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MIAMI — A few dozen women gathered at a posh Miami brewery on a recent evening to listen to U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart outline the Republican plans to retain their slim House majority in next year’s elections.In an hour of remarks, Diaz-Balart did not bring up immigration on his own. Diaz-Balart is one of three House Republicans in South Florida with roots in Cuba. Together, they are treading carefully in discussing President Donald Trump’s immigration offensive, which includes directly targeting some Cubans and Venezuelans, key parts of the GOP’s base in Florida. Democrats are targeting at least one of these…
WASHINGTON — One went to the United States. The other went to China. It was a sign of the times.While the Swiss president was in Washington last week to lobby U.S. officials over President Donald Trump’s threatened 31% tariff on Swiss goods, the Swiss foreign minister was in Beijing, expressing his nation’s willingness to strengthen cooperation with China and upgrade a free trade agreement.As Trump’s trade war locks the world’s two largest economies on a collision course, America’s unnerved allies and partners are cozying up with China to hedge their bets. It comes as Trump’s trade push upends a decade…
Social media companies will be fined up to £60,000 each time a post relating to knife crime is not removed from their sites in a bid to stop children viewing “sickening” content.The new sanction expands on previously announced plans to fine individual tech executives up to £10,000 if their platforms fail to remove material advertising or glorifying knives following 48 hours of a police warning. It means tech platforms and their executives could collectively face up to £70,000 in penalties for every post relating to knife crime they fail to remove, with the new laws applying to online search engines…
Two chairs of FTSE-100 companies are vying to succeed Adam Crozier at the top of Whitbread, the London-listed group behind the Premier Inn hotel chain.Sky News has learnt that Christine Hodgson, who chairs water company Severn Trent, and Andrew Martin, chair of the testing and inspection group Intertek, are the leading contenders for the Whitbread job. Mr Crozier, who has chaired the leisure group since 2018, is expected to step down later this year.The search, which has been taking place for several months, is expected to conclude in the coming weeks, according to one City source.Ms Hodgson has some experience…
JIUQUAN, China — China was making final preparations for the launch on Thursday of a three-person replacement crew for its orbiting space station that will mark a further step toward a possible crewed mission to the Moon and exploration of Mars.The Shenzhou 20 mission is scheduled to blast off Thursday evening from a launch center in Jiuquan, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China.The Tiangong, or “Heavenly Palace,” space station has made China a major contender in space, especially since it was entirely Chinese-built after the country was excluded from the International Space Station over U.S. national…
Nearly 100 former employees and prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., have signed a memo opposing President Trump’s nominee to lead the office. The memo is the latest effort by critics of acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to stop his Senate confirmation for the permanent role, which is among the most powerful federal prosecutor positions in the country. The letter was signed by a group of former prosecutors who served in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office across seven decades, under administrations from Lyndon B. Johnson’s through Joe Biden’s. The memo, a copy of which was shared with…
Scammers stole a record $16.6 billion in 2024, the FBI said on Wednesday.That marked a 33% increase from 2023, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center’s annual report. More than a quarter million complaints reported money lost to a scam, with an average of a loss of more than $19,000. “As nearly all aspects of our lives have become digitally connected, the attack surface for cyber actors has grown exponentially,” the FBI’s Operations Director for Criminal and Cyber B. Chad Yarbrough said in a note attached to the report. While most losses were caused by fraud, ransomware prevailed as the largest threat…
NFL free agency is in full swing.Teams could officially sign free agents to deals after the new league year began on March 12. While the vast majority of the top names in free agency have already agreed to terms, many more players have started to sign with the teams following the start of the new league year. The best remaining free agents include: Jets QB Aaron Rodgers, Bills WR Amari Cooper, Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins, Bills edge Von Miller and Chargers CB Asante Samuel Jr., via FOX Sports’ 2025 NFL free agent top 100 rankings. Here’s a look at which players have…
The urine of thousands of women taking part in the London Marathon this Sunday will be recycled and turned into fertiliser for wheat. More than 1,000 litres will be collected from PEEQUAL’s women’s urinals – which are 2.7 times faster to use than other portable toilets and reduce queues. The company is pairing up with fellow Bristol-based start-up NPK Recovery to recycle urine and help reduce the event’s carbon footprint.Wheat has been chosen because this crop is hungry for urine’s nitrogen content – and the fertiliser could help grow enough to make approximately 195 loaves of bread. Please use Chrome…
As purse strings everywhere tighten, why does the streamer appear confident that millions will swallow its latest price hike? Media and tech veteran Ian Tan weighs in. Source link