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A Kansas highway trooper rescued a 6-year-old girl missing for over a month after she was kidnapped and took two men she was with into custody, authorities said Saturday.The Kansas Highway Patrol trooper pulled over an SUV for a traffic violation and discovered that the front-seat passenger had a warrant for his arrest from another state for kidnapping a 6-year-old girl just over a month earlier, the agency said.The trooper spotted a girl around that age inside the vehicle with the passenger and driver, both men in their 60s, highway patrol said. It was also discovered that the driver had…

By Maan Alhmidi The Canadian Press Posted March 24, 2025 12:26 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a police officer shot a teenager in Toronto Sunday afternoon. The Special Investigations Unit says the incident happened shortly before 3 p.m. at a plaza in the city’s north end. 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. The watchdog says officers attempted to arrest a 17-year-old boy, who was an occupant in a car.It says…

During Usha Vance’s planned visit to Greenland this week, the second lady and one of her sons will attend one of the world’s foremost dog sledding events, called the Avannaata Qimussersua, according to the White House.The visit, which comes amid the backdrop of President Trump’s vow to make Greenland part of the United States, has catapulted the dog sledding event into the global spotlight, and organizers of the competition do not seem happy about it.“We did not invite them,” the organizers of the race said in a statement on Sunday, referring to Ms. Vance, the wife of Vice President JD…

EXCLUSIVE: A Medicaid and Medicare fraud crackdown is anticipated with a bipartisan congressional proposal to check Social Security Administration death records.The legislation, dubbed the Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act, would mandate state governments to see if the Social Security Death Master Files show physicians who are still considered part of the government programs meant for seniors and low-income Americans. The check is meant to ensure that the doctor’s National Provider Identifier will not be used by bad actors to commit fraud.  “We must eliminate and be proactive against fraud within Medicaid and Medicare to protect the programs for those…

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — There was Viktor Hovland, moments after winning his first PGA Tour championship in 18 months, after storming back from three shots down with five to play to beat a top-10 player in the world for the Valspar Championship.If there was a moment to declare himself back, to say that every swing fix and coaching change he has put himself through since the 2023 Ryder Cup was absolutely worth it because here he is with the trophy next to him, this was it.But as much as it was clear that Hovland, the 27-year-old Norwegian flashing that easy…

US stocks have opened higher as investors digest speculation about how US President Donald Trump will approach tariffs.

Ahead of President Trump’s next big trade move, his administration invited companies to weigh in on the economic barriers they faced abroad.The list of complaints was both sprawling and specific. In hundreds of letters submitted to the administration in recent weeks, producers of uranium, shrimp, T-shirts and steel highlighted the unfair trade treatment they faced, in hopes of bending the president’s trade agenda in their favor. The complaints varied from Brazil’s high tariffs on ethanol and pet food, to India’s high levies on almonds and pecans, to Japan’s longstanding barriers to American potatoes.Mr. Trump has promised to overhaul the global…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldDonald Trump said the US would impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela, in a move that could sharply raise levies on goods from China and India, two of Caracas’s biggest oil buyers. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the tariff was for “numerous reasons”, citing “the fact that Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The Bank of England has diluted the crisis scenario it uses to examine the resilience of British banks, opting for a smaller inflation surge and a milder global economic contraction than in last year’s stress test.The scenario for this year’s stress test, which the BoE published on Monday, requires Britain’s biggest lenders to model how they would cope with a rebound in UK inflation to a peak of 10 per cent and a 2 per cent decline in global GDP. The conditions are…

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Veterans Affairs Committee, on Monday called on Doug Collins, the secretary of veterans affairs, to testify at an informal hearing next week to discuss how the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal work force have affected veterans and the federal agency that serves them.Mr. Collins is all but certain to decline the invitation from Mr. Blumenthal, who as a member of the minority party has no authority to call a hearing or set the panel’s agenda. His attempt to hold a so-called “shadow hearing” is the latest move by…