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FIRST ON FOX – As he seriously considers a run for the White House, former two-term Republican Gov. of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson will get a helping hand from an outside group that’s launching with some early financial backing.The America Strong and Free Action super PAC, which will support Hutchinson if he goes ahead and launches a 2024 GOP presidential campaign, is now up and running. The super PAC, whose launch was shared first with Fox News, has been funded with an initial $1 million contribution from a single donor in Little Rock, Arkansas.Former Hutchinson campaign manager Jon Gilmore, who served as…

Tom Brady appeared to have wrapped up his illustrious NFL career Wednesday when he announced in a video he was “retiring for good.”Brady spent the final three seasons of his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, winning a Super Bowl, a Super Bowl MVP and two division titles. He finished with a losing record in 2022 for the first time in his career as a starter but still managed to drive the Buccaneers to the postseason.They lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the wild-card round of the playoffs. The NFL legend’s voice crackled while he was sitting on the beach…

Over a six-week period, as part of the ‘Out of Pocket’ series, Global News is examining how inflation is impacting Canadians from coast to coast. Lise LeBlanc was a mother of two managing a single-income household battling a mountain of debt when she founded the not-for-profit and Facebook group Mom Jeans.“I had just taken on an additional piece of debt — I had just bought a new couch, buy now pay later. I was like, ‘What am I doing?’ I already had debt, I was like, ‘This is so stupid,’” said LeBlanc, who is from Saskatoon.The group will often participate…

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Ursula von der Leyen and over a dozen members of her top team are on Thursday in Kyiv for a meeting with the Ukrainian government to discuss further ways to boost ties and send another strong signal of support.The trip to the Ukrainian capital by the European Commission chief and 15 of her commissioners will on Friday be followed by an EU-Ukraine summit where European Council President Charles Michel will join von der Leyen for talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It will be the first time the EU attends such a summit in an active war zone and is intended to showcase…

People living along the country’s borders, where fierce clashes between the military and ethnic groups have forced thousands to flee, have pleaded for protection, said Dr Heyzer. “When I meet refugee representatives, people at the border, what they want is greater protection. And what they are saying to me is … please prevent us from being deported,” she said. Apart from boosting cross-border support, the special envoy also urged nations to provide shelter and education, and improve the lives of refugees. “Let’s try internationally and regionally to address some of these critical needs of people on the ground,” she said.…

Meanwhile, more than 370,000 utility customers across Texas were without power as of early Thursday morning, according to outage-tracking website PowerOutage.us.“Ice and tree limbs are still breaking as our lineworkers are working on restoration,” utility provider Austin Energy tweeted on Wednesday. As of early Thursday, the company had more than 154,700 customers without power, according to PowerOutage.us.The utility company said some areas could be without power until Friday and noted that restoration efforts were also being hampered by accumulating ice and freezing temperatures. As the storm neared its end, U.S. flight cancellations also appeared to dwindle after hundreds of flights were canceled this…

London CNN  —  Global trade is expected to slow sharply this year as high energy prices and rising interest rates take their toll on the economy. The World Trade Organization (WTO) projected in October that after growing by 3.5% in 2022, trade volumes will increase by just 1% in 2023. Given uncertainty over the strength of China’s rebound from Covid lockdowns, the outcome could be better. Either way, Africa may start to reap the benefits of a free trade deal that came into effect in 2021. The landmark African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement created the world’s largest new…

Self-sovereign financial services provider BonqDAO suffered $120 million in losses after a hacker exploited its oracle to manipulate the price of AllianceBlock tokens.In a Thursday tweet, blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed that BonqDAO’s oracle was manipulated and used to increase the price of AllianceBlock tokens. The exploiter managed to do so by changing the updatePrice function of the oracle in one of BonqDAO’s smart contracts.As per the PeckShield analysis, the project lost around $120 million as a result of the hack, which included 98.65 million BEUR tokens, worth around $108 million, and 113.8 million wrapped-ALBT (wALBT) tokens, worth around $11 million. In another…

SINGAPORE: The lack of progress in resolving the conflict in Myanmar is likely a consequence of the region becoming inward looking, said Indonesia’s former foreign minister Marty Natalegawa.  This comes as the Myanmar crisis continues, two years after the military seized power in a coup and toppled the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi, alleging massive fraud in the 2020 elections won by her party. “The situation that is now transpiring in Myanmar, in a way, perhaps, is the consequence of a foreign policy outlook in this part of the world in recent years that has become inward…