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By the way he’s playing now, it would be hard to know what Terry Roberts has been through. “Just grateful to be here. Grateful to be playing basketball. Going into every day with a chip, knowing it could’ve been different,” Roberts said at the first day of Winnipeg Sea Bears training camp.In February 2024, Roberts was struck by a stray bullet outside a bar in Philadelphia.The strike left him in critical condition, with a chest wound and relying on a ventilator.“My recovery was quick. A lot quicker than what the doctors thought,” Roberts said.The 24-year-old was was determined to get…

Who is Pope Leo XIV? Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo speaks with ‘The Will Cain Show’ from Rome about the election of Pope Leo XIV. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Where exactly Pope Leo XIV’s sports loyalties reside has quickly evolved into a topic of conversation.A photo of the new pontiff wearing a pinstripe Chicago White Sox jersey at the 2005 World Series surfaced in the Chicago Sun-Times, which seemed to add more fuel to the debate.Elected on Thursday, Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first pope from the U.S. in the history of the Catholic Church. The…

Keith Mitchell held the first-round lead at three tournaments earlier this season before falling out of top spot. He’s showing staying power at the PGA Tour’s Truist Championship.Mitchell followed a career-best round with a three-under 67 on Friday and maintained a one-shot lead after two rounds at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course.The American, who led the way with a 61 on Thursday, offset two bogeys with five birdies for a 12-under total.Shane Lowry (65) is second at 11 under and Austria’s Sepp Straka (67) another stroke back. Defending champion Rory McIlroy (67) sits in a large group for fourth.”Playing well…

A DEFENCE SHAKEDOWN On the security front, regional countries are not holding their breath either. If Mr Trump can settle tariff negotiations with Southeast Asian countries, a proper approach would be to use the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” strategy to get US allies and partners to uphold principles, such as freedom and navigation and no recourse to the use of force, as an implicit deterrent on China. For now, Trump 2.0 appears to be heading in the right direction. In his first meeting with Quad leaders in January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio upheld this strategy. In his inaugural tour…

When Pope Leo XIV emerged on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new head of the Catholic Church on Thursday, the Rev. Lawrence Ndlovu of Johannesburg could not help but wonder at the shade of his skin.“‘You’re not the classical white sort of person,’” Father Ndlovu said he had been thinking while watching from South Africa. “But I couldn’t figure out, What are you?”The revelation that Pope Leo is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans, including some with potential ties to the Caribbean, has excited Father Ndlovu and other Catholics around the world, particularly those…

At least half a dozen USAID employees who spoke to reporters after they thought they had been fired by the Trump administration have now received notices from the foreign aid agency’s internal human resources office that they are facing investigation for participating in interviews.The workers, whose formal dismissal date was delayed after leaders encountered bureaucratic snags, received an email in recent days carrying the subject line, “Administrative inquiry.” The email accused them of having “engaged with the press/media without authorization” and threatened “disciplinary action” including “removal from the U.S. Agency for International Development.” The emails were sent by Employment Labor Relations,…

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico on Friday morning said her government had sued Google over the company’s decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as ‘Gulf of America’ — a spat going back to February, when the Trump administration issued an executive order to rename the gulf.The order prompted some local governments and lawmakers in the United States to embrace the use of the name on official documents. It also caused Google to implement the change on its maps. Users in the United States would see the body of water with the new name while people in Mexico would continue…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 9, 2025 5:52 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Archbishop of Quebec says he expects Pope Leo will continue to work on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Cardinal Gerald Lacroix called the word “reconciliation” very important for any pastor.He shared his thoughts on Friday on the election of the first U.S.-born pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost.The late Pope Francis made history in 2022 when he apologized to Canada’s Indigenous people for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools.The Vatican says Leo will be formally installed as pope at a mass…

Three online friends have told Erin Patterson’s trial how they bonded with the accused triple-murderer over true-crime and grew to be a support structure for one another.

TOKYO: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, which supplies batteries to Tesla, said on Friday (May 9) it will target 10,000 job cuts worldwide as part of efforts to boost profitability. The cuts, which represent around 4 per cent of the group’s workforce of nearly 230,000, will be implemented mainly in the current financial year to March, it said. Panasonic said it would “thoroughly review operational efficiency at each group company, mainly in sales and indirect departments”. It will “reevaluate the numbers of organisations and personnel actually needed”, a statement said. “This measure targets 10,000 employees (5,000 in Japan and 5,000 overseas)…