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The Ford government is seeking a last-minute injunction to block a demonstration relating to the conflict in the Middle East, which is set to be held in downtown Toronto on Saturday. The annual Al-Quds Day protest is scheduled to take place outside the United States consulate. It is held on the last Friday of Ramadan and described by organizers as “a global day against imperialist and Zionist war and aggression.”Toronto police have already moved to restrict airspace above the demonstration and planned to send specialist officers to the scene to ” help reduce tensions.”Now, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he…

Dividend-paying companies are rapidly closing the earnings growth gap with technology stocks and contributing more earnings momentum to the S&P 500. After a significant increase over the past year on this key earnings metric, the trend suggests that dividend stocks may present an even stronger case to investors seeking income and safety in a volatile market.The earnings momentum broadening out beyond the tech sector comes at a time when investors are seeking ways to limit risk amid the second military conflict in the Middle East in under a year and a shock to the oil markets that is unprecedented.In Q1…

Artists have met to mark the imminent closure of a national design centre and its retail outlet, which has supported hundreds of designers.The Australian Design Centre’s Object Shop in Sydney’s Darlinghurst has been in operation for the past decade and sold the work of an estimated 600 artists over that time.The shop will close by March 28, with the entire design centre to shut down by the end of June following a $350,000 shortfall in state and federal government funding.At an event with dozens of artists on Friday, the centre’s chief executive and artistic director Lisa Cahill said she was…

NewsFeedVideo shows the moment an Israeli missile struck a building in south Lebanon. A bridge crossing the Litani river was also destroyed, as Israel warned Lebanon could face the type of destruction seen in Gaza. Israeli attacks since early March have killed 773 people in Lebanon.Published On 13 Mar 202613 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Republicans are gearing up for a floor battle over Trump-backed voter ID legislation, but another GOP senator plans to oppose it.Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., won’t support the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a decision that could throw a wrench into the GOP’s plan to force Senate Democrats into tough vote after tough vote next week.”I’m a no,” Tillis said. “I’m going to do everything I can to prevent it from even moving forward.”SENATE GOP EYES BLAME GAME AS TRUMP-BACKED SAVE ACT HEADS FOR DEFEAT Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., vowed…

Nvidia showed CNBC its latest Vera CPU at its Santa Clara, California, headquarters on Feb. 13, 2026.Marc Ganley | CNBCNvidia’s graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence has brought on a renaissance for its more modest host chip, the central processing unit. Now, Nvidia is poised to unveil new details about its agentic-optimized CPUs at its annual GTC conference that kicks off on Monday, with a CPU-only rack likely to appear on the showroom floor.”CPUs are becoming the bottleneck in terms of growing out this AI and agentic workflow,”…

BigBear.ai Holdings (NYSE: BBAI) stock plunged nearly 3% on Friday and is trading around $3.95 at press time.The stock sliced through its intraday support at $4.00, on blistering volume that dwarfed its three-month average by nearly 70%.The drop left shares nursing losses from a brief post-earnings surge earlier this week, as investors digested fresh concerns over execution risks in the company’s AI defense pivot.BBAI stock: The selloff mechanicsBBAI stock opened at $4.075 on Friday, peaked at $4.19, then accelerated lower to a session low of $3.91 amid broad small-cap selling pressure. That’s a far cry from the $9.39 52-week high,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NBA official Sha’Rae Mitchell went down hard during Thursday night’s game between the Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets after she ran into a camera operator and appeared to injure her head in the collision. Mitchell, who is in her first season as an NBA staff official, was jogging full speed along the court with just over eight minutes left in the game when she took a hard fall to the ground after running into a camera operator, who appeared to be filming the crowd courtside during play.  Referee Sha’Rae Mitchell (98) signals during…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An armed man wearing tactical gear walked into a Texas elementary school Tuesday through an improperly closed door and asked about the security presence on campus, authorities said. Kyle Chris, 39, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm, was arrested at his home Wednesday night and faces a felony charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon in a prohibited place after the incident at Zwink Elementary School, Fox Houston reported. Chris, originally from Baghdad, Iraq, became a naturalized U.S. citizen on Aug. 24, 2022 and changed his name to Kyle Najm Chris, according to court documents. He…

The Queen’s Gaels men’s hockey team hit the ice Thursday for what could be their final practice of the season. “It’s our last shot to go nationals back-to-back years,” forward Nolan Hutcheson said. “So, I mean, we’re going to give everything we got.”They’ll face TMU on Saturday in the OUA bronze-medal game.“The nice thing about TMU is they play in Maple Leaf Gardens, and that’s still a place where players think about, more importantly, probably their parents think about,” head coach Brett Gibson said. “So it’ll be a good contingent of Queen’s support.”But getting to this point wasn’t easy. The…