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Canadians hold an “Elbows Up” protest against U.S. tariffs and other policies by U.S. President Donald Trump, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 22, 2025.Carlos Osorio | ReutersCanadians are skipping trips to the U.S. and visitors from other countries could soon follow threatening to deepen the United States’ $50 billion travel deficit.Experts say they’re pulling back for a variety of reasons, ranging from an unfavorable currency exchange rate to the U.S. political climate given President Donald Trump’s trade policies and his public statements on annexing Canada, as well as high-profile detainments of people who already had visas…

Listen to article The federal government has approached the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) for a reduction in electricity tariffs, following approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The government has proposed a cut of Rs1.71 per unit in electricity prices, which would be facilitated through a tariff subsidy. The power regulatory authority is scheduled to hold a hearing on April 4, Express News reported on Friday. The proposed tariff reduction is intended to apply to all distribution companies, including K-Electric, with the subsidy set to take effect from April to June 2025. The move comes a day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF)…

US President Donald Trump says the United States needs to take over Greenland for “world peace,” as he doubled down on his ambitions to annex the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory. “We are not talking about peace for the United States. We are talking about world peace. We are talking about international security,” Trump told reporters at the White House. Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior US officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original…

Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi hit back at new short-selling allegations from Muddy Waters Research after the ad-tech company’s stock suffered its steepest drop on record on Thursday.Foroughi penned a new blog post that asked investors to “dig deeper” on the allegations, saying the report’s claims about the success of their AI-powered ad tactics could be easily disproven by artificial intelligence models like Grok “in minutes.”Muddy Waters on Thursday became the third short-selling firm to publish research meant to raise significant investor skepticism about the company’s technology, after AppLovin’s stock price soared…

Hillary Clinton speaks on the first night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Monday, August 19, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesHillary Clinton on Friday excoriated President Donald Trump and his administration for their handling of the embarrassing leak of U.S. military attack plans to a journalist who was accidentally added to a Signal app text thread with other top officials this month.”It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity,” Clinton wrote in a New York Times opinion piece.”We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and…

The main gate at The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, on Sept. 25, 2023.Mario Anzuoni | ReutersThe Federal Communications Commission has alerted the Walt Disney Company and its ABC unit that it will begin an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the media giant.The FCC, the agency that regulates the media and telecommunications industry, said in a letter dated Friday that it wants to “ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.””We are reviewing the Federal Communications Commission’s letter, and we look forward to engaging with…

Listen to article Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over a key meeting attended by the federal and provincial leadership to address the ongoing threat of terrorism in the country. The meeting, held at the Prime Minister’s House, included representatives from all four provinces, as well as Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, alongside military and civilian leaders, Express News reported. The meeting focused on unveiling the attackers responsible for the Jaffar Express assault and ensuring that every effort is made to expose them to the international community. Additionally, the participants agreed to counter anti-national campaigns on both traditional and digital media platforms effectively. A key decision…

Prosecutors seek jail term for Italian, who has won football’s Champions League title on a record five occasions.Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti will go on trial next week for allegedly failing to declare income to Spain’s tax office. Prosecutors are seeking a jail term of four years and nine months for the 65-year-old Italian, accusing him of costing Spain’s treasury more than $1.1m in undeclared earnings from image rights in 2014 and 2015. The trial will begin on Wednesday and is expected to last two days, a spokesman for the court said on Friday. Ancelotti, who as a coach has…

Jen Salke, the head of Amazon MGM Studios is stepping down from her role, the company confirmed.Mike Hopkins, Amazon’s head of Prime Video and MGM Studios, made the announcement in a Thursday memo to employees. Salke is exiting Amazon to move into film production, and her previous position will not be replaced, Hopkins said.”We’ve decided to flatten our leadership structure a bit and not fill the head of studios role,” Hopkins wrote. “In line with Amazon’s recent work to streamline reporting lines and accelerate decision making, we felt this was the best direction for our studio, which will now operate…

Signage is seen outside of the law firm WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 30, 2020. Andrew Kelly | ReutersTwo more law firms sued the Trump administration on Friday over executive orders by President Donald Trump targeting them for employing attorneys who worked on criminal investigations of the president.The lawsuits by WilmerHale and Jenner & Block come weeks after Perkins Coie filed a suit after it was targeted by a Trump order.All three so-called Big Law firms claim in separate civil complaints in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that the retributive orders are clear violations of the U.S. Constitution.Since February,…