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  5m ago Connolly highlights Adams case in opening statement Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, the top Democrat on the committee, used his opening statement to highlight the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case against Adams. “President Trump has tried to force the conditional dismissal of very serious charges against one of our witnesses here today, in exchange for that witness’ total and complete submission to the radical immigration agenda being propounded by the administration,” Connolly said. “And the DOJ has done so over the objections of a Republican acting U.S. attorney who President Trump appointed.”Connolly called the arrangement a…

Casey Anthony’s mother has a panic attack Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony’s mother, has a panic attack while discussing the case of her granddaughter’s 2008 murder in A&E’s new TV special, “Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test.” The former attorney for the parents of “America’s most hated mom,” Casey Anthony, slammed her new TikTok series where she claims she will discuss legal issues and “advocate” for her daughter, Caylee, whom she was accused of killing in 2008.Brad Conway represented Cindy and George Anthony after Caylee, 2, was found dead in Florida in 2008. Anthony was accused of killing her daughter,…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size As Nova Scotians braced for the impact of U.S. tariffs, which took effect at midnight Tuesday, business expert Ed McHugh urged people to stay positive and focus on the future. “When you have a big issue like this, it feels like the world is falling apart and it’s a bit of a scary day,” McHugh said. “We’ll work our way through this somehow.”McHugh was a business professor at Nova Scotia Community College for 25 years. He continues to teach at several universities in the Halifax Regional Municipality.“There will be some short-term pain,…

Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant and head coach Mike Budenholzer were caught in an intense moment during the team’s victory Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Clippers.Durant walked back to the bench when it appeared Budenholzer was trying to tell him something. Cameras caught Budenholzer grabbing Durant’s arm and the star basketball player ripping it away. The two had more words before resetting and getting on with the game. Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant, #35, shields the ball from Los Angeles Clippers guard Bogdan Bogdanovic, #10, during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Tuesday, March 4, 2025…

Yuya Osako was in fine form for Kobe in their Asian Champions League Elite quarter-final first-leg 2-0 win over Korean side Gwangju.

Up to the last minute, Isaac Presburger, like a lot of other Mexican businessmen, still could not believe that President Trump would deliver on his promise to hit Mexico with tariffs. Little did it matter that Mr. Trump had announced that very day that he would go ahead with the planned taxes.“I am still incredulous,” said Mr. Presburger, director of sales at Preslow, a family-run apparel business in Mexico. “We know by now that Trump pressures you so you give him what he wants. We have given him everything and he has not let loose of his grip.”In response to…

The C.I.A. director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been paused alongside military aid to pressure its government to cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans to end the country’s war with Russia.Speaking on Fox Business, Mr. Ratcliffe applauded the Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky’s statement on Tuesday praising President Trump and insisting that he supported peace with Russia. Mr. Ratcliffe said he thought intelligence sharing would resume.“President Zelensky put out a statement that said, ‘I am ready for peace and I want President Donald Trump’s leadership to bring about that peace,’” Mr. Ratcliffe said. “And so…

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it could sell hundreds of federal properties around the country, including offices for the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.Officials at the General Services Administration, an agency that manages the federal government’s real estate portfolio, originally said they had identified more than 440 properties that they could “dispose of” in an effort to ensure that “taxpayers no longer pay for empty and underutilized federal office space.”By Tuesday evening, however, the list of buildings deemed “not core to government operations” had been trimmed to 320…

A day into Donald Trump’s North American trade war, the U.S. president remained adamant that tariffs would benefit America even as a key member of his team has floated that a compromise could materialize Wednesday. Trump addressed a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, for the first time since he returned to office in January, by making a case for his massive tariff agenda.“We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on Earth and we will not let that happen any longer,” Trump told lawmakers in Washington.The president’s executive order hitting Canada and Mexico with 25 per…

A sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the most distinguished honors for scholars of American history.Kathleen DuVal’s “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” published by Random House, was described by the prize jurors as “a seamless panorama of 1,000 years of American history,” which draws on both written records and Native oral histories to tie together the stories of the more than 500 Indigenous nations who inhabit what is now the United States. “By crafting a…