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Styrofoam packing peanuts littered an empty office in the Rayburn House Office Building across from the Capitol on Monday morning as two moving men unpacked a plush couch, an upholstered armchair, lamps and a lucite side table.Representative Elise Stefanik of New York was back.This had not been the plan.Ms. Stefanik, the self-proclaimed “ultra MAGA” warrior whom President Trump nominated to serve as ambassador to the United Nations, had expected to sail through her Senate confirmation vote, which was to be scheduled in early April.So she boxed up her office. She sent off her longtime chief of staff, Patrick Hester, to…

The Trump administration recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about releasing a Salvadoran immigrant whom government officials have been ordered by the Supreme Court to help free, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.But the authoritarian government of Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, said no, two of the people said. The Bukele administration claimed the man should stay in El Salvador because he was a Salvadoran citizen, according to one of those people.It remained unclear whether the diplomatic effort was a genuine bid by the White House to address the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve asked manager Joe Espada to move him out of the leadoff spot for a peculiar reason. Altuve, 34, is playing left field this season for the first time in his career after he spent the first 14 years of his career at second base. The Astros star asked to be dropped from the leadoff spot because he needed a little more time to get ready to hit because of the farther run into the dugout from the outfield than his old spot at second base.  Houston Astros left…

Uncertainty about both the rapidly changing U.S. trade policy and the impact it’s having on the Canadian economy dominated discussion by the Bank of Canada governing council in the lead-up to its interest rate hold earlier this month. The group also identified some key metrics for assessing the effect of tariffs on inflation as it makes monetary policy decisions, according to a summary of deliberations released on Wednesday about its April 16 decision.The decision to keep the benchmark rate at 2.75 per cent came on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump’s April 3 so-called “reciprocal” tariffs, which targeted a slew of countries…

US President Donald Trump says Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to make a trade deal and will visit the White House within the next week.Trump said he congratulated Carney on his election victory when the Canadian leader called on Tuesday.”He called me up yesterday – he said let’s make a deal,” Trump told reporters at the White House after a televised cabinet meeting.Trump said Carney “couldn’t have been nicer and I congratulated him”.He said the Canadian leader would come to the White House within a week.Trump said this week’s Canadian election sends a “very mixed signal because it’s…

SUPPORT FROM OPPOSITION LEADER Caste data was last collected as part of the official census exercise in 1931, during British colonial rule that ended with Indian independence 16 years later.Successive governments have since resisted updating the sensitive demographic data, citing administrative complexity and fears of social unrest.A caste survey was conducted in 2011 but its results were never made public because they were purportedly inaccurate.That survey was separate from the 2011 general census, the last time the world’s most populous nation collected demographic data.Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has in the past opposed the idea of enumerating people by…

King Charles III said on Wednesday that his life with cancer had brought “into sharp focus the very best of humanity” as he expressed gratitude to medical staff and charities that work with cancer patients across Britain.His reflections, delivered in the form of a written message to guests attending a reception for cancer care charities at Buckingham Palace, opened a small window into his experiences as a patient, although he did not give any update on his condition.The king announced in February 2024 that he had received a diagnosis that he had an undisclosed form of cancer, and he has…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that a restructuring was underway at President Donald Trump’s direction to eliminate “well-documented politicization” of the agency. Trump joked during a meeting of his Cabinet secretaries on Wednesday that perhaps Ratcliffe was the only one “who’s not allowed to talk about the great job he’s done,” given the classified nature of the Central Intelligence Agency’s work. “At your direction, the CIA has deployed our unique covert action, authorities in various places and continents, to successfully advance your national security and foreign policy priorities, to advance peace, to end wars, to take terrorists off the battlefield, and…

Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that neuroscientists don’t have any explanations for it. Far from it.“In the field of consciousness, there are already so many theories that we don’t need more theories,” said Oscar Ferrante, a neuroscientist at the University of Birmingham.If you’re looking for a theory to explain how our brains give rise to subjective, inner experiences, you can check out Adaptive Resonance Theory. Or consider Dynamic Core Theory. Don’t forget First Order Representational Theory, not to mention semantic pointer competition theory. The list goes on: A 2021 survey identified 29 different theories of consciousness.Dr.…

Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at a wall of posters in a Manhattan restaurant that spotlights failed Broadway shows. We’ll also get details on a state senator who wants to take away Tesla’s right to operate five dealerships in New York.There’s a place where Broadway flops live on: a wall at the restaurant Joe Allen in the theater district that is lined with posters of duds and disasters. “Everyone remembers the hits,” Joe Allen’s website says, “but we revel in the flops.” My colleague Sarah Bahr, who revels in both, writes about what it takes to make the…