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President Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the United States will strike a “comprehensive” trade agreement with Britain.Hours after teasing that an agreement would soon be announced, Mr. Trump said in a social media post that a deal had been reached that would “cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come.” “Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement,” he wrote. “Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!”Mr. Trump is…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! William Hardrick, a college football defensive back who previously played at Mississippi State and Miami (Ohio) before transferring to Austin Peay, has died. He was 22.Austin Peay University announced Hardrick’s death on Wednesday. Defensive back William Hardrick, #3, runs in the second half of the Arizona Bowl NCAA college football game against Colorado State on Dec. 28, 2024 in Tucson, Arizona. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)Hardrick was killed in a car crash in Alabama near Interstate 65, Limestone County Coroner Mike West told WHNT-TV. John Walter McAdams was arrested in the crash and was…

After President Donald Trump cracked down on illegal immigrant crossings at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, Border Patrol agents in the North are facing a flurry of attempted crossings. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Houlton, Maine said on May 2 that in the previous 10 days, it had conducted targeted enforcement operations that netted 39 illegal immigrant captures, according to a news release. Foreign nationals from Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and China were arrested during the recent operations. According to the immigration officials, the agency has already captured more illegal immigrants in Maine this year…

Some Canadian school boards say they’ve been the target of ransom attempts in relation to the massive data breach of PowerSchool, which saw millions of current and former students across the country impacted. In letters to families on Wednesday, the Toronto District School Board, Peel District School Board and Calgary Board of Education said they had been contacted by a “threat actor demanding a ransom.”Each school board says PowerSchool is not reporting that new information has been accessed, and it’s believed the data being used for ransom is what was obtained in December 2024.PowerSchool, the U.S.-based company that provides the…

England’s Maro Itoje will captain the British and Irish Lions on their tour of Australia after being appointed by the team’s English head coach Andy Farrell.The 30-year-old Saracens lock becomes the first Black player to captain the Lions and only the third Englishman in 89 years to be appointed leader of the touring side.One of the few sure Test starters, Itoje will be embarking on his third Lions tour after being selected as the youngest player in New Zealand in 2017 and playing a standout role in South Africa in 2021.Appointed England captain in place of Jamie George in January,…

BANGKOK: More than 300 Myanmar people fled into Thailand to seek refuge following an assault on the military by ethnic armed groups, Thailand said on Thursday (May 8), days after the junta extended a post-earthquake ceasefire. Myanmar has been mired in civil conflict since a military coup in 2021, with the junta battling a coalition of ethnic armed organisations and pro-democracy resistance forces. Wednesday’s attack by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and its allied Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) targeted a military base in Kayin state, about 2.5km from the Thai border, according to the Thai military. “The attack involved…

Even as India was gearing up to use its military to strike at Pakistan this week, calling it revenge for a terrorist strike in Kashmir last month, the government was pursuing other forms of power projection as well: bloodless and more refined, and mostly aimed at Pakistan’s economic vulnerability.On Friday, May 9, the executive board of the International Monetary Fund is scheduled to meet three blocks from the White House. Indian officials have suggested that they will make a new case there: that the Fund should refuse the extension of a $7 billion loan to Pakistan described as crucial to…

This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersWelcome to Energy Source, coming to you from New York.Uncertainty and the threat of tariffs circled over the Federal Reserve on Wednesday as its Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to keep interest rates on hold for the third meeting in a row.Meanwhile, slumping oil prices are weighing on producers’ bottom lines, with Diamondback Energy and Coterra Energy warning they will cut capital expenditure unless…

The Bank of England has cut interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25 per cent but stressed it was not on a preset path to further reductions, as it prepares for the impact of Donald Trump’s trade policy.Thursday’s split decision, the fourth rate reduction since August, comes ahead of the announcement of a US-UK trade deal that London hopes will reduce the tariff hit on British exports. The BoE’s nine-person Monetary Policy Committee was split between the five members who supported the quarter-point cut, two who favoured a bigger, half-point reduction and two who wanted rates to stay at…

Pakistan’s military said on Thursday morning that the country’s air defence system had brought down 25 Indian drones overnight over some of the country’s chief cities, including Lahore and Karachi. At least one civilian has died, and five people were wounded, it said. India’s Defence Ministry confirmed hours later that it had targeted Pakistan’s air defence radars and claimed that it was able to “neutralize” one defence system in Lahore. It said Pakistan had attempted to attack India and Indian-administered Kashmir with drones and missiles overnight, but that these had been shot down. The drone attacks represent the latest escalation…