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President Trump’s angry call on Tuesday for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his administration on deportation flights has set off a string of near-instant social media taunts and threats, including images of judges being marched off in handcuffs.The call came against an ominous backdrop. Nine days earlier, police officers in Charleston, S.C., had been dispatched to the home of one of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sisters because of a threat that there was a pipe bomb in her mailbox. “The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened,” the…

Construction projects are underway all over Kelowna, B.C., but there’s one type of construction not happening and it is raising concerns at city hall. “We are looking at having discussions with the school district, having discussions with the ministry, all of those individuals to see what planning we can do to look at developing schools,” said Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas.School infrastructure has become especially important in growing urban centres like Central Kelowna and Capri-Landmark district.It’s also key in the downtown’s north end, where redevelopment plans, including the old Tolko mill site,  will transform the entire area.“The ‘North End Neighbourhood Plan’…

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra met Formula 1 chief Stefano Domenicali on Tuesday (Mar 18) and said the government would commission a feasibility study into hosting a Grand Prix on a Bangkok street circuit from 2028. Formula 1 already has a crowded schedule of 24 races around the world with four in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Singapore Grand Prix in Southeast Asia. Thailand has an FIA-accredited track in Buriram in the northeast of the country, which currently hosts a round of the MotoGP motorcycling world championships but the proposal is for a street race in the kingdom’s capital.…

An international team of astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a mysterious phenomenon pushing our universe to expand ever faster — is not a constant force of nature but one that ebbs and flows through cosmic time.Dark energy, the new measurement suggests, may not resign our universe to a fate of being ripped apart across every scale, from galaxy clusters down to atomic nuclei. Instead, its expansion could wane, eventually leaving the universe stable. Or the cosmos could even reverse course, eventually doomed to a collapse that astronomers refer to as the…

FIRST ON FOX: Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner received surprising donations to his campaign for City Council of New York City from ex-wife Huma Abedin and her sister, Heba Abedin, despite his ex-wife saying in 2021 that Weiner’s sex scandals “almost killed her.”Huma Abedin donated $175 to Weiner’s campaign March 13, and her sister, Heba Abedin, donated $150 Dec. 29, 2024, a Fox News Digital review of New York City campaign finance reports revealed. Weiner launched his latest campaign for NYC City Council, a position he held from 1992 to 1998 before controversy derailed his political career, in December 2024. Weiner…

Friedman, who declined to specify her age, attributes many of her passions and habits to an unusual upbringing. She has described her childhood as feral, and said it has informed many of her artistic and career choices. She was one of four children born to a violinist father who left the family around the time she was born and a pianist mother whom she has described as neglectful. The siblings, often left to fend for themselves, created their own theater troupe, which they called the Sonia Friedman Show. (She was the youngest.)“My life was, from the earliest memory, telling stories,”…

During his first visit to the Kennedy Center since making himself the chairman of its board, President Trump had a lot to say about Broadway shows, dancers in silk tights, the Potomac River and Elvis Presley.But in a private discussion at the start of a meeting of the center’s board on Monday, Mr. Trump offered something he usually steers away from in bigger settings: a personal anecdote about his childhood.He told the assembled board members that in his youth he had shown special abilities in music after taking aptitude tests ordered by his parents, according to three participants in the…

SoftBank said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $6.5 billion for the Silicon Valley chip start-up Ampere Computing, doubling down on a bet that technology that originated in smartphones will come to dominate the world’s data centers.The deal also reflects the Japanese conglomerate’s belief that Ampere’s chips can begin to play a significant role in artificial intelligence, where Nvidia has reaped the most rewards so far.Ampere was founded eight years ago to sell chips for data centers based on technology from Arm Holdings, a British company that licenses chip designs that have powered nearly all mobile phones. SoftBank,…

When Tracy Ren decided to go to the 2024 Summer Olympics, she booked her flight to Paris on Singapore Airlines using miles.But she didn’t earn them — she bought them.Rather than purchasing miles directly from the airline, which sells 1,000 miles for around $40, Ren turned to Carousell, a popular online marketplace in Asia-Pacific that sells new and used goods — and, increasingly, loyalty points and rewards.By purchasing miles online, “the cost is nearly 50% compared with purchasing the ticket,” Ren said.Is this allowed?Buying and selling airline miles online isn’t illegal, said Aaron Wong, founder of the travel and loyalty…

Australian singer Sia has filed for a divorce from Daniel Bernard.The 49-year-old star recently separated from her husband after two years of marriage, and she filed for a divorce in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to People.The Chandelier hitmaker – whose real name is Sia Furler – has cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the couple’s separation.The court documents also reveal the chart-topping star quietly welcomed her third baby, and her first with Bernard, on March 27, 2024.Sia – who adopted two teenage boys back in 2019 – is seeking legal and physical custody of their baby boy, Somersault…