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جدد الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب حملته الانتقادية ضد رئيس مجلس الاحتياطي الفدرالي جيروم باول، بعد هدنة لم تدم أكثر من أسبوع، حيث صرّح في حشد جماهيري بمدينة ديترويت قائلا: “أعرف عن أسعار الفائدة أكثر بكثير منه”، مضيفا أن باول “لا يقوم بعمل جيد فعليا”، بحسب ما نقلت وكالة بلومبيرغ. سياسة نقدية تحت النيران تصريحات ترامب جاءت في وقت حساس، إذ تتزامن مع صدور بيانات الناتج المحلي الإجمالي للربع الأول من العام الجاري، والتي يُتوقع أن تعكس تأثير سياساته الاقتصادية والجمركية. وسبق لترامب أن عبّر عن انزعاجه من تباطؤ الفدرالي في خفض أسعار الفائدة، معتبرا أن التشديد النقدي يقف حجر عثرة…

Greg WyshynskiMay 1, 2025, 12:58 AM ETCloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer.If last season’s Stanley Cup championship didn’t already clinch it, the Florida Panthers’ Game 5 elimination of Tampa Bay on Wednesday night had the Lightning conceding the “Battle of Florida” to their state rivals — for the moment.”It was our turn for a while. Now it’s theirs,” said coach Jon Cooper, who watched his team get eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 6-3 loss to the Panthers at home. “And it’s our job to make sure it’s our turn again.”There are only a few teams in…

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 daysGood morning. For an eccentric minority of us, local elections are about deciding who we think will best represent our interests locally. But for most people who vote in them, they are an opportunity to express a view about the government of the day in a safe, controlled environment. Whatever happens in today’s elections is not a prediction or a guarantee about how…

In her ruling banning Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple executive “outright lied under oath.”According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of finance at Apple, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The judge writes that Roman lied when testifying that Apple hadn’t decided on the 27 percent number for its fee on purchases outside the App Store until January 16th, 2024.“Contemporaneous business documents reveal that on the contrary, the main components of Apple’s plan, including the 27 percent commission, were determined…

شهدت منطقتا صحنايا وجرمانا بريف دمشق تحولا مفاجئا أمس الأربعاء، عندما باغتت مجموعة مسلحة عناصر الأمن العام فقتلت 16 منهم، في حين سارع جيش الاحتلال لإرسال مسيَّرات وشن غارات بحجة حماية الدروز في المنطقة. ووفقا لتقرير أعده للجزيرة محمود الكن، فقد انقلبت هذه المجموعة على اتفاق تم قبل يوم واحد بين الحكومة السورية والدروز في هذه المنطقة، التي شهدت الثلاثاء أحداث عنف بسبب تسجيل صوتي لأحد الدروز حمل إساءة للنبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. لكن مجموعة مسلحة نفذت هذا الهجوم المباغت الذي تركز في صحنايا وأشرفيتها بشكل كبير، واستهدفت عددا من المواقع التابعة للأمن العام، حسب تقرير الكن. وسارعت…

LOS ANGELES — The Minnesota Timberwolves spent Game 5 in a dismal shooting funk, providing the Los Angeles Lakers with ample opportunity to stave off playoff elimination.While his teammates struggled, Rudy Gobert stepped up against the small-ball Lakers — and on their big man’s shoulders, the Wolves are going back to the second round.Gobert had playoff career highs with 27 points and 24 rebounds, Julius Randle had 23 points and Minnesota advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a clinching 103-96 victory Wednesday night.Gobert stepped up when the Lakers deployed a centerless lineup, scoring more points than he managed in…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In January, New York City’s long-planned congestion pricing programme finally began collecting tolls. Following the lead of a handful of cities worldwide — London, Stockholm, Milan, Singapore — most of those driving inside a “central business district” in lower Manhattan are now charged a $9 fee.Donald Trump is a longtime critic of the programme, which is the first of its kind in America, and which aims to cut emission-spouting traffic and raise billions to fund infrastructure. The administration is currently locked in…

In 2013, Tatyana Marynich and Anastasiya Khamiankova opened the doors to Imaguru, a startup hub in Minsk, Belarus that would go on to launch some of Eastern Europe’s most prominent tech success stories. A decade later, they’ve been sentenced ‘in absentia’ to a combined 23 years in prison by Belarusian authorities. Their property has been seized. Their work was declared “extremist.” Marynich’s passport has expired and revoked, leaving her stranded and stateless in Spain. Their crime? Building an independent, pro-entrepreneurial future the Lukashenko regime deemed dangerous for its championing of entrepreneurship in a country normally dominated by state-owned industries. “What…

منشغلة بما يعتمل في دواخل الإنسان وتعقيداته النفسية، تغوص الروائية اللبنانية حنين الصايغ (1986) بروايتها “ميثاق النساء” في المجتمع الدرزيّ الغني ثقافيا وروحانيا وإنسانيا، وتحاول تفكيك بنيته الاجتماعية والذهنية، من خلال بطلة روايتها “أمل بو نمر”، التي تعيش حياة ريفيَّة محافظة في قريتها في جبل لبنان، وفيها تشتبك بالعادات والتقاليد وبأسئلة الحياة التي يهرب منها الآخرون، لترسم لنفسها مستقبلا مخالفا للمستقبل الذي شكّله الأب لها ولأخواتها بصورةٍ تتناسب مع عالمه المحدود. رواية “ميثاق النساء” الصادرة عن دار الآداب ببيروت سنة 2023 هي الإصدار الروائي الأول للكاتبة اللبنانية التي تعمل في التدريس والترجمة الأدبية، بعد 3 مجموعات شعرية: “فليكن” (2016)، و”روح…

Michael C. WrightMay 1, 2025, 12:35 AM ETCloseJoined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played college football at West Texas A&MHOUSTON — With his team down 3-1 in its first-round playoff matchup against the Warriors, Amen Thompson leaned against the wall and stared out into the gym at Houston’s Memorial Hermann training facility, smiling as smooth R&B music hummed in the background.”[I feel] amazing,” he said at the Rockets’ morning shootaround Wednesday. “I feel great.”Thompson had just watched the Detroit Pistons stave off elimination against the New York Knicks a night earlier as his twin brother, Ausar, scored…