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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 11, 2025 1:55 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The trial of two people accused of fatally shooting an OPP officer more than two years ago has heard from a forensics expert that a hoodie collected from one of the suspects had gunshot residue in its front pocket. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot on Dec. 27, 2022, while responding to a vehicle in the ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., near Brantford. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign…

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Osasuna believed Barcelona fielded an ineligible player in their defeat by the LaLiga leaders on March 27.Osasuna have had their appeal dismissed over Barcelona fielding defender Inigo Martinez in their LaLiga match last month after he sat out Spain’s game through injury. Osasuna filed the appeal with the Spanish football federation (RFEF), stating Barca should not have fielded Martinez over a technicality after he withdrew from the Spain squad for their Nations League games due to a swollen knee. Martinez then played the full 90 minutes in Barcelona’s 3-0 win in the rescheduled game on March 27, four days after…

Washington — The Justice Department told a federal judge Friday that it is unable to provide information she requested about a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador and called a deadline set by the judge to provide the details “impracticable.”U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration to give her information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed her directive for the federal government to “facilitate” his release from Salvadoran custody. Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its order, Xinis directed Homeland Security officials to provide Abrego Garcia’s physical location and custodian status, what steps…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced Friday that the Dallas Independent School District (“ISD”) has agreed to an order to ensure the district is not violating state law by allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports.The agreement comes after Paxton requested records from Dallas ISD in February following the release of a video that showed a school district official explaining loopholes to a parent and how they could get their biologically male child on a girls’ sports team via an altered birth certificate. The video, which was made by an undercover journalist from the outlet Accuracy in Media, showed a Dallas…

Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced a probe into the state’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this week after he ordered state police not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.”[US Attorney General] Pam Bondi has made it clear, and so has our president, that we are to take all criminals, violent criminals and criminals, out of this country and to completely enforce federal law,” Habba told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on his primetime show Thursday.Habba said the investigation will look at Murphy as well as New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin over alleged instructions to state police not…

By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 11, 2025 12:41 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The New Brunswick government says it plans to sell the 11 Teslas it owns, in response to United States tariffs and the prominent role that the carmaker’s CEO plays in the Donald Trump administration. Premier Susan Holt told reporters last week the government had started looking into what price it could get for the vehicles, adding that the Teslas were sitting in a parking lot and not being used. Get daily National news Get the day’s top…

Consumer confidence in the United States has slumped to its weakest level in over ten years, undercut by escalating trade tensions and growing fears of inflation and job losses. The latest survey from the University of Michigan, released Friday, revealed that its closely watched consumer sentiment index dropped to 50.8 in April from 57 the previous month. This marked not only a continued deterioration but also one of the lowest readings since the global financial crisis.The figure came in well below economists’ expectations of 54.6, according to a Wall Street Journal poll. The survey’s director, Joanne Hsu, warned of “multiple…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is a senior lecturer in economic and social history at Glasgow university. His latest book is ‘Coal Country’The future of the UK’s last blast furnaces at Scunthorpe steelworks hangs in the balance. Closure would bring British virgin steel production — making steel from raw materials — to an end. Scunthorpe’s Chinese owners, Jingye, say that the Lincolnshire plant is unviable. President Donald Trump’s tariffs — and the world’s response — underline the fragility of global trade. These are harsh winds…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Morgan Stanley was handed an earnings boost by offloading debt linked to Elon Musk’s X that has become more attractive to investors over recent months, helping the Wall Street bank to report a jump in quarterly profits. The US lender reported nearly $700mn in “other” revenue in its investment bank in the three months to March, up from $242mn during the same period last year, which it said was “principally driven by realised gains on the sale of corporate loans held-for-sale”. A…