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The BBC said on Thursday that Turkey had deported a correspondent who was covering the antigovernment protests in the country, after he was detained and labeled “a threat to public order.”The broadcaster said in a statement that Mark Lowen, one of its correspondents, was detained in Istanbul where he was covering the protests and political crisis ignited by the arrest last week of Ekrem Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top rival. Mr. Lowen was taken from his hotel on Wednesday and held for 17 hours, the BBC said.“To be detained and deported from the country where I previously lived for…

FIRST ON FOX: The brother-in-law of a top Democratic senator has repeatedly hosted diplomats working on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at his office and recruited multiple Chinese businesses to lease office space as part of his family’s sprawling real estate empire, a Fox News Digital review found.Anthony “Tony” Malkin is the Harvard-educated brother-in-law of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and the chairman and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., which includes nearly 600 tenants and 732 residential units. He has hosted multiple consuls general of the People’s Republic of China in New York dating back over 15…

Attorney General Pam Bondi signaled on Thursday that there was unlikely to be a criminal investigation into the sharing of military operation details in an unsecured text group, declaring that the specifics of when fighter jets would depart and when bombs would fall were “not classified.”Ms. Bondi, speaking at a news conference in Virginia, was asked about the public debate surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he sent details of a coming attack on rebels in Yemen to senior administration officials in a Signal group chat that accidentally included a magazine editor.“It was sensitive information, not classified, and inadvertently released,”…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Manitoba says it’s responding to U.S. tariffs with $1.5 million in grants toward developing a made-in-Manitoba program. The funding, Premier Wab Kinew and Trade Minister Jamie Moses announced Thursday, will go through Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME).Moses described the move as “Trump-proofing” the province’s economy.“This made-in-Manitoba tariff response program will help businesses continue to grow in this uncertain economic climate,” he said, highlighting CME’s manufacturing expertise. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Among…

South Sydney are confident Alex Johnston has avoided a serious shoulder injury, after the winger failed to finish his comeback match against Penrith.Playing in his first match since rupturing his Achilles tendon last August, Johnston was hurt in the ninth minute on Thursday when he landed awkwardly while scoring a try.The 30-year-old then appeared to lack some confidence for the rest of the first half, and he did not return after halftime as Souths held on to win 28-18.Rabbitohs officials believe Johnston has dome some damage to his left scapula, but are hopeful it is not serious ahead of next…

So much had been heaped on JuJu Watkins from the start — from the moment she set foot on USC’s campus, she was the one who would bring the program back to the mountaintop. This season, she was the player who would carry the star power in women’s college basketball in the wake of Caitlin Clark.It was a lot of weight on anyone’s shoulders, but she handled it well. She thrived under that responsibility and blossomed in the spotlight.But last weekend, the biggest star in women’s college basketball was carried away after collapsing to the court with a season-ending ACL…

CHIANG MAI: A bright orange helicopter races over the jungle to dump water on a raging wildfire that is adding to the air pollution choking Thailand’s northern tourist hub of Chiang Mai. Chutaphorn Phuangchingngam, the only female captain in Thailand’s national disaster prevention team, draws on two decades of flying to steer the Russian-made chopper through the thick smoke. Forest fires are burning in several areas of northern Thailand, contributing to the annual spike in air pollution that comes with farmers burning stubble to prepare their land for the next crop. Chiang Mai had the sixth worst air quality of…

Local authorities say 39 rescued after vessel carrying tourists sunk off Hurghada’s tourist promenade area.At least six people have been killed after a tourist submarine sank off the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, according to local authorities. Egypt’s Red Sea governorate confirmed that six Russians died and that 39 foreign tourists were rescued after the submarine sank off a beach in the tourist promenade area on Thursday. It said there were no missing people in the wake of the rescue effort. The submarine was carrying 45 tourists and five Egyptian crewmembers when it sank, Red Sea governor Amr…

Top Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee are sounding the alarm about cuts to a little-known but rapidly expanding space office within NOAA as part of the hundreds of recent layoffs at the agency.NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is tasked with helping to manage commercial and military satellite traffic in space to help guard against collisions, as well as licensing and regulating commercial satellite systems. The office has recently gotten attention around Washington as a key government office for commercial space companies.Its already small team lost eight employees in the initial round of layoffs in late February,…

An Atlanta bagpiper died while participating in a popular tourist attraction days before his son’s remains were found in a Georgia treehouse, four years after his disappearance, according to reports. Henry Frantz Jr., 74, was scuba diving in Maui, Hawaii on March 10 when he died, according to an Instagram post from the Atlanta Pipe Band.”A founding member of APB in 1970, past Pipe Major, and dedicated member for 55 years, Henry’s impact on our band and the piping community was immeasurable,” the group said. “Beyond music, Henry’s curiosity led him to travel the world, explore fossils, and pursue scuba diving.”POPULAR SPRING…