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Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Treasury is scrapping a requirement for U.S. small businesses to report information about their owners to the federal government. It’s the latest twist in an on-again-off-again saga for the fledgling rule.The Corporate Transparency Act, passed in 2021, required millions of businesses to report basic information on their “beneficial owners.” By identifying who owned certain entities, lawmakers sought to curb criminal activity and illicit finance conducted through opaque shell companies.The rule was set to take effect on March 21, following months of delays in court. It carried financial penalties,…

Amal Shabat is delirious with pain. She is weeping, still unable to grasp that her 23-year-old son has been killed by Israel, exactly as he always said he would die – a “martyr” who sacrificed himself to make sure the world knew what was happening in Gaza. She tries the words haltingly: “My son is a martyr, Hossam… My son is a hero.” Hossam Shabat, Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist, was killed by Israel in a targeted strike on his vehicle on Monday. A mother’s pain Amal is in Hossam’s “Dar Azaa” (house of condolences), a space opened for people to…

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem have forged a new inter-agency initiative aimed at ensuring federal housing funds do not go to illegal immigrants. The two secretaries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday cementing the partnership, which will serve to end what they call “wasteful misappropriation” of taxpayer-funded public housing resources going to illegal immigrants rather than U.S. citizens. The new initiative will facilitate data sharing between the two agencies via newly established lines of communication, according to a press release about the effort, which added that U.S. veterans stood to…

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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 25, 2025 2:48 pm Updated March 25, 2025 3:05 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The City of Montreal has officially taken down a welcome sign that stirred controversy last fall because it depicted a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf. The sign in the lobby of the newly renovated city hall, which showed a woman wearing a hijab, drew criticism online, prompting Mayor Valérie Plante to commit to taking it down in the name of secularism.In the image, which is in the style of a pencil sketch, the woman is standing between two men — one who seems younger and is wearing a baseball cap and overcoat, and an older man with…

Melbourne Victory’s Ryan Teague made his Socceroos debut in the 2026 World Cup qualifying win against China, and fully justified Tony Popovic’s faith in him.

The White House said Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to cease fighting in the Black Sea and to hash out the details for halting strikes on energy facilities. It would be the first significant step toward the full cease-fire the Trump Administration had been pushing, but it still would fall short of that goal and it remains unclear how and when this limited truce would be implemented.Both Ukraine and Russia confirmed the agreement, although it appeared to come with some serious caveats on the part of Moscow. In a statement about the talks, the Kremlin said it would…

President Trump’s nominee to run the Social Security Administration (SSA), Frank Bisignano, vowed to crack down on fraud and to protect Americans’ personal data in a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. He also dismissed suggestions that he supports privatizing a federal agency that provides retirement, disability and other benefits to more than 70 million Americans. Like other government agencies, the SSA has been targeted for major job cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a reduction in force that former agency officials and other experts warn could greatly hinder the delivery of services to Social Security recipients. In February, the SSA announced it would…

A New York high school girls’ basketball coach, who was fired over the weekend for pulling the hair of one of his players after a loss in the state championship game, was cited this week for harassment in the second degree, according to officials. Jim Zullo, 81, was fired from his job as head coach of the Northville High School girls’ varsity basketball team on Sunday after he was caught on video pulling the hair of a player, Hailey Monroe, after the Falcons lost the Class D state final to La Fargeville Central School on Friday night. Jim Zullo, left, coaches Northville High…

The White House on Tuesday brushed off the seriousness of mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat with senior national security officials in which they discussed details of a military attack on Yemen.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that war plans were discussed in the chat, even though the White House had previously appeared to confirm the account that the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, gave in an article for The Atlantic the day before.“1. No “war plans” were discussed. 2. No classified material was sent to the thread,” Ms. Leavitt said in a post on social media as she…