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The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday announced the arrest of an alleged Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member from Venezuela. Franklin Jose Jimenez-Bracho is the first person detained under the Alien Enemies Act, which President Donald Trump invoked last week, officials said. “Tren de Aragua is a dangerous foreign terrorist organization that has invaded our soil,” ICE Director Todd Lyons said while flanked by members of the FHP at the Friday afternoon news conference. “TdA has infiltrated the U.S., its northern border, the southern border and in our waterways.”Many of these members are cold-blooded…

Researchers behind a new report into an Israeli spyware program used to monitor civil society members say they have found “possible links” between the controversial technology and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), suggesting it may have been used in investigations — an allegation the force doesn’t deny. The report from Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto released this week said researchers traced the IP address of a Canadian-based customer of Paragon Solutions to the address of the OPP’s general headquarters in Toronto.Paragon sells the military-grade spyware program “Graphite” to government clients for national security purposes, but the tool has been…

After the first quarter, both SMU and Memphis assumed everything would calm down. Nine fouls in 10 minutes was a lot. But everyone, officials included, regroups after each quarter. Surely, someone in the three-member officiating squad would say: Let’s let them play.In the second quarter, the teams made it 90 seconds before the next whistle. The next one came 21 seconds later. And another 29 seconds after that.“It was so hard to just play basketball, to just play free, without a ref blowing a whistle,” said Ki’Ari Cain, the only Memphis starter not to foul out of that January 2024…

Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, the online influencers who decamped last month to the United States while facing human-trafficking charges in two European countries, were set to return on Friday to Romania ahead of a criminal proceeding, one of them said Friday.The British American siblings were expected to arrive at night in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, a representative for them told The New York Times.The pair, who have millions of followers on social media and are known for their misogynistic views and for flaunting their wealth, arrived in Florida on Feb. 27 after a Romanian court lifted travel restrictions…

Since the late 1950s, most of America’s warplanes have been given names that indicate a threat, like the F-4 Phantom and the A-6 Intruder, or animals like the F-14 Tomcat, the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.On Friday, the country’s 47th president, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by his side in the Oval Office, announced that the U.S. Air Force’s newest jet would be the F-47.What kind of moniker the F-47 will get was left unsaid.The president said 47 was “a beautiful number,” but offered few details, other than that Boeing would make the new jet and that it…

Thomas Tuchel has begun his England managerial career on a winning note with Myles Lewis-Skelly scoring on debut in a 2-0 win over Albania.

President Trump announced Friday that the Education Department would no longer manage the nation’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio or supervise “special needs” programs in a major shake-up of an agency he has sought to eliminate.Student loans will move under the Small Business Administration, while special education services, along with nutrition programs, will move under the Department of Health and Human Services, Mr. Trump said.Mr. Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office that the moves would take place “immediately,” adding that he believed the restructuring — which critics swiftly vowed to challenge in court — would “work out very…

By Joe Bongiorno The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 5:13 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A media investigation uncovering troubling new medical information about a Mexican boxer who died after a 2021 knockout in Montreal has prompted a Quebec coroner to revise his report into her death. The investigation broadcast this week by Radio-Canada revealed that 18-year-old Jeanette Guadeloupe Zacarias Zapata should not have been declared fit for the bout in Montreal because of brain injuries sustained in a previous knockout.Zacarias Zapata suffered a traumatic brain injury after being knocked out by Quebec boxer Marie-Pier Houle on Aug. 28, 2021,…

The Republican president also said that he plans to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but did not say when. China has not commented on the possibility of a Trump-Xi meeting. Beijing has rejected Trump’s trade measures as counterproductive and unwarranted, and has imposed limited retaliatory duties of 10 percent on imports of American oil, liquefied natural gas and farm equipment. It has also touted its efforts on counter-narcotics. “Yes,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question in the White House’s Oval Office about whether a potential meeting involving his trade chief was in the works. “I’ll be speaking…

Zimbabwean lands top job in world sport.Kirsty Coventry becomes the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee, the world’s largest sports body. Bans on Russia but not Israel and the role of money in the Olympic Games are two challenges she faces. What other hurdles lie ahead? Presenter: Sami Zeidan Guests: Philip Barker – editor-in-chief of the Journal of Olympic History Donald Rukare – president of the Uganda Olympic Committee Bassil Mikdadi – founder of the FootballPalestine.com website