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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldCanada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday in an effort to revive a crucial trading relationship with the US that Ottawa’s leader recently described as “over”.It will be Carney’s first foreign visit since his Liberal party won a general election on Monday after a campaign overshadowed by the US president’s taunts about Canada and his tariffs on some of its exports. Carney in Ottawa on Friday said he had held a “very constructive call”…
Plenty of startups hit a wall after their first few rounds of funding, having grown too big for venture funds but still in need of cash. For startups specializing in industrial-scale hardware, which includes many climate tech companies, the problem is especially acute because the capital requirements are so large. Infrastructure funds have long filled that gap, but many have been hesitant to dive into climate tech. One firm thinks that spells opportunity, though. Ara Partners recently raised an $800 million infrastructure fund focused on reducing carbon emissions in industrial sectors, which historically have been hard to decarbonize. Ara had…
يعد ميناء اللاذقية أكبرالموانئ السورية، وبعد أن ظل يعمل لسنوات بأقل من 10% من قدرته التشغيلية، تقول الإدارة الجديدة للميناء إنها نجحت خلال شهر واحد في رفع هذه النسبة لأكثر من 15%.ورغم سعي السلطات السورية إلى بث الروح في هذا الميناء العريق، فإن العقوبات الدولية لا تزال تشكل أهم العقبات أمام إعادته إلى سابق عهده. تقرير: عامر لافي
Matt BowenMay 2, 2025, 07:26 AM ETCloseMatt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent multiple years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington and Buffalo over seven seasons.Every year, the NFL draft ushers new talent into the league, which provides fantasy football managers new names to speculate on. The potential these players possess and when they are expected to receive the opportunity to produce is what separates the rookies you should…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Two UK university student unions have suspended their Ukrainian societies as they probe if they breached charity rules to buy drones that were later sent to support troops fighting Russian soldiers.The unions at University College London and Lancaster University suspended the societies after becoming aware of the purchases, which were made last year, arguing they were a potential breach of UK charity laws. Both universities’ student unions are UK-registered charities and governed by the Charity Commission, which regulates the use of funds…
OpenAI says it’ll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform to become overly sycophantic for many users. Last weekend, after OpenAI rolled out a tweaked GPT-4o — the default model powering ChatGPT — users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in an overly validating and agreeable way. It quickly became a meme. Users posted screenshots of ChatGPT applauding all sorts of problematic, dangerous decisions and ideas. In a post on X on Sunday, CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the problem and said that OpenAI would work on fixes “ASAP.” Two days later, Altman announced the…
أعلنت جماعة أنصار الله (الحوثيون) في اليمن اليوم الجمعة أنها نفذت عملية عسكرية ضد هدف حيوي ثان للاحتلال الإسرائيلي في منطقة حيفا المحتلة. وقال المتحدث العسكري باسم الحوثيين يحيى سريع إن العملية في حيفا نفذت بصاروخ باليستي فرط صوتي هو الثاني خلال ساعات، مؤكدا أن الصاروخ “وصل إلى هدفه بنجاح وأجبر ملايين المغتصبين على الهروب إلى الملاجئ”. وكان المتحدث العسكري باسم الحوثيين أعلن في وقت سابق اليوم عن استهداف قاعدة رامات ديفيد شرق حيفا، وأكد فشل إسرائيل في اعتراض الصاروخ، بحسب تصريحه. الجيش الإسرائيلي يعلن اعتراض صاروخ أُطلق من #اليمن باتجاه إسرائيل.. آخر المستجدات مع مراسل الجزيرة محمد خيري#الأخبار pic.twitter.com/tKCJKn5caO — قناة…
Timothy Bradley Jr.Apr 30, 2025, 07:53 AM ETCloseTimothy Bradley Jr. is a boxing analyst for ESPN. He was a two-division, five-time world champion and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Bradley is also the recipient of the 2023 Sam Taub award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.If you are visiting New York’s Times Square on Friday, May 2, the area could look a little different than usual. The popular tourist destination will be the stage to a boxing show featuring some of the best fighters in the sport. The ever-popular Ryan Garcia matches up against former junior…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.KPMG has resigned as auditor to P&O Ferries, saying the factors that delayed the scandal-hit company’s 2022 accounts had not been addressed and that it had completed very little work on the overdue 2023 accounts.In a letter filed to Companies House this week, the Big Four accounting firm said it would not be able to complete the company’s 2023 audit “to the required standard within management’s desired timetable”. It said this was partly because some of the “drivers” behind the late filing of…
President Trump issued an executive order on Thursday to end all federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).“Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” the order reads. It says the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is supposed to remain impartial and unbiased — and Trump argues that the CPB funding NPR and PBS at all violates that.“Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal…