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Washington — A number of lawmakers expressed outrage Monday after the editor of The Atlantic reported that he was accidentally included in a group chat involving top Trump administration officials about the United States’ highly sensitive war plans in Yemen. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle criticized the security breach, though Democrats took a harsher stance about how it should be addressed, with many demanding an immediate investigation. Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said the breach represents “one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense” he has…

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Do you miss those robots yet?We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher tapped his head to ask his favorite robot umps: Where the heck was that pitch?Then, almost instantaneously, a six-second animation would roll on the ballpark videoboard — and baseball’s spring training experiment with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system would work its magic.So now that it’s time to send those robots back from whence they came — namely, the minor leagues — as spring training fades into the rearview mirror, how’d that experiment…

Melbourne captain Max Gawn says he would have preferred Simon Goodwin to not have disclosed a personal matter but is adamant he has no issue with the Demons coach.Goodwin revealed star ruck Gawn had been dealing with “stuff in life” after an uncharacteristic performance against North Melbourne.The Demons suffered a 59-point thrashing by the Kangaroos on Sunday to continue their winless to start the AFL season.”There’s footy and there’s some stuff in life,” Goodwin said in the post-match press conference.”You’ve got to understand that people have backstories, and he’s someone that we love dearly, and he’ll certainly be a big…

President Trump issued an executive order on Monday to crack down on countries that buy Venezuelan oil by imposing tariffs on the goods those nations send into the United States, claiming that Venezuela has “purposefully and deceitfully” sent criminals and murderers into America.In the order, the president said the government of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, and the Tren de Aragua gang, a transnational criminal organization, posed a threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.On or after April 2, a tariff of 25 percent may be imposed on all goods imported into the United States…

Now that the federal election has been called, Saskatchewan candidates are gearing up for the next month of campaigning and local leaders are making their priorities known. Liberal candidate for Regina-Wascana, Jeff Walters, opened his campaign office Monday morning.He hopes to take back the riding after losing it to Conservatives in 2019.“You know polling (for the riding) really is a legitimate toss-up,” Walters said. “We have a shot here.”Walters went on to reference the work Ralph Goodale did as a sitting cabinet minister for Saskatchewan. Goodale spent more than 45 years in and out of the House of Commons and…

US EXCEPTIONALISM IN QUESTION While Mr Powell calmed nerves by playing down the chances of a US recession and hinting that the Fed remains on course for rate cuts this year, the question is whether such cuts will have the same impact on the economy where policy uncertainty triumphs over geopolitical and trade norms.  Meanwhile, falling consumer sentiment and spending, potential slowdown in hirings, falling factory output, diminishing business confidence and rising import prices threaten to take the shine off “US exceptionalism”. This is important because for the last 80 years, it is this so-called “exceptionalism” that has fuelled the growth…

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that a journalist from The Atlantic magazine was included in a private social media chat about upcoming attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. On Monday, The Atlantic published an article from editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, in which he described the stunning realisation that he had been added to a group chat where high-level government officials were discussing military actions. “The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time [18:00 GMT] on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen,” Goldberg wrote in the opening…

President Trump has suggested attacks against Tesla are a coordinated effort to intimidate the billionaire Elon Musk, but an internal intelligence assessment did not support that claim and warned against conflating legal protests against Mr. Musk with vandalism to his property.The attacks on Tesla vehicles and facilities “appear to have been conducted by lone offenders, and all known incidents occurred at night, making identification and arrest of the actors difficult,” officials with the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security wrote in an intelligence bulletin dated March 21 and obtained by The New York Times.The initial assessment, shared with law…

A wide reaching severe weather warning is in place for sodden parts of north Queensland with extensive rain set to impact already saturated areas.The Bureau of Meteorology has issued warnings for the Central West and Channel Country, Central and South Western Queensland, the north west and Maranoa and Warrego Districts.Totals in excess of 100mm are forecast over the next 24 hours with some isolated areas expecting over 200mm rainfall totals.Paluma on the North Tropical Coast had received the highest 24 hours totals to Tuesday morning, with gauges hitting 124mm.Meteorologists have forecast flooding for Queensland’s river networks in the coming days…

A Kentucky woman was arrested last week after local authorities found a missing juvenile in her attic.Scottsville resident Donna M. Spengler, 42, was arrested in the early morning hours of Mar. 21, according to the Scottsville Police Department (SPD). She was charged with kidnapping, first-degree hindering prosecution and custodial interference, in addition to endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree unlawful imprisonment.In a Facebook post, the SPD explained that it had received a call at around 12:30 a.m. that morning about “a missing juvenile potentially located at the home of [Spengler].”When the SPD and the Allen County Sheriff’s Department…