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Robert De Niro’s daughter poked fun at the actor for struggling to keep up with teen slang.The “Taxi Driver” actor, 81, recently admitted his daughter asked him to read a list of Generation Z lingo. “My daughter made me read a whole list of expressions so she can show her friends and have fun laughing at me,” De Niro explained on “The Drew Barrymore Show” Tuesday.ROBERT DE NIRO, 79, SAYS HE’S MORE ‘AWARE’ OF CERTAIN ‘FAMILY DYNAMICS’ AS AN OLDER PARENT “The Godfather II” star Robert De Niro says his daughter teased him by making him read off a list of…

The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News. News of the NSA bulletin comes amid the continued fallout from an explosive article published Monday in The Atlantic. The publication’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, detailed how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth inadvertently disclosed war plans to him in an encrypted Signal chat group two hours before the U.S. military launched attacks against Houthi militia in Yemen. Goldberg wrote that Hegseth’s messages included “precise information about…

CBS News Chicago Live President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday targeting Chicago law firm Jenner & Block. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C. Jenner and Block has been an active part of the legal challenges against Mr. Trump’s executive orders, including successfully securing a preliminary injunction against an order from the administration that reduced health care access for transgender youth. That case is still pending in a Maryland-based federal court.This executive order instructs officials to review and revoke firm members’ security clearance, identify any good, property, material and services provided by the federal government and stop…

Americans are increasingly anxious about their jobs and finances as the Trump administration’s trade policies and government cutbacks stoke concern about the economy.Consumer confidence tumbled this month to its lowest level since January 2021, the Conference Board reported on Tuesday, extending a decline that has been underway since shortly after President Trump was elected last fall. The short-term outlook for “income, business and labor market conditions” fell to its lowest reading in 12 years, the business group reported, signaling consumer angst about a deterioration in economic conditions in the coming year.Economists have warned that Mr. Trump’s plans for sweeping tariffs…

We’ve written a few times about some rather fishy price swings involving China-based, Nasdaq-listed stocks and US regulators’ seeming inability to get to the root of the problem.So credit where it’s due — on Friday, Chicago federal law enforcement seized $214mn in an alleged “pump and dump” fraud investigation. They indicted seven defendants in China, who, it is claimed, spent January manipulating the shares of a penny stock taken public by one of FT Alphaville’s favourite US bilge-bracket banks. It’s perhaps noteworthy that it was the DOJ rather than Finra or the SEC that initiated proceedings (speedily, too). But let’s…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Standard Chartered has failed in its attempt to narrow the scope of a £1.5bn lawsuit over claims that its breaches of sanctions against Iran were more widespread than it has acknowledged.The High Court in London on Tuesday ruled against the Asia-focused bank, which was trying to slash the value of the lawsuit by blocking hundreds of funds from taking part.A central issue was whether investors who had not read statements issued by the bank that were alleged to be misleading would be…

A man and two juveniles were rescued from the wreckage of a small plane near Homer, Alaska, that had been reported overdue the night before, according to officials.Alaska State Troopers said they received an alert at about 10:30 p.m. on Sunday that a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser aircraft was overdue and had not arrived at its destination.It was suspected that the plane could be located in the Kenai Mountains and Tustumena Lake, which are located east of Homer.Rescue efforts immediately began and involved the Rescue Coordination Center and Coast Guard AC-130, while an Air Guard C-130 and HH-60 helicopter remained…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 25, 2025 5:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Saskatchewan government has introduced legislation that would apply the provincial sales tax of six per cent to vaping products. Finance Minister Jim Reiter says the tax aims to discourage the use of vapes, especially among young people who are at risk of negative long-term health effects. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. He says nicotine exposure harms brain development in youth…

US President Donald Trump has said he may give “a lot of countries” breaks on tariffs, but has provided no further details on which ones are included.

Palestinians protested in Gaza on Tuesday in a rare show of dissent against Hamas, with some chanting slogans critical of the armed group’s grip on the territory after more than year of devastating war with Israel.Videos verified by The New York Times showed groups of Gazans in the half-ruined streets in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. Some carried more neutral signs that opposed the continuation of the war, while others chanted slogans calling for Hamas to get out.Gazans, at least publicly, tend to blame Israel for much of the death, destruction and hunger the war has brought. But at…