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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wait for U.S. President Donald Trump to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is headed to Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida for the weekend.Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine crusader, is not qualified to have any power at the agency that’s supposed to protect the health of Americans, said research analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, which was formerly headed by Commerce…

On an evening in mid-January, there were bouquets piled outside of Linda Lavin’s trailer on the Disney lot in Burbank, Calif. Nearby, on a soundstage, a black ribbon was wrapped around her caricature.Lavin had died on Dec. 29, at age 87. Now the creators and cast of “Mid-Century Modern,” a Hulu sitcom that shoots in front of a live studio audience, had returned to work to honor her. That night, they would film a half-hour episode designed to pay tribute to her character, Sibyl Schneiderman, while also eulogizing an actress with an outstanding seven-decade career.That was hard enough. Even harder:…

Hope may seem daring in this age of angst and uncertainty, but it is at the heart of three major new works coming to the Fisher Center at Bard, including a musical adaptation of “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,” the performing arts center announced on Tuesday.With a $2.5 million gift from the Civis Foundation, matched by Bard College for an initial endowment of $5 million, the Fisher Center said it would create the Civis Hope Commissions, a program to support “contemporary artists who will examine, interrogate and transform American artifacts, archival materials or artworks from the past to imagine a more…

OpenAI said on Monday that it had completed a $40 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just six months ago.The new fund-raising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, values OpenAI at $300 billion, making it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, along with the rocket company SpaceX and ByteDance, the maker of TikTok.OpenAI started the artificial intelligence boom in late 2022 with the release of its online chatbot, ChatGPT. Its latest investment round indicates that the tech industry’s excitement over A.I. remains strong, even amid concerns about the effectiveness and…

Firemen from Highland Beach, Fla., were heading to a conference in Miami, a money manager to his office in Boca Raton. Families with young children wearing Mickey Mouse ears and toting Little Mermaid backpacks, filled the train’s sun-soaked four-seaters on their way to or from Disney cruises and various theme parks.Florida, of all places, has been rebooting intercity passenger rail travel in America. Back in the late 19th century, the oil tycoon Henry Flagler built a railroad down the state’s Atlantic coast that fast-tracked Florida’s growth and put cities like Miami and Palm Beach on the map. Then the automobile…

A candidate for California governor suggests scrapping the state’s income tax altogether, a move that could send a political earthquake through the Golden State.Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, said in a video last week that it could be a strong way to get people and businesses that left in the wake of the pandemic and high costs in the state to return.”What a better way to bring all of my friends back, bring all the businesses back that have left to eliminate California income tax. Other states have done it. There’s nine states that don’t have a state…

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Ontario gas prices are plummeting with the federal consumer carbon price now scrapped. Tuesday marked the end of Ottawa’s consumer fuel charge after Mark Carney signed an order-in-council to remove it when he was sworn in as prime minister last month. The industrial carbon price remains in place.With the policy now in effect, gas prices are expected to tumble anywhere between 17 to 20 cents a litre in the province, analysts said.Roger McKnight, chief petroleum analyst with En-Pro International, told Global News the price drop for diesel will be even higher, with that cost expected to plummet by 21.4 cents…

Chris O’Connell has set up a Bucharest Open second round meeting with former top-10 player Nicolas Jarry by defeating Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic in straight sets.

HONG KONG: China’s Xiaomi said on Tuesday (Apr 1) that it was actively cooperating with police after a fatal accident involving a SU7 electric vehicle on Mar 29 and that it had handed over driving and system data. The incident marks the first major accident involving the SU7 sedan, which Xiaomi launched in March last year and since December has outsold Tesla’s Model 3 on a monthly basis. Xiaomi’s shares, which had risen by 34.8 per cent year to date, closed down 5.5 per cent on Wednesday, underperforming a 0.2 per cent gain in the Hang Seng Tech index. Xiaomi…