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Gov. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota vetoed a bill this week that would have required most libraries in the state to keep material considered sexually explicit in areas difficult for minors to access. Under the measure, librarians who do not comply could have faced prosecution.Mr. Armstrong, a Republican former congressman in his first year as governor, said in his veto message that the bill “represents a misguided attempt to legislate morality through overreach and censorship.”“The bill imposes vague and punitive burdens on professionals,” Mr. Armstrong added in a letter dated Tuesday, “and opens the door to a host of unintended…

US stocks have opened mixed as investors digested corporate earning results from various companies.

DHAKA: Bangladesh and the World Bank on Wednesday (Apr 23) signed two financing agreements worth US$850 million to strengthen the South Asian country’s trade capacity, create jobs, and modernise its social protection system, the Washington-based global lender said. The bulk of the funding, US$650 million, will support the Bay Terminal Marine Infrastructure Development Project, an initiative to expand and modernise port facilities in the southeastern district of Chittagong. The project will include constructing a 6km climate-resilient breakwater and access channels, allowing the port to accommodate larger vessels. This is expected to sharply reduce turnaround times, lower transportation costs, and boost…

The attack, the biggest on the capital since last summer, came hours after the Trump administration threatened to walk away from peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

The chief executives of Walmart and Target privately warned President Trump this week that his sweeping tariff policy could disrupt supply chains and lead to empty shelves in the coming weeks, sources familiar with the White House meeting told CBS News.The CEO of Home Depot was also present at Monday’s closed-door meeting. Axios was first to report on the retail executives’ warnings to Mr. Trump.Target and Walmart declined to comment on the specific warnings.Following their meeting with Mr. Trump on Monday, both companies did issue statements.”We had a productive meeting with President Trump and his team and appreciated the opportunity…

Woman sneaks onto a New York to Paris flight The woman who was able to sneak onto a New York-to-Paris flight without a boarding pass late last year got on the plane by blending into a group of passengers as they passed gate agents. Credit: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey via AP. Newly released video shows how Russian national Svetlana Dali was allegedly able to sneak onto a New York to Paris flight without a boarding pass late last year.The video, provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to the Associated Press on…

The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy announced on Thursday that it has commissioned the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for a monumental installation on Roosevelt Island that will kick off a new public art initiative by the conservancy.The artist’s work will be on view starting in September at the state park, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous speech on human rights is memorialized in bronze and granite. Ai plans to cover sections of the park under camouflage netting and metal scaffolding, which the artist said in an interview “is my personal commentary on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time.”The…

Jay Leno, wife Mavis on 44-year marriage Jay Leno told Fox News Digital how he and Mavis get through tough times while at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s 16th Annual Global Women’s Rights Awards Gala. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jay Leno made a vow nearly 45 years ago to stand by his wife Mavis in sickness and in health, and he’s sticking to it.The former late night talk show host was granted a conservatorship over his wife last year due to her dementia diagnosis after he petitioned a Los Angeles court to be her legal care provider.Leno,…

A high school student has been killed and three injured in a school stabbing by a pupil in Nantes, in western France, police say.A student, aged 15, stabbed four people with a knife during a lunch break before teachers subdued him and he was later taken in by officers, a police official said.The police representative said the attack occurred at the private Catholic Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School in Nantes on France’s Atlantic coast.Students at the school told French media at the scene that they had received an email from the assailant earlier in the day with unspecified grievances.Education Minister Elisabeth Borne…

TOKYO: Asian markets were mixed on Thursday (Apr 24) after President Donald Trump said he had “no intention” of firing the US central bank head and made conciliatory comments on his trade war with China. Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve for not cutting interest rates had raised fears that he would fire its “Mr Too Late” chief Jerome Powell, in a major blow to its independence. Trump’s rowback on Wednesday boosted Wall Street, as did his comments that US tariffs on China were “very high” and would “come down substantially”. The broad-based S&P 500 finished 1.7 per cent higher on…