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Canada’s next prime minister has managed the financial crisis, Brexit and now Trump’s trade war
TORONTO — Canada’s next prime minister has already helped run two Group of Seven economies in crisis and now will try to steer Canada through a looming trade war brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, a threat of annexation and an expected federal election. Former central banker Mark Carney will...
Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development and he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department. Rubio made the announcement in a...
Trump not ruling out recession as he downplays business concerns amid tariff uncertainty
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices, and isn’t ruling out the possibility of a recession this year. After imposing and then quickly pausing...
Vikings re-sign RB Aaron Jones to 2-year, $20M contract after solid 1st year with teamVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings agreed to terms on a two-year, $20 million contract with running back Aaron Jones on Sunday that prevents the popular veteran from reaching free agency after a solid debut with his former rival. Jones will get $13 million guaranteed, his agent Drew Rosenhaus said. The...
Bills reward QB Josh Allen with new contract following his 1st NFL MVP season
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — NFL MVP Josh Allen was rewarded Sunday with a contract extension that is reportedly worth $330 million, which would make him among the league’s highest-paid players. The Buffalo Bills announced the agreement, which adds two years to Allen’s contract and locks the 28-year-old in through the...
Flight cancellations at Germany’s Hamburg Airport affect more than 40,000 passengers after strike
BERLIN — Flight cancellations at Hamburg Airport after a surprise strike by workers affected more than 40,000 passengers on Sunday, a day before a planned wider protest across Germany amid new contract negotiations. Only 10 of more than 280 scheduled flights went as planned early Sunday, the airport said. Many...
Christopher Bell edges Denny Hamlin at Phoenix to win 3rd straight NASCAR Cup Series raceVideo
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Christopher Bell was just ahead of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin after a late restart, in good position to win his third straight NASCAR Cup Series race. Another restart led to some tense moments — enough to make his team owner feel a bit queasy. Bell...
Davante Adams agrees to a 2-year, $46 million contract with the Los Angeles RamsVideo
LOS ANGELES — Receiver Davante Adams agreed to terms on a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, bringing the three-time All-Pro back to his native California. Adams’ deal could be worth up to $46 million with the Rams, who will move on from Super Bowl 56 MVP...
Ex-central banker to replace Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister after winning Liberal Party vote
TORONTO — Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after the governing Liberal Party elected him its leader Sunday as the country deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threat, and a federal election looms. Carney, 59, replaces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who...
Russell Henley with a late charge and a big eagle wins Bay Hill for biggest career winVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Russell Henley delivered a late charge that would have made Arnold Palmer proud, capped by chipping in for eagle on the 16th hole to rally with a 2-under-par 70 at Bay Hill on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career. Henley trailed Collin Morikawa by three...
Reports: Chiefs agree with LB Nick Bolton on 3-year, $45M contractVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs and linebacker Nick Bolton agreed to a three-year, $45 million contract Sunday that keeps the quarterback of their defense out of free agency, according to multiple reports. The Chiefs selected the 24-year-old Bolton in the second round of the 2021 draft out...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer saysVideo
NEW YORK — Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last spring’s anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, according to his attorney. Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned residence Saturday night near Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the...
Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil warVideo
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days. The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war...
A single-engine plane crashes near a Pennsylvania airport and all 5 aboard are taken to hospitalsVideo
A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Sunday in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, and everyone on board survived, officials and witnesses said. The fiery crash happened around 3 p.m. just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim...
Facing competition from Big Tech, states dangle incentives and loosen laws to attract power plants
HARRISBURG — Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry about protecting their residents and economies from rising electric bills, power outages and other consequences of falling behind Big Tech in a race for electricity. Some...
Kristi Noem taps new ICE leaders, moves to identify leakersVideo
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday announced new leadership at the agency tasked with immigration enforcement as she also pledged to step up lie detector tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information about operations to the media. “The authorities that I have under the Department...
NC State fires coach Kevin Keatts a year after improbable ACC title and Final Four runVideo
RALEIGH, N.C. — N.C. State fired men’s basketball coach Kevin Keatts on Sunday, an abrupt end to an eight-year tenure coming less than a year after the Wolfpack’s improbable run to the ACC championship and the Final Four. The school announced the move a day after the Wolfpack closed a...
Robert Pattison sci-fi ‘Mickey 17’ opens in 1st place, but profitability is a long way off
“Parasite” filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s original science fiction film “Mickey 17” opened in first place on the North American box office charts. According to studio estimates Sunday, the Robert Pattinson-led film earned $19.1 million in its first weekend in theaters, which was enough to dethrone “Captain America: Brave New World”...
Top health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
WASHINGTON — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as a $25,000 payment as part of President Donald Trump’s...
Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water
JERUSALEM — Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas called it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.” Israel last week suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million Palestinians,...
Syria’s neighboring foreign ministers call for lifting sanctions and reconciliation
AMMAN, Jordan — Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries Sunday called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions on Syria and post-war reconciliation. The foreign ministers of Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon made their remarks alongside Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani following a meeting in the Jordanian...
Rio Takeda of Japan shoots a blistering 8-under 64 in China to win her second LPGA title
SANYA, China — Rio Takeda shot a blistering 8-under 64 on Sunday to win the LPGA’s Blue Bay tournament by six shots ahead of Minjee Lee of Australia, the second LPGA title for the young Japanese. The 21-year-old Takeda finished on 17-under 271 for the four rounds on China’s southern...
Buffalo Bills release NFL’s active sacks leader Von Miller in a salary cap-saving move
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills announced the long-anticipated decision to release Von Miller on Sunday, parting ways with the aging edge rusher whose contract proved too expensive for his dwindling playing time and production. The move allows the Bills to free up about $8.4 million in salary cap...
Myles Garrett becomes the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history at $40 million per year
Myles Garrett is staying in Cleveland after the Browns gave him a record four-year contract extension that makes the four-time All-Pro edge rusher the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. A person with knowledge of the details told The Associated Press that Garrett’s deal includes $122.8 million guaranteed, an average annual...
Ayumu Hirano, Olympic champion snowboarder, has new, more important title: dad
ASPEN, Colo. — The biggest life-changer for snowboard champion Ayumu Hirano since he won an Olympic gold medal: He became a father. That, as much as triple corks or big airs, has been his focus over the last few months. It doesn’t figure to change much, even as he ramps...
