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Saquon Barkley already got to hang with members of the Trump family before meeting President Donald Trump later this month.Barkley is the star running back of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, who took home their second Lombardi Trophy in February.The Birds were invited to the White House shortly after their 40-22 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, and they will visit April 28. Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley rushes for a touchdown against the Washington Commanders during the second half of the NFC championship Jan. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)Before that, Barkley attended the J.P. Morgan…

Two days before a deadline for TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese company or otherwise face a ban in the United States, a deal has not yet been cemented but the contours of one are starting to take shape.Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the administration would announce a plan for TikTok by Saturday. A federal law passed last year to resolve national security concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese owner, ByteDance, called for the app to be sold or banned in January. President Trump delayed the enforcement of that law until April 5.Mr. Trump also…

President Trump’s tariffs have spared almost no corner of the Earth. Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing.Among the countries and territories listed on sheets of paper that were distributed to reporters in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday were Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australian territories near Antarctica where many penguins but no people live. Also listed were the British Indian Ocean Territory, a collection of islands that are mostly uninhabited aside from U.S. and British soldiers stationed at the joint military bases on Diego Garcia.Some territories face even higher tariffs than their governing nations.…

A federal judge in Washington said on Thursday that there was a “fair likelihood” that the Trump administration had violated an order he issued last month to stop deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law.Speaking at a hearing, the judge, James E. Boasberg, said that he was likely to wait until next week to issue a ruling about whether the White House was in contempt of court for having ignored his order. The announcement that he would delay a final decision came after he spent nearly an hour in a remarkable interrogation of a Justice Department…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The union representing Metis Child, Family and Community Services and Michif Child and Family Services is applying for independent arbitration to end a two-week strike. The Manitoba General Employees Union is asking the Manitoba Labour Board to order an arbitrator to help resolve their contract dispute. The union says the layoffs at both agencies are impeding their right to strike.“Effective today, these employers have laid off 20 per cent of their staff,” says MGEU President Kyle Ross. “And the number of staff remaining in some areas will fall to essential service levels…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldDonald Trump’s tariff offensive convulsed global markets on Thursday, with sectors from banking to tech left reeling from the US president’s bid to remake the global economic order.Wall Street stocks sustained heavy losses, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite plunging by 4.8 per cent and 6 per cent respectively, hours after Trump announced the highest US tariffs for over a century. It was the worst day since the 2020 coronavirus crisis for both benchmarks. The dollar fell 1.6 per…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldDonald Trump’s tariff regime pummelled Wall Street’s most powerful investment groups, many of which had expected just months ago that the president’s policies would fuel a golden age of economic growth and dealmaking. Shares in some of the world’s biggest private capital groups including Apollo Global Management and KKR dropped more than 12 per cent on Thursday, while Blackstone dropped nearly 10 per cent. Credit-focused companies, including Ares Management and Blue Owl, also suffered as investors marked down growth expectations…

South Korea’s Constitutional Court, which is reviewing President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, will announce its decision on whether to remove him from office.

“Strategic anxiety” over Beijing’s assertiveness could have led Southeast Asian thought leaders to pick the United States over China in a scenario where the region is forced to choose between the two superpowers, said an expert. Activities such as the militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea “have escalated the tensions from bilateral tensions to regional insecurity”, added Yenny Wahid, director of Indonesia’s Wahid Foundation, which promotes tolerance and multicultural understanding. She was speaking at an online panel discussion organised by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute to launch its 2025 The State of Southeast Asia Survey. “So ASEAN probably feels…

Greek and Turkish coastguards still searching for two missing people from the two unrelated accidents.Two boats carrying refugees sank in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkiye and the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving at least 16 people dead, according to officials from both countries. The accidents on the boats, which together carried about 66 people, occurred several hours apart on Thursday, with authorities on either side unaware of the other nation’s rescue efforts. On the Greek side, the country’s coastguard said that one of its patrol boats came across a small dinghy of about five metres (5.5 yards) in length that…