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AFLW will feature heavily on a jam-packed AFL grand-final weekend with four matches scheduled in Victoria on the public holiday before the men’s premiership decider.The women’s fixture, released by the league on Thursday, features six games in Victoria around the men’s grand final.The league hopes to cash in on the Friday, September 25 public holiday in Melbourne by pulling in crowds after the traditional men’s grand-final parade.A women’s double-header at Ikon Park is the highlight, with Carlton hosting Richmond and defending back-to-back premiers North Melbourne taking on Melbourne.Geelong take on Hawthorn on the Thursday night, Essendon and the Western Bulldogs…

SINGAPORE: Stocks rose on Thursday (May 21) as some vessels resumed passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while forecast-beating results at Nvidia and a suspended workers’ strike at Samsung Electronics lifted shares of chipmakers.MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 1.2 per cent, snapping a four-day streak of losses as the Kospi surged more than 4 per cent.Brent crude futures edged up 0.7 per cent to US$105.76 a barrel in Asia trade, retracing declines after three supertankers passed through the strait on Wednesday and Iran consolidated its control of the waterway.On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 1.1…

Wall Street stocks rallied sharply on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average surging more than 640 points as falling oil prices and easing Treasury yields boosted investor sentiment ahead of Nvidia’s closely watched quarterly earnings report.The Dow climbed 1.3%, while the S&P 500 gained 1% and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.4%. The rally followed three consecutive days of losses tied to concerns over rising inflation, elevated bond yields, and tensions in the Middle East.Technology and semiconductor shares led the rebound as investors shifted focus back toward artificial intelligence growth themes.The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rallied strongly, with gains from companies…

Share Last updated:  May 20, 2026 The CLARITY Act Senate markup is a hot story in crypto right now. For XRP, this is the moment the market has been waiting for. The bill would provide the legal safe harbor that global banks need to move trillions from static Nostro accounts onto the XRP Ledger. While XRP traders watch the clock, a different opportunity is flying under the radar. Divine Ray (DRC) launched its presale this month and raised over $100,000 in the first 24 hours. The project already has a live social media app in the Apple App Store and…

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Getty Images (L) | CNBC (R)New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani fired back on Wednesday at Jeff Bezos after the Amazon founder and executive chairman questioned whether raising taxes on billionaires would do anything to help working-class New Yorkers.”You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you,” Bezos said in an interview on CNBC earlier Wednesday.Mamdani responded on X: “I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.”Bezos, meanwhile, pushed for tax cuts for low-income Americans.He called for eliminating federal income taxes on…

Albanese is among several people sanctioned by the US for advocacy against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.Published On 21 May 202621 May 2026The United States has removed sanctions against the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, a week after a federal judge said the measures restricted her freedom of speech.In a brief update on its website on Wednesday, the US Department of the Treasury listed Albanese’s name under the heading: “International Criminal Court-related Designation Removal”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe announcement comes after US District Judge Richard Leon issued a temporary injunction against the…

Law enforcement veterans are expressing deep concerns that the Trump Justice Department’s criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan is being systematically stacked with politically motivated personnel who are intent on a partisan indictment.Brennan is the subject of two criminal probes being led by the Miami-area U.S. Attorney’s Office. One is weighing allegations that he lied to Congress in 2023 about the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The second is a sprawling “grand conspiracy” probe examining whether Obama- and Biden-era officials were part of a long-running conspiracy to keep President Trump out of…

new video loaded: G.O.P. May Bear The Cost of Trump’s UnpopularityDonald Trump’s endorsed candidates are winning Republican primaries across the country, but the president’s unpopularity with the broader electorate could drag the party down in the general election, the Times political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains.By Shane Goldmacher, Nour Idriss, Stephanie Swart and Rafaela BalsterMay 20, 2026

Researchers are sounding the alarm about the number of post-secondary students experiencing homelessness. Student advocacy groups in Nova Scotia echo the concern, saying their peers are struggling to balance the burden of rising costs while going to school“They come in thinking that they’re going to be fine and then they realize, ‘Oh no,’” said Liza Zahid, president of the Saint Mary’s University Students’ Association in Halifax.She says some students are juggling multiple jobs just to keep a roof over their head. Ultimately, she says rising housing costs combined with tuition hikes are taking a toll on students.“The jobs don’t pay enough,…