The German parliament convenes for its last regular session before the general election. Michael Kappeler | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Germans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in the 2025 federal election, which is all but guaranteed to result in a new chancellor taking over from Olaf Scholz to lead Europe’s largest […]
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OTTAWA — Juraj Slafkovský has always been big, and he has always resisted being defined by that trait because that is not all he is. He has hockey sense, he has hands, and he can make plays. All of those traits are more important to him than his size. But it is his size combined
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CHICAGO — Right now, for the Phoenix Suns, every game is a must-win. “We have to be honest,” coach Mike Budenholzer said after the Suns snapped a four-game losing streak with a 121-117 win against the Bulls on Saturday. “We got to win this game tonight. We’ve got to build off it. We’ve got to
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that “nobody has ever seen anything” like his administration’s sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government, congratulating himself for “dominating” Washington and sending bureaucrats “packing.” Addressing an adoring crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington, Trump promised, “We’re going to forge a new and lasting political majority
President Donald Trump’s choice to be the top U.S. military officer, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, endeared himself to the commander in chief through his military call sign, “Razin,” during a meeting in Iraq years ago. Officials who have served with Caine described him Saturday as measured and apolitical. Trump said Friday night
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking some of its
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We tend to talk a lot about trade possibilities for the Toronto Maple Leafs (at centre and on defence) in these parts. Less so on what exactly they have to trade. That’s the goal of our project here. We’re looking only at assets the Leafs could conceivably move ahead of the March 7 trade deadline,
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Know what’s old school? Standard, 3-by-5, index cards. Thin blue lines. Sturdy. Stackable. That’s how this men’s basketball season began for Michigan State. Each player was handed an index card and told to write personal goals for the season. Everything from statistical improvements to taking on larger roles in the rotation
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1925, Edward Gorey is born. “The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.” Judith Butler on why democracy needs the humanities. | Lit Hub Politics Gabrielle Bellot on how the linguistic erasure of trans people also erases them from history and life:
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They crossed the 49th parallel, from Manitoba into North Dakota — and drove through day and night — across eight states and more than 3,000 kilometers, according to the Canadian odometer on their Nissan Murano. Two canceled flights meant they were desperate. So they piled into a car, stopping only for gas. And, despite a two-hour detour through
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