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Tens of thousands are expected to join the call for urgent action to end gendered violence in nationwide rallies.

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump signalled on Friday (May 9) that he could lower tariffs on Chinese imports, as the rival superpowers prepare for trade talks in Switzerland over the weekend. “80% Tariff on China seems right!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, which would bring them down from 145 per cent, with cumulative duties on some goods reaching a staggering 245 per cent. He added that it was “Up to Scott B.”, referring to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who will confer with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend in Geneva to try to cool the conflict…

The new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the United States has warned his staff that he will not tolerate any resistance to President Donald Trump’s agenda for the organisation. Friday was the first full day of David Richardson’s leadership at FEMA, after the agency saw a shake-up at its helm earlier this week. But he began his tenure as head with a stark warning for the agency. “I — and I alone in FEMA — speak for FEMA. I’m here to carry out the president’s intent for FEMA,” he reportedly told staff in an agency-wide call.…

While President Donald Trump wants to gut the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are seeking to elevate FEMA to a Cabinet-level agency. FEMA is currently housed under the Department of Homeland Security, but the House effort would solidify FEMA as its own separate agency, according to a discussion draft of the legislation released Thursday. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., and committee ranking member Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., are spearheading the legislation. Other proposals included in the draft legislation are instructing the Office of Management and Budget to create a centralized website…

A Texas district attorney is calling for stricter bail amid a manhunt for a murder suspect who allegedly cut off his ankle monitor and fled before his trial was scheduled to begin on Monday.Kaufman County authorities have been searching for Trevor McEuen, who allegedly admitted to shooting and killing his neighbor, horse trainer Aaron Martinez, in 2023, since early this week.”As our community continues to await the apprehension of Trevor McEuen, the individual indicted for the capital murder of Mr. Martinez, Kaufman County District Attorney Erleigh Wiley expresses her strong support for Governor Abbott’s proposed bail reform legislation,” the Kaufman…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jordon Hudson is not going anywhere any time soon.A report earlier Friday circulated that UNC athletic staff had barred Hudson, the 24-year-old girlfriend of head coach Bill Belichick, from both the facility and the field.However, the university refuted that, regarding “false” reports of her role. Jordon Hudson, the girlfriend of Bill Belichick, looks on in attendance at the Loudermilk Center for Excellence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Dec. 12, 2024. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)”While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina…

A quiet renovation project in a small Dutch church has uncovered a powerful link to the past — and sparked an emotional journey for a Canadian man. Don Drissell, from Ladysmith, B.C., recently travelled to the village of Groesbeek after receiving an unexpected message.Crews working in the attic of a local church had discovered something unusual: a handwritten pencil inscription on a wooden beam, dating back to the Second World War.The name on it? Sergeant W.R. Drissell — Don’s father.Kneeling on a wooden walkway Monday in the attic of the church, Drissell said there was no mistaking the penmanship.“I recognize…

Residents across Pakistan and India have rushed to stockpile food and other essential supplies while families living near the border flee to safer areas, as armed clashes between the nuclear-armed nations escalate.India and Pakistan accused each other of launching new military attacks on Friday, using drones and artillery for the third day, in the worst fighting between the two countries in nearly three decades.The conflict erupted after India struck multiple locations in Pakistan on Wednesday that it said were “terrorist camps”, in retaliation for a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.In the Indian state of Punjab,…

Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar dismissed earlier Indian accusations of Pakistani attacks as “baseless and misleading” and said Pakistan had not carried out any “offensive actions”.In Pakistani Kashmir, officials said heavy shelling from across the border killed five civilians, including an infant, and wounded 29 others in the early hours of Friday.India’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The fighting is the deadliest since a limited conflict between the two countries in Kashmir’s Kargil region in 1999. INDIA ORDERS X TO BLOCK THOUSANDS OF ACCOUNTS Meanwhile, social platform X in a statement on Thursday said the…

When the Museum of Modern Art debuted in a Manhattan townhouse in 1929, it faced incomprehension from audiences still uncomfortable with abstract art. When the Centre Georges Pompidou inaugurated its inside-out home in Paris in 1977, philosophers denounced the multidisciplinary museum as a shopping center. But something else happened with Tate Modern, bigger than either of them, when it opened in London in 2000: immediate success.In a country with an above-average suspicion of modernism, in a city that had never had a full-scale museum of modern and contemporary art, Tate Modern arrived on a bank of the River Thames at…