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“White Lotus” star Aimee Lou Wood says she received an apology from “Saturday Night Live” after the show aired a parody skit, “The White Potus,” and mocked her appearance.On Sunday, Wood took to her Instagram stories and claimed that the show had made contact to apologize, a rare move by the comedy show. “I’ve had apologies from SNL,” she wrote before sharing behind-the-scenes clips from Mike White’s series.‘WHITE LOTUS’ STAR SLAMS ‘SNL’ OVER ‘MEAN’ PARODY On Monday, Aimee Lou Wood was spotted crying while walking in London. (BACKGRID) Wood was accompanied by fellow actor Ralph Davis, who wrapped his arm around…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Thursday evening, Tennessee’s quarterbacks gathered for an annual tradition, with Nico Iamaleava among them.On their off day ahead of Saturday’s spring game, Tennessee’s quarterbacks sat around the table at quarterbacks coach Joey Halzle’s home. His wife, Cara, made tacos. It was mostly business as usual, despite a report earlier in the day that returning starter Iamaleava was in negotiations for a new contract. He’d all but begun the era of school-affiliated collectives spending big money on recruits when he signed an $8 million deal with Tennessee as a high school senior for his name, image and likeness.A…

Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped nearly 5% after Elliott Investment Management built a more than $1.5 billion stake in the server maker, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. The activist investor hopes to engage the company in discussions on how to improve shareholder value, the source said. Elliott and HPE declined to comment on the news.Shares of the data center equipment maker have lost more than a fourth in value this year. Last month, the company topped quarterly revenue expectations, but issued weak fiscal full-year guidance. HPE said it was grappling with higher discounting and expected price adjustments…

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NewsFeedA severe sandstorm blanketed southern Iraq on Monday, causing airports to close down and sending over 3,500 people to hospitals. Experts warn sandstorms are becoming more frequent in Iraq due to climate change and desertification.Published On 15 Apr 202515 Apr 2025

President Trump threatened Harvard University’s tax-exempt status on Tuesday after the school rebuffed the administration’s demands aimed at purging “woke” ideology from America’s college campuses.The move escalated the feud between the Trump administration and Harvard, the nation’s richest as well as oldest university.“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting “Sickness?” Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!”It’s the latest turn in a fight between Mr. Trump and academia more broadly, in which the Trump administration has been…

The Trump administration’s compliance with court orders started with foot-dragging, moved to semantic gymnastics and has now arrived at the cusp of outright defiance.Large swaths of President Trump’s agenda have been tied up in court, challenged in scores of lawsuits. The administration has frozen money that the courts have ordered it to spend. It has blocked The Associated Press from the White House press pool despite a court order saying that the news organization be allowed to participate. And it ignored a judge’s instruction to return planes carrying Venezuelan immigrants bound for a notorious prison in El Salvador.But Exhibit A…

By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 15, 2025 12:09 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Nova Scotia government is offering municipalities a blueprint on how they can protect the province’s 13,000 kilometres of coastline. Environment Minister Tim Halman today announced a new website link with examples of bylaws and other regulations municipalities can use to prevent coastal erosion.It’s a controversial measure — the Progressive Conservatives have refused to put into force a 2019 law adopted by the previous Liberal government that would have required the provincial government to manage coastal protection.Instead,…

A remote-controlled robot has embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant that was wrecked by a tsunami 14 years ago.The mission, which follows the first such debris retrieval in November, is aimed at eventually developing the technology and robots needed for a larger scale clean-up of the plant, destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.The extendable Telesco robot carries cameras and a tong to grip tiny nuggets of radioactive debris.It entered the No. 2 reactor’s primary containment vessel on Tuesday, according to…

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (Apr 15) that China has gone back on a major Boeing deal, after a news report that Beijing ordered airlines not to take further deliveries of the US aviation giant’s jets. Trump’s comments on social media followed a Bloomberg news report about the halt. The report also said that Beijing requested Chinese carriers to pause purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from US firms. “Interestingly, they just reneged on the big Boeing deal, saying that they will ‘not take possession’ of fully committed to aircraft,” said Trump in a Truth Social…