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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…

Last spring, when my wife and I were preparing to welcome our first child, we started a list of baby gear — a rite of passage for parents. The difference with our list, or so I thought, was that it would contain only the best stuff because it was vetted by me, a tech columnist with 20 years of experience testing products.After our baby arrived in the summer, I learned I was wrong.It turns out there is no best baby gear, because what worked for other parents often didn’t work for us. Even though I had picked a top-rated stroller,…

We all know that the right chemistry can make any vacation magic, and the wrong chemistry can ruin one.But what if the problem is not a clash of personalities, but rather the choice of destination and activity?With this idea in mind, we came up with four different traveler types, paired each of them and then combed though recent New York Times travel coverage to come up with options for destinations and activities that both travel types in each pairing might enjoy.We hope this quiz will help make your next trip fun and frictionless.

In tonight’s show Ben Harvey explains why under-pressure Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison is the Bobby Axelrod of Australian resources.

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