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The opposition leader is floating the idea of a referendum to give a minister the power to strip dual nationals of citizenship if they commit serious crimes.

The men’s basketball selection committee had an easy job at the top of the bracket this year. The 2025 NCAA Tournament might have the best collection of No. 1 seeds in March Madness history.By the numbers, it is the best, at least in college basketball’s advanced analytics era, which dates to 1997, when Ken Pomeroy’s eponymous website began tracking college basketball data. This year’s four No. 1 seeds — Auburn, Duke, Houston and Florida — are all above 35 in adjusted efficiency margin. (Efficiency margin is determined by points scored and allowed per 100 possessions and adjusted for schedule.) In…

A former U.S. Postal Service worker was convicted of stealing around $1.6 million in checks to fund a “lavish lifestyle that included international travel, stays at luxury hotels, and purchases at gentlemen’s clubs,” federal prosecutors said. Hachikosela Muchimba, 44, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a federal jury last week on charges of mail theft and bank fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. “According to court documents, between December 2020 and March 2023, Muchimba was an employee of the U.S. Postal Service when he executed a scheme to steal U.S. Treasury checks and private party…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police have charged a man with 29 offences following an investigation into alleged hate-motivated crimes. Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, was arrested on Jan. 11., for incidents that are said to have occurred between April 26, 2024 and Jan. 3 this year.With the approval of the Ministry of the Attorney General, police laid two rarely used charges under Canada’s hate speech laws: advocating genocide and willful promotion of hatred. Due to a publication ban, further details cannot be shared. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current…

For 95 days, Máximo Napa Castro, 61, was alone and lost at sea, praying to God and clinging to the hope that he would one day see his mother again.Without food or water, he ate cockroaches, birds and finally a turtle, whose blood he drank to slake his thirst.He talked to God, getting angry at points. “I said to him, ‘What am I going to find here?’” he said. “Who’s going to save me?”Then he asked for forgiveness.“Someone is coming or a helicopter is coming,” he recalled thinking. “And then the next day, he sent me a helicopter.”It was March…

California Republicans, energized by district gains made during the 2024 general election, selected their new party leader, Corrin Rankin, a former surrogate for President Donald Trump, over the weekend at the CAGOP annual convention in Sacramento. She is the first-ever Black woman to hold the position, and she’s pro-MAGA.”It’s time to end the Democrats’ one-party rule and make California great again,” the new CAGOP chair said to delegates after her win on Sunday.In an interview with Fox News Digital on Monday, Rankin said there is “an outcry for commonsense politicians in California” and that the party, which has noticeably been given…

President Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Monday for the first time since he stunned the cultural and political establishment nearly five weeks ago by taking over the institution.“We’re here to have our first board meeting,” he told reporters as he toured the center with his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and a few of the people he has appointed to the center’s board, including the country singer Lee Greenwood (he sings “God Bless the U.S.A.”) and the Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo.He had some thoughts about programming.“I never…

Police launched an investigation after a 34-year-old man was found dead with ‘a number of stab wounds’.

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The UK Treasury has launched a review of the Financial Ombudsman Service to tackle concerns that it behaves like a “quasi-regulator”, as part of a wide-ranging plan to cut the burden of red tape on business unveiled on Monday.The review by City minister Emma Reynolds underlines how the usually low-key body, which deals with consumer complaints against the financial sector, has been thrust into the limelight because of its role in the multibillion pound car finance scandal.The Treasury said the review…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti was paid SFr14.9mn ($16.8mn) last year, retaining his status as Europe’s best-paid bank boss, just as remuneration in the financial services sector faces growing scrutiny in Switzerland. Ermotti’s compensation was slightly higher than the SFr14.4mn he was awarded in 2023, which was for nine months’ work but spread across a full year. The disclosure of Ermotti’s pay in UBS’s annual report on Monday comes as Switzerland’s upper house last week narrowly backed a motion to cap executive…