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Chelsea have won the penultimate leg of their four-match saga with Manchester City as they wait patiently for Sam Kerr’s return, earning a 2-1 victory that moves them ever closer to a sixth-straight Women’s Super League crown.Blues’ fans have been desperate to see the Matildas’ captain back in the line-up after her long injury lay-off, especially after they’d proved toothless in midweek when City handed them their first defeat all season in the Women’s Champions League quarter-final first leg.But on Friday, Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor ruled out any prospect of Kerr returning to competitive action for them until at least…

Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, remained defiant in the face of continuing criticism and growing calls to resign more than a week after he cleared the way for a Republican spending bill without negotiating any major concessions.“I’m not stepping down,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “The GOP’s six-month bill was certainly bad,” Mr. Schumer said of the stopgap spending measure that funds the government through Sept. 30. “But a shutdown would be 10 or 20 times worse.”Critics within his party have said Mr. Schumer squandered the leverage provided by the standoff…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The fifth annual community suhur is took place at the Rajveer Banquet Hall in northeast Calgary on Saturday. Host Shaukat Hayat said this year they plan to give back in a big way. “You are in a very high spirit during this month,” Hayat said of the month of Ramadan.This year, organizers aim to collect 10,000 pounds of food for the Calgary Food Bank. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. “We have got about 2,500 to…

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called on Sunday for a federal election to take place on April 28, cementing on the calendar another major event as the country experiences one of its most tumultuous and unpredictable periods.President Trump has imposed painful tariffs on Canada and said more are coming, while also threatening its sovereignty, turning on America’s closest ally and trading partner and upending decades of close cooperation in every sphere.“We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty,” Mr. Carney said, speaking to the…

President Donald Trump offered up some advice for former Vice President Kamala Harris if she decides to make a run for governor of California.”One thing she’s gotta do, she’s gotta start doing interviews,” Trump said during an interview with OutKick’s Clay Travis aboard Air Force One. “You can’t get away with both of them, during COVID he did no interviews, and he got away with it because of COVID,” Trump added, referencing former President Joe Biden.The comments come as Harris is “seriously considering” a run for governor of California, according to a report from CBS News, with a person close…

Auburn Tigers men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl made a passionate plea for the return of American hostage Edan Alexander from Hamas captivity in Gaza.The No. 1-seeded Tigers rolled to an 82-70 victory over No. 9 Creighton on Saturday and Pearl started his postgame media availability by talking about Alexander. The 21-year-old Israeli-American solider is one of the 59 hostages still in Gaza. More than half of the hostages being held by Hamas terrorists are believed to be dead. Former President Donald Trump holds a photo of Edan Alexander on Oct. 7, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Hamas…

Robert E. Ginna Jr., a founding editor of People magazine, a book editor and a film producer whose 1952 Life magazine article provoked a frenzy by validating the idea that flying saucers might exist and could have visited Earth from outer space, died on March 4 at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y.His death was confirmed by his son, Peter St. John Ginna. He was 99.Mr. Ginna (pronounced gun-NAY) enjoyed a wide-ranging, eight-decade career. As the editor in chief of Little, Brown, he persuaded the acclaimed novelist James Salter to turn a screenplay into a novel and discovered Dr. Robin…

Ozzy Osbourne will perform from a throne during Black Sabbath’s farewell gig.The Paranoid hitmaker – who has had neck and spinal issues, as well as Parkinson’s disease, and sometimes uses a wheelchair as a result of his mobility problems – may even fly over the crowd from his spectacular seat during the Back To The Beginning show at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, on July 5.And while this is supposed to be his final show, guitarist Zakk Wylde is hopeful that if Osbourne enjoys the performance, the group could get back on the road next year.He told Riff X’s Metal…

Penguin Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.In his new memoir, “When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines” (to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press), former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter recounts the glory days of magazine publishing, and of his stewardship of the trend-setting title for two-and-a-half decades.Among the colorful highlights Carter writes about from his career at the venerable Condé Nast property is the subterfuge required to protect Vanity Fair’s 2015 scoop of Caitlyn Jenner’s transition.Read an excerpt below, and don’t miss Jane…

Richard Teng, chief executive officer of Binance Holdings Ltd., at an event hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association in Singapore, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBinance CEO Richard Teng says the Trump administration has been a “fantastic” reset for the cryptocurrency industry.”It’s an extremely different environment that we’re operating in,” Teng told CNBC on Tuesday.In the span of 16 months, Binance has gone from a political outcast to a possible power broker in Washington. Once the poster child for regulatory defiance – Binance was slapped with a record $4.3 billion settlement with regulators and forced…