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Senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials are planning to meet next week to discuss the first steps of a deal that could seek an end to the war in Ukraine, after a week of U.S. moves casting doubt on its support for the country.Both President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine confirmed the meeting, which is expected to take place in Saudi Arabia.The planned meeting was announced just under a week after an Oval Office blowup between the two men in which Mr. Trump attacked Mr. Zelensky as ungrateful for U.S. support and threatened to abandon Ukraine in its fight…

The cockpit voice recorder, known as the “black box,” from a plane that crashed and left seven people dead soon after takeoff from a Philadelphia airport didn’t record the aircraft’s final moments, investigators said in a preliminary report released Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report into the Jan. 31 crash of a medical Learjet 55 bound for Missouri that crashed in Philadelphia, killing two pilots, two crew members, 11-year-old pediatric patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother and a pedestrian on the ground. More than a dozen others were injured. KAZAKHSTAN PLANE CRASH SURVIVORS SAY THEY HEARD BANGS…

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Shares tanked 17% in extended trading. Hewlett Packard Enterprise issued weak guidance for the fiscal second quarter, calling for adjusted earnings to range from 28 cents to 34 cents per share on revenue between $7.2 billion and $7.6 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet sought 50 cents per share in earnings and revenue of $7.92 billion. The company also announced a cost reduction program, which includes plans for layoffs . Samsara — The industrial “Internet of Things” stock slid 4%. Samsara issued first-quarter guidance that was largely in…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 6, 2025 6:50 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Ontario court has approved a historic $32.5 billion settlement that will see three major tobacco companies compensate provinces, territories and ex-smokers in Canada. In a ruling released today, Ontario Superior Court Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz called the approval a “momentous achievement in Canadian restructuring history.”The settlement was first proposed in October after years of mediation between the companies – JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. — and their creditors, which include plaintiffs…

Residents still recovering three years after a destructive flood are “dreading what is to come” as Cyclone Alfred barrels towards them.

U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., repeated the unsubstantiated argument that the Defending Women and Girls in Sports Act would have “unleashed” sexual predators on girls in the U.S. Jeffries first made this argument the day the House voted on the bill Jan. 14, joining other prominent Democratic representatives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The argument prompted harsh backlash among some registered Democratic voters and was not repeated leading up to the Senate’s vote of the bill Monday.But Jeffries raised the argument again when asked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent comments about transgender athletes in girls sports being…

Giovanni Cassano, a restaurant owner in the Canadian province of Ontario, was not going to let a trade war get in the way of his diners’ thirst for Californian wine, Jim Beam Kentucky bourbon or Texan-made Tito’s vodka.Soon, however, he and his diners might not have a choice.When President Trump announced planned tariffs on the country last month, Canadian politicians threatened to pull American alcohol brands off the shelves of government-run liquor stores in retaliation.On Tuesday, those tariffs briefly went into effect, and American spirits and wine were boxed up and hidden away in much of Canada. Television broadcasts were…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would rescind security clearances and access to certain federal resources for Perkins Coie, the law firm that hired the company responsible for crafting the so-called “Steele dossier” containing alleged salacious material and Trump’s alleged connections to Russia, which the president has denied. “This is an absolute honor to sign,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “What they’ve done, it’s just terrible. It’s weaponization, you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again.” Specifically, the executive order suspends security clearances for Perkins Coie employees until a further review…

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to severely punish the law firm Perkins Coie by stripping its lawyers of security clearances and access to government buildings and officials — a form of payback for its legal work for Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign.With the order, Perkins Coie becomes the second such firm to be targeted by the president. Late last month, he signed a similar memorandum attacking Covington & Burling, which has done pro bono legal work for Jack Smith, who as special counsel pursued two separate indictments of Mr. Trump.While the Covington memorandum sought to…

The federal government will build northern military operational support hubs in Iqaluit, Yellowknife, and Inuvik, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced Thursday, while promising there will be more to come as Ottawa ramps up its military footprint in the Arctic. The hubs are the cornerstone of the federal government’s Arctic security strategy, which committed $2.67 billion over 20 years to building them.Blair was in Iqaluit Thursday to announce the first three locations and said the department is planning to build more than the five operational hubs discussed in Canada’s new defence policy last April.“The discussions that we’ve been having in the…