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Kate Hulett — the community independent attempting a second shot at politics — has run afoul of Australia’s Constitution, with a dual British citizenship threatening her bid for Federal Parliament.

Chinese exporters have also been increasingly offshoring production and exports to mitigate risks. “Exporters are definitely nervous,” Guo said. “Beijing is supportive of firms offshoring now because it’s an inevitable trend.”  She adds: “It’s clear that China is welcoming investors from ASEAN, Japan, Europe, and the US – basically everyone around the world.” “As long as they are interested in the Chinese market, they are welcome to have a good trade and investment relationship with China.” Beijing is also working to shore up relationships abroad, analysts say, highlighting intensified engagement with both regional and global partners in recent weeks.  That…

Russia says it is open to economic cooperation with the West in the Arctic.

President Donald Trump on Thursday used a medical metaphor to describe the status of his “reciprocal tariffs” plan implemented on what he dubbed “Liberation Day.”  “THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social. “THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened more than 1,000 points lower on Thursday morning after Trump unveiled his most severe levy of tariffs yet during a White House Rose Garden ceremony a day earlier, but administration officials remained optimistic…

A Wisconsin police department announced Thursday morning that a teenage girl who was missing for two months was located in Nebraska. Sophia Franklin,16, disappeared from the town of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on Feb. 2, and was suspected to be traveling with a 40-year-old man named Gary Day, prompting an Amber Alert to locate her.  An Amber Alert for Sophia Franklin issued by the Beaver Dam Police Department. (Beaver Dam Police Department) TOURIST VANISHES AFTER LEAVING UTAH AIRPORT TO BACKPACK IN MOUNTAINSAccording to the Beaver Dam Police Department, a tip originating in Sarpy County, Nebraska, led to Franklin’s discovery. “Law enforcement made contact…

A retired railway employee from Ontario is $40 million richer from winning the Lotto Max jackpot after purchasing two tickets — one for himself and one for his daughter. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) said 79-year-old Bernard White of Oshawa, Ont., was the jackpot winner from the Feb. 21 draw.White said he’s been buying two Lotto Max tickets a week for the past couple of years.“One for me and one for my daughter,” he said. “Before I go to bed, I always tell her to pick one. This time, she picked the wrong one.”Despite his daughter choosing the losing…

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.Katharine Dexter McCormick, who was born to a life of wealth, which she compounded through marriage, could have sat back and simply enjoyed the many advantages that flowed her way. Instead, she put her considerable fortune — matched by her considerable willfulness — into making life better for women.An activist, philanthropist and benefactor, McCormick used her wealth strategically, most notably to underwrite the basic research that led to the development of the birth control pill in the late…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Lululemon – Shares tumbled more than 12% on the heels of President Donald Trump’s new wide-ranging tariffs . According to an SEC filing , the company sourced 40% of its products from Vietnam in 2024 – a country that was slammed with a 46% tariff. Almost 90% of Lululemon’s products are made in Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Nike — Shares slumped about 9% after the United States lifted tariffs Wednesday. Nike manufactures roughly half its footwear in China and Vietnam, which will be subject to tariff rates of…

The two women are a coil of contradictions: Roman but also Greek, flesh but also stone. They both are confident, blessed with the poise of the noble and famous, yet also slightly shy. As if, after centuries of gazes, they can only appear before us slightly abashed. As if they know there is such a thing as too much beauty.One of them is gazing down,and one of them is gazing up.“They stand before us like real human beings,” as the art historian Ernst Gombrich once wrote about classical sculpture, “and yet as beings from a different, better world.”The younger of…

Atlanta prosecutors filed a motion on Wednesday to revoke the probation of the rapper Young Thug, born Jeffery Williams, citing a post on social media that referred to a local gang investigator as the “Biggest liar in the DA office.”According to the filing in Fulton County court by the district attorney Fani T. Willis, Mr. Williams “has engaged in conduct that directly threatens the safety of witnesses and prosecutors, compromises ongoing legal proceedings, and warrants immediate revocation of probation.”Mr. Williams, 33, pleaded guilty late last year to participation in criminal street gang activity, in addition to drug and weapons charges,…