US government agency heads have been given a 13 March deadline to produce a plan for drastically slashing the federal workforce as Donald Trump reinforced warnings that workers who failed to account for what they do could be fired. A White House memo issued on Wednesday directed bosses to provide details of their workforce reduction…
Eric Williams NFL Reporter INDIANAPOLIS – For the third year in a row, the NFL Players Association released team report cards for all 32 NFL franchises. And for a second straight season, the Miami Dolphins ranked as the top team overall, followed by the Minnesota Vikings, who were the top-ranked team in the initial survey…
Paul Adams BBC News, West Bank EPA The month-long operation has displaced about 40,000 Palestinians from four camps in the West Bank “The army forced us out. Me, my wife and family. We took nothing with us.” Alaa Ofi is trying to figure out how to manage his drastically changed circumstances. “We left behind our…
Bob Pockrass FOX Motorsports Insider With two wrecks in two races, Brad Keselowski sits 33rd in the NASCAR Cup Series standings. He’s not worried. Keselowski is 26 points from the current playoff cutoff of 16th and just 40 points out of eighth. With 24 regular-season races remaining, that’s a deficit that certainly can be overcome….
Getty Images Apple boss Tim Cook has said his company may have to change its diversity practices as the US legal landscape shifts. His comments came just minutes after a majority of shareholders rejected a proposal calling on the tech giant to consider ending its diversity policies, such as the use of race and sex…
A cliff on the edge of the Yangtze River has become an overnight sensation in China after a Shanghai-based designer posted a photo of it earlier this month likening it to a dog. Guo Qingshan took the photo, which he captioned “Puppy Mountain”, while on a hike near his home town of Yichang, in Hubei…
Sheldon Cooper | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of AppLovin tumbled 13% Wednesday as two short seller reports cast doubt on the integrity of the company’s artificial intelligence-powered AXON advertising software that helped drive the tech giant to become the top-performing tech stock of 2024. Short seller Fuzzy Panda alleged that the AXON model was…
One betting market that always draws attention during the NFL Draft season is Mr. Irrelevant. The cheeky moniker is given to the very last player selected in the draft because usually, that player doesn’t end up having a meaningful career in the league. Of course, there are exceptions to that rule. Take San Francisco quarterback…
Racist tropes about Romani people persist even in supposedly progressive places like Canada—and these tropes must be fought because they pose real dangers to people, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Margareta Matache. In a Feb. 22 opinion piece in Al Jazeera, Matache, lecturer on social and behavioral sciences, said that myths…
A company which fell victim to what’s thought to be the world’s biggest ever theft is seeking to recover some of its losses by crowdsourcing online bounty hunters. Last week, hackers believed to be from North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group stole $1.46bn (£1.1bn) of cryptocurrency from ByBit, a crypto trading platform. The criminals are trying…
