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From Brussels to Berlin, leaders across Europe are getting ready to spend hundreds of billions to rebuild their armies. The spending, they say, is necessary to prepare Europe for the dangers of a world where the United States no longer guarantees its security.But many of them are also hoping that the surge of money will have another important effect: revitalizing the continent’s slumping industrial sector and opening a new front for economic growth.That connection between defense investment and competitiveness is one of the topics European leaders are likely to discuss when they meet in Brussels on Thursday, after the European…

Oil and gas executives will meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday as they seek to influence him on tariffs, tax credits and deregulation.Some executives in the industry, which spent more than $75 million to help elect Mr. Trump, are increasingly frustrated with Mr. Trump’s agenda. Tariffs are making essential materials like steel pipe more expensive while also rattling consumer confidence.Oil prices have fallen around 14 percent since just before Mr. Trump took office, to less than $67 a barrel. Peter Navarro, a senior White House aide, has talked about the benefits of oil that sells for…

Twenty-five metres below the waves, the crew of the USS Minnesota can no longer see anything outside.But they can hear everything.WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: 7NEWS’ exclusive deep dive into life inside a submarine.Advanced sonar systems are able to detect whales below calling to one another, fishermen above hoping for a lucky catch and enemy ships cruising hundreds of kilometres away.“Have you ever heard of the comic book Daredevil?” the ship’s commanding officer Jeffrey Cornielle asks us from the control room of the nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine.“I often say it’s like that.”Daredevil’s superhuman sense of hearing may be fictional but those on…

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 14, 2025, at the opening bell. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty ImagesUncertainty isn’t in short supply these days — and investors have taken notice.See-sawing policy from the White House has given investors whiplash on many fronts — with tariffs being among the biggest question marks, market experts say.Coupled with uncertainty around federal job cuts, negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and other issues, the combination has been “disorienting to market sentiment,” Paul Christopher, head of global investment strategy at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, wrote Wednesday.Stocks…

The Social Security Administration said on Tuesday that people who wanted to file for benefits or change the bank where their payments are deposited could no longer do so by phone and must first verify their identity online or go into a field office.The change, which takes effect on March 31, is expected to add stress to the agency’s already thinning work force, which is being significantly downsized as part of the broad effort to aggressively shrink the federal government. At the same time, the change would also make things more difficult for older and disabled beneficiaries who may have…

As Ontario Premier Doug Ford prepares to unveil his third-term cabinet, Progressive Conservative strategists are expecting a status-quo government with the majority of front-bench ministers returning to their posts. Weeks after securing a third majority mandate, Ford, along with his new cabinet, will be sworn by Lieutenant Governor Edith Dumont on Wednesday, scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. at the Royal Ontario Museum. Global News will live-stream the ceremony on its website.Ford dissolved the legislature at the end of January and called a snap winter election in an effort to grow his seat count beyond the 83 seats the Progressive Conservatives…

Natasha Rothwell plays characters who are constantly trying to improve and to better understand their desires. This season on “The White Lotus,” Rothwell, an Emmy-nominated actress, is back playing Belinda, a striving spa manager with dreams of becoming her own boss. Ambitions like these are relatable to Rothwell, who created and starred in her own show, “How to Die Alone.” But as she and her characters have learned, going after what you want often means changing your priorities and steering away from certain types of people.Today on the show, Rothwell reads Jasmine Browley’s Modern Love essay, “I Decentered Men. Decentering…

The Australian men’s football team’s head coach Tony Popovic believes there will be a degree of the unknown when his side face an Indonesian team led for the first time by Patrick Kluivert in a qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 2026. The teams meet in Sydney on Thursday in a crucial clash with both battling to nab the second spot in Asian qualifying Group C alongside Japan, who have all but locked up the top spot. Australia’s hopes of securing the second automatic ticket to the finals from the group will rest on how they fare against Indonesia…

A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction barring the Pentagon from enforcing Trump’s order, which asserted “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.” The order, issued Jan. 27, instructed the Department of Defense (DOD) to update its medical standards for military service and pronoun policies, stating that “beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender…

“We all discovered what a powerful vehicle it is to have her singing these songs, and to calm the flurries of notes down a little bit,” he added. “It’s there and it’s hiding, bubbling underneath, ready to come out and gobble up everything at any point. But another thing about it is knowing that you can do that — but not doing it.”Douglas — whose dobro and steel guitar often answer Krauss’s voice with keening, sighing alternate melodies — has long been a first-call Nashville studio musician, bandleader, collaborator and producer. Among his recent projects are “The Set,” his 2024…