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Six weeks ago, a van piled high with flowers pulled up at the International Criminal Court’s detention center in The Hague. The court also received deliveries of birthday cards. Lots and lots of them.They were all for the newest inmate, Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, who turned 80 on March 28. He is accused of crimes against humanity, and he could spend the rest of his life in prison.“The place was inundated with flowers, and I brought some of the mail out because they didn’t know what to do with it,” Nicholas Kaufman, Mr. Duterte’s lawyer, said…

Washington — The royal family of Qatar is donating a jumbo jet for President Trump’s exclusive use as a presidential plane, sources told CBS News. ABC News first reported the gift, which comes as Mr. Trump heads to Qatar as part of his first international trip of his second term. But the plane, a 747-8, won’t be ready to serve as Air Force One quite yet, and Mr. Trump won’t be using it to fly back to the U.S. from the Middle East. The plane needs to be checked for security and spying devices before it is accepted, one of the sources…

The New York Stock Exchange is seen during morning trading on July 31, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLast year, banks quickly raised interest rates to record levels and added new monthly fees on credit cards when a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule threatened a key revenue source for the industry.Now, they’re far more reluctant to reverse those steps, even after bank trade groups succeeded in killing the CFPB rule in federal court last month.Synchrony and Bread Financial, two of the biggest players in the business of issuing branded credit cards for the likes…

President Trump will sign an executive order on Monday aimed at lowering some drug prices in the United States by aligning them with what other wealthy countries pay, he said on Truth Social on Sunday evening.The proposal he described, which alone cannot shift federal policy, is what he calls a “most favored nation” pricing model. Mr. Trump did not provide details about which type of insurance the plan would apply to or how many drugs it would target, but he indicated that the United States should pay the lowest price among its peer countries.“Our Country will finally be treated fairly,…

Tens of thousands of Americans will soon be forced by their health insurance to switch from one popular obesity drug to another that produces less weight loss.It is the latest example of the consequences of secret deals between drugmakers and middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, that are hired by employers to oversee prescription coverage for Americans. Employers pay lower drug prices but their workers are blocked from getting competing treatments, a type of insurance denial that has grown much more common in the past decade.One of the largest benefit managers, CVS Health’s Caremark, made the decision to exclude Zepbound…

Johnny Rodriguez, who became the first Mexican American country music star with a string of hits, died on Friday. He was 73.His daughter, Aubry Rodriguez, announced his death on social media on Saturday. The post did not cite a cause of death.Mr. Rodriguez rose to fame in the 1970s and was best known for the hits “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” and “You Always Come Back (to Hurting Me).” He released six singles that reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, and nine others reached the Top 10.In 2007, Mr. Rodriguez was inducted into the Texas Country Music…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Lainey Wilson has found her match.While speaking with Fox News Digital on the red carpet at the ACM Awards, the “Watermelon Moonshine” singer gushed about her fiancé, Devlin “Duck” Hodges, saying she was “completely shocked” when he proposed.”Completely shocked, but very excited that I’ve found me a man that’s just easygoing,” she said. “He is my biggest fan. He high-fives me on the way in the door and he high-fives me on the way out and that’s all I can ask for.”The 32-year-old country music star announced her engagement to Hodges on…

As the battle for the Liberals’ leadership heats up, a new hat may be tossed into the ring from someone who said they weren’t elected “just to sit around”.

PICKING UP THE PIECES Among those most affected by the fighting were residents on either side of the border, many of whom fled their homes when the fighting began on Wednesday, two weeks after a deadly attack in Indian Kashmir’s Pahalgam that India said was backed by Islamabad. Pakistan denied the accusation. In the Indian border city of Amritsar, home to the Golden Temple revered by Sikhs, people returned to the streets on Sunday morning after a siren sounded to signal a return to normal activities following the tension of recent days. “Ever since the terrorists attacked people in Pahalgam,…

Liz Reid, vice president, search, Google speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022.Sajjad Hussain | AFP | Getty ImagesTestimony in Google’s antitrust search remedies trial that wrapped hearings Friday shows how the company is calculating possible changes proposed by the Department of Justice.Google head of search Liz Reid testified in court Tuesday that the company would need to divert between 1,000 and 2,000 employees, roughly 20% of Google’s search organization, to carry out some of the proposed remedies, a source with knowledge of the proceedings confirmed.The testimony comes during the final days of the remedies trial,…