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U.S. consumer spending rose solidly in February as households increased purchases of both goods and services, while inflation remained firm and personal income edged lower on declines in dividend income and government transfer payments rather than wages. Personal consumption expenditures, the broad measure of household spending, increased $103.2 billion, or 0.5 percent, in February after a 0.3 percent gain in January, the Department of Commerce said Thursday. Spending on goods rose $58.7 billion and spending on services increased $44.5 billion. The increase was driven in part by a $32.6 billion rise in motor vehicles and parts outlays. Health-care spending rose…

The European Commissioner for Asylum and Migration Magnus Brunner said on a Wednesday internal E.U. parliament document that Spain’s mass amnesty plans for 500,000 illegal migrants may have wider “consequences,” the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reports. Brunner, in a missive dated April 8 obtained by the newspaper, noted that Brussels has not received any official note from the government of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez over its mass amnesty plans. The Commissioner issued the letter in response to a request presented before the European Parliament by lawmakers from the Spanish center-right People’s Party (PP). “Without prejudice to the division of competences established by Union law…

Dhaka’s Directorate General of Health Services has reported ten suspected deaths and 1,248 cases in 24 hours Bangladesh is battling a major measles outbreak, with the government reporting more than 1,000 suspected cases across the country in 24 hours.The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said that 1,248 suspected and 189 confirmed measles cases were reported from 8 AM on Tuesday to 8 AM Wednesday, the Dhaka Tribune reported.Ten suspected deaths were also recorded during the period, including six in the capital, Dhaka, which registered the highest number of suspected cases at 505.The DGHS has reported 11,133 suspected and 1,599…

“A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions!” he wrote. Additionally, the president shared Wednesday morning that the United States will work with Iran to remove buried enriched uranium from nuclear sites the U.S. bombed in Operation Midnight Hammer last Summer. “The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change!” he wrote. “There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the…

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (remember them?) have an April tour of Australia poised for a rocky start as tickets struggle to sell and the couple are warned the trip could build tensions with King Charles due to its timing. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are slated to land in Australia on Thursday to take part in a mid-April tour that will see them participate in a number of “private, business, and philanthropic engagements,” marking their first trip trip to Australia following their October 2018 visit to Sydney and after the pair departed from the British Royal Family. Some of the items…

The arrest is “a message to any would-be leakers,” FBI director Kash Patel has said A US Army veteran who worked with the elite Delta Force commando unit has been charged with providing top secret data to a reporter, the US Department of Justice has said.Courtney Williams of Wagram, North Carolina was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday over “her alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist,” the DOJ said in a statement. The preliminary charge against the 40-year-old carries a penalty of up to ten years in…

The socialist government of Spain has ridiculed peace efforts from the United States in Iran, accusing the Trump administration of having having made the Middle East unstable in the first place. Shortly before his Tuesday evening deadline, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the remnants of the Islamist regime in Tehran had agreed to a ceasefire and open the Strait for two weeks while negotiators attempt a long-term peace deal. While much of the world’s media and political class had spent the day spreading apocalyptic warnings that President Trump was planning on annihilating the Iranian people — despite having consistently…

All U.S. forces now deployed near Iran will remain stationed in the area until a “real agreement” is reached with Tehran, President Donald Trump vowed late Wednesday night, as Washington enters a fragile two-week ceasefire and prepares for its “next conquest.” Trump used social media to say U.S. forces including troops, aircraft and naval assets would stay in position until what he described as the “REAL AGREEMENT” is fully implemented in the wake of Operation Epic Fury which swept across the region. “All US ships, aircraft, and military personnel … will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such…

The president made a blistering statement after meeting with the NATO secretary-general, while the White House said the US could quit US President Donald Trump has once again lashed out at NATO over the inaction of European allies during the war with Iran. The sharp rebuke came after a meeting with Secretary‑General Mark Rutte in Washington on Wednesday.“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,” Trump posted on Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social.Trump’s anger follows weeks of criticism of European NATO members for what he sees as their…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait reported on Wednesday that they had documented airstrikes, mostly on their energy facilities, that they attributed to Iran, hours after Iran and the United States announced they had agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Iran has been in an active conflict with the United States and Israel since February 28, when President Donald Trump announced the launch of Operation Epic Fury, a military engagement meant to erase Iran’s ability to threaten its neighbors or potentially develop nuclear weapons. In response to the American attack, which eliminated “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…