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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Trump reacted to the news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) updated its policies to ensure only biological females compete in women’s sports, and will use genetic testing as enforcement. Trump credited the decision to his own “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order that he signed last year. “Congratulations to the International Olympic Committee on their decision to ban Men from Women’s Sports. This is only happening because of my powerful Executive Order, standing up for Women and Girls!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.White House press secretary Karoline…

TOKYO: Japanese industrial conglomerate Toshiba said on Friday (Mar 27) it will start negotiations with Mitsubishi Electric and chipmaker Rohm to merge their power semiconductor businesses, as international competition over the sector heats up.The move comes as Japan has been pushing for a greater presence in the global semiconductor market.If realised, the alliance would create the world’s second-largest power chip group, according to local media.Billed as able to drastically reduce power loss, power semiconductors are seen as pivotal to sectors ranging from railway to automotive and renewable energy. Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (TDSC), a subsidiary of Toshiba, signed…

India, the world’s third biggest crude importer, announces measures amid shortages created by the Iran war.Published On 27 Mar 202627 Mar 2026India has lowered fuel taxes in a bid to protect consumers from rising global energy prices – a result of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a post on X on Friday that authorities were forced to choose between drastically increasing fuel prices amid the crisis or taking a “hit on its own finances” to protect buyers.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPetrol duties were slashed from 13 rupees ($0.14)…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene predicted that the Republicans will lose control of the House of Representatives – and possibly the Senate – in the 2026 midterm elections, asserting that President Donald Trump and the GOP promised “America First” but delivered the opposite.Greene, once a staunch Trump ally who has since become a vocal critic, declared in a Thursday post on X that “Americans are suffering,” “Both parties are absolute failures,” and that “the system needs to burn down.””Americans don’t give a d[—] about Trump building a WH ballroom or renovating the…

Back-to-back verdicts this week against Meta and YouTube could usher in a new chapter in accountability for tech companies, while opening the door to fresh legal challenges, experts tell CBS News.Two cases, decided in New Mexico and California, are the first to hold social media companies liable for harming young people.On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties for failing to protect young users from predators and misleading them about the safety of its apps. In a separate verdict issued Wednesday in Los Angeles, a jury ruled that Meta and YouTube were negligent in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The mother of a slain Washington, D.C. congressional intern urged the family of Sheridan Gorman to “fight back” after she wrote a touching tribute on the college student’s obituary.Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, 18, was shot and killed on March 19 while she was at a pier near campus in the city’s Rogers Park area. 25-year-old Jose Medina-Medina, the suspect in Gorman’s murder, entered the country illegally on May 9, 2023, and was apprehended then released into the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Tamara…

A Holocaust survivor and educator says Montreal’s Vanier College failed in its responsibility to students after cancelling a planned Holocaust commemoration event this week over security concerns. Eva Kuper, a volunteer with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and a retired educator who has taught early childhood education at Concordia University, said she was scheduled to speak at the event Wednesday before it was called off less than a week in advance.“I was scheduled to participate and speak at a commemoration of the Shoah, the Holocaust,” Kuper told Global News in an interview. 1:56 Auschwitz survivor warns of rising antisemitism on International…

Jye Amiss has been the forgotten man in Fremantle’s attack to start the season, but one of the AFL’s greatest-ever forwards says his chance to shine will come. 

Myanmar’s military leadership is set for a reshuffle following an annual armed forces parade on Friday (Mar 27), state media reported, in a rare public signalling of transition by the secretive institution that has dominated the Southeast Asian nation.The imminent leadership change comes just days before Myanmar’s newly-convened parliament is due to meet on Monday to start the process to pick a new president, a role the current military chief Min Aung Hlaing has long had his eyes on, Reuters has reported. In a Thursday meeting with retired officers of the Myanmar military, also known as the Tatmadaw, its deputy chief…

Authorities say the oil is seeping from three sources, including a vessel that has not yet been identified.Published On 27 Mar 202627 Mar 2026Oil spilling from an unidentified vessel and two “natural” sources in the Gulf of Mexico has spread to seven nature reserves, covering an area of more than 600km (373 miles), Mexican authorities said on Thursday.The findings follow weeks of controversy in Mexico over how the spill, which was first reported in early March off the coasts of Veracruz and Tabasco states, has been handled.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAlthough authorities ruled out “severe environmental damage”,…