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The United States economy has added 177,000 jobs in April, topping analysts’ expectations despite economic turmoil in the early months of Donald Trump’s second term as president. The data, released on Friday by the Labor Department, suggests the job market is holding steady despite uncertainty driven by Trump’s tariff campaign. The healthcare industry added 51,000 jobs, the highest total gain, but a sum that is consistent with the average monthly growth over the last 12 months. The transportation and warehousing sectors also increased significantly, gaining 29,000 jobs in April. But experts say that growth in those sectors in particular could be…

Washington — President Trump said Friday his administration will be rescinding Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, further escalating the ongoing feud with the Ivy League school.”We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” the president said in a post to Truth Social.Mr. Trump did not provide further details about the effort to strip Harvard of its designation as a 501(c)(3) organization, but he has floated taking such a step as recently as last month. Roughly 2 million organizations have received tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, including charities like churches, environmental groups and universities.…

President Trump’s budget proposal would shrink the Education Department, which he has called on Congress to eliminate, by slashing its funding by 15 percent, or $12 billion.The most significant chunk of that reduction, about $4.5 billion, would come from the Title I budget for high-poverty schools, a cut of nearly 25 percent at a time when the rate of children living in poverty in America is on the rise. The administration said this reduction would come from a plan to provide “streamlined, flexible funding to the states” and relieve the federal government of the responsibility of administering the money and…

A newly re-elected Conservative member of Parliament is resigning his Alberta seat to allow Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to run again, the party announced Friday. Poilievre lost his long-held seat in the Ottawa riding of Carleton in Monday’s federal election, leaving the Conservatives without a leader in the House of Commons despite forming the largest official Opposition in Canada’s history.The resignation of Battle River-Crowfoot MP-elect Damien Kurek, who has held the seat since 2019, will allow Poilievre to run in a future by-election.“Pierre Poilievre just finished a remarkable national campaign that received the highest vote share since 1988,” Kurek said…

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir said he will question himself hard after his team were beaten badly by St Kilda.

SINGAPORE: A military exercise will be conducted in several areas of Johor from May 1 to May 13, Malaysian news agency Bernama reported on Wednesday (Apr 30). The exercise involves the 21st Special Forces Group and Johor Military Force, and will take place around Pengerang, Tanjung Pengelih, Teluk Ramunia and Desaru.   According to a statement from the Malaysian army, there will be helicopter flights, tactical vehicle movements and “explosive elements”.  “Local residents and road users are advised not to panic and to comply with all safety instructions during the exercise,” the statement said. Traffic control measures and roadblocks will be implemented…

A ship carrying 16 people and humanitarian aid to Gaza was rocked by explosions early Friday off the coast of Malta, setting the vessel on fire and putting it at risk of sinking, according to the human rights group operating the ship.The ship and its crew were safe after a tugboat helped extinguish the blaze following a mayday call, the government of Malta said in a statement. It did not say what had caused the fire, adding that the authorities were monitoring the ship, which was in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea.The ship, called Conscience and operated by a…

May 2, 2025, 12:22 p.m. ETThe National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.Credit…Hailey Sadler for The New York TimesTwo of President Trump’s favorite targets — the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — will have their funding cut nearly in half under Mr. Trump’s proposed budget, which also wipes out a $4.1 billion program that helps low-income Americans pay their heating and cooling bills.The budget blueprint, released Friday, advances, in hard numbers and biting words, Mr. Trump’s assault on the nation’s universities and scientific research enterprise. It calls the N.I.H., the world’s premier biomedical…

Attorneys for the man accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson filed a motion to the New York Supreme Court on Thursday to suppress evidence in the state’s case against him, and to have the case dismissed completely. Luigi Mangione’s attorney, Karen Friedman Angifilo, said in the filing that statements her client made to Altoona, Pennsylvania police before his arrest on Dec. 9, should be excluded from his trial.She claims that two police officers, who located the alleged murderer inside a McDonald’s, “effectively had Mr. Mangione in custody” by blocking the exit to the restaurant while they questioned him, all before…

Crime rates in rural communities are consistently higher than in urban centres, suggests new data presented in a Statistics Canada report — a long-term trend one criminologist says is unsurprising. The report, published Tuesday, found the rate of police-reported crime in rural Canadian communities was 34 per cent higher than the urban rate. That disparity was especially pronounced across the Prairies and in rural British Columbia.“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Doug King, criminologist at Mount Royal University in Calgary. “People often have this misunderstanding that more people mean higher crime rates, which is just not true.” 2:03 Larger RCMP emergency…