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Former Costa Rican president who compared Trump to ‘Roman emperor’ says US has revoked his visa

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias says he has had his visa to enter the United States revoked.Arias, 84, said he doesn’t know why his visa was canceled but accepts that the US has the right to make such a decision.Miguel Guillén, the secretary general of Arias’ National Liberation Party, said the former president had received an email notifying him of the move.“I don’t know if the revoking of my visa is the product of some sort of retaliation, because I say what I think (and) write what I say,” Arias told a press conference Tuesday.In recent we

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‘The most powerful type of liar’: Tapper asks Anna Delvey how she views her criminal past

What is it about Anna Delvey that fascinates so many people? Including your humble crew at United States of Scandal? Why has she captured so many column inches in newspapers and pages in magazines, filled so many hours of footage in podcasts, Netflix dramatizations, and news broadcasts? From her false identity as a German heiress to financial deception, grand larceny, serving time at Rikers, competing on Dancing with the Stars, and now pursuing a career in fashion, Anna’s journey has been nothing short of fascinating.Having met and interviewed her in 2022, I still can’t quite figure her ou

Wall Street ends higher on earnings, hopes of easing tariff tensions

Canadian couple cancels tens of thousands in travel to the US

Environment|US

Tornadoes, heavy rains rip across central, southern US

Tornadoes ripped across a wide swath of central and southern United States on Wednesday, destroying homes and businesses and bringing down power lines and trees.The National Weather Service said there had been at least 15 reports of tornadoes in at least four states by late Wednesday. Eight people have been injured across Kentucky and Arkansas, including one critically injured in Kentucky's Ballard County, local officials said.Late Wednesday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency across the state due to the storms, which also brought hail and torrential ra

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Trump said he didn’t sign controversial proclamation. The Federal Register shows one with his signature

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences.The situation was entirely foreseeable.After handing down an opaque 5-4 order earlier this month that allowed both sides to claim victory, the nation’s highest court is being asked for a second time to halt the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act. That review will take place as lower courts begin to wrangle over what kind

Former federal judge says Trump is playing a 'dangerous game' with Judge Boasberg

Federal judge to consider case of Georgetown fellow arrested by ICE

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Norovirus outbreak hits more than 240 people on luxury cruise ship

More than 240 people on board the luxury Queen Mary 2 cruise ship have fallen ill with the highly contagious norovirus stomach bug.The US Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) reported the outbreak just as the Cunard cruise liner was nearing the end of a four-week-long return voyage from the UK to the Caribbean.Queen Mary 2 regularly sails transatlantic crossings. It’s a journey — and a ship — designed to hark back to the golden age of luxury ocean liners. Cunard is owned by Carnival CorporationThe vessel set sail on March 8 from Southampton and is due to return to the English

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Russian-born tennis player Daria Kasatkina ‘didn’t have much choice’ over switching allegiances to Australia

Russian-born tennis player Daria Kasatkina said that she “didn’t have much choice” about the decision to compete for Australia due to her sexuality.Kasatkina is preparing to play under a new flag for the first time at the Charleston Open after announcing last week that her application for permanent residency in Australia had been accepted.In recent years, she has been living in Spain and Dubai while competing as a neutral athlete amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.“With everything going on in my previous country, I didn’t have much choice,” Kasatkina said about choosing to

Europe will respond proportionately to likely Trump tariffs, French industry minister says

US moves B-2 stealth bombers to Indian Ocean island in massive show of force to Houthis, Iran

Europe|Political|World

See the moment Vatican announces death of Pope Francis

Following the death of Pope Francis, a cardinal from the United States has become acting head of the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected.He is Cardinal Kevin Farrell, a Dublin-born cleric who became a naturalized American citizen after spending many years ministering in the United States. Farrell, a former Bishop of Dallas, holds the position of “camerlengo” (or chamberlain) which tasks him with “overseeing and administering the temporal goods and rights of the Apostolic See” following the death or resignation of a pope.It is the camerlengo’s job to “officially ascertain the Pop

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4 people sought shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — and sealed their own fates

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.Ultimately, the home became their final resting place, according to new research published in April in the E-Journal of the Pompeii Excavations.During the catastrophic eruption, the volcano spewed hot, lethal gases and ash into the air, slowly killing most of the city’s population. Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii and its residents, eerily preserving th