ...
Source: mediaite.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Smelling 'chemo-signals' from sweat, combined with mindfulness therapy, eased anxiety in women Smelling other people's sweat might not seem like a desirable activity, yet a new study from Sweden suggests that exposure to body odor could be an alternative therapy for social anxiety . The study's findings were presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry, held from Aug. 25-Aug. 28 in Paris. Elisa Vigna, the lead ...
Source: foxnews.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
Siding with book publishers, a federal judge ruled late Friday that the digital library created by the nonprofit Internet Archive is not protected by fair-use principles. In a 47-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl in the Southern District of New York said the Internet Archive's lending program -- which involves digitizing books and lending the digital versions to consumers -- infringes the ...
Source: mediapost.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
" John Wick: Chapter 4 " knocked down the box office competition, collecting a remarkable $73.5 million in its opening weekend. Boosted by positive reviews and enthusiastic word-of-mouth, the fourth installment in Lionsgate 's action series, led by Keanu Reeves as a legendary assassin, landed the best start of the franchise. It's one of the rare original properties to keep growing and improving upon the ...
Source: variety.com
Sunday, Mar 26th, 2023 -
People in Lebanon have woken up in two rival time zones, amid a row between political and religious authorities over when clocks should go forward. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced that daylight saving would begin at the end of Ramadan next month, allowing Muslims to break their daily fast earlier. But Christian authorities said they would change the clocks on the last Sunday in March, as happens ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Mar 25th, 2023 -
The Huskies had been in every Final Four since 2008. In the round of 16 against Ohio State, UConn had no answer for an aggressive press. Third-seeded Ohio State romped past second-seeded Connecticut to advance to the round of 8, grabbing hold of the game early and unceremoniously ending UConn's long streak of reaching the final weekend of the N.C.A.A. women's tournament. Ohio State won, 73-61, stopping the Huskies ...
Source: nytimes.com