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Millions of Aussies will have access to a new phone feature which will help them combat the phone scam crisis which cost the nation $141m last year.Telecommunications company Telstra will give their phone-users greater control of which calls they answer by giving warning messages.The new feature – called Telstra Scam Protect – has flagged more than 10 million calls with a warning message since it was rolled out in December last year.“The new in-house solution alerts our customers to suspicious or unverified calls by displaying a message in real time, directly from their device screen,” Telstra consumer executive Thomas Beach…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Groupon — Shares of the digital marketplace surged around 21% after the company’s full-year revenue guidance exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. Groupon issued a range of $493 million to $500 million, topping the consensus forecast of $491.5 from analysts polled by FactSet. The company also posted stronger fourth-quarter revenue than the Street anticipated. Intel — Shares jumped 8% after Reuters reported that TSMC has raised a joint venture proposal to U.S. chipmakers Nvidia , Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom to operate Intel’s foundry division. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom also popped before the…

As recently as January, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emphatically rejected the idea of a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine.But after a month in which President Trump turned American foreign policy on its head and Russian forces made progress in a key battle, the Kremlin now appears keen at least to entertain the 30-day cease-fire proposal made by Ukraine and the United States on Tuesday.Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, told reporters on Wednesday that the Kremlin was “carefully studying” the outcome of Tuesday’s talks between the United States and Ukraine, and their call for a monthlong cease-fire.He said he…

Lawyers for an activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University are expected to face off Wednesday in court with federal officials who want him deported.A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted Mahmoud Khalil’s removal, barring the government from deporting him before Wednesday’s hearing in New York.Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities Saturday night at his university-owned apartment. Amy Greer, Khalil’s attorney, said officials were acting on a State Department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa and green card. Khalil was sent to a detention center in Jena, Louisiana. He will not be present at the New York hearing,…

A Democrat won a special election for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, returning partisan control of that chamber to an even split during an unusually acrimonious legislative session.The seat, in a heavily Democratic district north of St. Paul, has been at the center of a weekslong fight for power that led House Democrats to boycott the early weeks of the state’s lawmaking session.David Gottfried, the Democrat and a Minnesota native who works at a law firm, defeated Paul Wikstrom, a Republican who is an engineer and had sought the seat…

A new poll suggests Canadians’ sense of national pride has surged in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats against the country’s sovereignty. The poll, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies, says that the number of people saying they’re proud to be Canadian has jumped from 80 per cent in November 2024 to 86 per cent this month.Pride is highest among people aged 55 and over — at 92 per cent — while 86 per cent of people between the ages of 35 and 54 and 75 per cent of people aged 18 to…

Australian Michael Zerafa has defeated Besir Ay in Sydney and still hopes to one day reignite an old rivalry with Tim Tszyu.

The top three in my annual ranking of the best coaches in college football was easy. After that, things got more complicated.How much does recency bias factor in? For me, not as much as it does for Stewart Mandel, whose Top 25 can be found here. I’ve always given coaches more credit for what they did at their previous stops than he does, but I’ve become more of a creature of the moment than I used to be.One caveat: Even with all of the shake-up in the sport, it’s hard to include coaches who haven’t spent at least three seasons…

A blasphemous black comedy, part noir, part case history, Luis Buñuel’s 1953 Mexican melodrama “Él” amply justifies its inadvertently self-reflexive American release title, “This Strange Passion.”One of the rediscoveries of last year’s Buñuel retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, “Él” opens for a week at Film Forum in a fine new 4K restoration.The initial sequence, filmed in the nave of a 16th-century Mexico City cathedral, is a well-attended Holy Thursday Mass. As the camera lavishes attention on ritual foot-washing, so does the suavely aristocratic Francisco Galván (Arturo de Córdova). Then his gaze strays from the row of bare feet…

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube5. Jason Derulo: “Whatcha Say”Speaking of Auto-Tune, this proudly synthetic debut single from the R&B singer Jason Derulo doubles down on vocal effects, prominently sampling Imogen Heap’s 2005 pitch-shifted a cappella tune “Hide and Seek” and heavily processing Derulo’s own voice to match hers. For better or worse, few songs recall the retrofuturistic sound of 2009 more evocatively than this one!▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube6. The xx: “Intro”Another defining indie release of 2009 came from the London trio the xx. Romy Madley Croft’s hushed vocals lent the trio’s self-titled debut…