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Foreman took on Muhammad Ali in 1974 in one of boxing’s most famous match-ups, the Rumble in the Jungle.Former world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman has died at age 76 after a decorated career as an athlete, a pastor and a businessman. In a statement on Saturday morning, Foreman’s family wrote on Instagram that the boxing legend had died “surrounded by his loved ones” the night before. “A devout preacher, a devoted husband, a loving father and a proud grand- and great-grandfather, he lived a life marked by unwavering faith, humility and purpose,” his family wrote. “A humanitarian, an Olympian…

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration made a startling warning Friday that he might have to shut down the system that undergirds the agency, and then backtracked after a judge said he had misinterpreted a court order.Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner, issued the warning in a series of interviews with news outlets, including Bloomberg News and The New York Times, in response to the judge’s order Thursday that barred Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team from access to sensitive records.In the interviews, Mr. Dudek suggested that he was interpreting the ruling to mean that the…

A rising star in open water swimming has her sights set on her biggest challenge yet, after a shock health crisis rocked her tight-knit Gold Coast family.Madisyn Armstrong, 24, has a deeply personal reason for wanting to push her limits and complete the ultimate ultra-marathon challenge — the English Channel.She hopes to raise money and awareness for a cause close to her heart.“Everyone knows of a family that has been ravaged by cancer but you never imagine it would ever happen to your own family,” Madisyn told 7NEWS.com.au.“I arrived home from training one Wednesday afternoon and got a call from…

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: FedEx — Shares slipped more than 4% after the shipping company reported an earnings miss in the fiscal third quarter. FedEx posted adjusted earnings of $4.51 per share, while analysts polled by LSEG had called for $4.54 per share. Meanwhile, quarterly revenues of $22.16 billion came slightly above consensus forecasts for $21.89 billion. Micron Technology — The provider of memory and storage solutions jumped 4%. Micron offered a rosy outlook for the fiscal third quarter, calling for adjusted earnings of $1.57 per share on $8.80 billion of revenue. That surpassed Wall…

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North Korea has been supplying a vast amount of conventional weapons to Russia, and last fall it sent about 10,000 to 12,000 troops to Russia as well, according to US, South Korean and Ukraine intelligence officials. In its Feb 27 statement, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it was trying to determine exactly how many more troops North Korea has deployed to Russia. South Korean media put the number of newly deployed North Korean soldiers at about 1,000 to 3,000. South Korea, the US and others suspect North Korea is receiving economic and military assistance from Russia in return for…

Two of the biggest phases of the NFL offseason — the hiring cycle and the initial rush of free agency — are in the books. The draft looms in roughly a month. Soon after, coaches and players will begin the early steps of on-field preparation for their seasons.But this truly is the stage where foundations are laid, and where NFL owners prove themselves as either committed and competent leaders, mere window-dressers or meddlesome self-saboteurs.Every owner professes a desire to build a winning franchise, but not everyone truly cares about winning as much as they would have you believe. And very…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey.Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents had coalesced around the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who made it clear that he was gunning for the presidency.Then on Wednesday, just four days before the mayor was set to be designated as the political opposition’s presidential candidate, dozens of policemen arrested him at his home on accusations of corruption and terrorism.Mr. Erdogan’s foes consider the arrest…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said Friday that the state was returning more than $878 million to the federal government that it had been attempting to give back for the past few years during the Biden administration.DeSantis’ office informed the U.S. Treasury Department that $878,112,000 would be returned to the federal government.The governor said the move came after a meeting with billionaire Elon Musk and his team at the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.”For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden…

Sydney coach Dean Cox is wary of Shai Bolton, who will make his official debut for Fremantle in Sunday’s AFL clash in Perth.