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Mikaela Shiffrin has smoothly navigated a bumpy course to easily win the women’s slalom at the World Cup finals in front of her home US fans in Sun Valley.The first-run leader, Shiffrin found another burst to finish in a combined time of 1 minute 45.92 seconds and beat Lena Duerr of Germany by 1.13sec, with Andreja Slokar, of Slovenia, third in Thursday’s race.Following up her 100th World Cup race during a slalom in Italy in February, win No.101 was a consummate one. Fittingly, there were kids in the crowd dressed in puppy outfits — a nod to Disney’s “101 Dalmatians.”It’s…

When an Israeli airstrike ripped through a building in central Beit Lahia on Monday night, the farming community in the northernmost part of Gaza was already on edge over an Israeli evacuation order hours earlier.The events shook the town’s residents and reminded them of the perils of the war between Israel and Hamas, but they also helped catalyze rare demonstrations against Hamas in Gaza. For three consecutive days, hundreds of people have marched through the town to demand the end both of the war and of Hamas’s 18-year-old rule over Gaza — public protests that have spread to a number…

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.Noem’s trip to the prison — where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside — comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”The Trump administration is arguing in federal court that it was justified in sending the Venezuelans to El…

The intelligence breach was bad enough, current and former fighter pilots said. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s refusal to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information about when American fighter pilots would attack sites in Yemen, they said, was even worse.On air bases, in aircraft carrier “ready rooms” and in communities near military bases this week, the news that senior officials in the Trump administration discussed plans for an impending attack on Signal, a commercial messaging app, angered and bewildered men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States.The mistaken inclusion of…

The Alberta government has implemented temporary measures to allow military reservists to deploy as part of June’s G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis Country. Canada will host leaders from the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy, as well as the European Union at the meeting scheduled from June 15 to 17.Alberta Jobs Minister Matt Jones says the government is providing a job-protected leave so reserve members can keep their civilian jobs while taking part in G7. The regulation takes effect March 31 and expires on August 31.He said the move was motivated by requests from reservists as…

One of the region’s most respected campaigners will take to the stage to discuss his latest book next week.Former Shire of Augusta-Margaret River councillor and convenor of the Friends of the Yarragadee, Peter Lane, will discuss his latest work at Nala Bardip Mia onApril 3, in conversation with WA’s chief scientist Professor Peter Klinken.Titled ‘A Short History Of Earth’s Changing Climate’, the new book was a passion project borne out of a labour of love after decades helping promote and protect the Margaret River region.As well as his trailblazing work backed by years of professional expertise as a geologist defending…

As Canadian tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski nears the one-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, the three-time Grand Slam champion revealed in a recent interview that the life-changing news she received in the spring of 2024 changed her outlook on life for the better. Dabrowski, who won her first Olympic medal in Paris just months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, first revealed in an Instagram post on New Year’s Eve that, despite all the success she had seen that season, she had been keeping a secret.  Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada in action at the U.S. Open on August 29, 2024. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via…

One suspect arrested after attack near the central Dam Square in the capital of the Netherlands.At least four people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in the Netherlands capital of Amsterdam, police have said. One suspect has been arrested after the incident on Thursday near the central Dam Square. “A motive is currently still unclear, but part of our investigation,” police said in a statement on social media. There was no immediate information on the condition of those wounded. A trauma helicopter landed on Dam Square to tend to the victims, while police vans and ambulances were also in…

The Senate voted Thursday to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure adopted late last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that had been expected to save Americans billions of dollars per year.Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, was the lone Republican to oppose the resolution, which passed on a nearly party-line vote, 52-48. It will now move to the House, where Representative French Hill, the Arkansas Republican who leads the Financial Service Committee, introduced a parallel resolution last month.The rule would have limited the fees banks and credit unions could charge when…

A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman.The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and states that support abortion rights.The dispute is widely expected to reach the Supreme Court, pitting Texas, which has a near-total abortion ban, against New York, which has a shield law that is intended to protect abortion providers who send medications to patients in other states.New York…