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Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland later this week, the White House announced Sunday, the most high-profile visit yet as the Trump administration eyes the Danish territory. The second lady has already made a number of overseas trips, having visited Paris in February and India earlier this month. According to the White House, Vance will visit “historical sites, learn about Greenlandic heritage, and attend the Avannaata Qimussersu, Greenland’s national dogsled race.” She is set to arrive on Thursday and return on Saturday. Her son will join her on the trip, the White House said, along with a U.S. delegation. National security adviser Mike…

Anthony Albanese has weighed in on the incident surrounding the Rabbitohs mascot and a child following Saturday’s NRL contest.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, who served from 2015 to 2019, died on Sunday at her home in Utah. She was 49.Her family confirmed the death in a post on one of Ms. Love’s social media pages. She had been diagnosed in 2022 with a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor.Ms. Love’s parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti in the 1970s and settled in Brooklyn, where she was born. Her family later moved to Norwalk, Conn., where she attended high school. After graduating from the University of Hartford, she held a series…

Thousands of firefighters battled dozens of forest fires over the weekend.

Members of Hollywood took shots at President Donald Trump on Sunday while gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to honor television host and comedian Conan O’Brien, weeks after Trump unveiled sweeping changes to the structure of the Kennedy Center. Trump, who removed the Kennedy Center’s leadership in February, is now serving as the Kennedy Center Board Chair. New members on the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees include second lady Usha Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino. Comedian Sarah Silverman took aim at Trump several times…

Derik Queen is a king of March as the Maryland Terrapins are moving on to the Sweet 16 because of his buzzer beater against Colorado State on Sunday night. Down 71-70, Maryland had one final possession with just under four seconds to play when Queen took the inbound pass and immediately turned to his right to start making his way toward the net. Colorado State had great defense on him the whole way as he drove to his left. And Queen was forced to take an off-balance shot that required a perfect touch off the glass to redirect into the hoop.  Maryland…

Dive into dating.“The Bachelor” franchise has had a couple of explosive seasons in recent years, but for better or worse, Grant Ellis’s journey to find love has been pretty uneventful. With two women left vying for his attention, the three-hour finale will reveal who receives the final rose, if he gives one at all. Afterward, ABC often debuts its next female lead of “The Bachelorette,” but earlier this year the network announced that it would be skipping this season. Instead, we’ll have the more fun, raunchy and relatable “Bachelor in Paradise” coming back sometime this spring or summer. Monday at…

It was the decision that divided the rugby league world, and now the NRL has weighed in on the call to penalise Josh Curran for impersonating a referee.

The former editor of Vanity Fair for 25 years, Graydon Carter is a family man, father of five grown children, better known for his signature white hair and urbane elegance, never without a handkerchief – Hermès, he has 30 of them (“This is my greatest luxury,” he says) – chronicler of the privileged set of which he is a member, though not born to it. Growing up middle class, in Ottawa, he credits a mix of Canadian affability and inner strength for his enduring career at the top of the glittering world of magazines. “Canadians are not weak,” he said. “We…

The StubHub logo is seen in a former store in New York City on April 18, 2024.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesStubHub, an online marketplace for reselling tickets, on Friday filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “STUB.”In its prospectus for an initial public offering, the company said it had a net loss of $2.8 million on revenue of $1.77 billion for 2024, compared with a $405 million profit on $1.37 billion in revenue for 2023.StubHub has been a longtime player in the ticketing industry since its launch in 2000. It was purchased…