Key foreign stock markets continued their slide after opening on Friday morning, as the shockwaves of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs continued to reverberate around the globe. Japan’s Nikkei index lost 3.5% on Friday, while the broader Japanese Topix index fell 4.45%. In South Korea, the KOSPI index was down 1.7%, with the country … Read more
WASHINGTON — Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections. The lawsuit is the fourth against the executive order issued just a week ago. It seeks to block key … Read more
Chris Eubank Jr believes the £100,000 fine levied on him for slapping Conor Benn with an egg was too “steep”. Eubank and Benn will fight in a high profile all-British clash at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26, live on Sky Sports Box Office. At the first press conference to announce the fight, Eubank … Read more
Midjourney, one of the earliest AI image-generating services on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year. Dubbed V7, the model, which began rolling out in alpha around midnight Eastern on Thursday, comes a week after OpenAI debuted a new image generator in ChatGPT that quickly went viral for … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University, adding to a list of Ivy League colleges that have had their federal money threatened as a result of their responses to antisemitism, a White House official said. Nearly $510 million in … Read more
Amid a multi-day event, millions are facing a severe weather outbreak and flooding rain from Texas to West Virginia. Source link
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to give assurances to all of the states and their governors about the specific steps being taken to protect national security in the wake of the recent use of the Signal messaging app by members of President Donald Trump’s administration to discuss sensitive foreign policy … Read more
BOISE, Idaho. — Idaho’s recently departed U.S. attorney has joined the prosecution team in the case against Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022. Joshua Hurwit will be a special deputy prosecuting attorney for the state in the murder trial scheduled for August, court documents filed … Read more
A 97-year-old Galápagos tortoise named Mommy has given birth to four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise hatchlings. Source link
Stephen Bunting feared becoming the first player to finish a Premier League Darts season with zero points before securing a first nightly win in Berlin to get his season off the mark. Bunting, who was winless for eight weeks, hit a nine-darter in practice and then defeated Nathan Aspinall, Luke Humphries and Gerwyn Price in … Read more
