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Thomas Tuchel has begun his England managerial career on a winning note with Myles Lewis-Skelly scoring on debut in a 2-0 win over Albania.

President Trump announced Friday that the Education Department would no longer manage the nation’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio or supervise “special needs” programs in a major shake-up of an agency he has sought to eliminate.Student loans will move under the Small Business Administration, while special education services, along with nutrition programs, will move under the Department of Health and Human Services, Mr. Trump said.Mr. Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office that the moves would take place “immediately,” adding that he believed the restructuring — which critics swiftly vowed to challenge in court — would “work out very…

By Joe Bongiorno The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 5:13 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A media investigation uncovering troubling new medical information about a Mexican boxer who died after a 2021 knockout in Montreal has prompted a Quebec coroner to revise his report into her death. The investigation broadcast this week by Radio-Canada revealed that 18-year-old Jeanette Guadeloupe Zacarias Zapata should not have been declared fit for the bout in Montreal because of brain injuries sustained in a previous knockout.Zacarias Zapata suffered a traumatic brain injury after being knocked out by Quebec boxer Marie-Pier Houle on Aug. 28, 2021,…

The Republican president also said that he plans to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but did not say when. China has not commented on the possibility of a Trump-Xi meeting. Beijing has rejected Trump’s trade measures as counterproductive and unwarranted, and has imposed limited retaliatory duties of 10 percent on imports of American oil, liquefied natural gas and farm equipment. It has also touted its efforts on counter-narcotics. “Yes,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question in the White House’s Oval Office about whether a potential meeting involving his trade chief was in the works. “I’ll be speaking…

Zimbabwean lands top job in world sport.Kirsty Coventry becomes the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee, the world’s largest sports body. Bans on Russia but not Israel and the role of money in the Olympic Games are two challenges she faces. What other hurdles lie ahead? Presenter: Sami Zeidan Guests: Philip Barker – editor-in-chief of the Journal of Olympic History Donald Rukare – president of the Uganda Olympic Committee Bassil Mikdadi – founder of the FootballPalestine.com website

A federal judge grilled Trump administration lawyers Friday over their deportation of Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador despite an earlier court order explicitly blocking the move – the latest in a days-long legal dispute that could make its way to the Supreme Court.During the motion hearing, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg sharply questioned Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign over why the Trump administration failed to comply with an emergency court order that temporarily blocked its use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals, including alleged members of the gang Tren de Aragua, from U.S. soil…

A man will face court over an alleged attempted sexual assault of a woman in the early hours of the morning as she came home from work.

Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine, an amino acid, was being overlooked as a possible risk factor for heart disease, died on Feb. 21 at his home in Winchester, Mass. He was 91.His daughter, Martha McCully, said the cause was metastatic prostate cancer. His death was not widely reported at the time.Still a debated idea today, Dr. McCully’s theory — that inadequate intake of certain B vitamins causes high levels of homocysteine in the blood,…

This fall, the ancient Central Asian city of Bukhara, which for centuries was a stop on the Silk Road — the 4,000-mile trade route along which goods and ideas spread across the continent — will once again become a vibrant hub of cultural exchange. For 10 weeks, starting on Sept. 5, the Uzbek city will host its first art biennial, an event that will bring together a mix of international artists — including the British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Colombian multidisciplinary artist Delcy Morelos — and Uzbek ones, such as the ceramics master Abdulvahid Bukhoriy Karimov, for site-specific exhibitions,…

A Honduran man accused of killing an Iowa woman in 2016 while driving drunk in Nebraska was extradited to the United States on Friday after he fled the United States following his release on bond. Eswin Mejia was arrested Thursday in Honduras and put on a plane to the U.S. to face justice for the death of 21-year-old Sarah Root, the State Department said. “Nine years ago, Sarah was tragically killed by an illegal immigrant who later fled our county,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X. “Today, the Trump Administration is announcing the extradition of Sarah’s killer from Honduras to…