New Civil Liberties Alliance sued the Trump administration in Florida federal court Thursday over the president's executive orders imposing tariffs on Chinese imports.

The Trump administration's Departments of Justice and Education have launched a joint special investigative unit for Title IX cases that will focus largely on the "pernicious effects of gender ideology."

President Donald Trump has ousted Biden appointee Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh from the NSA, naming Lt. Gen. William Hartman as acting director of the top intelligence agency.

The Working Families Party is subverting democracy by gaming the city's ranked-choice voting system.

A teacher who used to be an actor with parts in several major TV shows has been charged with grooming and sexually abusing a teenage student. William Schaub, 56, acted in the 1990s and early 2000s — with parts in shows like “The Young and the Reckless,” “Will and Grace,” “Alias” and “Beverly Hills, 90210”...

Many people swear by local honey as a cure for seasonal allergies, but doctors say there's a "natural" remedy that's actually proven to work.

The Giants are going to need a bigger plane.

She licked the competition.

Damien Lehfeldt, USA Fencing's elected At-Large Director, wrote a 2023 blog post about why male, transgender-identifying fencers should compete against females. 

Students chained to a gate were removed by security officials. It came as the university planned to deploy 36 officers empowered to remove people from campus.

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"All I thought were STDs when I heard that."

China struck back against President Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 4 by slapping the US with its own 34% tariff on imports and announcing curbs on some key rare materials — further heightening the trade war between Washington and Beijing. The new double-digit tariff on imports of all US products will be imposed...

His remarks come amid growing unease in financial markets as the impact of Trump’s latest round of tariffs on key trade partners continues to unfold.

A new lawsuit claims that the Trump administration's travel policy requiring foreign nationals to register to stay in the U.S. for 30 days or more didn't consider the impact it could have on communities that rely on revenue from Canadian snowbirds. Read More

Rap mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering and sex trafficking as trial begins in Manhattan on 5 May

Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed.

Combs had previously faced three criminal counts, to which he has pleaded not guilty and is in federal jail in Brooklyn awaiting trial in Manhattan federal court on 5 May.

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• Fifa growing concerned about visibility of tournament
• Dazn has global rights and will show games on app

The BBC and ITV have declined to pursue the chance to televise this summer’s Club World Cup, leaving Fifa increasingly concerned about the visibility of its flagship new tournament in a key market.

The streaming platform Dazn agreed this year to pay $1bn for global Club World Cup rights in a deal which involved the company pledging to make all 63 matches available free-to-air on its app.

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Steven Soderbergh's latest is a classic whodunit.

Chrissy Metz, best known for playing Kate Pearson on the NBC drama "This Is Us," recently ditched Hollywood after 21 years.

Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank’s “obligation” is to ensure that a “one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem.”

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Speaker Mike Johnson is under pressure to 'quickly iron out' the New Yorker's return to the House GOP top ranks.

America’s tariff onslaught will drive upheaval well beyond trade

Fyre Festival 2 is looking like a "new disaster" after a second Mexico government on Wednesday denied knowledge of the second attempt at the music event that previously failed.

Six-time major champion Nick Faldo is fed up with LIV Golf and its merger saga with the PGA Tour.

Swedish ‘buy now, pay later’ fintech was set to launch its so-called IPO roadshow to investors next week

Comedian-turned wellness guru Russell Brand has denied the sexual assault charges leveled against him by British police.

Experts say UK may have to raise taxes in autumn as senior MPs caution against too many concessions in US trade talks

Donald Trump’s tariffs signal a new global economic era, Downing Street has said, as economists warned that the British government would probably have to raise taxes in response.

No 10 said on Friday the prime minister believed that this week’s trade announcement by the US president, which has started a global trade war and sent stock markets tumbling, marked a turning point in history.

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Former top 20 tennis player Daria Saville said she's "salty" that WAGs and influencers are getting brand deals over "actual athletes."

"The fact that he is embracing it, rather than hiding it, also adds to the attractiveness, as well as the long hair — it gives him this ‘I don’t give a s--t’ attitude."

While the US economy remains robust, Jerome Powell cautions there is high uncertainty over its direction

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Donald Trump’s global tariffs assault is set to raise prices and slow down economic growth, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has warned, defying the US president’s demands for an immediate interest rate cut.

While the US economy remains robust, Powell cautioned that there is high uncertainty over its direction. “Downside risks have risen,” he told an event in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday.

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"Snow White," starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler, grossed only $70 million domestically and $146 million globally on a production budget of $270 million.

At Jenny Bird's rare sitewide sale, the early bird gets the deals.

The rapper revealed his daughter's pregnancy in his "Temporary" music video, showing footage of her breaking the news with a Detroits Lions jersey.

D.I.Y. influencers indulge our most ambitious housing fantasies — and cash in on them.

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Doing laundry can be a tedious task and how often you wash each type of item depends on how much contact it has with your skin

Is there any domestic task more sisyphean than laundry? No sooner have you pulled a crisp, clean sheet on to your bed than it is time to strip it off and start over. Blink and a clean towel becomes dirty. Somehow, lives, careers and relationships must fit into the tiny slivers of time between loads.

I don’t enjoy laundry; give me dish duty any day. I do, however, enjoy living in a clean space that doesn’t smell like a locker room. Textiles can really trap scent – and bacteria.

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Bafta endorsement could have escalated actor’s allegedly abusive behaviour towards women, Kath Viner said

The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Katharine Viner, has told the high court there was a “very high public interest” in reporting allegations made against Noel Clarke after he received a special Bafta award.

In a witness statement, Viner said she believed it was conceivable that the actor’s endorsement by the British academy film awards could lead to an escalation of his allegedly abusive behaviour towards women.

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• Seven-time All-Star concludes 12-year career
• No 2 pick in 2013 spent six seasons with Washington

Seven-time WNBA All-Star Elena Delle Donne, a two-time league MVP and a key part of Washington’s 2019 championship, is retiring after 11 seasons.

Delle Donne, 35, made the announcement on social media Friday and referenced a line from one of her favorite childhood books that reads, “How did get so late so soon?”

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Experts say U.S. tariffs on Canadian auto imports will drive prices higher for both new and used cars. Read More

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President’s move has no historic parallels, but the deep uncertainty for the global economy may prove as destructive as the tariffs

From world leaders, to the tiniest manufacturers thousands of miles away Washington, decision-makers across the global economy are racked with uncertainty as they scramble to come to terms with Donald Trump’s historic tariffs.

Experts are all but unanimous that the impact on global growth of Wednesday’s extraordinary Rose Garden press conference will be negative – but just how bad remains highly uncertain.

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