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Florida has filed a lawsuit against Target, claiming the company misled investors by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives The US state of Florida has sued supermarket giant Target, accusing it of misleading investors and causing financial losses by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Attorney General James Uthmeier filed the lawsuit in federal…

The black tea I sipped in the cafe seemed to curdle as I processed the words. An engaging conversation with an academic colleague had just turned bitter as I heard him repeat a slur and a biased narrative I’ve experienced far too often. I was making an argument about the lack of recognition of the…

A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder he long denied committing declared the day “Freedom Friday” and said he was eager to visit his mother after a judge ordered him released because of new DNA evidence. There were gasps and cries in the courtroom when Judge Kirstin Hamman said, “And…

The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations on Saturday without Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized as he battles pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni provided the shortest update yet on Saturday: “The Pope rested well.” A woman lays a rosary near candles adorned with pictures of Pope Francis outside…

When Sarah and Michael Oliveri went to their 20-week ultrasound for their third pregnancy, they thought to knew what to expect. Their previous visit had been stressful — doctors had detected an abnormality at 16 weeks — but a blood test came back clear. They believed the 20-week scan, taken in August 2024, would continue…

Peacekeeping forces or soldiers from other countries being deployed to Ukraine is not a realistic prospect, Mikhail Podoliak, the top adviser to the country’s leader Vladimir Zelensky, said on Friday. Podoliak made the statement in an interview with Polish radio station RMF just days after a number of European top officials gathered for an emergency…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Israel is expected to release 602 Palestinians from its prisons as part of the latest exchange. Hamas has released two of six Israeli captives from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons as part of the final swap under the first phase of the ceasefire between the Palestinian group…

Matar was found guilty of attempted murder in the second degree for his attack on the famed novelist. Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded prize-winning novelist Salman Rushdie at an event in New York, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Jurors delivered the verdict on Friday for Matar’s assault on Rushdie…

The US President has once again suggested that America’s northern neighbor will “have to become the 51st state” US President Donald Trump has joked that Canada can keep its national anthem when it joins the United States. The comment came at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday. Trump has repeatedly floated…

Here are the key developments on the 1,094th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Saturday, February 22: Fighting A Russian drone attack killed a rail worker at a crossing in the Boryspil district, east of Kyiv, and falling drone fragments hit a building inside the capital, Ukrainian authorities said….