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A D.C. federal appeals court on Friday handed the Trump administration a temporary victory, overturning district court rulings that ordered the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Gwynne Wilcox and the Merit Systems Protection Board’s Cathy Harris to be reinstated.Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox to be reinstated after her dismissal by President Donald Trump earlier this year. Friday’s ruling halts both reinstatements while the case proceeds. President Trump and Cathy Harris (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images; U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, right. )FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TRUMP’S FIRING OF HEAD OF SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS UNLAWFUL, WILL…

Four current and former deputies from the same sheriff’s office in Texas have died by apparent suicide over a six-week period, according to officials.The Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies were all found dead between Feb. 6 and March 19.In the first incident, retired Deputy Long Nguyen died by apparent suicide on Feb. 6, ABC 13 reported, citing officials. Deputy Christina Kohler, who had been missing for more than a week, was found dead by apparent suicide on March 13.TEXAS MAN FLEES SCENE AFTER CRASHING CAR AT 100 MPH, LEAVING HIS CRITICALLY INJURED FAMILY BEHIND: POLICE Long Nguyen, Christina Kohler, Maria Vasquez…

Sixteen months after her arrest in a nighttime raid on her home, Toronto school teacher Suzanne Narain sat in a packed courtroom, anxiously waiting for a judge to hand down her fate. Charges against Narain and two others were withdrawn on Thursday in a courtroom bursting with supporters, at what was expected to be the conclusion of the cases against 11 activists accused in the vandalism of a downtown Indigo bookstore in November 2023.And although Judge Vincenzo Rondinelli reserved his judgment for two of the group who pleaded guilty Thursday, it seems likely that this large-scale investigation involving more than…

Melbourne Victory are well and truly in the A-League Women premiership plate race after beating Adelaide United 2-1 thanks to Nickoletta Flannery’s double.

BEIJING: Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met visiting European Trade and Economic Security Commissioner Maros Sefcovic for a discussion that Sefcovic said on Saturday (Mar 29) included a “level playing field” on trade. China’s commerce ministry described the Friday meeting as a frank and pragmatic exchange of views. Sefcovic posted on X that it was necessary to ensure the EU-China “relationship is based on a level playing field, in terms of trade flows as well as investment, with symmetrical markets opening”. The Slovak commissioner also met with China’s economy tsar on Friday during his first trip to Beijing since being…

The dust from the devastating earthquake on Friday was still churning in Myanmar when an existential question swirled into the mix: Could this fatal clash of tectonic plates, which added yet another layer of trauma to a country already plagued by civil war, also portend the demise of Myanmar’s ruling junta?The earthquake, known to have killed at least 1,000 and probably many more than that, struck a day after Myanmar’s military regime celebrated the country’s 80th Armed Forces Day with a parade in Naypyidaw, the capital purpose-built by a previous group of generals.The sequence of events was hard to ignore.Omens…

Joel Greenblatt, a longtime bargain hunter, doesn’t think value investing deserves its bad rap. The 67-year-old investor, now running Gotham Asset Management, believes that traditional criteria that define “value,” such as price-to-book and price-to-sales ratios, don’t necessarily represent the essence of the philosophy. “We’re very cash flow oriented … the way Morningstar or Russell classified value is not the way we look at value,” Greenblatt said Wednesday at Value Invest conference in New York. “We’re literally valuing businesses, like we’re private equity investors buying the whole business.” By the most commonly used measure, value stocks have been crushed by their…

Washington — Israeli officials are furious over the Signal chat leak involving senior Trump administration officials because it included sensitive intelligence Israel provided to the U.S. from a human intelligence source in Yemen, CBS News has learned. While the Signal chat messages published by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic this week may not have compromised the effectiveness of the airstrike, given the publication’s restraint on releasing the information, it did compromise a human source who provided the intelligence to the Israelis, who then provided it to the U.S. for targeting, a senior American intelligence official and a source with knowledge of…

The interim president of Columbia University abruptly left her post Friday evening as the school confronted the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding and the Trump administration’s mounting skepticism about its leadership.The move came one week after Columbia bowed to a series of demands from the federal government, which had canceled approximately $400 million in essential federal funding, and it made way for Columbia’s third leader since August. Claire Shipman, who had been the co-chair of the university’s board of trustees, was named the acting president and replaced Dr. Katrina Armstrong.The university, which was deeply shaken…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Parts supply has been an issue for the heavy-duty trucking industry for years, but tariffs from the Canada-America trade war could aggravate the issue further. While the tariffs don’t directly target heavy-duty vehicles like semi-trucks, the industry is still bracing for aftershock effects.“For our industry, it’s important,” says Scott Tetz, president and founder of Truck Parts Inventory.“There’s quite a bit of material that goes back and forth.”Truck Parts Inventory helps companies sell new, used and aftermarket trucks and parts across North America. Working with salvage yards, manufacturers, rebuilders and dealerships, many of…