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The Las Vegas combine has yet to produce an NRL star, but the Newcastle Knights have signed a Canadian they hope can be the first.

JAKARTA: Employees of a rubber factory got a shock in late April when half a dozen men allegedly stormed their workplace in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, ordered them to stop what they were doing and claimed control over the facility, according to police reports.  Inside the factory, the men reportedly brandished a banner emblazoned with the words: “Operation of this factory and warehouse is being seized by GRIB Jaya Central Kalimantan” referring to the organisation, United Indonesian People’s Movement.  The group also demanded that the factory hand over the 1.4 billion rupiah (US$84,572) it reportedly owed to its client, said…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Miami football player was found to be the driver in a two-car crash that killed three people in the other vehicle, two of which were children, police said on Monday.Linebacker Adarius Hayes was injured in the wreck, but was released from the hospital.The people killed in the Kia Soul were aged 78, 10, and 4. Miami Hurricanes linebacker Adarius Hayes (34) reacts against the Florida A&M Rattlers during the second quarter at Hard Rock Stadium.  (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)”We are deeply saddened to learn the crash resulted in three fatalities, as confirmed…

The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website when President Trump took office, according to court documents filed on Monday in a lawsuit over the deletion.The deleted data included pages on federal funding and loans, forest conservation and rural clean energy projects. It also included sections of the U.S. Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service sites, and the U.S. Forest Service’s “Climate Risk Viewer,” which included detailed maps showing how climate change might affect national forests and grasslands.The lawsuit, filed in February, said the purge denied farmers information to make time-sensitive decisions…

Harvard University President Alan Garber on Monday sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon criticizing the Trump administration’s actions against the school while noting both groups share “common ground” on a number of issues. “We share common ground on a number of critical issues, including the importance of ending antisemitism and other bigotry on campus,” Garber said. “Like you, I believe that Harvard must foster an academic environment that encourages freedom of thought and expression, and that we should embrace a multiplicity of viewpoints rather than focusing our attention on narrow orthodoxies.”However, Harvard’s goals are undermined and threatened “by the…

During President Trump’s first term, the idea that special interests and governments were buying meals and booking rooms at his hotels set off legal and ethical alarms about the potential for corruption.Mr. Trump’s second term is making those concerns look trivial.The administration’s plan to accept a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family is only the latest example of an increasingly no-holds-barred atmosphere in Washington under Trump 2.0. Not only would the famously transactional chief executive be able to use the plane while in office, but he is also expected to transfer it to his presidential foundation once…

By Payton Zillich Global News Posted May 12, 2025 7:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size On Monday, May 12, construction officially began on the rehabilitation of Broadway Bridge in Saskatoon. The project’s goal is repairing decks, improving multi-use paths and ensuring the structural integrity of the bridge. The 93-year-old bridge be getting new asphalt, traffic barriers, waterproofing, and arch and railing improvements. The city will also be removing the right northbound flow-through lane to change the intersection into a ‘T’ shape. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and…

Erin Patterson’s triple-murder trial over the alleged deliberate poisoning of four in-laws is expected to resume on Tuesday morning after jurors were given a day off.Jurors in the weeks-long trial were told on Thursday last week by trial judge Justice Christopher Beale that they’d be getting a long weekend as a measure expected to save time.“I’ve just been having a discussion with counsel about the way the case is progressing and the way that we can save some time and we can best achieve that by not sitting on Monday,” he said.“There are things happening behind the scenes to try…

CONSERVATIVE PARTY INSTITUTIONALISATION The final structural issue revealed by the post-Dec 3 chaos is the inability of the South Korean conservative party to function as a modern political party. This is not formally a constitutional issue, of course; the PPP is not in the constitution. But the South Korean constitution does assume parties will compete for power, and multiparty democracy requires at least two coherent, governing-capable parties if voters are to have real electoral choice. The PPP is no longer such a party. Mr Yoon is the conservatives’ second president in a row to be impeached. Conservative Park Geun-hye was…

Move comes as US administration largely closes refugee admissions from countries experiencing widespread violence and poverty.A group of 59 white Afrikaners from South Africa has arrived in the United States as part of a refugee programme set up by the administration of US President Donald Trump to offer sanctuary from what Trump has depicted as racial discrimination against white people. In a press conference on Monday, Trump mirrored the claims of a myth popular on the far right that white people in South Africa have been subjected to systematic violence since the end of white minority rule in that country.…