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Escape from New York City.New York City witnessed an outflow of tens of thousands of high-earning residents from 2017 through 2022 who took billions of dollars of income with them, although the Big Apple saw a population increase in 2023 and 2024 spurred on by an influx of migrants, according to a new report. The Big Apple’s population started to decline in 2017 and then plummeted during the pandemic by nearly a half-million residents between April 2020 and July 2022, according to the report by the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), based in Albany. The report notes that many of the transplants…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size EDITOR’S NOTE: The last time Queen Elizabeth II opened the Canadian Parliament was 1977, not 1957 as the article previously stated. This has been updated. Canada has extended an invitation to King Charles III to open Parliament in the coming weeks, multiple sources tell Global News.If accepted, it would be the first time that a sovereign has opened Parliament since Queen Elizabeth II last did so in 1977.Sources tell Global News he is likely to attend, but Buckingham Palace has not officially accepted and, due to protocol, confirmation would need to be…

Four-time defending Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen and partner Kelly Piquet have announced the arrival of their first child.”Welcome to the world, sweet Lily,” Verstappen and Piquet wrote Friday on Instagram.”Our hearts are fuller than ever — you are our greatest gift. We love you so much.”Verstappen had skipped Thursday’s activities at this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix to be with his partner.The announcement gave no further details about the birth.Verstappen and Piquet, the daughter of three-time F1 champion Nelson Piquet, went public with their relationship in 2021.She also has a daughter, Penelope, with driver Daniil Kvyat, but this was…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Travelers Championship does not need any help bringing in golf fans in June.It’s already the second-most attended PGA Tour event of the year, behind only the Waste Management Open in Scottsdale.The tournament itself is also a hit. Last year, Scottie Scheffler defeated Tom Kim in a playoff. And, with the lack of a tournament in the tri-state area, fans from numerous states flock to TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut. for the experience. A general view of the Travelers Championship Tee on the third hole during the third round of the…

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan-administered Kashmir called on residents near the de facto border with India to stockpile food on Friday (May 2) as tensions flare between the arch-rivals following a deadly attack last month. India blames Pakistan for backing a shooting on civilians at the tourist site of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on Apr 22 that killed 26 men. Islamabad has denied the charge and the uneasy neighbours have issued a raft of tit-for-tat punitive diplomatic measures. The two nuclear-armed countries have exchanged gunfire for eight consecutive nights along the militarised Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border that separates…

Washington-Kyiv deal absolves Ukraine of past ‘debt’ for aid, but does not give security guarantees against further Russian aggression.United States Vice President JD Vance has said his administration sees no end to the war in Ukraine, despite preparations in Kyiv to ratify a minerals deal with Washington. Vance told Fox News on Thursday that the Ukraine war prompted by Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022 was “not going to end any time soon”. The comments came a day after Ukraine signed a deal granting the US priority access to its minerals, which, although it stopped short of offering security…

Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a bespectacled, soft-spoken 56-year-old nominated by President Trump, turned his high-backed leather chair toward a government lawyer at the federal courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, and asked a question. Can the president define what counts as an invasion, then declare that an invasion is happening, and then use a 1798 war powers law to expel the so-called invaders?“Yes,” answered Michael Velchik, a Justice Department lawyer.Judge Rodriguez followed up: Wouldn’t that make Mr. Trump’s powers under the wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, “effectively limitless?”The question hinted at a groundbreaking ruling that Judge Rodriguez issued on Thursday when…

President Trump said on Friday that Harvard would lose its tax-exempt status, repeating his intent to enlist the Internal Revenue Service in his feud with the wealthy research university and upend the school’s finances.“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media.It was not immediately clear if the I.R.S. was in fact moving forward with revoking Harvard’s tax-exempt status, a change that could only typically occur after a lengthy process. Federal law prohibits the president from directing the I.R.S. to conduct tax investigations, and I.R.S. employees who receive…

Aritzia Inc. says it is shifting some of its supply chain away from China, which has been hammered with triple-digit tariffs from the United States. The Vancouver-based apparel company said Thursday that the Asian nation is one of the top three countries it relies on to make its clothing, but it intends to cut its China production from 25 to 20 per cent for its upcoming fall-winter season.Its reliance on China will fall even further by next spring, when Aritzia predicts just a “mid-single-digit percentage” of production will happen there, chief executive Jennifer Wong said.“We are taking the word diversification…

Life and death. Family, faith and grief. Identity, anxiety and exams. Food.All that and much more is put through the creative lens of 61 young artists from 37 schools starring in The West Australian Pulse exhibition, opening at the Art Gallery of WA on May 3.The 33rd survey of Year 12 visual arts graduates offers priceless insight into what makes young people tick.There are self-portraits bemoaning the pressures of study, peers and body image alongside artists tackling big picture concerns, ranging from the environment and homelessness to technology and mental health.Several explore identity, especially ethnicity.And then there’s some lovely tributes…