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Riley Gaines, a former NCAA All-American swimmer who has championed fairness in women’s sports, delivered the pre-race invocation on Sunday before the NASCAR Cup Series’ EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.Gaines said a prayer before “The Boys” actor Jack Quaid gave drivers the go-ahead to start their engines. Drivers round turn 16 during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Focused Health 250 at Circuit of the Americas on Saturday, March 1, 2025, in Austin. (Aaron E. Martinez/American-Statesman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)”Dear heavenly Father, we gather today with gratitude for your mercy that…

FRANCE – 2025/01/20: In this photo illustration, Trump Meme , Trump the Crypto president, is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Romain Doucelin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Romain Doucelin | Getty ImagesCryptocurrencies rallied on Sunday after President Donald Trump announced the creation of a strategic crypto reserve for the United States that will include bitcoin and ether, as well as XRP,  Solana’s SOL token and Cardano’s ADA.”A U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration, which is why my Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group…

“Rely less on the airline to just offer you a good deal,” Mr. Leff said. “Often you want two cards: one that earns multiple points in the category where you spend the most, and one that pairs in the same ecosystem from the same bank that earns 1.5 or two points per dollar.” This means using two cards from the same bank — for example, pairing Chase’s Sapphire Preferred with its Freedom Unlimited card to pool their earned points.This flexibility proves crucial as sweet spots move between programs. Virgin Atlantic, for instance, charges just 90,000 miles for ANA first-class flights…

Aussie music legend and former politician Peter Garrett has come under fire after encouraging festivalgoers to “pretend they’re dancing on Gina Rinehart’s grave”.The former Midnight Oil frontman took to the stage at Perth Festival with his other band The Alter Egos on Friday night.The 71-year-old told the audience to “pretend they’re dancing on Gina Rinehart’s grave” in a major dig at the billionaire mining magnate, while also slamming Woodside and US President Donald Trump, Perth Now reported.Camera IconPeter Garrett told festivalgoers to pretend they were dancing on the grave of billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinheart. NewsWire/Dean Sewell Credit: News Corp…

A NEW ERA OF TECHNO-IMPERIALISM The move exposes a new reality: Musk’s proximity to the US president, known for his transactional approach to foreign policy, is impacting how countries are writing regulations – and in ways that stand to further enrich the billionaire. Musk’s pseudo-government role is already causing consternation in Washington over a slew of potential conflicts of interest. Vietnam’s change of heart reveals how this new era of techno-imperialism is quietly reshaping policy in developing countries. Vietnam isn’t alone in its efforts to court the world’s wealthiest man and his political clout. Bangladesh’s interim leader recently invited Musk…

Israel on Sunday announced that it would stop all goods and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, a draconian move that disrupted the existing, agreed-upon framework for negotiating a permanent end to the war.The decision came a day after the end of the first phase of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. Here’s what to know:What has Israel said?Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced the halt to the flow of humanitarian assistance and goods hours after his government proposed a seven-week extension of the temporary cease-fire, at the start of which it said that Hamas would have to release…

The rapid reduction of illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border calls into question a key Democratic talking point during the 2024 campaign, when party leaders blamed then-former President Donald Trump for helping kill bipartisan border legislation that they argued was the only way to secure the border.”President Trump’s fast and successful border security proves Biden’s false claim of needing the Senate’s border insecurity bill was nothing more than Biden’s attempted power grab to codify his open border tools and hamstring a future president who wanted to enforce the law,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and…

Aspiring lawyers in California are in limbo this week after taking the state’s revamped bar exam, which was rife with technical glitches and written in a style that some test takers said scarcely resembled the exam they had spent thousands of dollars and years of intense study to pass.The faulty rollout last week of the new licensing test, which was approved by the California Supreme Court in October and was touted by the state bar as a way to save money, has outraged test takers and the law school community at large, and prompted an investigation by California lawmakers and…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 2, 2025 2:53 pm Updated March 2, 2025 3:37 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police say two minors could eventually face charges after allegedly scaling Montreal’s Jacques-Cartier Bridge early Sunday. Provincial police spokesperson Elizabeth Marquis-Guy says police received calls at about 4 a.m. about two people on a lower part of the structure. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. She says Quebec provincial police, the fire department, paramedics and representatives…

New Dolphins coach Kristian Woolf has been backed to cast his own spell on the post-Wayne Bennett “curse”, despite head coaches who succeeded him in the NRL previously encountering all kinds of doom and gloom.Coaches who have followed new South Sydney mentor Bennett the five times he has left NRL clubs previously have been sacked after their first, second or third year following total implosions.Before they took over, however, none of them had the resume of Woolf, who won three Super League titles at St Helens and turned Tonga into a global powerhouse during his decade as head coach.It is…