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Shopify has taken down a site advertised by rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, that sold swastika t-shirts.The rapper ran an advertisement on Sunday during the Super Bowl that directed viewers to visit Yeezy.com, where it promoted a single product — a $20 t-shirt with a black swastika. The site was online until Tuesday morning.A Shopify spokesperson said the Canadian e-commerce company took the site down for violating its terms of service. The storefront has been replaced with an error message that reads, “This store is unavailable.”Shopify President Harley Finkelstein told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Tuesday that the…

(The Center Square) – A number of schools that teach and train future medical professionals have stated they are reviewing President Donald Trump’s executive order ending DEI programs, while others remained silent when asked for their response to it.Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order entitled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” calls for “the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”When asked how the University of Michigan is responding to the executive order ending DEI…

El presidente Donald Trump dijo el lunes que podría recortar la ayuda a Jordania y Egipto si rechazaban su exigencia de acoger permanentemente a la mayoría de los palestinos de Gaza, aumentando sustancialmente la presión sobre aliados clave de la región para que respalden su osada propuesta de reubicar a toda la población del territorio con el fin de reurbanizarlo.Trump también dijo desde la Casa Blanca que si Hamás no liberaba a todos los rehenes israelíes restantes antes de “las 12 en punto del sábado”, debería cancelarse el acuerdo de alto al fuego con Israel.“Va a estallar el infierno”, dijo…

More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, contends that the new policy is spreading fear of raids, thus lowering attendance at worship services and other valuable church programs. The result, says the suit, infringes on the groups’ religious freedom — namely their ability to minister to…

An employee works at Shopify’s headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada.Chris Wattie | ReutersShopify reported better-than-expected sales for the fourth quarter but missed on earnings. The company’s shares closed up 3% on Tuesday.Here’s how the company did:Earnings: 39 cents per share adjusted vs. 43 cents per share expected by LSEGRevenue: $2.81 billion vs. $2.73 billion expected by LSEGShopify forecast revenue in the first quarter to grow at a mid-20% percentage rate, which is roughly in line with analysts’ expectations of 24.4% revenue growth, according to LSEG.”We expect the strong merchant momentum from Q4 to carry over into Q1, recognizing that…

Vice President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump Administration was adopting an aggressive, America First approach to the race to dominate all the building blocks of artificial intelligence, and warned Europeans to dismantle regulations and get aboard with Washington.On his first foreign trip since taking office, Mr. Vance used his opening address at an A.I. summit meeting hosted by France and India to describe his vision of a coming era of American technological domination. Europe, he said, would be forced to chose between using American-designed and manufactured technology or siding with authoritarian…

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports, and reciprocal tariffs on countries levelling duties on US goods. On Monday, during a signing ceremony at the Oval Office, Trump announced the tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium were to be imposed “without exceptions or exemptions”. The tariffs are set to come into effect on March 12. Who are the top suppliers of steel to the US? Steel is an important material primarily used in construction, manufacturing, transportation and energy sectors due to its strength, durability and versatility. Roughly a quarter…

Products at the showroom of the Nvidia Corp. offices in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2023.I-Hwa Cheng | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe U.S. government’s effort to curtail AI development in China through tightened controls of chip exports, including restrictions on the most advanced offerings from Nvidia, didn’t stop DeepSeek from creating its generative AI app efficiently, and at a level that rivals the best the U.S. has to offer from companies such as OpenAI.While the details on just how DeepSeek did it remain incomplete, and its success doesn’t mean export controls don’t have a place in markets and national security policy,…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday after Hamas said it was postponing the next release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip, increasing the pressure on an already fragile three-week cease-fire.The security cabinet was set to consider how — or whether — to move forward with ongoing negotiations to secure the safe release of all hostages this spring. The meeting began shortly after midday in Jerusalem, according to three Israeli officials.Ahead of the meeting, relatives of the hostages blocked Israel’s main highway Tuesday morning with protest signs and orange smoke bombs. Even as…

WASHINGTON — Lawyers challenging President Donald Trump’s aggressive use of executive power in the courts are turning to a familiar weapon in their armory: an obscure but routinely invoked federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act.While lawsuits challenging such provocative plans as ending birthright citizenship and dismantling federal agencies raise weighty constitutional issues, they also claim Trump failed to follow the correct procedures as required under the wonky 1946 statute.Trump fell afoul of the law in some high-profile cases that reached the Supreme Court during his first term, raising the possibility he could suffer the same fate this time around.Known…