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The saga of star forward Jimmy Butler’s falling out with the Miami Heat has reportedly ended with his trade to the Golden State Warriors before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline. ESPN and The Athletic – quoting unnamed team sources – reported on Wednesday that the Heat were finalizing a deal to send Butler to the Warriors…

Canada’s Ontario province has re-elected Premier Doug Ford’s ruling conservatives in an election heavily focused on trade tensions stoked by United States President Donald Trump. Ford and his Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) cruised to their third consecutive legislative majority on Thursday after seeking the “largest mandate in Ontario history” to protect the economy of…

Chuck Hart, left, of Hart Built Construction speaks to an employee as they clean the streets of the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles. [Gilles Clarenne/AFP]

Shortly after Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016, The Washington Post unveiled this pompous and, by now, obsolete slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. The ominous-sounding motto was meant, I expect, to convey, at once, the brewing threat that a Trump presidency posed to America’s decaying republic, and the Post’s solemn, cross-our-hearts commitment to…

NewsFeed Video: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch Flaming debris streaked across the skies over the Bahamas after the world’s biggest spacecraft spiraled out of control and exploded, minutes after being launched from Texas. Airports in Florida were closed as a precaution as the wreckage of Space x’s Starship plunged back to Earth. Published…

NewsFeed Protests across US cities against Trump’s anti-migrant crackdown Thousands of demonstrators in cities across the US are protesting President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Published On 4 Feb 20254 Feb 2025