Whippet from Italy called Miuccia wins best in show
Whippet from Italy called Miuccia wins best in show
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Star whippet Miuccia with her handler Giovanni Liguori
A whippet from Venice in Italy has been named best in show at the 2025 Crufts dog show in Birmingham.
Four-year-old Miuccia beat more than 18,000 dogs from around the world to claim the top award on Sunday at the NEC.
“It’s really a dream come true,” said her handler Giovanni Liguori. “I am truly overwhelmed. Miuccia performed her best”.
It is the first time a dog from Italy has won best in show, which comes with a trophy and small cash prize of reportedly £200.
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Miuccia is fussed over after winning the trophy and what appears to be a bottle of champagne
Miuccia, who is owned by Enrico De Gaspari, was the winner of the hound group earlier in the show, and beat the winners of six other groups to win the top prize.
“I absolutely adore her,” said handler Mr Liguori. “She is the sweetest dog.
“She always wants to be super close to me and that’s the most important thing.”
Mr Liguori said it was “incredible, it’s amazing” to be the first dog from Italy to be crowned best in show.
“As Italians we are super proud and means that we are doing a fantastic job.”
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Another of the finalists – Sophia, a Papillon from the English town of Oswestry
Helen Kerfoot, Crufts show manager, said it was “fantastic” to watch Miuccia and her handler’s “strong relationship together in the ring, and they are truly deserving winners”.
“Well done to all of our other wonderful finalists too.
“The dogs, their owners, and handlers should be incredibly proud to have taken part in such a momentous final – it’s an incredible achievement, one we are sure they’ll treasure for years to come.”
The runner-up was Viking, a Tibetan mastiff from Romania.
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US gaming giant Bally’s Corporation makes $250m bid for Star Entertainment
US gaming giant Bally’s Corporation makes $250m bid for Star Entertainment
US casino operator Bally’s Corporation has made a dramatic last-ditch $250m offer for embattled gaming giant Star Entertainment that would preserve Star’s footprint in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney.
The offer, delivered in a letter to Star’s board on Monday morning, would inject $250m into Star in return for a 50.1 per cent stake in the company.
Bally’s chairman Soo Kim said the deal would preserve Star’s “businesses, assets and platforms”, meaning its Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sydney operations.
“Our strategy for Star is built on the simple premise that keeping in place Star’s current businesses, assets and platforms will provide a stronger and more successful business over time,” the letter reads.
“While we understand the rationale for Star’s recently announced transactions, we believe that our proposal offers Star and its stakeholders far greater value and operational flexibility as well as the upside from retaining Star’s current projects and other assets.”
The shock Bally’s move hopes to snuff out a deal brokered on Friday that involves Star selling out its position in Brisbane to its ******** joint venture partners and consolidating its operations on the Gold Coast and Sydney.
Camera IconStar operates casinos in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney. NewsWire / Glenn Campbell Credit: News Corp Australia
Mr Kim said his company was prepared to “invest significant time and resources” to return Star to “profitability and sustainability”.
He also said he was open to discussing a “larger transaction depending on our discussions with respect to Star’s liquidity and capital needs”.
Bally’s operates 19 resorts and casinos across the US, including casinos in gaming meccas Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
In an announcement to the ASX on Friday, Star said it had entered into an agreement with Chow **** Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium to exit its 50 per cent interest in the Howard Smith Wharves precinct in Brisbane.
The company said the deal would help it with near-term liquidity challenges and also remove a looming $1.4bn debt obligation.
“The transaction has a number of financial benefits for The Star,” the company said.
“An upfront cash payment of $53m, with $35m received today. This payment supports The Star’s near-term liquidity needs.
“The Star will not be required to make further equity contributions to DBC (Destination Brisbane Consortium) after March 31, 2025.
“The Star had otherwise expected future equity contributions to DBC to be at least $212m.
“A condition of the transaction is that The Star will be released from the parent company in relation to its 50 per cent share of the DBC debt facility (current drawn balance is $1.4bn).”
Star would also hand over its Treasury Hotel and carpark in the Brisbane CBD under the deal.
Shares in Star remained suspended from trading as the company scrambles to stave off collapse.
The troubled gaming giant is nearly out of cash and confronting a severe downturn in revenues as an exodus of high rollers and cost-of-living pressures hit the business.
It is also battling a tangled swirl of corporate watchdog investigations and penalties for serious failures at its operations.
In October 2022, the NSW Independent Casino Commission imposed a $100m fine on Star after finding the company had allowed money laundering to take place at its Sydney casino.
A report into the business also found the company had exploited vulnerable gamblers.
NSW Premier Chris Minns and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has so far declined to offer taxpayer money to bail out the company, which counts some 9000 employees across the two states.
The company’s collapse has been slow but steady.
In July last year, the company held a market capitalisation of $1.5bn.
Bally’s and Star have been contacted for comment.
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Man arrested after deadly golf cart ****** near The Villages
Man arrested after deadly golf cart ****** near The Villages
A man from The Villages was arrested Sunday after Florida state troopers say he killed someone with a golf cart.
Florida Highway Patrol says Richard Allen Keil, 58, was driving a golf cart with a passenger heading northbound on San Martino Drive during Sunday’s overnight hours.
Shortly before 1 a.m., he reportedly swerved to avoid a parked vehicle at the intersection of Santa Clara Circle. Troopers say that’s when the passenger, a 60-year-old woman from Norridge, Illinois, fell out and suffered serious injuries. She later died at the hospital.
The woman’s name was not released.
Troopers say Keil was found to be impaired. He was arrested and charged with DUI manslaughter.
He remains in the Sumter County jail. No bail has been set yet.
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Death Stranding 2 just got its release date and a 10-minute new trailer
Death Stranding 2 just got its release date and a 10-minute new trailer
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is coming to PlayStation 5 on June 26. At SXSW, Kojima Productions dropped a 10-minute trailer for the upcoming game, giving us our best look yet at the sequel to 2019’s Death Stranding. Pre-orders open on March 17 at 10AM local time, and those who buy the Digital Deluxe or Collector’s Edition will get early access two days before the game officially becomes available.
Hideo Kojima was joined by Norman Reedus and Troy Baker on stage at SXSW 2025 to discuss the much anticipated new game. The trailer reveals Death Stranding 2 takes place 11 months after the creation of the United Cities of America. As , Reedus is back as Sam, along with Léa Seydoux, who voices Fragile, and Baker as Higgs. There’s otherwise a lot to take in over the course of the video’s 10-minute run, including a slew of new faces joining the cast.
Death Stranding 2 was first announced back in 2022, and last year’s PlayStation into the game. Now come summer time, you’ll finally be able to play it.
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Possible measles exposure at Washington Dulles International Airport – WRIC ABC 8News
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Blues’ De Koning set to ruck and roll under microscope
Blues’ De Koning set to ruck and roll under microscope
Zac Williams knows better than most the big decision Carlton free agent Tom De Koning faces on his AFL future.
But he expects the laid-back ruckman to put thoughts of big contract offers aside and focus on getting the Blues off to a hot start.
Restricted free agent De Koning, 25, is attracting attention from St Kilda, while the Blues have reportedly put a seven-year deal in front of him.
Williams, who left GWS for Carlton via free agency at the end of 2020, understands the process.
“For me it was a long process. I was still going through all that stuff during COVID. I was away from family and stuff like that,” Williams said.
“It is a big decision, but at the same time Tom loves it here at the club and he knows that all the boys and all the staff here love him as well.
“That’ll just work itself out through the year and I think Tom’s just looking forward to starting the season and playing some good football.”
Williams noted De Koning’s teammates had seized the opportunity to joke about his high-profile contract situation but were leaving him to deal with it.
“That’s all him and it’s all personal stuff,” he said.
“Him and the club will work it out when it needs to be worked out.”
Midfielder Adam Cerra is just happy to be on the end of athletic ruckman De Koning’s first-class ruck work in Thursday night’s round-one clash with Richmond at the MCG.
“We’re lucky enough to have a few ruckmen that are very good in the air and compete really well,” Cerra said.
“We saw last Friday just how dominant Tom can be.
“When he’s up and going, he can be a real barometer for us, so super excited to play with him, kicking off this Thursday.”
Both Cerra and Williams, who have had rough injury runs, are fit and ready to go.
Former dashing half-back Williams, 30, expects to remain as a small forward but is happy to play Mr Fix-it for coach Michael Voss when required.
“I’ve had a full pre-season and I’ve worked on my craft with Jesse Motlop, Corey Durden and all the small forwards over the pre-season,” he said.
“I’m really excited to start round one and lock into that role.
“I’ve had conversations with Vossy that in games it (going into the midfield or defence) could happen.
“For me, it’s just being confident now. No matter where I’m playing and no matter what role, if I’m feeling comfortable, I think Vossy will feel pretty confident and just flick me around wherever he needs to.”
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Rubio and Musk turn on Polish foreign minister in spat over Starlink use in Ukraine: ‘Be quiet small man’
Rubio and Musk turn on Polish foreign minister in spat over Starlink use in Ukraine: ‘Be quiet small man’
The Trump administration’s top diplomat joined DOGE chief Elon Musk in picking a fight with Poland’s foreign minister on Sunday as the three squabbled over Musk’s Starlink system and its use in Ukraine.
Sunday’s three-way exchange was just the latest example of American foreign relations turning into a blame game as Marco Rubio, the secretary of State, reiterated the White House’s position that Europe was insufficient with its praise and gratitude after three years of US support for Ukraine’s defense.
Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, responded to the Tesla and X/Twitter CEO on social media after Musk barked back at a self-identified MAGA fan who rebuked him and Donald Trump for not treating Russia as the aggressor in the conflict. Musk’s tweet highlighted that his Starlink satellite program was crucial to Ukraine’s defense, and in doing so speculated about the consequences of him turning it off.
He tweeted: “I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my Starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. Their entire front line would collapse if I turned it off. What I am sickened by is years of slaughter in a stalemate that Ukraine will inevitably lose. Anyone who really cares, really thinks and really understands wants the meat grinder to stop. PEACE NOW!!”
Radosław Sikorski was instructed to ‘say thank you’ by Marco Rubio (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Sikorski responded, apparently to the concept of Starlink being turned off, writing that Poland’s government was paying $50m a year for it and warning that Poland would seek another provider “if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable” partner.
He wrote: “Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.”
That set off Musk. He responded with an insult, calling Sikorski “small man”, and argued that no other telecom provider could match Starlink’s capabilities.
He wrote: “Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink.”
It also triggered a response from Rubio, formerly a vocal supporter of Ukraine’s resistance against the Russian invasion. In 2022, he called on the Biden administration to publicly state that the US would support Ukraine’s government “as long as they are willing to fight, even if it’s only an insurgency,” during an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
Rubio’s presence at the Oval Office blowup between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was picked apart on social media, as his critics noted the secretary appeared uncomfortable and remained quiet through the entire combative exchange.
The secretary wrote in a tweet on Sunday that Sikorski was “[j]ust making things up” by suggesting that Musk was considering ending Starlink’s contracts with the Ukrainian military. “No one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink,” wrote Rubio, adding: “And say thank you because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now.”
His latter remark echoed the words of Vance, who’d questioned Zelensky during their confrontation whether the Ukrainian leader had said “thank you” for the continued support of the US government (he had repeatedly done so).
But Musk assured his followers separately that he would not see Starlink services cut off to Ukraine over a dispute with Poland’s foreign minister.
Musk later sought to reassure supporters of Ukraine’s struggle to defend itself against the Russian invasion by saying that Starlink would ‘never turn off its terminals’ (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
“To be extremely clear, no matter how much I disagree with the Ukraine policy, Starlink will never turn off its terminals. Without Starlink, the Ukrainian lines would collapse, as the Russians can jam all other communications! We would never do such a thing or use it as a bargaining chip,” he wrote.
His claim about the US using such a service as a “bargaining chip” is rather ill-timed, given that the White House ordered American intelligence agencies to cease real-time cooperation with the Ukrainian military within the past week. In response, Russia has renewed a deadly offensive against Ukrainian defensive positions and civilian centers.
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Singapore looks to AI help to manage health of fast-aging population
Singapore looks to AI help to manage health of fast-aging population
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From listening devices that detect falls to “patient sitter” systems in hospitals and robots helping with exercise in care homes, Singapore is looking to artificial intelligence to help manage the health of its elderly population.
By 2030, a quarter of Singaporeans will be 65 or older — in 2010, the figure was one in 10 — and it’s estimated that around 6,000 nurses and care staff will need to be hired annually to meet Singapore’s health workforce targets.
Technology is much needed to help fill the care gap in Singapore and elsewhere, according to Chuan De Foo, a research fellow at Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Societies around the world are “dismally unprepared” for an aging population, Foo wrote in the science journal Frontiers last month, and with his co-authors described AI and other technologies as “pivotal forces with the potential to drive a paradigm shift in healthcare.”
For Foo, artificial intelligence is set to play a “huge” role in elder care in Singapore, both in terms of helping clinicians manage non-acute conditions and in overseeing administrative tasks such as monitoring the availability of hospital beds, he said in an email to CNBC. “As the elderly in Singapore get more IT savvy, we see them turning to teleconsultations and digital tools that utilize AI technology,” he said.
AI is also being used to detect diseases earlier, an area of personal interest for Dr Han Ei Chew, a research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He said his late mother’s diabetic eye disease could have been diagnosed — and treated — earlier had AI testing methods been available when she was alive, as they are are now. “That would have been so useful when the family was going through that journey,” Chew told CNBC by phone.
A big focus for Singapore is “aging in place,” according to Chew. “We can deploy the AI, but it isn’t about fully replacing human care … it is really about assisting the caregivers and helping seniors to stay independent and age in place,” he told CNBC via video call.
Chew said Singapore’s Housing and Development Board is even offering built-in home technology to detect when someone falls down, with an alert sent to a resident’s next of kin or connected to a call center for help.
These types of monitoring technology need to be used carefully, Chew said, in whatever jurisdiction they are deployed. “The AI should empower the seniors and not strip them of control. They still need to have the choice to opt in, set boundaries, and, more importantly, to turn it off when they want,” he told CNBC.
A care ‘co-pilot’
It’s not only Singapore that is looking at using AI for elderly care. In the United States, Sensi.AI is a fast-growing “care co-pilot” that monitors elderly people using audio devices that are usually plugged into three areas of their homes.
Company co-founder and CEO Romi Gubes said the technology can provide caregivers with more than 100 different insights, alerting them to early signs of ******** tract or respiratory infections, or to falls or cognitive decline. “We’re combining multiple indicators that are coming from audio,” Gubes told CNBC by video call. “Think about, for example, respiratory infection. This will [take into account] the cadence of the coughing, the frequency, the type of coughing, together with … complaints around fever, dizziness,” she said.
When Sensi.AI is installed in a home, it creates a “baseline” over two weeks, noting a range of “acoustic indicators,” Gubes said, including non-verbal sounds like objects being moved, footsteps or snores, which it combines with its team’s clinical knowledge. Once the AI knows the baseline sounds in a home, it can alert caregivers to any audio anomalies that might suggest a health issue.
Gubes said Sensi is being used by “tens of thousands” of seniors in the U.S. and a spokesperson said the company is in discussions about a potential expansion in Asia.
Ageism in AI
The experts CNBC spoke to warned that AI must be used carefully when it comes to senior health care.
Foo warned that the over-use of AI in consultations might lead to “poorer health outcomes” as not all elderly people can use technology, and he warned that it must be correctly designed to avoid “perpetuating digital ageism.” Indeed, the World Health Organization cautioned, “The implicit and explicit biases of society, including around age, are often replicated in AI technologies,” and its 2022 policy brief urged developers to have older people participate in the design of new technology.
In Singapore, the government’s “Action Plan for Successful Ageing” details its aims, such as to reach 550,000 seniors with a health and wellness program and reduce hospital deaths from 61% to 51% between 2023 and 2028.
But Foo said seniors’ opinions needed to be taken into account when determining how AI can address their health needs. “Like all new initiatives, failure will be inevitable if the target audience, i.e. the elderly, are not on board. We [need] to hear their voices and tailor the national health-AI strategy to suit their needs while not removing the human element of healthcare. That is the challenge,” he told CNBC by email.
For Chew, the approach to elder care will need to blend human and machine, describing it as “high tech, but high touch.” “The AI is probably best used as an extra set of eyes, ears and the robots [are an] extra set of hands, but not as a replacement for the high touch human care giving,” he said.
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Singapore looks to AI help to manage health of fast-aging population
Singapore looks to AI help to manage health of fast-aging population
A mural depicting Samsui women in Chinatown in Singapore.
Edwin Koo | Getty Images
From listening devices that detect falls to “patient sitter” systems in hospitals and robots helping with exercise in care homes, Singapore is looking to artificial intelligence to help manage the health of its elderly population.
By 2030, a quarter of Singaporeans will be 65 or older — in 2010, the figure was one in 10 — and it’s estimated that around 6,000 nurses and care staff will need to be hired annually to meet Singapore’s health workforce targets.
Technology is much needed to help fill the care gap in Singapore and elsewhere, according to Chuan De Foo, a research fellow at Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Societies around the world are “dismally unprepared” for an aging population, Foo wrote in the science journal Frontiers last month, and with his co-authors described AI and other technologies as “pivotal forces with the potential to drive a paradigm shift in healthcare.”
For Foo, artificial intelligence is set to play a “huge” role in elder care in Singapore, both in terms of helping clinicians manage non-acute conditions and in overseeing administrative tasks such as monitoring the availability of hospital beds, he said in an email to CNBC. “As the elderly in Singapore get more IT savvy, we see them turning to teleconsultations and digital tools that utilize AI technology,” he said.
AI is also being used to detect diseases earlier, an area of personal interest for Dr Han Ei Chew, a research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He said his late mother’s diabetic eye disease could have been diagnosed — and treated — earlier had AI testing methods been available when she was alive, as they are are now. “That would have been so useful when the family was going through that journey,” Chew told CNBC by phone.
A big focus for Singapore is “aging in place,” according to Chew. “We can deploy the AI, but it isn’t about fully replacing human care … it is really about assisting the caregivers and helping seniors to stay independent and age in place,” he told CNBC via video call.
Chew said Singapore’s Housing and Development Board is even offering built-in home technology to detect when someone falls down, with an alert sent to a resident’s next of kin or connected to a call center for help.
These types of monitoring technology need to be used carefully, Chew said, in whatever jurisdiction they are deployed. “The AI should empower the seniors and not strip them of control. They still need to have the choice to opt in, set boundaries, and, more importantly, to turn it off when they want,” he told CNBC.
A care ‘co-pilot’
It’s not only Singapore that is looking at using AI for elderly care. In the United States, Sensi.AI is a fast-growing “care co-pilot” that monitors elderly people using audio devices that are usually plugged into three areas of their homes.
Company co-founder and CEO Romi Gubes said the technology can provide caregivers with more than 100 different insights, alerting them to early signs of ******** tract or respiratory infections, or to falls or cognitive decline. “We’re combining multiple indicators that are coming from audio,” Gubes told CNBC by video call. “Think about, for example, respiratory infection. This will [take into account] the cadence of the coughing, the frequency, the type of coughing, together with … complaints around fever, dizziness,” she said.
When Sensi.AI is installed in a home, it creates a “baseline” over two weeks, noting a range of “acoustic indicators,” Gubes said, including non-verbal sounds like objects being moved, footsteps or snores, which it combines with its team’s clinical knowledge. Once the AI knows the baseline sounds in a home, it can alert caregivers to any audio anomalies that might suggest a health issue.
Gubes said Sensi is being used by “tens of thousands” of seniors in the U.S. and a spokesperson said the company is in discussions about a potential expansion in Asia.
Ageism in AI
The experts CNBC spoke to warned that AI must be used carefully when it comes to senior health care.
Foo warned that the over-use of AI in consultations might lead to “poorer health outcomes” as not all elderly people can use technology, and he warned that it must be correctly designed to avoid “perpetuating digital ageism.” Indeed, the World Health Organization cautioned, “The implicit and explicit biases of society, including around age, are often replicated in AI technologies,” and its 2022 policy brief urged developers to have older people participate in the design of new technology.
In Singapore, the government’s “Action Plan for Successful Ageing” details its aims, such as to reach 550,000 seniors with a health and wellness program and reduce hospital deaths from 61% to 51% between 2023 and 2028.
But Foo said seniors’ opinions needed to be taken into account when determining how AI can address their health needs. “Like all new initiatives, failure will be inevitable if the target audience, i.e. the elderly, are not on board. We [need] to hear their voices and tailor the national health-AI strategy to suit their needs while not removing the human element of healthcare. That is the challenge,” he told CNBC by email.
For Chew, the approach to elder care will need to blend human and machine, describing it as “high tech, but high touch.” “The AI is probably best used as an extra set of eyes, ears and the robots [are an] extra set of hands, but not as a replacement for the high touch human care giving,” he said.
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Plane crashes near retirement community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – CNN
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Not Jason’s day, Henley wins Arnold Palmer Invitational
Not Jason’s day, Henley wins Arnold Palmer Invitational
Luckless Jason Day has suffered a watery grave as Russell Henley produced a lightning finish to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational in the maverick style of the late tournament host.
Henley trailed Collin Morikawa by three shots with five holes to play before reeling his fellow American in with a pair of two-shot swings at the famed and baked-out Bay Hill Golf Club.
Henley chipped in for eagle at the 16th hole in the decisive play of the day en route to a final-round two-under-par 70 and his first victory since the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship.
He prevailed by one shot over third-round leader Morikawa, who could only manage a even-par 72.
Bidding to join world No.1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler as a two-time winner of the PGA Tour’s $US20 million ($A32 million) Signature event, Day pulled to within two shots of the lead midway through the back nine.
But Australia’s former world No.1 was left cursing his rotten luck after dunking his mud-laden ball into the drink on the par-5 16th.
Day racked up a double bogey to wind up tied for eighth at five under, six strokes behind Henley after signing for a two-over 74 as Henley held his nerve to claim a fifth PGA Tour win.
“Hats off to Collin, he played great, super-steady, but sometimes golf is just mean like that,” the humble Henley said.
“I was so nervous, so unbelievably nervous. Look, I can’t breathe right now. It’s so hard and so difficult around this place.
“I got a good break there (on 16), I holed another one there yesterday on the first hole from the bunker and had a couple of hole-outs off the green this week.
“I just tried to stay really tough. I’ve watched Tiger (Woods) make a lot of putts on this green. I’ve watched Rory (McIlroy), Fran (Francesco Molinari) and Bryson (DeChambeau) make winning putts here, and it’s cool to know I did it too.”
Henley, a 35-year-old Georgia native who will rise to world No.7, will be hoping his victory proves an omen ahead of next months’ Masters.
Scheffler donned the green jacket both times after winning at Bay Hill in 2022 and 2024.
Morikawa, whose last victory was in October 2023, will be wondering what might have been.
The two-time major champion led by three mid-round but took bogey on the 14th and couldn’t buy a birdie down the stretch.
********* Corey Conners (71) finished third at nine under to secure a ticket to the 153rd British Open in July at Royal Portrush.
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Missing Univ. of Pittsburgh student believed to have died by drowning in Dominican Republic
Missing Univ. of Pittsburgh student believed to have died by drowning in Dominican Republic
A University of Pittsburgh student who was reported missing after traveling to the Dominican Republic last week is believed to have died by drowning, officials confirmed to ABC News on Sunday.
The student has been identified as Sudiksha Konanki, a legal permanent resident of the United States and an Indian citizen. She was one of six female students traveling in Punta Cana, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.
Konanki and one of the other students were Loudoun County, Virginia, residents, the sheriff’s office said.
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Three Dominican officials involved in the investigation told ABC News that Konanki was walking on the beach with six people on March 5 before she is believed to have drowned in the ocean.
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At some point, most of the group went back to the hotel during the night, but one person stayed with her on the beach, according to a Dominican Republic investigative police report.
MORE: FAA bans US flights to Haiti for 30 days after planes struck by gunfire
She and this person went for a swim and were caught by a big wave, the police report said.
The last time Konanki was seen on the beach on security camera footage was around 4:50 a.m. on March 6, according to the police report.
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New iOS 19 and visionOS 3 Tidbits Revealed – MacRumors
New iOS 19 and visionOS 3 Tidbits Revealed – MacRumors
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Mark Carney wins race to replace Canada’s Trudeau
Mark Carney wins race to replace Canada’s Trudeau
Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney speaks as members of Canada’s Liberal Party gather to choose a successor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on March 9, 2025.
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Former central banker Mark Carney won the race to become leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party and will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, official results showed on Sunday.
Carney will take over at a tumultuous time in Canada, which is in the midst of a trade war with longtime ally the United States and must hold a general election soon.
Carney, 59, took 86% of votes cast to beat former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a contest in which just under 152,000 party members voted.
Trudeau announced in January that he would step down after more than nine years in power as his approval rating plummeted, forcing the ruling Liberal Party to run a quick contest to replace him.
“Make no mistake, this is a nation-defining moment. Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not a given. Even Canada is not a given,” Trudeau said.
“Now, as Canadians face, from our neighbor, an existential challenge, an economic crisis, Canadians are showing exactly what we are made of.”
Carney, a political novice, argued that he was best placed to revive the party and to oversee trade negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is threatening additional tariffs that could cripple Canada’s export-dependent economy.
Carney was the front-runner, with the most endorsements from party members and the most money raised among the four Liberal candidates.
Carney’s win marks the first time an outsider with no real political background has become ********* prime minister. He has said his experience as the first person to serve as the governor of two G7 central banks – Canada and England – meant he was the best candidate to deal with Trump.
During the campaign, Carney said he supported dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs against the United States and a coordinated strategy to boost investment. He has repeatedly complained that Canada’s growth under Trudeau was not good enough.
The prospect of a fresh start for the Liberal Party under Carney, combined with Trump’s tariffs and his repeated taunts to annex Canada as the 51st U.S. state, led to a remarkable revival of Liberal fortunes.
Rally-around-the-flag moment
At the start of 2025 the party trailed by 20 or more points but is now statistically tied with the official opposition Conservatives led by career politician Pierre Poilievre in several polls.
At a protest outside Canada’s Parliament building in Ottawa on Sunday, dozens of Canadians held up signs protesting Trump with no reference to domestic politics.
“There is a rallying-around-the-flag moment that we would never have predicted a year ago,” said University of British Columbia politics professor Richard Johnston. “I think it’s probably true as we speak that the Liberals have been saved from oblivion.”
Two Liberal Party sources said Carney would call an election in coming weeks.
Polls though indicate that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives would be able to form a majority government. An election must be held by October 20.
Carney could legally serve as prime minister without a seat in the House of Commons but tradition dictates that he should seek to win one as soon as possible.
In 1984, John Turner was not a legislator when he became prime minister after winning a Liberal leadership race.
Liberals sought to compare Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to Trump in a recent advertisement. Poilievre in turn ramped up attacks on Carney on Sunday.
The Liberals “are going to pull a sneaky trick tonight,” Poilievre said at a campaign rally. “They’re going to try to get elected for a fourth term by replacing Justin Trudeau with his economic adviser, Mark Carney. … Donald Trump will have a big smile on his face.”
Carney has played down any role in advising Trudeau, noting his many global obligations left him with little time. Carney resigned all commercial posts after he launched his leadership bid in January.
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Champions Trophy 2025: Impressive India win but tournament shows cricket at risk of apathy
Champions Trophy 2025: Impressive India win but tournament shows cricket at risk of apathy
Of course, none of this is the fault of India’s players.
Rohit, who caused a stir by sending vice-captain Shubman Gill to the pre-final captains’ interview this week, and Virat Kohli are two 50-over greats.
Ravindra Jadeja, who hit the winning runs against New Zealand, is not far behind, while Gill will probably get there too if given the chance.
India’s strength is such that they might well have won this tournament wherever it was played. The fact they have not had injured star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah for the Champions Trophy has largely been forgotten.
But these ICC men’s events – increased in number to include either a Champions Trophy, T20 or 50-over World Cup every year until 2031 – are supposed to be the internationals game’s counter to the money-spinning Indian Premier League.
Instead, they now come so often, follow such a familiar pattern, that indifference is perhaps beginning to set in.
There were no written journalists from India’s fellow semi-finalists, Australia, South Africa or New Zealand, at the Champions Trophy – hardly the sign of a healthy sport.
The fallout from England’s dismal exit was loud among the diehards but outside of that?
You be the judge about whether this tournament came up in the family WhatsApp group.
Their chaotic organisation does not help either, with the schedule for this competition confirmed just 57 days before it began.
No English media were able to witness that Guyana semi-final because of the quick turnaround, a lack of flights and the fact it took place in a country US authorities advise against visiting on safety grounds.
In cricket, these things are simply waved through.
Things will not get easier in the next two tournaments – the women’s World Cup later this year and the men’s T20 version in the spring of 2026.
Both will be held in India, in partnership with Sri Lanka in the case of the T20, meaning should Pakistan qualify they will get the treatment their rivals had here.
Pakistan could find themselves with the same advantages India had but uncertainties – two venues needed to be lined up for a final – are not going anywhere.
It is not that hope is lost.
This tournament has shown, yet again, that the product of international white-ball cricket on the field remains strong, despite two washouts and too many one-sided games.
Australia batter Josh Inglis’ century against England was an all-timer, Ravindra continued to emerge as one of the next stars of the sport and Afghanistan all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai should be the want of every Hundred team in Wednesday’s draft.
A dearth in quality is not a threat to international cricket’s future. Apathy is.
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Regional childcare crisis forces centres to offer financial incentives and FIFO roles
Regional childcare crisis forces centres to offer financial incentives and FIFO roles
Regional and rural childcare centres are offering fly-in fly-out positions, accommodation and relocation incentives to attract staff amid a critical worker shortage which is forcing some centres to shut down.
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The Popular ********-Inspired Chain That Used To Be Owned By McDonald’s
The Popular ********-Inspired Chain That Used To Be Owned By McDonald’s
Though the restaurant is famed for its quick burgers and all-American menu, it might surprise you to learn that McDonald’s played a pivotal role in the story of fast-casual food titan Chipotle. McDonald’s involvement in the ********-inspired chain began in the late 1990s, when Chipotle was virtually unknown and McDonald’s was an American institution. As it often goes in business, a connection helped get Chipotle on McDonald’s radar. A friend of one of Chipotle’s investors joined the McDonald’s team and helped them score a meeting, where they brought samples of their food to pitch.
From that fateful meeting until McDonald’s cut ties with the ******** chain in 2006, the fast food giant played an early but pivotal role in Chipotle. Its support and financial investments — to the tune of $340 million total — certainly were instrumental for the fast-casual ******** eatery, which grew from just a few stores to more than 500 by 2005 — and over 3,500 by 2025.
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McDonald’s And Chipotle’s Crossover Was Short-Lived But Crucial
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Thanks largely to the early support of McDonald’s, Chipotle continued to grow into the giant it is today. Still, despite McDonald’s crucial early involvement, there were really no telltale sign or clues they were involved — so even eagle-eyed foodies likely didn’t know about the crossover. The two menus couldn’t be more different, and the vibes and aesthetics of the two chains don’t share many similarities. Perhaps these fundamental differences are part of the reason the two split ties in 2006, when McDonald’s sold off all its shares — which once totaled about 90% of the company.
Investing in many other chains over the years aside from just Chipotle, McDonald’s executives began to feel the company’s attention was being stretched too thin. According to Benzinga, McDonald’s executives were also pressuring Chipotle leaders to introduce drive-thrus and breakfast in its locations, which also led to some differences in opinion. By late 2006, the two were completely separated, which perhaps was one of the biggest mistakes McDonald’s ever made, as Chipotle’s value only soared in the coming years — clocking in at a whopping $1.85 billion by the time the two completely broke up.
While Chipotle insisted on marching to the beat of its own drum and has continued its meteoric rise after its divorce from the Golden Arches, who’s to say how different food history could have been if McDonald’s maintained a grip on Chipotle. McDonald’s, certainly, could have padded out its bottom line more if it held onto those valuable shares longer. Chipotle largely reclaimed its original vision, even bucking the franchise model McDonald’s had pushed. Clearly, the separation didn’t hurt either company, and the two restaurant chains are thriving today all on their own.
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Mark Carney wins race to replace Canada’s Trudeau
Mark Carney wins race to replace Canada’s Trudeau
Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney speaks as members of Canada’s Liberal Party gather to choose a successor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on March 9, 2025.
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Former central banker Mark Carney won the race to become leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party and will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, official results showed on Sunday.
Carney will take over at a tumultuous time in Canada, which is in the midst of a trade war with longtime ally the United States and must hold a general election soon.
Carney, 59, took 86% of votes cast to beat former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a contest in which just under 152,000 party members voted.
Trudeau announced in January that he would step down after more than nine years in power as his approval rating plummeted, forcing the ruling Liberal Party to run a quick contest to replace him.
“Make no mistake, this is a nation-defining moment. Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not a given. Even Canada is not a given,” Trudeau said.
“Now, as Canadians face, from our neighbor, an existential challenge, an economic crisis, Canadians are showing exactly what we are made of.”
Carney, a political novice, argued that he was best placed to revive the party and to oversee trade negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is threatening additional tariffs that could cripple Canada’s export-dependent economy.
Carney was the front-runner, with the most endorsements from party members and the most money raised among the four Liberal candidates.
Carney’s win marks the first time an outsider with no real political background has become ********* prime minister. He has said his experience as the first person to serve as the governor of two G7 central banks – Canada and England – meant he was the best candidate to deal with Trump.
During the campaign, Carney said he supported dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs against the United States and a coordinated strategy to boost investment. He has repeatedly complained that Canada’s growth under Trudeau was not good enough.
The prospect of a fresh start for the Liberal Party under Carney, combined with Trump’s tariffs and his repeated taunts to annex Canada as the 51st U.S. state, led to a remarkable revival of Liberal fortunes.
Rally-around-the-flag moment
At the start of 2025 the party trailed by 20 or more points but is now statistically tied with the official opposition Conservatives led by career politician Pierre Poilievre in several polls.
At a protest outside Canada’s Parliament building in Ottawa on Sunday, dozens of Canadians held up signs protesting Trump with no reference to domestic politics.
“There is a rallying-around-the-flag moment that we would never have predicted a year ago,” said University of British Columbia politics professor Richard Johnston. “I think it’s probably true as we speak that the Liberals have been saved from oblivion.”
Two Liberal Party sources said Carney would call an election in coming weeks.
Polls though indicate that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives would be able to form a majority government. An election must be held by October 20.
Carney could legally serve as prime minister without a seat in the House of Commons but tradition dictates that he should seek to win one as soon as possible.
In 1984, John Turner was not a legislator when he became prime minister after winning a Liberal leadership race.
Liberals sought to compare Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to Trump in a recent advertisement. Poilievre in turn ramped up attacks on Carney on Sunday.
The Liberals “are going to pull a sneaky trick tonight,” Poilievre said at a campaign rally. “They’re going to try to get elected for a fourth term by replacing Justin Trudeau with his economic adviser, Mark Carney. … Donald Trump will have a big smile on his face.”
Carney has played down any role in advising Trudeau, noting his many global obligations left him with little time. Carney resigned all commercial posts after he launched his leadership bid in January.
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Prince Frederik of Luxembourg dies at 22 from rare mitochondrial disorder – CBS News
Prince Frederik of Luxembourg dies at 22 from rare mitochondrial disorder – CBS News
Prince Frederik of Luxembourg dies at 22 from rare mitochondrial disorder CBS NewsPrince Frederik of Luxembourg dead at 22 from rare genetic condition Fox NewsLuxembourg’s Prince Frederik Dies at 22 from Rare Genetic Condition: ‘He Is My Superhero,’ Says Dad Prince Robert PEOPLELuxembourg’s Prince Frederik dead at 22 from rare genetic disease: ‘He is my superhero’ New York Post
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Gilgeous-Alexander stars in battle of the West’s best
Gilgeous-Alexander stars in battle of the West’s best
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has scored 40 points and Oklahoma City defeated visiting Denver 127-103 in a matchup between the top two teams in the Western Conference.
Gilgeous-Alexander had eight assists and made all eight of his free throws for the West-leading Thunder, who won their seventh straight game and improved to 53-11 on Sunday. Jalen Williams added 26 points, nine rebounds and eight assists.
The Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic, who along with Gilgeous-Alexander is a top contender in the NBA MVP race, had 24 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists. He was coming off the league’s first 30-20-20 triple-double in his team’s 149-141 overtime victory over Phoenix on Friday night.
Michael Porter Jr. had 24 points and 15 rebounds for Denver (41-23).
The hosts led 61-60 at halftime and took an 86-83 lead into the fourth *******.
In a key sequence, Oklahoma City’s Aaron Wiggins stole the ball from Russell Westbrook, then Chet Holmgren dunked at the other end to give the Thunder a 98-91 lead with just under nine minutes remaining. Nuggets coach Michael Malone was called for a technical foul, and Williams made the free throw. OKC controlled the game from there.
In Dallas, Devin Booker scored 24 points, Kevin Durant had 21 points, nine rebounds and eight assists and the Suns beat the injury-depleted Mavericks 125-116.
Bradley Beal scored 19 points and Grayson Allen added 17 as Phoenix pulled within one-and-a-half games of Dallas for the 10th seed in the West, the final spot in the play-in tournament.
Naji Marshall had a career high for the second consecutive game with 34 points for the Mavs, who were down to seven healthy players by the end of the game.
Dallas big men Kessler Edwards and Dwight Powell went to the locker room after their heads collided chasing a loose ball late in the third quarter. Guard Brandon Williams was later ruled out with left hamstring tightness.
The Mavericks (32-33) matched their longest losing streak of the season at five games and dropped below .500 for the first time since mid-November. They have lost all three matches since star guard Kyrie Irving’s season-ending knee injury.
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Aliens Are Real, U.S. Government Officials Have Admitted. ‘The Age of Disclosure’ Director Dan Farah Wants You to Know There’s More to the Story
Aliens Are Real, U.S. Government Officials Have Admitted. ‘The Age of Disclosure’ Director Dan Farah Wants You to Know There’s More to the Story
If you don’t believe in aliens yet, you’re behind.
The United States has been secretly working to capture UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomena, the more formal term for UFOs — since as early as 1947, according to many high-ranking figures throughout the government, military and intelligence community. There is evidence and documentation of all kinds of findings that feel like the stuff of sci-fi: vehicles that appear to disobey the laws of physics, difficult-to-explain interference with American military activity and, indeed, the bodies of intelligent, nonhuman beings. Multiple species, at that.
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all that info, take a breath. Yes, there are 80 years of covered-up research to catch up on. But Dan Farah, director of the SXSW documentary “The Age of Disclosure,” has spent the last three years of his life interviewing as many involved sources as possible and compiling all of the most important information in an “attempt to make the most definitive, credible film on what can be legally disclosed” surrounding the topic, he says, to get people up to speed.
Legally is a keyword here. A massive amount of what has been discovered in the decades since the U.S. began studying nonhuman intelligence is still classified, meaning that many of Farah’s interviewees in the documentary know a lot more than they could share with him without breaking the law. At the same time, there’s a significant volume of information available to the public that just isn’t widely talked about, for reasons the documentary dives into. That’s why Farah decided to create a resource to make people aware of what he calls “the base facts”: “The fact that we’re not alone in the universe. The fact that there has been recovery of technology of nonhuman origin. The fact that other nations are also recovering this technology, and that we are in a race to reverse-engineer this technology.”
That race is a large part of why certain information remains classified and is considered by the government to be unsafe to disclose — anything shared with the American people is also shared with the rest of the world. “I certainly didn’t think about it at first. I was like, ‘If this stuff exists, why aren’t they telling us?’” Farah says. “And then I learned the answer: There’s all this good stuff that could come out of it, but this technology could also be used by bad actors to cause significant destruction.” The documentary singles out China and Russia in particular as adversaries in the competition to study UAPs.
At the same time, key figures believe that the government has taken an antiquated approach to the disclosure of information about UAPs. The key voices in “The Age of Disclosure” are Jay Stratton, former Defense Intelligence Agency official and director of the government’s UAP Task Force, and Lue Elizondo, a former Department of Defense official and member of the government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Both have dedicated nearly two decades to navigating highly secret avenues of government to figure out as much as possible about UAPs and disseminate everything that isn’t classified. What they say they’ve learned, along with actual evidence of nonhuman beings and technology, is that the cover-up around the topic has been misguided and deadly.
Stratton and Elizondo believe the stigma around aliens and UFOs to be a national security threat leaves Americans woefully unprepared for developments that could change the trajectory of humanity. And beyond that, Elizondo claims to have heard about high-ranking intelligence officials who have considered killing him to stop his disclosure efforts, which began in 2017 when he resigned from the Pentagon to protest UAP-related secrecy and speak to the media in order to pressure Congress to take the issue more seriously.
Farah ran into others with similar fears while filming “The Age of Disclosure.” Though 34 people with direct knowledge about UAPs appear in his finished film, he says he met with about 10 more who agreed to have conversations with him but ultimately declined to be filmed.
“Some high level politicians were afraid of how it might taint their reputation or impact them politically,” he says. “And some intelligence officials legitimately believed that their lives would be in danger if they participated in the film. After long conversations with their significant others, they decided it just wasn’t worth it. That was eye-opening for me. The more you go down the rabbit hole, it becomes clear really fast that this 80-year cover-up of the truth has been enforced with threats.”
Elizondo’s media campaign has led to the crumbling of the cover-up that gives “The Age of Disclosure” its title. It’s the reason the documentary focuses as much on the mechanics of the government cover-up as it does the UAPs themselves. “I realized from my conversations with Jay and Lue,” Farah says, “that it is not a question of whether it’s real. It’s a question of what our country should be doing about it.”
That isn’t to say that “The Age of Disclosure” doesn’t take time to show you just how real UAPs are. Among the mind-boggling findings presented is that UAPs have apparently activated and deactivated manmade nuclear weapons. They have also been observed to move and accelerate at rates that seem impossible, going from complete stillness to disappearing over the horizon instantaneously, and without the combustion that manmade vehicles rely on. The crafts have been observed to travel within clear spheres, and scientists now believe that space and time function differently inside those bubbles. That’s how these beings would be able to survive moving at tens of thousands of miles per hour: inside the bubble, those speeds would feel normal. Intense internal scarring and multiple deaths have been recorded among people who have gotten in close proximity to those bubbles. It’s like standing under a jet mid-takeoff, but exponentially more powerful, as the energy it takes a UAP to move so quickly would require 100 times the amount of power the United States generates in a single day.
So there’s a lot to fear here. But “The Age of Disclosure” also gives reasons to hope. There’s the fact that humanity has yet to be destroyed when it seems that these lifeforms certainly could have pulled that off by now if they wanted to. And interestingly, UAP research has also been considered a humanitarian and environmental cause. If humans manage to harness the clean, combustion-free energy source that UAPs are using, we could eliminate the need for the fossil fuels that are causing climate change.
“There’s an analogy that several interview subjects said to me: Would we have won the space race if the president hadn’t stepped to the mic and said, ‘We’re gonna go to the moon?’ Probably not,” Farah says. “If people don’t know something’s real, how are they gonna choose to spend their brain power on it? There’s a lot of genius scientists out there who are putting their brain power towards saving the environment, right? What if no one knew global warming was a thing? Would those people be putting their brain power towards it?”
When asked about the impact he wants “The Age of Disclosure” to have, Farah points to something Elizondo says at the end of the documentary. “He says he wishes he could share more, but that he feels tremendous pressure to share what he can now, because he knows there will come a time when people will wish they knew the truth sooner,” Farah says. The fact that people still don’t believe in nonhuman is “a barrier to entry for any bright young mind in our country that could be contributing on this front.” In other words, getting the right information in the right hands is a matter of urgency.
And on top of that, as Elizondo emphasizes repeatedly in the film, there’s the idea that fundamental truths about our universe should belong to everyone, not just one organization or government. Humanity has wondered about other worlds for ages — just take a look at the art we create.
“What got me into the topic is what probably got a lot of people my age in the topic: I’m a child of the ’80s and ’90s, and I grew up with movies like ‘E.T.’ and ‘Close Encounters,’” Farah says. “The power of those two movies probably put me on the path to this film more than anything.”
He’s far from the only civilian on that path. The trailer for “The Age of Disclosure” reached tens of millions of views as soon as it was released, and the film nabbed a coveted premiere slot at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas — the biggest venue at SXSW. That alone is a landmark for the movement around disclosure: the topic needs eyes.
“The more I talk to leaders in government, the more I realize that they only pay attention to what the public wants them to pay attention to,” Farah says. “You have people in government who want to pay attention to this, but they need the public to be caught up. The film is just the tip of the iceberg. There are currently bipartisan efforts that will bring about more disclosure and declassify certain information, and I think this film will help get those laws passed.”
And what happens after that? For now, that’s classified.
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Mark Carney set to become Canada’s new prime minister after Justin Trudeau’s resignation
Mark Carney set to become Canada’s new prime minister after Justin Trudeau’s resignation
Toronto — Canada’s Liberal Party has chosen veteran central bank leader Mark Carney as its new leader, meaning he will quickly replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the country’s top office. The transition, and Trudeau’s political downfall, comes amid the chaotic trade war with Canada’s closest ally launched by President Trump.
The exact date that Carney will take office as Canada’s prime minister remains uncertain. The timing of the transition will be determined by Carney in conjunction with Trudeau.
The new leader will inherit a government led by a party which has seen its support among the ********* electorate wane significantly over the past few years. With opposition parties eager to trigger an election, the situation is becoming increasingly urgent. Carney’s government could be toppled by Parliament to call for a new national election, which can be called any time between the Parliament going back into session on March 24 and October 20, by which time a vote must be held.
Trudeau announced in January that he would step down as party leader and, with the move, from his role as the prime minister, due to increasing pressure from within the Liberal Party as polls showed its support among voters tanking.
Trudeau’s resignation announcement paved the way for the Liberal Party to chose a new leader, and Carney won that internal party election on Sunday — and many Canadians will hope to see him quickly form a new cabinet and then put his decades of financial experience to work as the country confronts Mr. Trump’s trade war.
Who is Mark Carney?
Born in Fort Smith, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, Carney grew up in Edmonton before heading to the U.S. to pursue a degree in economics at Harvard University. He later moved to the U.K. and earned a master’s degree and then, in 1995, a doctorate in economics from the prestigious University of Oxford.
He was appointed as the Governor of the Bank of Canada — akin to the Federal Reserve in the U.S. — in 2008, amid the global financial crisis, which he helped to steer Canada through.
Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and Liberal Party leader candidate, during a Liberal Party leadership debate in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.
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Carney’s influence has extended well beyond Canada, however, and not only because he led one of its most important central government institutions. In 2010, Time Magazine named him among the world’s 25 most influential leaders. In 2011, Reader’s Digest Canada named him the “Most Trusted *********,” and the editors of Euromoney magazine named him Central Bank Governor of the Year in 2012.
During his tenure as Canada’s central banker, he also held several high-profile international positions, including as chair of the Committee on the Global Financial System and head of the Financial Stability Board for the G20 group of the world’s biggest economies.
Between 2013 and 2020, Carney moved back to Britain after being tapped as the Governor of the Bank of England, heading up the U.K.’s central bank and helping to guide the country through the economic convulsions brought on by its “Brexit” from the European Union. He was the first non-U.K. citizen to govern the institution in its 300-year history.
More recently, Carney served as the United Nations’ special envoy on climate action and finance and as head of transition investing at the Brookfield Asset Management firm. He stepped down from both of those positions to pursue his Liberal Party leadership bid.
Carney’s reaction to Trump
Mr. Trump’s trade war and his frequent threats to make Canada a U.S. “51st state” were hot topics during the Liberal Party leadership campaign. Carney, along with the other candidates, emphasized the importance of a strong domestic economy in the face of those threats.
Carney said Canada had allowed its economy to become “weak,” leaving it susceptible to Mr. Trump’s tariff-based pressure tactics. He said Canada was experiencing one of the worst economic crises in its history, and that overcoming it would require major reforms to ensure long-term strength and stability.
“I know how to manage crises,” Carney said during a debate for his party’s leadership. “I know how to build strong economies.”
As prime minister, he said he would impose dollar-to-dollar reciprocal tariffs on U.S. imports in a trade war and leverage Canada’s role as a vital supplier of energy and uranium to its southern neighbor.
“It’s important to distinguish what you can’t control, what we can control. We can’t change Donald Trump, but we can control our economic destiny,” he said during a debate.
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US weather agency plans to fire 1000 more
Scientists are warning that more layoffs at the US government agency that provides weather forecasts will put lives at risk and stifle crucial climate research.
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