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Three Texas teens are behind bars for what police say was an attempt to murder their mother following a household squabble over internet permissions. The siblings – ages 14, 15 and 16 – allegedly coordinated to kill their mother after she turned off their Wi-Fi access, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a social media post. On March 23, deputies responded to a disturbance in the 3400 block of Barkers Crossing Avenue in Houston.GRANDPA SHOT DEAD INSIDE MCDONALD’S IN BLUE CITY WHILE GETTING HAPPY MEALS FOR GRANDKIDS  Three Texas siblings are facing charges after they allegedly conspired to stab their mother to…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size As the federal election campaign enters its second week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre unveiled a new economic policy proposal aimed at reducing taxes on investments, pitching his party as the best choice to stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking at a plastics manufacturing facility in North York, Ont., on Sunday, Poilievre said the Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut is designed to incentivize Canadian investors to reinvest capital gains domestically by delaying their tax hit if the proceeds stay in Canada.Meanwhile, at a campaign stop in Port Moody, B.C., NDP leader…

Arsenal’s trio of Matildas have narrowed the gap on Chelsea but Sam Kerr’s team remain favourites to retain the Women’s Super League title.

The epicentre of the 7.7 magnitude quake was in an area held by junta forces, but the devastation is widespread and also affected some territory held by armed resistance movements. On Sunday, the opposition National Unity Government, which includes remnants of the government ousted in 2021, said anti-junta militias under its command would pause all offensive military action for two weeks. Richard Horsey, the senior Myanmar adviser at Crisis Group, said some anti-junta forces have halted their offensives but fighting continues elsewhere. “The regime also continues to launch airstrikes, including in affected areas. That needs to stop,” he said. He…

Israel and Hamas both signaled over the weekend that efforts for a renewed cease-fire in Gaza were underway, less than two weeks after the breakdown of a temporary truce and the resumption of Israel’s air and ground campaign against the militant group in the enclave.Hamas said on Saturday that it had accepted a proposal for a new cease-fire, which would see some hostages released from captivity in Gaza. Israel said it, too, had received a proposal via third-party mediators and had responded with a counterproposal in coordination with the United States.“The military pressure is working,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of…

Wisconsin’s attorney general filed a last-minute appeal to the state Supreme Court days after an appellate court denied his request to prevent billionaire DOGE leader Elon Musk from giving $1 million checks to two individuals at Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel’s Green Bay rally on Sunday evening.An appeals judge rejected Democrat Joshua Kaul’s bid for an emergency injunction Saturday, as Schimel – a Republican former state attorney general and current Waukesha judge – faces liberal jurist Susan Crawford in the officially nonpartisan race to fill a seat on the blue-trending court.Kaul asked the 4-3 liberal-majority court to reach a…

As many as one in five people — an estimated 64 million in the United States — have elevated levels of a tiny particle in their blood. It can greatly increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.But few know about it, and almost no doctors test for it, because there was not much to be done. Diet does not help. Neither does exercise. There have been no drugs.But in the near future, that may change.On Sunday, cardiologists announced that an experimental drug made by Eli Lilly, lepodisiran, could lower levels of the particle, Lp(a), by 94 percent with a…

The conductor Joana Mallwitz apologized for arriving late for her interview at the Metropolitan Opera House last week, but she had needed to catch her breath after rehearsal. “Conducting is sweaty business,” she said, as she settled into a straight-backed posture on a sofa in the press lounge, her striking hands with long fingers elegantly crossed at the wrists.On Monday, Mallwitz, 39 — the music director of the Konzerthaus Berlin and one of the fastest rising classical stars in her native Germany — makes her Met debut with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” She has been in close relationship with…

President Trump is taking center stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. “We are going to make a lot of changes,” he said earlier this month, “including the seats, the decor, pretty much everything. It needs a lot of work.”He’s directing many of those changes as the new chairman of the board. Out are all of President Joe Biden’s appointees, replaced with Trump allies. Referring to himself as “the king of ratings,” President Trump has named himself chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. CBS News The Trump White House says an overhaul…

Signage at 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of Prussia is worth the perceived risk of sharing a DNA sample. But what happens when the company harvesting the DNA goes bankrupt? That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing…