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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has visited troops at a front-line position near the embattled city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region.The trip came ahead of Monday’s ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia.US negotiators will meet separately with Ukrainian and Russian delegations.In videos shared on social media on Saturday, Zelenskiy is seen awarding medals to soldiers and holding a briefing at a command post.Pokrovsk has been a target of Russian attacks since the middle of 2024.While some Russian forces have advanced to positions south-west of the city, they have recently failed to make further territorial gains.The complete capture of Donetsk remains…

A shooting in Las Cruces, New Mexico, left three dead and 15 injured, according to the Las Cruces Police Facebook page. Authorities say two of the deceased were 19 years old and one was 16 years old, while the ages of those injured ranges from 16 to 36.A crew from KTSM, a local NBC affiliate, reportedly spoke with a family who believed one of their relatives was possibly killed in the shooting, though that has not been confirmed. Las Cruces Police vehicle. NM LAWMAKER WHOSE SON WAS MURDERED RIPS DEMS FOR ‘HOMICIDE SCHOLARSHIPS’ AFTER HER CRIME BILL WAS TANKEDThe shooting…

By Maan Alhmidi The Canadian Press Posted March 22, 2025 1:03 pm Updated March 22, 2025 1:05 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government announced expanded access to its dental care program on Saturday, a day before a federal election is expected to be called. The government says all Canadians who have household incomes of less than $90,000 and don’t have private insurance will be able to apply for the program over the month of May.Liberal Health Minister Kamal Khera said coverage will start as early as June 1.The program was launched…

Throngs of passengers anxious to get on their way surged into Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday, a day after a power blackout closed the airport and forced thousands to delay their trips.As information boards flickered back to life, an army of extra airport staff members, dressed in purple, sprang into action to help people as they walked through the terminal doors.Ganesh Suresh, a 25-year-old student who was trying to get home to Bangalore, India, was among those who secured a coveted seat on a Saturday flight. After his Air India flight was canceled, his parents booked new tickets on…

Dear readers,To live in this city is sometimes to be subject to random, unheralded encounters with the great and the good: a sitcom star fumbling for her MetroCard; a famously misanthropic novelist, happy as a clam in the stands at a Yankees game; a disgraced former governor looking entirely too unbothered at the bagel store.A true New Yorker, of course, metabolizes these moments and moves on, cool cucumbers in the face of all but the most outrageous disruptions (a professional sports rival, maybe, or an actual Beatle). Still, I never get tired of the low-wattage zing those run-ins can add…

Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch gave forward Joe Ingles a moment to remember during the team’s 134-93 win over the New Orleans Pelicans at the Target Center on Friday.Ingles, 37, was in the starting lineup for the first time in three years, and it wasn’t because Finch was looking to spark the team. Ingles’ family were in town for the game, as they live in Orlando. Ingles has three kids with his wife Renae, and one of his kids, eight-year-old Jacob, is autistic.  Minnesota Timberwolves guard Joe Ingles (7) warms up before a game against the Los Angeles Lakers at…

Since President Trump began his second term in January, no high-level officials from the United States have met with their counterparts in China, even as the world’s two largest economies have taken turns imposing steep tariffs on each other.In the absence of official meetings, Senator Steve Daines of Montana has cast himself as a go-between. Mr. Daines met with Vice Premier He Lifeng, who oversees many economic issues for China, on Saturday and was set to meet Premier Li Qiang, the country’s second-highest official, on Sunday.In an interview with The New York Times on Saturday after the meeting with Mr.…

A rare painting by the street artist Banksy, inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, sold for nearly 4.3 million pounds ($5.5 million) Tuesday, according to auction house Sotheby’s. Entitled “Crude Oil (Vettriano)” and sometimes called “Toxic beach,” the painting first revealed by Banksy in 2005 was sold at Sotheby’s in London, from the collection of Mark Hoppus, bassist with California skate-punk band Blink-182, who sees Banksy as a kindred spirit. Hoppus will donate a portion of the proceeds to two Los Angeles medical charities and the California Fire foundation, following devastating wildfires there in January, Sotheby’s said.Hoppus said…

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 4, 2022. Mike Blake | ReutersThe Securities and Exchange Commission’s years-long crusade against the crypto industry appears to be over.The final chapter closed on Wednesday, when Ripple announced that the SEC had officially dropped its four-year-old lawsuit against the company. The suit, filed on Jay Clayton’s last day as SEC chair, accused Ripple of raising $1.3 billion through the sale of its XRP token without registering it as a security. Crypto companies and exchanges Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, Binance, and OpenSea all previously saw lawsuits…

As Franck Verhaeghe and two friends planned a March trip to Mexico City, they plotted out not only where they would stay and which museums they would visit but also the language they would speak: French. “It’s not that I think it’s unsafe for Americans,” said Mr. Verhaeghe, 65, who lives in California, but “I can imagine people there aren’t very happy with us. So my friends and I decided that on this trip, we would all just speak French to each other.”Two months into his second term, President Trump has set off panic in Europe about the potential collapse…