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There’ll be no pressure on Brandon Smith at South Sydney this year as the hooker prepares for an immediate move from the Sydney Roosters.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin speaks during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 at Conrad Washington on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty ImagesBillionaire Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the Citadel hedge fund, said working class Americans will bear the brunt of President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on U.S. trading partners.”Tariffs hit the pocketbook of hardworking Americans the hardest,” Griffin said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” Wednesday. “It’s like a sales tax for the American people. It’s going to hit those who are working the hardest to make ends meet. That’s my big issue with tariffs. It’s such a…

No one knows how long the conclave will last.There is no formal time limit: until two-thirds of the 133 voting Roman Catholic cardinals agree on a new pope, they must continue to vote. Past papal selections have lasted from just a few hours to nearly three years. In the 13th century, the tradition of sequestering the cardinals during the conclave started after residents in Viterbo, near Rome, where it was being held, grew frustrated with a selection process that dragged on almost three years. Locals locked the squabbling cardinals in the papal palace in Viterbo and had the roof removed,…

Reporter’s Notebook: Who pays for tariffs? – CBS News Watch CBS News As officials debate who pays for tariffs, small business owners say the answer is on their import bill. “CBS Evening News” co-anchor John Dickerson explains. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As Sheduer Sanders inexplicably fell down NFL Draft boards, President Donald Trump implored NFL owners to take a chance on the former Colorado Buffaloes quarterback.Sanders was projected to go as early as No. 2 before his draft slide, which had the entire sports world talking and wondering why it happened. During the draft, Trump took aim at team owners as franchises passed on Sanders. Donald Trump and Shedeur Sanders (AP Newsroom; Imagn)”What is wrong with NFL owners, are they STUPID?” Trump wrote on April 25. “Deion Sanders was a great college football player,…

A judge in Idaho has denied prosecutors’ request to conduct personality testing on quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger.Kohberger is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20. The former Washington State University student was also charged with one felony count of burglary.In an order Wednesday, Judge Steven Hippler denied the state’s request to perform a personality test on Kohberger, citing time constraints. Hippler wrote that “any new potential diagnoses or evidence uncovered through personality testing may elicit the need for further testing,” which would…

A man accused of murdering his flatmate has refused to look at photos of her body while being questioned if he left her to “rot away forever” on his balcony.Yang Zhao, 30, on Thursday spent his second day on the witness stand testifying on his own defence after pleading not guilty to the murder of Qiong Yan, 29, in September 2020 at their inner-Brisbane apartment.Crown prosecutor Chris Cook presented Zhao with crime scene pictures of Ms Yan’s body after it had been sealed for 10 months in a tool box on Zhao’s balcony.”You let her rot forever on your balcony?”…

Local media said Toda allegedly attacked the victim several times – first on the station’s platform, before the victim dashed inside a subway car where Toda chased him and slashed his head several more times. Other passengers apprehended Toda, who was arrested by police on the spot, reports said. Toda and the victim are not believed to have known each other, local media said, adding that one other passenger who helped apprehend the attacker also cut his hand. Violent crime is relatively rare in Japan, which has a low murder rate and some of the world’s toughest gun laws. But…

Here is where things stand on Thursday, May 8: Fighting A three-day ceasefire declared by Russia to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany came into effect at midnight, Moscow time (21:00 GMT, Wednesday). Ukraine has not committed to abide by the ceasefire, proposing a 30-day cessation in fighting instead. Russian aircraft launched guided bombs on the Sumy region of northern Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday morning despite the ceasefire, Ukraine’s air force said in a post on Telegram. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Apart from the Ukrainian air force’s statement…

The National Archives released on Wednesday a second tranche of documents related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, though the documents are unlikely to change scholars’ views of his murder.The release of 60,000 additional documents was announced by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.“After the initial release of 10,000 documents three weeks ago, we searched F.B.I. and C.I.A. warehouses for any records not previously turned over to The National Archives,” Ms. Gabbard wrote on social media. “More than 60,000 documents were discovered, declassified, and digitized for public viewing. Today’s release is an important step…