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Willkie Farr & Gallagher last week became the latest law firm to strike a deal with the White House and escape President Trump’s wrath. But the firm, which pledged $100 million in legal services to causes that the Trump administration supports, traded one problem for another.Willkie has faced a backlash to the deal in recent days, including within its ranks, as concerns mount over Mr. Trump’s broader law firm crackdown.Doug Emhoff, former Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband and one of Willkie’s most prominent partners, publicly assailed the agreement with Mr. Trump. Congressional Democrats are now demanding information about the deal.…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 7:54 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Provincial police say a woman was charged in a child abduction investigation Monday after she allegedly tried to leave the country with her young child from Toronto’s Pearson airport. Lanark County OPP say officers began investigating when a Beckwith Township resident reported that his wife might be attempting to leave Canada with their six-year-old son. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Police…

Anthony Albanese says caretaker conventions hinder tariff talks with Donald Trump as Australia’s second-largest export to the US — pharmaceuticals — is added to the US President’s target list. 

With the United States observing National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day on April 9, Fox News anchor and former White House press secretary Dana Perino interviewed former White House speechwriter and historian Jonathan Horn about his newest book, “The Fate of the Generals.” The book tells the true story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II.– Dana Perino: Who was Gen. Jonathan Wainwright?Jonathan Horn: Gen. Wainwright was a gritty cavalryman who grew up in Montana not far from the Little Bighorn battlefield — the site of one of history’s most famous last stands — but…

BEIJING: China will impose 84 per cent tariffs on US goods from Thursday (Apr 10), up from the 34 per cent previously announced, its finance ministry said on Wednesday, firing the latest salvo in a global trade war sparked by US President Donald Trump. Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries took effect earlier in the day, including massive 104 per cent duties on Chinese goods. The European Union is also preparing its own retaliatory measures for later on Wednesday. Trump’s punishing tariffs have shaken a global trading order that has persisted for decades, raised fears of recession and wiped trillions…

The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your own favorites in the comments.Nicole ScherzingerI would not have expected the former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger, to convincingly portray a Hollywood has-been in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s almost irredeemably cheesy musical “Sunset Boulevard.” And yet she is giving a spectacular and audacious performance as Norma Desmond in Jamie Lloyd’s dark, stripped-down revival on Broadway.Where Norma typically recedes, a reclusive grande dame floating about the stage in a fog of self-regard, Scherzinger…

When Google lost its landmark antitrust trial in August, Kent Walker, its top lawyer, reminded employees, for the third time, that they were not allowed to discuss the case with one another or anyone outside the company.On Friday afternoon, Google rescinded the command as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union, a group representing some of its employees and contractors, according to an email that Google sent to workers and that was viewed by The New York Times. Alphabet is the parent company of Google.The company told employees that it would not “announce or maintain overbroad rules or…

According to my pathetic map, I should have been close to the royal palace. But nothing in Casablanca’s bustling Mers Sultan quarter, where trams rumble past shoe stores and cafes, looked remotely palatial. I tried one street, then the next. Finally, I approached some teenage girls in jeans and head scarves downing Diet Cokes outside a snack bar.“I’m looking for the palace,” I said in rudimentary French, and pointed to my map. “It says it should be near here.”One of the girls glanced at the creased sheet of paper, and in a voice laden with teenage contempt, asked, “Don’t you…

A doubling of American tariffs on Chinese goods. Nationalist Chinese bloggers comparing President Trump’s levies to a declaration of war. China’s Foreign Ministry vowing that Beijing will “fight to the end.” For years, the world’s two biggest powers have flirted with the idea of an economic decoupling as tensions between them have risen. The acceleration this week, in both actions and words, of their trade relationship’s deterioration has made the prospect of such a divorce seem closer than ever.On Wednesday, the Trump administration carried out its threat to increase tariffs on Chinese exports by an additional 50 percent unless China…

President Trump’s tariffs on imports from dozens of countries came into force Wednesday, including 104% on goods from China, dramatically ramping up a potential global trade war. The tariffs took hold at 12:01 a.m. EDT.Mr. Trump’s tariffs have shaken the dynamics of the decades-old global trading order, increased recession fears and sent shudders through financial markets.  Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.7%, while the Shanghai Composite index closed 1.3% higher.But Japan’s Nikkei 225 ended their day 3.9% lower. Taiwan’s Taiex plummeted 5.8%. South Korea’s Kospi lost 1.7%U.S. stock futures were mostly lower. S&P 500 futures were down 0.41% and Dow Jones…