Ex-central banker to replace Trudeau as Canada's prime minister after winning Liberal Party vote
TORONTO (AP) — Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after the governing Liberal Party elected him its leader as the country deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threat, and a federal election looms. Carney, 59, replaces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation in January but remains prime minister until his successor is sworn in. Carney navigated crises when he was the head of the Bank of Canada and when in 2013 he became the first noncitizen to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694. Trudeau's popularity had declined as food and housing prices rose and immigration surged.
Trump downplays business concerns about uncertainty from his tariffs and prospect of higher prices
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices. And he's not ruling out the possibility of a recession this year. After imposing and then quickly pausing 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, Trump says his plans for broader “reciprocal” tariffs will go into effect April 2, raising them to match what other countries assess. In an interview with Fox News Channel's “Sunday Morning Futures,” he seems to acknowledge that his plans could affect U.S. growth. He said: “There is a period of transition because what we’re doing is very big."
Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. The move has affected a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas calls it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.” Sunday’s announcement came a week after Israel suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million people. It's pressing Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Hamas instead wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase. Gaza has been largely devastated, and Israel has faced sharp criticism over cutting off supplies.
Russian forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian troops from the rear in Kursk
LONDON (AP) — Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers say Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region. Russian forces are trying to recapture territory in Kursk that was seized by Ukraine last August. Months later, Ukrainian troops in Kursk run the risk of being encircled. According to Telegram posts by a pro-Kremlin blogger, Russian operatives walked about 9 miles inside the pipeline that Moscow had until recently used to send gas to Europe.
Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the Japanese capital. The deadly conventional bomb attack left downtown Tokyo destroyed and filled with heaps of charred bodies. The damage was comparable to the atomic bombings a few months later in August 1945, but unlike those attacks, the Japanese government has not provided aid to victims and the events of that day have largely been ignored or forgotten. No government agency handles civilian survivors or keeps their records. Japanese courts rejected their compensation demands. Survivors are making a last-ditch effort to tell their stories.
Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents. Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer says he was arrested at his apartment near the university by agents who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card. Khalil, who graduated in December, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and was being held at an immigration detention center in New Jersey. His wife, who is eight months pregnant, says authorities did not explain why he was being detained. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson has confirmed Khalil’s arrest, describing it as supporting President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.
A single-engine plane crashes near a Pennsylvania airport and all 5 aboard are taken to hospitals
A single-engine airplane with five people on board crashed and burst into flames in a parking lot near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania. Police say all five occupants survived the fiery crash around 3 p.m. Sunday just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim Township. Nobody on the ground was hurt. The Federal Aviation Administration confirms there were five people aboard the Beechcraft Bonanza. Footage shared on social media showed black smoke billowing from the plane’s wreckage and multiple parked cars engulfed in flames at the crash site about 75 miles (120 km) west of Philadelphia.
Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days. The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, overthrew Assad. The counteroffensive against the Assad loyalists in the largely Alawite coastal region brought havoc to several cities and towns.
How one small business is navigating Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs on Canadian goods
NEW YORK (AP) — At Fishtown Seafood, owner Bryan Szeliga is worried about the oysters. Szeliga, who operates three retail and wholesale locations in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J., sells a range of seafood. But briny, slurpable oysters are the biggest part of his overall business. And 60% to 70% come from Canada. The Trump’s administration’s on-again, off-again 25% tariff on imports from Canada — which went into effect on Tuesday and were suspended for a month by Thursday — is giving him whiplash as he tries to plan ahead. Ultimately he's likely to need to raise prices and offer customers fewer varieties of oysters.
Bills reward Allen with new contract after NFL MVP season. Deal is worth $330M, AP source says
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — NFL MVP Josh Allen was rewarded with a contract extension worth $330 million, with an NFL record $250 million of it guaranteed, which makes him among the league’s highest-paid players. The Buffalo Bills announced the agreement, while two people with knowledge of the deal revealed the contract’s value to The Associated Press. The people spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the Bills did not release that figure, which was first reported by ESPN.com. The new contract adds two years to Allen’s contract and locks the 28-year-old in through the 2030 season. The extension comes following Allen’s seventh NFL season in which he became the Bills third player to earn NFL MVP.
